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The River (1988)

***The River*** is a British TV series from 1988 starring David Essex, Katy Murphy, and David Ryall that follows the tranquil life of lovable, Cockney, ex-convict Davey Jackson (Essex) who is lock keeper on the canal near the village of Chumley-on-the-Water. His peaceful life is turned upside down by the arrival of the neurotic, sharp-tongued Sarah MacDonald (Murphy). Over the six episodes of the series the love-hate relationship between Davey and Sarah blossoms into a shaky romance, their potential happiness often spoiled by the machinations of Davey's cunning Aunty Betty (Vilma Hollingbery) and the hapless intervention of Davey's deputy Tom Pike (Shaun Scott).

The River first aired on BBC1 on October 20, 1988.
Sword of Freedom (UK TV Series)

***Sword of Freedom*** was a drama adventure series for a family audience. Like several of its predecessors (most notably The Adventures of Robin Hood), it was produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and fitted into the same swashbuckler genre as previous productions. It ran for 39 half-hour monochrome episodes.

**First aired** February 21, 1958 (ATV Midlands)

#### Plot

Marco del Monte (Edmund Purdom) is a young Republican artist living in sixteenth century Renaissance Florence. The city is ruled by the tyrant Duke de Medici (Martin Benson). Marco's girlfriend is Angelica (Adrienne Corri), a beautiful former pickpocket. Sandro (Roland Bartrop) is Marco's friend and confidant. Machiavelli (Kenneth Hyde) is the Duke's adviser, and Captain Rodrigo (Derek Sydney) is the head of the Medici forces. The series depicts the struggles of the Republicans to combat the attempts of the Duke to strengthen his position and make himself a dictator.

#### Guest Stars

Andrew Keir had a recurring role, playing Leonard da Vinci. Other guest stars included John Le Mesurier, Charles Gray, Geoffrey Bayldon,Joan Plowright, Peter Wyngarde, Charles Gray, Paul Eddington, Brian Nissen, Patrick Troughton, Kenneth Williams and Roger Delgado.
Rula Lenska

***Rula Lenska*** (born Róża Maria Leopoldyna Łubieńska, September 30, 1947) is an English actress. She mainly appeared in United Kingdom productions, but also appeared in a United States television advert that presented her as a celebrity, even though she was not widely known there at the time. She is a former wife of British actor Dennis Waterman.

Lenska was born at St Neots, England. Her family are members of the Polish nobility, and bearers of the Pomian coat of arms. They once owned a castle and estate in Kazimierza Wielka, Poland. Her father, Major Count Ludwik Łubieński, was personal secretary to Józef Beck, Minister for Foreign Affairs in pre-1939 Poland. Later he became adjutant to General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile and chief of the Polish military mission in Gibraltar during World War II. Łubieński later became head of the CIA-funded Polish Section of Radio Free Europe in Germany during the Cold War. Her mother was Countess Elżbieta Tyszkiewicz who escaped from Poland during the Nazi occupation, to Italy, but was captured with her mother and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp where they survived for two years. Lenska has two sisters: Anna, an actress who appeared in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and Gabriela. Lenska was educated at the Ursuline Convent School in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent.

Her big break was as Little Ladies' band member, "Q," in the British TV series Rock Follies (1976) and its sequel Rock Follies of '77 the following year. By this time, she had renounced her title as a Polish countess; she has said of the decision, "In England it doesn't count, if you'll excuse the pun."

She has appeared in television series such as Special Branch, Minder, Boon, The Detectives, Footballers' Wives, To the Manor Born, One Foot in the Grave, Casualty, Space: 1999, Return of the Saint, Robin Of Sherwood, and the Doctor Who serial Resurrection of the Daleks (in the 1970s, Lenska made it to the final five actresses short-listed for the role of companion Jo Grant). She played Mrs. Peacock in series 2 of Cluedo. She also starred with John Inman in the short-lived (six episodes were screened) 1981 series Take a Letter, Mr. Jones, with Lenska as an executive and Inman as her secretary. She was also featured prominently in the popular 1981 series Private Schulz.

Her film roles included Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974), Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), Royal Flash (1975), Alfie Darling (1975), It Could Happen to You (1975), The Deadly Females (1976), and the cult film Queen Kong (1976) as Luce Habit.

Find out more at rulalenska.co.uk. Follow Rula on Twitter.
Tottenham Hotspur in the 80s

#### August 16

The 80-81 season opened with a match at home against Nottingham Forest. Garth Crooks was making his Tottenham debut and he and Glenn Hoodle scored in their 2-0 win. Steve Archibald was also making his debut. [hotspurhq]

### 1981

#### August 22

Aston Villa, First Division champions and Tottenham Hotspur, as FA Cup winners, drew 2-2 at Wembley to share the 1981 FA Charity Shield. Mark Falco, in place of an injured Garth Crooks scored both of Spurs' goals.

