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Documentary series about British sci-fi starting on BBC4 on Monday at 9pm entitled "The Martians and Us". Gets a glowing review in the paper. Even better, in conjunction with this they're repeating the adaptation of "Day of the Triffids" which, I'm not ashamed to say, scared the living shit out of me when I was a nipper.
Thought you'd like to know.
Thanks for that, souns excellent. Bound to be some Wells in there ;)
And DOTT scared the piss out of me too....oddly enough the book has even fewer triffid scenes than the TV version. A little bit of me epects to wake up in a dead world each morning thanks to that show :D
Doctor? wrote: A little bit of me epects to wake up in a dead world each morning thanks to that show :D
Which bit of you? 
Snorri xxx
Snorrimon wrote:
Doctor? wrote: A little bit of me epects to wake up in a dead world each morning thanks to that show :D
Which bit of you?
Snorri xxx
same bit of me that wouldn'y mind seeing tripods torch and gass their way from Woking to the east coaast?
(that'd be the git in me then 
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DOTT sacred the shit out of me too. As did a lot of old skool telly that wasn't even that sacry. Anyone remember the following?
The Martian Chronicles (vague memories of exactly what it was about but remember it being quite trippy) Sapphire & Steel (with Joanna Lumley. Yum) Armchair Thrillers (a Tales Of The Unexpected Clone with a terrifying openin credit.)
I used to stay with my granny and grandpa every weekend and they used to let me watch Hammer movies. Silly buggers!
Sapphire and steel was fantastic a new audio series was released last year apparently, anyone heard it? http://www.anorakzone.com/sapphireandsteel/
As for ace Brit SciFi, the flipside of Dominic Hide was up there with the best.
GlasVegas wrote: Armchair Thrillers (a Tales Of The Unexpected Clone with a terrifying openin credit.)
My mam and dad watched this, the opening titles were terrifying for a 9-10 year old.
Scarred me for life. 
:D
GlasVegas wrote: DOTT sacred the shit out of me too. As did a lot of old skool telly that wasn't even that sacry. Anyone remember the following?
The Martian Chronicles (vague memories of exactly what it was about but remember it being quite trippy) Sapphire & Steel (with Joanna Lumley. Yum) Armchair Thrillers (a Tales Of The Unexpected Clone with a terrifying openin credit.)
I used to stay with my granny and grandpa every weekend and they used to let me watch Hammer movies. Silly buggers!
Yep i used to watch all of those.Sapphire and Steel had Joanna Lumley in if i remember right.They disappeared in space at the very end of the last episode i recall ,never to be seen again.that was one headfuck of a tv programme when yer 10 years old.
Martian Chronicles was ace in 1980 but i saw it repeated on sci fi channel a few years back and it was awful.Rock Hudson travelling the Martian canals or something.Not Martians' back passages i hasten to add
Hammer House Of Horror was another one .That was essential Saturday night viewing in 1980
some vintage sci fi i enjoyed as a kid although not british, cambo strike me down, was a german series called Raumpatrolle and Time Tunnel.
John Sludden wrote:
GlasVegas wrote: Armchair Thrillers (a Tales Of The Unexpected Clone with a terrifying openin credit.)
My mam and dad watched this, the opening titles were terrifying for a 9-10 year old. Scarred me for life.
Fantastic. I sometimes wondered if I'd imagined that programme cos nobody else seemed to remember it. That image you posted is exactly as I rember it. The shadow moves slowly towards the chair. as you say, scary as fuck when you were a nipper.
The opening titles of Tales Of The Unexpected also scared me. Although the actual programme was usually gash.
Only vague memories of armchair thriller. S+S was a big fave of mine. The company making the audio series are the same people behind the audio adventures of the last 4 (old) Doctors, as well as such wonders as The Tomorrow People (eh remember that?)
I do remember one tales of the unexpected vividly....the one about a guy who invented a machine that let him hear plants.....roses screaming when cut, that sort of thing. And the only Hammer story I can remember is "the house that bled to death", which ended with a kid killing his folks for crimes against tiddles. The late night horror double bill on a Fri or Sat is what left me disliking the genre......When someone says "whatever you do, don;t go up to the castle, strange fortces lurk there and you will die" And our heroes, at the first breath of wind, say" let's shelter in that quaint old castle"...from then on, I want them to die, as a darwin award kind of thing. I hate movies based on human retardation.
God, you've brought back some memories for me. My treat was to stay up late on Saturday's with my mum and watch Hammer House of Horrors (is it any wonder I've turned out the way I have!)
Tales of the Unexpected too! I've now got the tune in my head and I always have to do that dance with it!
Armchair thrillers, I'm not sure if I remember that.
Missy Jem wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
I hate movies based on human retardation.
You don't like JACKASS???
