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| 15-07-2009 04:27 AM
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Old TV / Movie Thread | Edited by Gamburd 15-07-2009 04:42 AM
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Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /mnt/web8/13/78/51930778/htdocs/includes/bbcodes/code_bbcode_include.php on line 20 TV Show--Ripping Yarns--(Michael Palin, Terry Jones):
I remember watching this show on a UHF channel (Before Cable TV, there was VHF and UHF) from Canada, TVO (TV Ontario). I just barely got reception; (this TV series was never broadcast on U.S. TV in my area).
It is basically more Monty Python type spin-off comedy from two of the Pythons after the group split up (except when they made movies together and I think they also did a world live comedy tour).
Instead of a collection of short comedy skits, it is one c. 25 minute long story, and the program parodies boys' adventure stories that were popular around the turn of the last century.
This show is about 'Golden Gordon', Britain's #1 local home team football (soccer) club fan.
From what I remember, this episode is the one I thought was the best out of the series.
I watched again the show pilot (meaning first) episode on YouTube, 'Tomkinson's Schooldays'; there was some drug use in it that struck me as just kind of weird, although during the time the show is set in, I think cocaine was legal and it wasn't until the 1920s that it was made illegal ( in the U.S.) and a lot of people used it (at that time it was an ingredient in the soft drink Coca Cola and in other products); but they kind of portray it in the show as something that looks taboo; and they also show two teachers smoking a joint.
There is also a Ripping Yarns episode about a British P.O.W. escape from a WWI German prison camp; I vaguely remember that but I forget if it is funny or any good; as a matter of fact, I don't really remember any of the other programs.
Anyway, Ripping Yarns' 'Golden Gordon' c. 1977:
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| 04-09-2009 02:35 AM
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RE: Old TV / Movie Thread | Edited by Gamburd 04-09-2009 02:46 AM
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Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /mnt/web8/13/78/51930778/htdocs/includes/bbcodes/code_bbcode_include.php on line 20 Some Film Studio is supposed to start filming the remake of the 1984 Cold War movie 'Red Dawn' in the Detroit area this weekend (Michigan is trying to be come a lower cost alternative to Hollywood for the film industry).
There is a major change; instead of the U.S.S.R., the People's Republic of China invades the United States.
The new film will star the actor Tom Cruise's son, Connor Cruise.
I saw the original in 1984.; OK, the original movie was basically stupid yet was a somewhat entertaining action 'shoot'em up' modern war type of film.
'Red Dawn' probably had one of the bigger budgets of that genre of film; there were a whole slew of these sort of Cold War films in the 1980s, with the Chuck Norris 'Missing in Action' films being the dumbest.
Here's the trailer for the original 1984 film, followed by the trailer for the remake.
There's a good video game, World In Conflict, which portrays a U.S.S.R. v. United States & NATO Third World War; I think you can buy the two WIC games in a bundle for like $30.00 at Best Buy (in the U.S.).
OK, the trailer states some incorrect historical facts, because the USA was invaded by the British forces during the War of 1812; but I guess it sounds more dramatic the way they stated it.
And here's the remake trailer:
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| 28-12-2009 05:05 AM
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RE: Old TV / Movie Thread | Edited by Gamburd 28-12-2009 05:23 AM
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Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /mnt/web8/13/78/51930778/htdocs/includes/bbcodes/code_bbcode_include.php on line 20 I remember watching this series, called 'War', on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; I think it was first broadcasted around 1984-85.
The host, Gwynne Dyer is a Canadian non-fiction author and served in the Canadian Navy.
Recently, he published (around 2-3 years ago) a book about the U.S.'s invasion of Iraq.
Basically, I think Dyer was trying to be a voice of reason in a world that was stockpiling big nukes and build "Star Wars" missile defense systems.
There was even a popular arcade machine game in the 1980's called 'Missile Command' where the player had to shoot down a series of ICBMs attacks which increased in speed as the game progressed.
Someone had some of the 'War' programs on Youtube, but they were pulled for copyright reasons; so I imagine this will be pulled off Youtube sometime soon.
I think this is the last episode which was on nuclear weapons.
I'm trying to remember; I think the first few programs were on ancient and medieval warfare; he must have talked about WWII; I know he had a show about NATO and what would happen if WWIII broke out; there was also a program about U.S. Marine recruits and their experience at Boot Camp.
I own a copy of the book he wrote to accompany the series (also called 'War'; the book is chock full of information that didn't make it into the TV series).
He made a few more TV programs but not many more; some shows about ancient civilizations.
I always thought this guy sort of looked like a university mathematics professor.
I'm almost 100% positive the 'War' series was also shown in the U.S. on PBS.