Making his debut was ex-Liverpool goalkeeper Ray Clemence, in place of Milija Aleksic, but it was an unusual error by the experienced goalie that led to Villa's opener. Peter Withe scored both of Villa's goals. [hotspurhq]

### 1989

#### October 18

Spurs beat Arsenal 2-1, a feat they had not achieved since 1985. Some newspapers at the time saw the victory as their most important result under Terry Venables, laying the North London hoodoo which Arsenal had maintained since his arrival.

Team: Thorstvedt; Thomas, M., Mabbutt, Fenwick, Van den Hauwe; Allen, P., Gascoigne, Samways (Howells), Sedgley; Walsh, Lineker.
The Lost Boys (1987)

### ***"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire."***

***The Lost Boys*** is an American horror comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes.

The film is about two Arizona brothers who move to California and end up fighting a gang of young vampires. The title is a reference to the Lost Boys in J. M. Barrie's stories about Peter Pan and Neverland, who, like the vampires, never grow up.

The film was released in the US on July 31, 1987. On the same date, the movie soundtrack was also released, and included "Good Times", a duet between INXS and former Cold Chisel lead singer Jimmy Barnes. The soundtrack also features a cover version of The Doors' song "People Are Strange" by Echo & the Bunnymen. Listen to the album on Deezer.

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1998 in Music

### January

#### January 3

* 'Urban Hymns' by Verve at No 1 in the UK Albums Chart

#### January 10

* "Perfect Day" by Various Artists at No 1 in the UK Singles Chart

#### January 17

* "Never Ever" by All Saints at No 1 in the UK Singles Chart
* "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden at No 1 in the US Billboard Hot 100

#### January 24

* "All Around The World" by Oasis at No 1 in the UK Singles Chart

#### January 31

* "You Make Me Wanna..." by Usher at No 1 in the UK Singles Chart
* "Together Again" by Janet Jackson at No 1 in the US Billboard Hot 100
Time and the Rani (Doctor Who story)

***Time and the Rani*** is the first serial of the 24th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts, on weekday evenings, from September 7 to September 28, 1987. It was the first to feature Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, who regenerates from the Sixth Doctor at the start of the story after Colin Baker was dismissed from the role. Kate O'Mara made her second and final televised appearance (not including the charity special Dimensions in Time).

As Baker declined to film a regeneration sequence, McCoy instead wore his predecessor's costume and a blond curly wig and filmed the entire sequence himself.

It was also the series's first exploits with computer-generated imagery, a relatively limited technology at the time. An all-computer animated opening titles sequence was introduced with this story, along with a new arrangement of the theme tune by Keff McCulloch, an appropriately electronic rendition composed entirely on a Prophet 5 Synthesiser. The logo of the series was also changed into a three-dimensionally animated part of the title sequence, and became the series logo that would stay in use until the early 1990s.

*The Rani has returned after her last encounter with the Doctor, with yet another malicious scientific scheme.*

*Taking advantage of the post-regenerative trauma the recently regenerated and unstable Doctor is going through, the Rani hopes to achieve control of an approaching asteroid composed entirely of strange matter.*

*Can the Doctor figure out he is being used for the Rani's evil experiment, and what is behind the door the Rani won't allow the Doctor past?*

**Novelisation**

A novelisation of this serial, written by Pip and Jane Baker, was published by Target Books in hardback in December 1987 and, in paperback on May 5, 1988. The novel features a longer finale for the Sixth Doctor (and reveals that the regeneration into the Seventh Doctor was caused by "tumultuous buffeting" when the Rani attacked the TARDIS), while the Tetraps seem to speak English backwards.

*Assailed by violent bolts of multi-coloured energy, the TARDIS is blasted off-course and forced to land on the barren planet of Lakertya.*

*The turbulence brings about the Doctor's sixth regeneration. But that is the least of his worries. He has been hijacked by that ruthless renegade Time Lady, the Rani.*

*Why has the Rani brought the Doctor to Lakertya? What are the hideous Tetrap guards? Who are the eleven geniuses she has imprisoned in her stronghold? What is the vital significance of the asteroid of Strange Matter? And can the Doctor stop the Rani's diabolical scheme before it affects the whole of creation throughout time and space?*

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The Reign Of Terror (Doctor Who story)

***The Reign of Terror*** was the eighth and final story of the first season of Doctor Who. It was the first story to use location filming, the first to feature a pre-pubescent actor in a speaking role, and the first to show the full-sized TARDIS prop materialising. It also heralded the arrival of writer and future script editor Dennis Spooner to the programme. It is the only season finale not to have any science fiction elements whatsoever, apart from the TARDIS and its crew.

The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.

