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Post by questa on Feb 10, 2018 10:43:40 GMT
Mike, The Sullivans ran from '77 to'86. It is not possible to get copies today. All The Sullivans Episodes | List of The Sullivans Episodes (16 Items) www.ranker.com/list/full-list-of-the-sullivans-episodes/referenceBelow is a complete The Sullivans episode list that spans the show's entire TV run. Photos from the individual The Sullivans episodes are listed along with the The Sullivans episode names when available, as are the dates of the original airing of the episode. The Sullivans episodes from every season can be seen below, ... However following the leads here your lady-wife may remember the rest.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 10, 2018 11:36:47 GMT
Yep, she was a great fan.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 10, 2018 20:15:54 GMT
Broadchurch 2 was a sad decline despite Charlotte Rampling (some glaringly obvious legal errors from the outset), but 3 was a huge return to form, some fantastic acting by Julie Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Parish (another actor who can do no wrong for me, usually). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam" Broadchurch 2 was not totally uninteresting, but the story was too thin for the number of episodes, which I presume is also why they threw in a secondary story to make David Tennant even more unhappy with his life. I'd say that 5 episodes would have been enough to cover everything.
I try to ignore legal errors and other plot holes these days, but it's not easy. Since I started writing, I found that I have a lot of empathy for the writers because I keep returning to try to fix plot discrepancies and am finding that everything is becoming much too long and less interesting because of that. I suppose you just have to push ahead and damn the errors, which no more than 5% of the people will ever notice anyway.
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Post by questa on Feb 10, 2018 22:49:50 GMT
They will only be the nit-picking troublemakers that only read something to look for poetic licence occurrences anyway.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2018 22:55:41 GMT
Yeah, but a situation set up around a legal fallacy makes the plot fall apart for anyone who sees the mistake.
Anyway, that wasn't my problem with season 2, since I did not catch the legal errors. My problem was Rampling's very stilted and odd acting in it. And I find David Tennant intolerable. I've seen him in things when he was much younger, & the over-the-top angst is just wearying. Also, he is ugly as sin.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 10, 2018 23:29:43 GMT
I get worked up over British and American movies which often have French telephones ringing like English ones. It's not an important detail, but it infuriates me.
In terms of the real legal world, French judges were horrified when certain people began calling them "votre honneur" (your honour) because it is what you see on imported television series at least 20 times a week. A judge in France is called Monsieur (or Madame) le Président (the person who presides, not the head of state). However, now in French movies you will see the person being tried saying "votre honneur" sometimes just to show their ignorance of protocol.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 11, 2018 8:26:55 GMT
Oh yes,telephones ringing "wrong" - happens here too when Americans make movies set here. But the subtitling thing is an interesting one, dependent on somebody's judgement. The English subtitles for a show like Engrenages (Spiral) tend to use the English equivalents of things like police ranks, procedures and legal formalities (though they don't necessarily match up precisely), rather than translate them literally - not to mention swearwords, which just sound ludicrous otherwise. One really dead giveaway in a movie set in Britain (and plenty of British directors are guilty of it) is when a judge is shown banging a gavel. That may happen in the USA, but not here - that's the clerk's job. A general gripe of mine is when, particularly in period dramas, they've obviously gone to huge lengths to get the visuals right - clothes, hairdo, cars, furniture and so on - but then litter the script with all sorts of anachronistic modern slang and metaphors that I'm old enough to know didn't come in until about 20 years ago. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Feb 11, 2018 10:00:49 GMT
Like a kid about 8 years old in a WW1 movie recently used the term "Right on". I wasn't really watching the movie or even know what it was, but the phrase jarred me into awareness of it.
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Post by breeze on Feb 11, 2018 12:11:26 GMT
Does nobody on TV or in the movies ever close a door behind them?
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 12, 2018 5:41:22 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2018 5:44:27 GMT
Oh sure. It's probably the same people who, upon receiving upsetting news, go running off, just running and running and running.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 12, 2018 5:45:22 GMT
Probably more often than pulling over the nearest bookcase.
I am always in admiration of the magic world onscreen where there is always a parking space available directly in front of there they are going.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2018 5:58:41 GMT
Does nobody on TV or in the movies ever close a door behind them? Oh -- I've never noticed that. Something new to make me crazy! The one that drives me up the wall is food on the plates. Obviously the actors shouldn't have to really eat the food, but couldn't food be made to disappear off their plates so it looks as though they ate it? It's an incredibly common oversight on tv shows, with the mother of a family smiling as she clears the table of plates piled high with untouched food. That's sort of a cousin to the all-too-common scene wherein someone goes into a bar & orders a drink. Seconds later he tosses a bill onto the bar and leaves without touching his drink. But when people do drink in movies and on tv, it seems they can guzzle gallons without getting the least bit drunk.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 12, 2018 7:50:11 GMT
They never lock cars and you never see them watching television.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 12, 2018 16:15:08 GMT
Does anybody in real life show their frustration and anger by sweeping everything off any available horizontal surface? And who in real life stomps on their cell phone or throws it into a lake? Those things are EXPENSIVE, but the worst part would be setting up all your contacts etc on a new phone after you’ve calmed down.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 18:04:52 GMT
Does nobody on TV or in the movies ever close a door behind them? Only if the occupants of the room are going to have sex
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2018 19:59:46 GMT
And when they do close the doors to have sex, it's such mind-blowingly great sex that they never hear anyone else come into the house or even the room. I've even seen more than one show where the swat team breaks down the door of the house while yelling police!, and the amorous couple carries on, all unaware.
