Entertainment For Lively Minds
Shared Tv Experiences
Posted by JohnW on 24 September 2011 - 12:56am.
Earlier today in an eaterie I had a bowl of soup, the bowl was the bread (stick with it, there will be a point to this). When I finished, my plate was clean, no sign of any soup or a bowl. I likened it to the leg of lamb in the tales of the unexpected and the GLW pointed out that everybody seems to know that episode.
Will we ever see the same thing again for a standard television series and are there any other examples of shared memories of a single episode? I don't think its fair to include sitcom because they often seem to be on continuous repeat.
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Lone Justice on Old Grey Whistle Test
I know a lot of people who have loved Maria McKee ever since seeing her old band on OGWT back in...85 I think. Damn fine performance whatever, and a quiet little musical intersection point.
Oh Yes...
I went out and ordered the album the next day.
Here is Sweet Sweet Baby in all its glory:
I know a fair few people who saw this and went...
Oooh, she's nice....oh, she can really sing...damn that's good...
I bought the album the next day as well, been a fan of Maria's ever since.
I remember it well.
Mark Ellen, back from the US, telling us about two great bands.
The other was The Bangles.
That day, I fell in love with Maria McKee AND lots of Bangles.
Bangles?
Were they on that episode?
I remember seeing the Hero Takes A Fall video on OGWT earlier that year. French maid outfit and all...
No
but if you lot were Swedes of a certain generation and I mentioned the gangrene episode from Raskens...
The hideous foot is seen at 0:45.
OK, I'm stumped
What on earth is the leg of lamb / Tales of the Unexpected episode? I've heard of TotU but never seen it.
I Googled it and vaguely remember the episode
and I think a woman bludgeoned her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb which was then cooked and the evidence eaten. Mostly, they were Tales Of The A Bit Predictable.
That's right...
... and, I think, the investigating police help eat the evidence - the last scene is a police officer throwing the finished leg into the bin.
I suspect, though,
that it was the presence of a young Susan George that helped lodge it in the memory!
From a short story by
Roald Dahl.
Tales of the Unexpected?
Are you sure it wasn't Dial M for Mutton? Or The Lambshank Redemption?
I'll get my fleece...
I don't remember that.
I seem to remember "bloke turns into a bee" though. That was unexpected.
I remember that one
And one about a schoolgirl who is intimidated by a man on a bus, befriended by a woman who takes her home to look after her/contact her parents and talks about her husband being home soon.
Husband arrives...it is the harraser from the bus!
The faceless nun
in the rocking chair in the attic in an episode of Armchair Thriller, perhaps? Utterly scarring.
Bloody hell, aye
Scared the bejaybus out of me did that. On a similar theme, wasn't there also a Sapphire & Steel episode where Lumley's face turned into porridge or something?
I only knew one kid at school who wasn't changed
by watching this, and that's only because his parents had him locked in the pantry while it was on so that he didn't catch homosexualitis. So I suppose it even changed him in a small way:
Who shot...
JR?
Isn't this usually trotted out at moments like this?
and so it should be...
Our friends I t n
Final episode of "Our friends in the north". Great carefully selected tunes throughout, each song representing a year....up to the then present day. Final bit was a lump in the throat finale with "Don't look back in anger" playing out.
Not sure if this was their first appearance on TOTP
but the only conversation at school the next day was "was that a boy or a girl?"
Dad moment
My dad's pretty cool about things like this, but this was the only time I can remember him doing that 'what? Is that a boy or a girl?'
It's all thanks to Shaky
I heard that CC were thrown in at the last minute because Shakin' Stevens had the flu, and had to cancel.
Remember that play on BBC 2 when Connie Booth........
......wasn't 'with clothing' for approximately 3.45623 seconds?
I remember that, and I remember a lot of my friends remembering that.
Wasn' it
set in a nursing home?
"what's this, Den?"
"That,my dahlin' are our divorce papers! Happy Christmas, Angie!"
Doof Doof Doof
Can I just say
lipstick around the nipples at this point?
Monkey
Born from an egg on a mountain top...
The first episode of Monkey featured the monkey of the title pissing on Buddha's fingers. Which was the first time I think any of us at school - aged about 11 - had seen somebody going to toilet on the tellybox.
It's got to be Olly Reed
On After Dark. It was horrible. It was compulsive viewing. It was hurriedly taken off and replaced with The Coal Face (thirties documentary), just the thing for Saturday chucking-out time.
Sing it, boys:
"The Coal... The Coal.... We Dig The Coal.."