**Episodes**

* August 8, 1964 (01.008.01): A Land of Fear
* August 15, 1964 (01.008.02): Guests of Madame Guillotine
* August 22, 1964 (01.008.03): A Change of Identity
* August 29, 1964 (01.008.04): The Tyrant of France
* September 5, 1964 (01.008.05): A Bargain of Necessity
* September 12, 1964 (01.008.06): Prisoners of Conciergerie

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Who Mourns for Adonais? (Star Trek TOS)

*"Captain's log, stardate 3468.1. While approaching Pollux IV, a planet in the Beta Geminorum system, the Enterprise has been stopped in space by an unknown force of some kind."*

***"Who Mourns for Adonais?"*** is episode No. 31, production No. 33, of the second season of the American science fiction television series, Star Trek. Written by Gilbert Ralston and Gene L. Coon, and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast September 22, 1967, and repeated May 10, 1968. It was first shown in the UK on April 27, 1970. The allusion is to the 1821 elegy Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise are held captive by an alien who claims to be the Greek god Apollo, played by Michael Forest.

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Top Of The Pops Volume 26

In September 1972, volume 26 of the Top Of The Pops album series, featuring soundalikes performing recent chart hits was released.

Among the cover versions in this edition:

* Children Of The Revolution (T. Rex)
* You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart)
* Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Slade)
* All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople)
* Virginia Plain (Roxy Music)
* Wig-Wam Bam (The Sweet)

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Red Rose Radio

> *"In tune with Lancashire"*
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***Red Rose Radio*** is the former name of a radio station based in Preston, Lancashire, England. Launched on October 5, 1982 on 301 metres and 97.3 FM. In 1990 the station split its frequencies to provide two stations, Red Rose Rock FM on 97.4 FM (now known as Rock FM) and Red Rose Gold on 999 AM (now known as Rock FM 2). Red Rose Gold subsequently became Red Rose 999 before adopting the Magic brand.
Wales (West and North) Television (UK TV network)

***Wales (West and North) Television***, known on screen as Teledu Cymru and often abbreviated to WWN, was the Welsh commercial television contractor awarded the franchise area serving 'North and West Wales', from 1962-68 (franchise awarded June 6 1961). It began transmitting on September 14, 1962, and ceased on January 26, 1964 through financial failure; the franchise area was soon combined with the 'South Wales and West of England' area, operated by Television Wales and the West (TWW).

The geography of Wales presented a daunting problem to the ITA. The populous area of Wales in the South were already being served by TWW, which had begun broadcasting in 1958, while the north-east of the country and much of the north coast was served by the North of England weekday and weekend franchise holders, Granada and ABC, operating since 1956; the interior of north Wales could not receive ITV transmissions at all.

The ITA was pressured, by a consortium of Welsh-speaking businessmen, into setting up a new North and West Wales region; the ITA asked the Postmaster General to allow this, which he did, with strict provisos: the new service must not offer viewers in Wales a choice other viewers did not have, and at the last minute, the Postmaster General insisted that the new station should, on its own, produce ten-hours-a-week of programmes in Welsh, without relying on Welsh language programmes produced by Granada and TWW.
Robin Cousins

***Robin Cousins*** (born August, 17 1957) is a British former competitive figure skater. He is the 1980 Olympic champion, the 1980 European champion, a three-time (1978, 1979 & 1980) World medalist and four-time (1977, 1978, 1979 & 1980) British national champion. He later starred in ice shows and also produced his own. He has also appeared in theatre productions, including in the West End, and has commentated on figure skating events for the BBC. Wikipedia. Follow Robin on Twitter.
Russ Abbot

***Russ Abbot*** (born Russell A. Roberts; September 18, 1947) is an English musician, comedian and actor. He first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots, along with Leonard 'Lenny' Reynolds, later forging a prominent solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television.

Continuing his musical career as a solo artist, Abbot released several charting singles and albums. Latterly his career has continued with a shift into more mainstream serious acting in television shows, series and stage productions.

As a comedian, he won the Funniest Man On Television award five times. Abbot appeared on the television show The Comedians under the name Russ Roberts. From 1980 onward, he released some albums as a solo artist, and appeared in several TV series. The most successful of his music singles was called "Atmosphere", which did well in the UK top 10, peaking at #7 in 1984.

Russ Abbot's Madhouse and The Russ Abbot Show showcased his talents as an all-round entertainer, attracting millions of viewers. This show was especially popular among younger viewers, prompting two annuals to be published in 1982 and 1983. These annuals featured comic strips based on popular characters, plus some publicity photos of Abbot in a variety of guises, including his well-known James Bond satire featuring characters named Basildon Bond and Miss Funnyfanny (based on the fictional MI6 spy duo James Bond and Miss Moneypenny).

Abbot would later go on to appear in two seasons of Last of the Summer Wine (2008-10) as Luther 'Hobbo' Hobdyke, a retired milkman turned secret agent.

#### Selected Discography

**Singles**

1982: "A Day In The Life of Vince Prince" (UK No. 61)

1984: "Atmosphere" (UK No. 7)

1985: "All Night Holiday" (UK No. 20)

**Albums**

1984: Russ Abbot's Madhouse

1985: I Love A Party - (UK No. 12)

1990: Songs Of Joy

#### Selected Filmography

1972: Who Do You Do (television programme)

1980 - Madhouse (television programme)

1982 - My Beard is My Lighthouse (radio show on BBC Radio 4)

1986 - The Russ Abbot Show (television programme)

1993 - September Song (television programme)

1996 - Married for Life (television programme)

Find out more at russabbot.co.uk.
The Thing (1982)

### ***"The ultimate in alien terror."***

***The Thing*** (also known as ***John Carpenter's The Thing***) is a 1982 American science-fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. The Thing infiltrates an Antarctic research station, taking the appearance of the researchers that it absorbs, and paranoia develops within the group.

