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28th Mar 2020, 9:15 pm | #1 |
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Fools on the hill
Just watched the "BBC 50" programme The Fools on the Hill, fantastic. Crikey 34 years ago I watched it on live telly.
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28th Mar 2020, 11:29 pm | #2 |
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Yes part of the BBC 50th Anniversary Celebrations in 2006-recorded it then.
There's also the November 2011 Doc! Not forgetting the Beatles somehow strangely appropriate song in 1967. Did Paul McCartney know about the scepticism back then I wonder? Probably not! Dave Last edited by dave walsh; 28th Mar 2020 at 11:35 pm. |
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I think the book "Here's Looking at You" came out about the same time as "The Fools on the Hill" and I always associate the two.
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I watched in when it was on BBC4 a few years ago.
The woman being sprayed with ammonia when the cyanide instant developing tank leaked is a scene I remember.
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29th Mar 2020, 12:23 am | #5 |
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Erratum-1986 not 2006
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30th Mar 2020, 9:22 pm | #6 |
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ppppenguin (Jeffrey) contacted me today. In 1985/86 he was working at Thorn-EMI Central Research Labs which is where he got interested in vintage TV. He helped with the restoration of an HMV 900 in their little museum area and arranged 405 signals for it. He and a few others were invited to witness part of the recording of "Fools on the Hill" and has a copy of the full script.
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30th Mar 2020, 9:45 pm | #7 |
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I watched it on YouTube, it may still be on there.
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30th Mar 2020, 10:01 pm | #8 |
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Great programme well worth watching, I think it tells the story very well.
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I wonder what we will get in 2022, BBC 100.
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I knew they had a little museum, but, I don't know what happened to it. Does anyone know? |
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1st Apr 2020, 5:44 pm | #12 |
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Hi Phillip,
To quote Jeffrey: "AFAIK, all the TV related kit from the EMI CRL museum went to Bradford. Since Bradford now exhibits very few historic TV bits I assume it's all in store. The Science Museum group has deaccessioned items in the last few years but mostly odd assemblies. A big deaccession was an ex BBC OB truck: https://becg.org.uk/projects/bbc-ehx86v-cmcr20/ Currently owned by Martin Pritchard within the BECG family. " Peter |
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I mentioned earlier that I had watched "Fool On The Hill" a few years ago. I decided to watch it again on Sunday evening but this time on two of my 405 line sets! I saw on another forum asking for people to photograph the Queen on Sunday night at 8. I am not a member of that forum but I thought I would include the photos as well.
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6th Apr 2020, 8:41 pm | #14 |
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A fairy sent me a much better version, (thank you fairy) I watched it again, a lovely show.
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