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You'll find an exciting array of last century cultural detritus in each room of our house. Sounds in the lounge, toiletries in the bathroom and tastes in the kitchen.
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A classic of light entertainment from TV's man of action Edward Woodward. With the success of Callan,
Woodward became a household name – this popularity giving him the
chance to show his lighter side in three light entertainment specials in
the early 1970s for Thames Television. At one stage Network DVD announced this was to be released on DVD, but it was removed from their site and I haven't had any luck getting an answer to my queries regarding its status, so perhaps we'll never get to see it...
Anna Pasternak is a writer and member of the famous Pasternak family: her great-grandfather was Leonid, the impressionist painter, her great-uncle was Boris the Nobel prize winning novelist, her grandmother was Josephine the philosopher and her father is revered Oxford biochemist Professor Charles Pasternak. After attending Oxford University she has crafted a career writing about her own and others' disastrous relationships. She lives outside of London with her daughter Daisy and her dog Wilfred.
The Screaming Meemees were one of the biggest post-punk new-wave pop
bands in New Zealand in the early 1980s. The band formed in Auckland in
1979, composed of vocalist Tony Drumm, guitarist Michael O'Neill,
keyboard and bass player Peter van der Fluit and drummer "Laurence "Yoh"
Landwer-Johan.
This is sure to warm the hearts of any Callan fans - The ''reunion'' episode of Callan, originally screened in the UK on 2 September, 1981 on the ITV channel is comiing soon to DVD!
At last we get to revisit the final story which shows what happened to Callan (Edward Woodward) and Lonely (Russell Hunter) after the end of the landmark series...
Over the course 13 episodes that this show ran during 1979 and 80 viewers followed the amusing and often sliglty surreal adventures of a couple of petty crooks on the way up. The brains of the operation was Turtle, a lovable, unrepentant, small-time petty crook who could always see the profit. His accomplice and protector Razor Eddie provided the brawn as well as the charm. Both were needed as they had to deal with trouble from the police and other felons - Now available on DVD!!
Once upon a time last century children watched television about children, much as they do today. Like Mika, Ante was a Sami boy living in Lapland who loved life on the plateau. Ante featured in a 6 episode television series screened in Norway in the mid 1970s (first shown on NRK television in winter 1975). The series was based on children's book Ante by author Tor Edvin Dahl.
Released in 1979, this album was a compilation of Scottish DIY punk synth new wave music. A few went on to international fame, most are world famous in Edinburgh, but all are worth a listen....
Written and narrated by Eric Thompson (the driving force and voices behind the original Magic Roundabout), The Magic Ball was the first production from animation wizards Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall, who would go on to create such masterpieces as Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and Chorlton and the Wheelies. First broadcast on ITV in the early 1970s it became a hit with the public, winning two silver medals at the Venice Film Festival of Children’s Films and a silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival. This set contains all thirteen episodes of the second series.
Sam spends much of his time in his Aunt Mill’s antiques shop, from where his amazing journeys begin. In distant places and strange new worlds he encounters a host of characters in need of assistance – from bored, lonely giants to stranded spacemen, shipwrecked sailors to bees with a fear of flying – and, with the help of the magic ball, he is always able to conjure up a solution!
Network DVD have announced the release of Season 2 of this delightful series on DVD, due 31 December 2011.
People have been waking up to the sound of an alarm since 1787 when US
clockmaker Levi Hutchins invented the first alarm clock. But it's only
been since 1968 that people have been waking up to the sleek form and
multi-functionality of a digital clock radio. In 1968 Sony produced the
world's first digital clock radio, 8FC-59 named Digital 24.
The unit was an analog clock with a digital display, with individual
number tiles that would flip over to show the correct time. By 1969 the
8FC series had become the Digimatic. By 1972 Sony was
producing a Digimatic with LED display. The early LED models had wood
veneer cases (like the 8FC-69WA), but it was not long before plastic
cases were the standard.
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