The film is based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s novella Who Goes There?, which was more loosely adapted by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby as the 1951 film The Thing from Another World. Carpenter considers The Thing to be the first part of his Apocalypse Trilogy, followed by Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. Although the films are narratively unrelated, each features a potentially apocalyptic scenario; should "The Thing" ever reach civilization, it would be only a matter of time before it consumes all life on Earth. Carpenter acknowledged that the work of H.P. Lovecraft also inspired the film.

On June 25, 1982, The Thing opened in US theatres and, in the UK, on August 26, 1982. It remained in the top 10 for three weeks. The lower-than-expected performance has been attributed to many factors, the main ones being the runaway success of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which was also released by Universal Studios two weeks earlier and featured a more optimistic view of alien visitation, and that another major adult-oriented science fiction film, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, was released by Warner Brothers the same day. However, The Thing went on to gain a cult following. The film was eventually reappraised by critics, and is now considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made. The film subsequently spawned a novelization in 1982, and a comic book miniseries adaptation, entitled The Thing from Another World, published by Dark Horse Comics in 1991. Wikipedia

Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart. IMDb.com
Stars we lost in...1988

#### February 1: Heather O'Rourke

***Heather O'Rourke*** (December 27, 1975 – February 1, 1988) was an American child actress. She was discovered by director Steven Spielberg when she was visiting MGM's studios. Spielberg cast her as Carol Anne Freeling in the horror film Poltergeist (1982), where she had the movie's most recognisable line: "They're here!" She reprised the role in the second and third instalments.

O'Rourke also had a recurring role on Happy Days from 1982 to 1983, and she made several television guest appearances. She died at the age of 12 of cardiac arrest and septic shock caused by a misdiagnosed intestinal stenosis.
Tom Bosley

***Tom Bosley*** (October 1, 1927 – October 19, 2010) was an American actor, voice artist, television personality, and entertainer. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom Happy Days, and the title character on the NBC/ABC series Father Dowling Mysteries. He also was featured in the recurring role of Sheriff Amos Tupper on Murder, She Wrote.

Bosley was known for his unique gravelly voice, leading to a number of voice acting roles and he played the lead in the 1970s adult cartoon series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home as Harry Boyle, a long-suffering suburban everyman dad and restaurant equipment dealer.

Bosley died from complications of a staph infection at a hospital in California, near his home in Palm Springs, California. His death occurred 18 days after his 83rd birthday. His agent said he had been battling lung cancer.
Nickolas Grace

***Nickolas Grace*** (born November 21, 1947) is an English actor known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Grace also played Dorien Green's husband Marcus Green in the 1990s British comedy series Birds of a Feather.

Grace made his theatrical debut in weekly rep in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex in 1969, and appeared in Trevor Peacock's Erb later that year.

#### Early Career Highlights

* 1970: First appearance in the West End, in Trevor Peacock's Erb, which had transferred to the Strand Theatre.
* 1972: Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company
* 1973: Played Aumerle at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the Ian Richardson/Richard Pasco Richard II, which transferred to Broadway.
* 1975: Played Hamlet for the opening of the Playhouse, Derby.
* 1976-78: Back at the RSC, he appeared as Dromio of Ephesus in Trevor Nunn's first ever musical, The Comedy of Errors (with Judi Dench, Michael Williams and Roger Rees), Hitler in Schweik and Witwoud in The Way of the World, directed by John Barton.
* 1979-81: Grace secured the part of the flamboyant aesthete Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.
* 1981: Following the success of Brideshead Revisited, he played Richard II at the Young Vic.
* 1982: Played Mozart in Amadeus with Frank Finlay at Her Majesty's Theatre.
* 1982-86: Began working in operetta, playing Koko in The Mikado and Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore for Sadler's Wells Opera in repertoire.
* 1983: Played Harry Hamilton-Paul in the film Heat and Dust.
* 1983-86: Took the role of Robert de Rainault, the Sheriff of Nottingham, in ITV's Robin of Sherwood (1983-86).

#### Selected Filmography

Grace made appearances in many well-known TV shows in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, including:

* Z-Cars (1970 & 1972)
* The Onedin Line (1971)
* Churchill's People (1975)
* Survivors (1975)
* The Professionals (1980)
* Bergerac (1983)
* CATS Eyes (1986)
* Birds of a Feather (1989, 1993 & 1997)
* The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
* Lovejoy (1992)
* The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (1993)
* The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993)
* Space Precinct (1994)
* Tales from the Crypt (1996)

He also had starring roles in:

* Brideshead Revisited (1981)
* Heat and Dust (1983 film)
* Lace (1984 TV film)
* Robin of Sherwood (1984-85)
* Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985 TV film)
* Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987), as Lord Nelson
* Salome's Last Dance (1988 film), as Oscar Wilde
* Inside Victor Lewis-Smith (1993)
* Tom & Viv (1994 film), as Bertrand Russel
William Hartnell

***William Hartnell*** (8 January 1908-23 April 1975) portrayed the first incarnation of the Doctor (1963-1966). For many, he remains the definitive portrayal of the character. Elements of his performance are evident in those of all his successors on the television series and beyond.