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Post by questa on Feb 12, 2018 22:35:41 GMT
K2, The old Batman series of 60s-70s was very 'tongue-in-cheek'. One favourite scene was Batman and Robin in the Batmobile, speeding to the Town Hall as the Mayor has sent for them urgently. They pull up and start running for the door but Robin shouts...
"Stop, Batman, you can't park there, it is the Mayor's carpark!"
Batman looks at NO PARKING sign and turns to Robin and the close-up camera...
"Quite right, Robin. We must obey the laws of our city and that includes not parking where it is not allowed".
They run back to the Batmobile, screech off to a empty carpark about 4 spaces away, again park and run up to the Town Hall...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 12, 2018 22:36:05 GMT
I have become hooked on Les Bracelets Rouges, which is the French version of the original Catalan series Polseres vermelles. It has also been adapted in Italy, Germany and the United States, The Red Band Society (where it flopped and was cancelled before they even finished the season on Fox).
It's about the teen ward in a hospital, where the kids have cancer and other afflictions, but the important point is that they are still teenagers with all of the hormones, desires and obsessions of their age group, even if they have no hair. Actually the first episode was the most difficult one, since it showed a young guy entering the hospital accompanied by his parents. He was there because the cancer treatments had not succeeded and he had to have his leg amputated. This is obviously a horrible idea to all of us, but the other teens decided that the most important thing was to have "leg party" so that he could say goodbye to his leg. He had a hard time getting a handle on the concept, but he joined in and it was a lovely moment. Frankly, it was the only episode (so far) with any difficult visual scenes since they did show the operation.
He shares his room with another very upbeat amputee, then there is the mean girl with a mystery condition, a nice girl, and three or four other teens who band together. The narration is by a younger boy who is in a coma after a terrible swimming pool accident. His mother wants the others to talk to him ("he hears everything"); some of them do, some of them don't. And naturally, we also have the wonderful hospital staff, stern when necessary but going overboard with their assistance at other times.
It is obvious that one or more of the teens will die before the end, the parents are fighting their own demons (alcohol) and are consumed with guilt for having sick children...
Nevertheless, it is a relief to watch a series that is not based on crime or power struggles.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 13, 2018 12:12:50 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 13, 2018 13:13:18 GMT
Endeavour is as much crime as I can stand.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 13, 2018 14:29:58 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 18, 2018 18:34:48 GMT
Bought a new tv yesterday, and whilst OH was fiddling about with all the channels we came across channel 4's Green Wing which is FABULOUS very funny...(and not to be confused with West Wing)...we watched it in the nineties I think but it hasn't lost its charm.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 18, 2018 21:28:33 GMT
Oh yes, the UKTV channels (and their on demand service) has all sorts of fondly-remembered old series. Green Wing was wonderfully surreal (when I was a bureaucrat, what wouldn't I have given for one of these LED display screens behind my desk): My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2018 22:42:08 GMT
Surreal, you say? Underneath it all, that's how real life works.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 20, 2018 22:56:39 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 20, 2018 23:07:26 GMT
I have become hooked on Les Bracelets Rouges, which is the French version of the original Catalan series Polseres vermelles. It has also been adapted in Italy, Germany and the United States, The Red Band Society (where it flopped and was cancelled before they even finished the season on Fox). Well, the 6th and last episode was broadcast on Monday, and it was as devastating as feared. One of the kids died as expected, but of course not one of the sickest ones. Spectators have also complained about the fact that the coma boy (narrator) never woke up.
This series was just 6 episodes, but the next one that has been planned will be 8 episodes. I was also reading about how totally wrong the American adaptation was. Apparently one of the patients was a billionaire and the entire hospital wing was redesigned for luxury requirements. How often does that happen in real life?
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Post by Kimby on Feb 21, 2018 0:13:21 GMT
As I recall there were modifications made to a full floor of French Canadian hospital in the film Barbarian Invasions at the direction of the wealthy son of the dying man.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 22, 2018 5:56:55 GMT
A thank you to Kerouac for recommending Occupied, an intelligent exploration of human nature, politics, and ethics that keeps the viewer rapt and unable to guess what will happen next. I'm only up to "August", so no one blurt out anything, okay?
Also thanks to everyone who talked about Shetland. I think Patrick began by commenting on the accents -- which are much easier for me than Derry Girls. I've only watched the first episode so far, but am eager for more.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 23, 2018 16:41:22 GMT
Thanks for the continued input.
The library informs me that I can pick up season one of SHAMELESS, the American version with William C. Macy. Guess I know what we’ll be doing when the Olympics are over. :-)
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