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Thread #46912   Message #698605
Posted By: Lanfranc
25-Apr-02 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: forgotten TV series.
Subject: RE: BS: forgotten TV series.
Hang on - these aren't forgotten series, they're fondly remembered!

What we seem to have created is a catalogue of programmes that entertained or informed our youth, many of which predated video tape or have been lost. I'm heartened by the British content, but wonder what the kids of today will remember twenty, thirty or forty years on.

On the subject of the Dorothy L Sayers adaptations, I could have sworn that the Petherbridge series predated the Carmichael one, but stand corrected.

I have the LPs from "Rock Follies" and "Rock Follies of 1977" which are still worth a listen - wonder what happened to the programmes themselves?

I also have the sheet music of "Robin Hood" framed on the wall of my office, with Richard Greene in full fig (and tights!)

I've just remembered another - "The Buccaneer" which starred Robert Shaw. One episode featured treasure buried on Cat Island, the clue to which was a song sung to the tune of "Liverpool Judies".

Nostalgia is all very well, but......

Alan