Find out more at tardis.wikia.com.

### **First Doctor stories**

01.001: An Unearthly Child

01.002: The Daleks

01.003: The Edge of Destruction

01.004: Marco Polo

01.005: The Keys of Marinus

01.006: The Aztecs

01.007: The Sensorites

01.008: The Reign of Terror

02.009: Planet of Giants

02.010: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

02.011: The Rescue

02.012: The Romans

02.013: The Web Planet

02.014: The Crusade

02.015: The Space Museum

02.016: The Chase

02.017: The Time Meddler

03.018: Galaxy 4

03.019: Mission to the Unknown

03.020: The Myth Makers

03.021: The Daleks' Master Plan

03.022: The Massacre

03.023: The Ark

03.024: The Celestial Toymaker

03.025: The Gunfighters

03.026: The Savages

03.027: The War Machines

04.028: The Smugglers

04.029: The Tenth Planet

### Other appearances

10.065: The Three Doctors (10th anniversary special)
Man from Atlantis (US TV series)

***Man from Atlantis*** is an American science fiction television series that ran for 13 episodes on the NBC network during the 1977–1978 season, following four television films that had aired earlier in 1977.

The series stars Patrick Duffy as an amnesiac man given the name of Mark Harris, believed to be the only surviving citizen of the lost civilization of Atlantis. He possesses exceptional abilities, including the ability to breathe underwater and withstand extreme depth pressures, and superhuman strength. His hands and feet are webbed, his eyes are unusually sensitive to light, and he swims using his arms and legs in a fashion suggestive of an underwater butterfly stroke or dolphin kick. Following his discovery, he is recruited by the Foundation for Oceanic Research, a governmental agency that conducts top secret research and explores the depths of the ocean in a sophisticated submarine called the Cetacean.

The first pilot, "Man from Atlantis", aired on March 4, 1977. The second, "The Death Scouts", appeared on May 7, 1977 and followed by a third TV movie, "Killer Spores" on May 17, 1977. The fourth and final TV movie, "The Disappearance", aired on June 20, 1977. Ratings success by these movies led to the commissioning of a weekly series for the 1977–1978 season.

The first episode of the full series, "Melt Down" was shown on September 22, 1977. The series ended after 13 episodes with "Deadly Carnival" on June 6, 1978.

In the United Kingdom, Man from Atlantis first aired on September 24, 1977 and was shown, in most regions, in an early Saturday evening slot on ITV, opposite the BBC's long-running sci-fi series Doctor Who, which was then in its 15th season. Although Man from Atlantis had not been a ratings/audience-share or demographic success in the US, the series actually beat Doctor Who during its transmission in the UK. (This happened again in 1980–81 when ITV screened Buck Rogers in the 25th Century against Doctor Who.)

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The Tommy Steele Story (1957)

***The Tommy Steele Story*** is a 1957 British film, released in UK cinemas in June, 1957, and starring Tommy Steele, dramatising his own rise to fame. In August, 1957, it was released in the US as Rock Around the World, since it was felt no one in America knew who Tommy Steele was. He was paid £3,000 for the lead role.

Along with Rock You Sinners it was one of the first British rock and roll movies.

Tommy Steele lives with his mother and father in their London home. He works with a bellboy until he injures his spine doing judo. In hospital he is given a guitar to help with his therapy and he starts to play to entertain patients and staff. He works on an ocean liner, performing in his spare time, and gets a job playing in a coffee bar. He is popular with audiences and gets a recording contract.

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The soundtrack was released as a 10" LP in May 1957, credited to Tommy Steele and the Steelmen. Steele had a hand in writing every song on the soundtrack except one ("Butterfingers"). The album went to number one in the UK Albums Chart on two occasions, firstly on July 20, 1957 for three weeks, and then on August 31, 1957 for one further week.

**Tracklist** Listen on Deezer

A1 Take Me Back, Baby

A2 Butterfingers

A3 I Like

A4 A Handful Of Songs

A5 You Gotta Go

A6 Water, Water

A7 Cannibal Pot

B1 Will It Be You

B2 Two Eyes

B3 Build Up

B4 Time To Kill

B5 Elevator Rock

B6 Doomsday Rock

B7 Teenage Party

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Secret Army (UK TV series)

***Secret Army*** is a television drama made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister as a follow-up to his drama series Colditz. The series tells the story of a fictional Belgian resistance movement during the Second World War dedicated to returning Allied airmen, usually having been shot down by the Luftwaffe, to the United Kingdom. It was made in the UK and Belgium and three series were broadcast on BBC1 between September 7, 1977 and December 15, 1979.

