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The Larry Sanders Show – tape 2690
We return to the Paramount Comedy Channel, for another tape of episodes from The Larry Sanders Show starting with Headwriter. Phil gets a promotion to Head Writer. Next, it’s People’s Choice. Artie is...
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I’m Alan Partridge – Does China Exist? – tape 2686
This tape opens with the end of Never Mind The Buzzcocks. There’s a trailer for Jaws on Two and a Matt Lucas trailer for the Friday Night Comedy zone. Then there’s the first episode of I’m Alan...
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Not The Nine O’Clock News – Room 101 – tape 2878
The first thing on this tape is a few frames of… something. That looks like Jeff Goldblum and Hugh Grant, there, and iMDB tells me it’s probably Nine Months. But that lasts less than a second, as the...
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Ellen – Coming Out – TV Offal – tape 2678
First on this tape, Channel 4 are having a big Coming Out event, and a swanky party. Graham Norton is the host. As we join them, Ellen is talking to Ulrika Jonsson Anne Heche is there, her current...
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Killer Net – tape 2679
I have to admit, upfront, that I am braced for disappointment today. This particular title has been lurking on the list for some time now, and I genuinely don’t know what to expect. It’s Killer Net, a...
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Heavenly Creatures – tape 2671
This tape opens with the end of Glastonbury 98. There’s a trailer for Mad Dog & Glory. Then, a repeat performance of Peter Jackson’s magical tale of imagination and matricide, Heavenly Creatures. I...
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Invasion: Earth – tape 2960
I could swear I’ve already looked at earlier episodes of Jed Mercurio’s forgotten Sci Fi epic Invasion: Earth but there’s no sign of it on the blog. So that rather scuppers my plan to re-read my...
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The Sci Fi Files – tape 2676
On this tape, there’s a couple of episodes from a channel 4 documentary series The Sci Fi Files which take a look at different aspects of Science Fiction and its influence on actual science. The first...
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Have I Got News For You – So Graham Norton – tape 2961
Here’s a short tape, opening with trailers for Casualty and an Parkinson interview with Elton John. Then, Have I Got News For You with guests Rich Hall and Sion Simon. BBC Genome: BBC One – 10th...
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Critical Condition – Barry Norman’s Film Night – Eraser – tape 2877
This tape opens with the end of Spotlight on a Massacre, which seems to be a light-hearted film about some young people on a minibus somewhere in the Middle-East, and ends up with one of them getting...
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Alexei Sayle’s Merry Go Round – TV Offal – Have I Got News For You – tape 2688
This tape opens with a trailer for Stressed Eric. Then, the first episode of Alexei Sayle’s Merry Go Round. I like the use of the Runaround title typeface. I don’t know which studios this was filmed...
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In and Out – Everyone Says I Love You – tape 2875
It’s movie time today, with a couple of movies from Sky Premier, starting with In and Out. I might have watched this at the time, but my only memory is a vague sense of what the film is about, so I...
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Reputations – The Not The Nine O’Clock News Story – Not The Nine O’Clock News...
This tape opens with an announcement that programmes are running fifteen minutes late due to golf coverage. The first programme is Reputations – Wernher von Braun: From the Nazis to NASA. I’m sometimes...
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Ally McBeal – Cybill – Barking – tape 2687
After a tiny bit of the end of Black Box, here’s another tape with some early Ally McBeal. First is episode 5, The Promise. I’m really not feeling this programme, and this episode in particular had two...
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The Larry Sanders Show – tape 2689
Back to Paramount, and the end of Kenny Everett, before some The Larry Sanders Show starting with The Flirt Episode. We’ve seen this before, as Larry gets in trouble with Jeannie for flirting with Mimi...
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Glengarry Glen Ross – An Evening With Gary Lineker – tape 1783
First on this tape, on Sky Movies, it’s Glengarry Glen Ross, the film based on David Mamet’s stage play of the same name. I’d love to know why Mamet often gives his plays titles derived from old folk...
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) – tape 2546
On this tape, just one episode of the Vic & Bob remake of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) – Mental Apparition Disorder. Returning from yesterday’s tape, Martin Clunes, along with Fiona Allen off...
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The Friday Night Armistice – The New Adventures of Superman – Cybill –...
This tape opens with the end of a Fantasy Football League European Championship Special. It’s two days after England lost the Semi-Final against Germany on penalties, so I guess the mood was a little...
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) – tape 2547
After a taster a couple of days ago, here’s more from Vic & Bob’s remake of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) starting with the first episode, Drop Dead. Jeff and Marty are doing divorce work,...
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Proms 99 – Film 99 – The Dome: Trouble at the Big Top – The Simpsons – tape 2541
This tape opens with another programme from Proms 99 presented by James Galway. The orchestra is the London Mozart Players, and the first piece is the Symphony No 40. Nice to see Dan Radcliffe on...
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Farscape – Shadowlands – tape 2545
This tape opens with a trail for the Friday Night Comedy Zone. Then, the very first episode of Farscape – or ‘Fire Escape’ as I now can’t help calling it, having listened to too many episodes of the...
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Orchestra! – Old Flames – tape 1088
First on this tape, the Dudley Moore programme Orchestra! which looks at the way an Orchestra works, in which Dudley Moore is helped by conductor Georg Solti, who looks like a very severe man, but in...
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Dark Season – tape 1654
This tape opens with the end of Newsround. With an impossibly young looking Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Toby Anstis is presenting from the Broom Cupboard. It’s a repeat showing of Dark Season, Russell T...
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Longitude – tape 2459
On this tape, the two-part Channel Four drama based on Dava Sobel’s book Longitude. It concerns the problem of calculating a ship’s position on the ocean. The latitude can be fairly easily reckoned by...
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Die Fledermaus – tape 1103
On this tape, going back a bit to 1990, is a gala performance of Die Fledermaus from Covent Garden. It’s a special performance because this marked the retirement of Dame Joan Sutherland from...
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Horizon – tape 2542
This is a shorter tape today, with three episodes of Horizon. The first two form something of a two-parter starting with Atlantis Uncovered. This programme looks at some of the myths of the story of...
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The Night He Came Home: John Carpenter’s Halloween – tape 2549
It’s an even shorter tape today, with one single programme on it. It’s The Night He Came Home: John Carpenter’s Halloween. A documentary by Mark Kermode, who can’t resist dressing up as The Shape for...
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Bugs – Hostile Waters – tape 2406
We’re in the Endgame now, as this tape is the first one on my final 4 terabyte hard drive. I finished the actual digitising of these tapes in July 2016, but because I could do several tapes a day, and...
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Doctor Who – K9 And Company – tape 1617
Back to when UK Gold were repeating classic Doctor Who – in fact, this was for the 30th anniversary, so I make that 1993. And this story is apparently the winner of the best monster – Warriors Of The...
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Alligator – V – tape 21
Today we’re going way back to one of the earlier tapes in my collection. The film today is Alligator, ranking third in the late 70s/80s monster movie pantheon, fairly far behind Piranha and Jaws. This...
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