There is only the first 2.5 minutes of the program; it includes the series' Intro which contained some haunting images from the WWII Ostfront.
I think if there was one TV series from the 1980's that I would like to see again, this would be it (Cable was in its infancy, so there was a lot less TV back then, and there was no History Channel):
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| 04-04-2010 06:03 PM
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RE: Old TV / Movie Thread | Edited by Gamburd 04-04-2010 06:07 PM
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Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /mnt/web8/13/78/51930778/htdocs/includes/bbcodes/code_bbcode_include.php on line 20 I found an almost complete episode of Gwynne Dyer's 'War' documentary television series on Youtube.
I searched a little on the www, and it looks like there were seven episodes in the 1985 TV series, and they ran about 56 minutes each.
This particular show is about the Arab-Israeli Wars, and Dyer interviews an Israeli Army officer.
It is in six Youtube parts, but the last 8 minutes or so of the program were not loaded up.
Hopefully, sometime, somebody uploads a few more of the other episodes from the series.
This quality of the picture print is much, much better on this upload than the clip from one of the programs I posted above.
Now, when you watch one of these programs, you really have to listen closely to the dialogue in order to understand some of the points that are trying to be made:
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| 05-07-2010 12:15 AM
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RE: Old TV / Movie Thread | Edited by Gamburd 05-07-2010 12:26 AM
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Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /mnt/web8/13/78/51930778/htdocs/includes/bbcodes/code_bbcode_include.php on line 20 A little bit of Fourth of July fun.
Here's a Three Stooges comedy short from 1940 which takes place in an alternative WWI Setting.
The Three Stooges in their comedy routine typically portrayed themselves as three, working-class, Ethnic Americans who would cross class lines with often resulting hilarious slapstick comic moments.
'Boobs in Arms', 1940 ('boob' in the sense of meaning an idiot; not a woman's breast).
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the United States Congress on September 16, 1940, becoming the first peacetime conscription in United States history. Hollywood reflected the interest of the American public in Conscription in the United States by having nearly every film studio bring out a military film comedy in 1941 with their resident comedian(s).
Columbia Pictures placed the Stooges in an unnamed army with military uniforms consisting of Zorro hats and tan uniforms with sergeant chevrons worn upside down to the American way; they are also armed with Civil War type muskets instead of modern rifles. Perhaps these uniforms deliberately do not resemble those of the U.S. Army because the finale takes place in a war. Ironically Richard Fiske, the actor who played the sergeant, was drafted into the U.S. Army and was killed in France in World War II.[1]
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(This is the complete version, but there are several short commercial advertisement breaks).
I don't think I have seen any of their work on TV here for around 12 years, but repeats of their comedy shorts (with long commercial breaks) filled the late night TV hour from 11:30pm to 12:30pm (along with Laurel & Hardy film shorts; they called the show 'Comedy Classics') in many cities in the USA during the 1980s.
Someone during the 1980s wrote a hit pop song called the 'Curly Shuffle', and probably made a few million $$ off that one song.
There was an hilarious Laurel & Hardy full length movie feature called 'Blockheads', about two WWI veterans having a reunion 20 years after the end of WWI; I enjoyed Laurel & Hardy's performance in that particular film, but for some reason I never found their other stuff as being that funny.
I think most of the Three Stooges' humor is still funny decades later; but maybe if you have never seen them before, it takes a little getting used to.
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| 02-09-2011 09:24 AM
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RE: Old TV / Movie Thread | Edited by Raymond Saint 02-09-2011 09:25 AM
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Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /mnt/web8/13/78/51930778/htdocs/includes/bbcodes/code_bbcode_include.php on line 20 YouTube Video
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| 18-09-2011 10:21 PM
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RE: Old TV / Movie Thread | Edited by Gamburd 18-09-2011 10:42 PM
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Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /mnt/web8/13/78/51930778/htdocs/includes/bbcodes/code_bbcode_include.php on line 20 Prior to Ken Burns and then the History Channel in the 1990s on Cable TV, this was about the only history type of program regularly on TV every week, which was narrated and hosted by Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played the character Spock in the original Star Trek.
It aired originally on NBC, but I saw them all in syndication on a local UHF station TV 20 here in Detroit; the station would run all these long commercials between spots, with ads for the Ronco Vegematic Slicer and Dicer, Ginsu knives and the 'Fishin' Magician' fishing pole.
Some of the programs were history, but others dealt with missing persons, unsolved murders / deaths, Bigfoot and other myths and strange phenomena.
'In Search Of' is very similar to a British TV series called 'Arthur Clarke's Mysterious World':
There were a couple of good history series broadcast on PBS and even UHF prior to Ken Burn's Civil War (e.g., 'World At War' series), but none of them had the same impact as his series did.
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