It starred Bernard Hepton as Albert Foiret, and Jan Francis as Lisa "Yvette" Colbert.

Fay Weldon said of the series: "There is, in the making of such programmes, a level of professionalism, and sheer patient, largely unacclaimed, hard work from producer to script editor to writer to designer to vision mixer to editor by way of sound and lighting engineers that is probably equalled only in a heart transplant theatre".

The series followed the timeline of the war to show how it affected Belgium and the serious tone of the production led it to be parodied in the BBC comedy series 'Allo 'Allo!, with a few cast members (namely, John D Collins and Hilary Minster) appearing in both series.

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Star Trek - The Next Generation Season 1

> A hundred years after the era of James T. Kirk, Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes command of the Galaxy-class USS Enterprise-D with a hand-picked crew. They take on assignments from Starfleet as well as explore those strange new worlds, going where no one has gone before.
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### Development

#### October 10, 1986

The series was officially announced by the President of Paramount Television Group, Mel Harris.

### Regular Cast

* Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
* Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
* LeVar Burton as Lieutenant junior grade Geordi La Forge
* Denise Crosby as Lieutenant Natasha Yar
* Michael Dorn as Lieutenant junior grade Worf
* Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher
* Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
* Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data
* Wil Wheaton as Acting ensign Wesley Crusher

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### Season One Episodes

#### November 16, 1987 (US); November 6, 1990 (UK): Episode 9 - The Battle

* Stardate 41723.9

When a group of Ferengi present Captain Picard with the derelict remains of his old starship, he begins to lose himself in the past.

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#### January 11, 1988 (US); October 12, 1990 (UK): Episode 12 - The Big Goodbye

* Stardate 41997.7

Captain Picard and some of the Enterprise crew get stuck on the holodeck on their way to an important diplomatic mission.

##### Notable Guest Cast

* Lawrence Tierney (Hill Street Blues, Reservoir Dogs) as Cyrus Redblock
* Dick Miller (The Terminator, Gremlins, V: The Final Battle) as Vendor
* Richard Sarstedt (singer, as Eden Kane, of UK #1 hit "Well I Ask You", and brother of Peter "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?" Sarstedt) as command division lieutenant (uncredited)

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Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

### ***"The magic is back!"***

***Lethal Weapon 2*** is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland. Released in US cinemas on July 7, 1989 and September 15, 1989 in the UK, it is a sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and second installment in the Lethal Weapon series.

Gibson and Glover respectively reprise their roles as LAPD officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, who protect an irritating federal witness (Pesci), while taking on a gang of South African drug dealers hiding behind diplomatic immunity. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing (Robert G. Henderson). The film received mostly positive reviews and earned more than $227 million worldwide.

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Followed by Lethal Weapon 3.
The Amazing Spider-Man (US TV series)

***The Amazing Spider-Man*** is the first live-action television series about the Marvel Comics hero of the same name, although it is not the first live-action portrayal of the character, since Spider-Man was featured in a series of comedic short skits called Spidey Super Stories beginning in the 1974 season of PBS' The Electric Company children's educational program. The Amazing Spider-Man was shown in the United States from September 19, 1977 to July 6, 1979. Though it was a considerable ratings success, the CBS series was cancelled after just 13 episodes, which included a pilot movie airing in autumn of 1977. None of the episodes were released on DVD, but almost all of them have been released on VHS. Despite its storylines being set in New York City (the character's hometown), the series was mostly filmed in Los Angeles.

Veteran actor Nicholas Hammond was cast in the lead role (though all of Spider-Man's stunts were performed by the series's stunt coordinator, Fred Waugh). Character co-creator, Stan Lee, and producer, Daniel R Goodman, fiercely clashed over the direction of the series during the initial production. Lee once said in an interview for Pizzazz magazine that he felt the series was "too juvenile".

The series began as a backdoor pilot: a 90 Minute Movie known simply as Spider-Man which was broadcast on CBS TV network on September 19, 1977, which was theatrically released internationally. It had been released into US cinemas five days before the TV showing [Wikipedia]. In it, Peter Parker (as an intrepid university student) gains super powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. He uses those powers to get a job at the Daily Bugle, and to stop a con man who is covertly using mind control for personal gain.

The first episode, proper, was "The Deadly Dust, Pt 1", aired on April 5, 1978. Parts one and two eventually became Spider-Man Strikes Back, which was released theatrically in some countries, and on May 8, 1978 in US cinemas. It was aired as a TV movie in the US on August 2, 1979. Wikipedia

Subsequent episodes were scheduled sporadically, sometimes a month apart.

The last episode, the two-part "The Chinese Web" includes many scenes which were filmed in Hong Kong. It was later split into two parts for television syndication. The episode was also released theatrically in different territories from 1979 to 1981. In the US, the opening date was May 9, 1981 [Wikipedia]. It was also released overseas on video (and on laserdisc in Japan) in its full version, titled Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge.