Small doses only ;)
Same guy who wrote the tune for "tales" also wrote, Dr Who, The Prisoner, and Panorama!
Aye, it was a real treat getting to stay up late and watch the Hammer movies at my grannys. The first one I ever saw was called The Vault of Horror and starred Tom Baker who was the Doctor Who at the time. That film will live in my memory forever. Very freakin scary when you were six or seven.
Was weird that the granparents didnae mind me watchin gory scenes of death and weird supernatural shit but the minute anybody flashed a nipple or some arse (and it happened quite a lot in Hammer movies)my granny would flick it over to the other side for a couple of minutes til the offending part had finished. 
LOL...so true....mangled innerds cool, low cut top= satan's work.
Think I remember that one with Tom in it...was he an artist in it?
Or maybe he did more than one Hammer movie.
(If only they had stuck to horror instead of making those two APALLING Dr Who movies....mind you, unless I'm very much mistaken, they made Quatermass and the Pit....now there's a scary movie, even if it IS Sci fi....those scenes of the brainwashed masses standing in groups around the streets and the giant martian "demon" glowing over london.....nightmare stuff.)
Doctor? wrote:
Missy Jem wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
I hate movies based on human retardation.
You don't like JACKASS???
Small doses only ;)
Same guy who wrote the tune for "tales" also wrote, Dr Who, The Prisoner, and Panorama!
Ron Grainer?
Speaking of Dr Who/Ron Grainer, I *really* must get one of those Delia Derbyshire CD's (she re-worked Ron Grainer's composition for the actual TV theme)... Time to start searching the internet for some of these! :)
i also remember an old black and white german series of edgar allen poe stories starring mainly klaus kinski. must have been made some time in the 1960s. it scared me shit less as a kid.
Nick King wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
Missy Jem wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
I hate movies based on human retardation.
You don't like JACKASS???
Small doses only ;)
Same guy who wrote the tune for "tales" also wrote, Dr Who, The Prisoner, and Panorama!
Ron Grainer?
Speaking of Dr Who/Ron Grainer, I *really* must get one of those Delia Derbyshire CD's (she re-worked Ron Grainer's composition for the actual TV theme)... Time to start searching the internet for some of these! :)
I have some of her RW output here somewhere, including Blue Veils and Golden Sands. I'm DEEPLY pissed off that the Radiophonic worksshop have been removed from the Doctor Who theme credits.....the arrangement, the whole feel of the tune, still owes more to Deliah than Ron, by Ron's own admission.
As for UFO...all Gerry Anderson shows are brilliant, and they all have brilliant music, by barry Gray, who's probably had as much effect on me as New Order, really, I have stacks of his tunes and listen to them all the time....Fuckin March of the Oysters from Stingray, what a tune.
NOOLigan wrote: i also remember an old black and white german series of edgar allen poe stories starring mainly klaus kinski. must have been made some time in the 1960s. it scared me shit less as a kid.
The Edgar Wallace krimis?
His Holiness, The Pope wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: i also remember an old black and white german series of edgar allen poe stories starring mainly klaus kinski. must have been made some time in the 1960s. it scared me shit less as a kid.
The Edgar Wallace krimis?
i think so. it was all sooo long ago.
NOOLigan wrote:
His Holiness, The Pope wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: i also remember an old black and white german series of edgar allen poe stories starring mainly klaus kinski. must have been made some time in the 1960s. it scared me shit less as a kid.
The Edgar Wallace krimis?
i think so. it was all sooo long ago.
Was probably one of these. Kinski was in a lot of them.
There used to be some footage a few years back of me and a few mates at a barbeque, dancing with chairs on our heads to the theme tune of Tales Of The Unexpected.Marvellous
SiLeakHunt wrote: I knew somebody at Leeds University called Martin Fradley , was that you ?
cheers
Er, no. I'd like to meet him, though.
(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:
SiLeakHunt wrote: I knew somebody at Leeds University called Martin Fradley , was that you ?
cheers
Er, no. I'd like to meet him, though.
Did'nt you know Martin is Oxbridge to the core
Soz Frads
Does it clash with Songs of Praise or Planet Earth?
This show could be rather interesting to watch. As long as there is no nudity. Alien Ladies with three breasts tend to put me off my Horlicks and Shortbread biscuits. I do hope it is going out to braodcast before the watershed. A 7am Sunday slot would be super.
The bollox of it is, I'll more than likely still be kipping, and/or lounging in the sheepdip pre-work, and believe it or not, the one incantation I know not how to invoke upon this fecking machine is the "record BBC4 at 9 you cunt" one (mainly on account of the sound for the tv card coming in via the soundcard and yours truly being far too pigshit lazy to find out how to describe that channel to the video software (coulda done it in the time it took me to type that, bt hey ho).
And JAK....I preferred the scouse cunt's scouse cunt myself, this mindless good living doesn't suit you.