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Rodney Bewes

**Rodney Bewes** (November 27, 1937 - November 21, 2017) was an English television actor and writer, best known for playing Bob Ferris in the BBC television sitcom The Likely Lads (1964–66), its colour sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–74), the various radio series based on them (1967–68 and 1975), and in the big screen film The Likely Lads (1976).

#### Career

From the age of 12 he was appearing in television plays for the BBC, and at 14 he moved to London to attend RADA's preparatory school. After two years of national service in the RAF, Bewes went to RADA.  In the early 1960s he was appearing in productions at the Borough Polytechnic Institute (now London South Bank University) alongside Richard Briers and Brian Murphy. He then began appearing in repertory theatre and obtained parts in the television shows Dixon of Dock Green (1962) and Z-Cars (1963). He also appeared in the film version of Billy Liar (1963) alongside his close friend Tom Courtenay. The following year his northern working-class background and natural northern accent stood him in good stead, landing him the role of northern working class hero Bob Ferris in The Likely Lads.

His television career largely ended by the mid-1980s.

On stage, Bewes enjoyed success in the 1990s and with one-man versions of Three Men in a Boat and Diary of a Nobody, both of which shows he has toured extensively in the UK. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1997 he won the Stella Artois Prize for his one-man production of Three Men in a Boat.

#### Selected Filmography

1964 to 1966: The Likely Lads

1968: The Basil Brush Show

1969 to 1972: Dear Mother...Love Albert

1970: Spring and Port Wine

1973 to 1974: Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

1976: The Likely Lads

1984: Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
The Last Waltz (Engelbert Humperdinck song)

***"The Last Waltz"*** is an English schlager song written by Barry Mason and Les Reed. It was one of Engelbert Humperdinck's biggest hits, spending five weeks at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, from September 6 1967, and has since sold over 1.17 million copies in the United Kingdom.

In the United States, "The Last Waltz" reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and made the top ten of the easy listening chart.

The song is associated with the English football clubs, Peterborough United F.C. and Gillingham F.C.

The title of the song is something of a double entendre as it refers to both the narrator's first and last dances with the woman he loves: the first dance was the "last waltz" played at the party where the two met, and the final dance signified the end of their relationship after their romance had cooled.

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McCloud (US TV series)

***McCloud*** is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970-77. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired as part of the NBC Mystery Movie rotating wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television.

The show was centred on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of Taos, New Mexico, who was on loan to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator. A recurring theme in the show was the conflict between McCloud and Chief Clifford, who was played in every episode but the pilot by J. D. Cannon. In many episodes, McCloud was partnered with Sgt. Joe Broadhurst, played by Terry Carter. Broadhurst, a New Yorker, was portrayed with a certain existential pessimism to counter McCloud's high spirits. Like Chief Clifford, Broadhurst felt himself wise to McCloud's peculiarities, but was without the anger, and usually wound up resigned to being drawn into McCloud's schemes to solve particular cases, sometimes against direct orders

The pilot, "Portrait of a Dead Girl", aired on US TV on February 17, 1970 (September 16, 1972 in the UK), and established the premise by having McCloud escort a prisoner from New Mexico to New York City, only to become embroiled in solving a complicated murder case. This premise of "a cowboy in the big city" was more or less adapted from the 1968 Don Siegel film, Coogan's Bluff, starring Clint Eastwood. Herman Miller was responsible for the story of Coogan's Bluff and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner and Howard A. Rodman. Indeed, Miller is credited as the creator of McCloud.

The first series opened on September 16, 1970. Over the seven seasons, many well known actors guested, including Raul Julia (in the pilot), Sebastian Cabot, Stefanie Powers, Burgess Meredith, John Denver, Louis Gossett Jr, Teri Garr, Dean Stockwell, Linda Gray, George Hamilton, Jane Seymour, Britt Eklund and John Carradine.

The 46th and last episode, "McCloud Meets Dracula", was aired on April 17, 1977. In 1989, Weaver reprised the role in a made-for-television movie, The Return of Sam McCloud, in which his character was now a United States Senator. It first aired on November 12, 1989. Diana Muldaur returned to reprise her role as McCloud's love interest, Chris Coughlin. British actors David McCallum, Patrick Macnee and Roger Rees also appeared.
Omnibus (UK TV series)

***Omnibus*** is an arts-based British documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series Monitor.

It ran from October 13, 1967 until January 8, 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.

Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor (1975), a profile of David Bowie; Rene Magritte (1979), a graduate film by David Wheatley; Madonna: Behind the American dream (1990), a film produced by Nadia Hagger; and a profile of British film director Ridley Scott (1992).

For one season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.

In 2001, the programme was switched to BBC2, and, in late 2002, the BBC announced that Omnibus would be cancelled the following year, to be replaced by the arts series Imagine, hosted by Alan Yentob.
The Beezer (UK comic)

#### ***"For Boys and Girls"***

***The Beezer*** was a British comic whose first issue was dated January 21, 1956. Like its sister comic, The Topper, The Beezer was an A3 (tabloid) publication, twice as big as most other comics. It shrank to A4 paper size in 1981. The Beezer launched its annual, The Beezer Book, in 1957.

Comics that merged into The Beezer during its 37-year run were Cracker in 1976, and Plug in 1979. In September 1990, D. C. Thomson decided to rationalise their comics portfolio, and merged the Beezer with The Topper. Whereas most previous comic mergers saw the name of one of the 'absorbed' comics disappear, the Topper was considered significant enough for its name to be retained despite the merger, and as such the comic was renamed ***Beezer and Topper*** following the relaunch with the September 22, 1990 issue. (Whizzer and Chips was conceived as a double comic, and was not the result of a merger.)

Beezer and Topper ceased publication as a weekly comic on August 21, 1993; when it closed it was essentially (unofficially) "merged" with The Beano, as this is where the bulk of surviving content from the comic (most prominently The Numskulls) ended up. (Some also went to D. C. Thomson's other surviving weekly comic, The Dandy.)

Although the weekly Beezer and Topper had merged, the two comics' annuals (The Beezer Book and The Topper Book) remained separate publications. The closure of Beezer and Topper led to the closure of the Topper annual as of the 1994 book (published 1993), but The Beezer Book continued in publication annually for some years thereafter, eventually ceasing with the 2003 book (published 2002). Other Beezer publications which continued after the weekly comic's closure were The Best of Beezer (launched 1988, closed 1996) and The Beezer Summer Special (launched 1973, known as the 'Holiday Special' from 1998 onwards, closed 2002).

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The New Adventures of Charlie Chan

***The New Adventures of Charlie Chan*** is a British-American crime drama series that aired in the United States in syndicated television from June 1957, to 1958. The first five episodes were made by Vision Productions in the United States, before production switched to the United Kingdom under ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America.

The series, consisting of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes, follows the investigations of the fictional detective Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1925. The series follows the convention, established in the Charlie Chan movies, of having the Asian character Chan played by a Western actor while his son(s) were played by actual Asians.

The show debuted in the US on August 9, 1957.

J. Carrol Naish played Charlie Chan, and James Hong was Barry Chan, "Number One Son". Notable guest stars included Honor Blackman and Patrick Troughton.

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The "Road To..." Films

***Road to...*** refers to a series of seven comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. They are also often referred to as the "Road" pictures or the "Road" series. The movies were a combination of adventure, comedy, romance, and music. The minimal plot often took a back seat to gags, many of them reportedly ad-libbed by Crosby and Hope during filming.

Each film is not simply a comedy, but a satire of some of the popular film genres of the day, including jungle, Arabian nights, Alaskan adventure, and high seas. The final film not only comes much later, but involves a newer genre; Hong Kong spoofs the spy films of the sixties.

In 1947, Astor Pictures released a compilation film of several of Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects called The Road to Hollywood to evoke the series. The United States Navy also commissioned Hope and Crosby to produce the 1945 short film Road to Home.

In 1977, an eighth Road to... movie was planned, titled Road to the Fountain of Youth; however, Crosby died that year of a heart attack.

In the 1980s, Eric Idle wanted to make a "Road..." picture called The Road to Mars, but was so put off by the executive meddling done at Hollywood studios, that he decided to do it as a novel instead.

### Road to Rio (1947)

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***Road to Rio*** is an American comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, that went on general release in the US on December 25, 1947. The film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.

#### Plot Summary

Scat Sweeney (Crosby), and Hot Lips Barton (Hope), two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia (Lamour), who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain (Stanley Andrews). When they find out that she has been hypnotised, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks. IMDb.com

#### Soundtrack

Bing Crosby recorded four songs from the movie for Decca Records and these were also issued on a 78 rpm album titled "Selections from Road to Rio". “But Beautiful” and "You Don't Have to Know the Language" made fleeting appearances in the Billboard charts. Crosby's songs were also included in the Bing's Hollywood series.

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Tony Rome

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***Tony Rome*** is an American Neo Noir detective film starring Frank Sinatra and directed by Gordon Douglas, adapted from Marvin H. Albert's novel Miami Mayhem. It also stars Jill St. John, Sue Lyon and Gena Rowlands.

#### Plot Summary

Tony Rome (Sinatra) is an ex-cop turned private eye in Miami Beach. For $200 he returns a young woman to her father's house after she passes out in a seedy hotel, and he keeps the hotel's name out of it. Trouble is, she's missing a diamond pin, and tough guys show up at Tony's boat looking for it. When the pin does turn up, it's fake, so the girl's father, a wealthy builder, hires Tony to find out what happened to the real stones. Bodies pile up, Tony suspects the builder's trophy wife, and he's also looking for a mysterious guy named Nimmo who used to date Ann Archer, a stunning redhead Tony meets at the builder's. Can Tony sort it out before too many die, and what about Ann?

### Lady in Cement (1968)

* November 20, 1968 (US)

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***Lady in Cement*** is a Neo Noir detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel and Richard Conte.

#### Plot Summary

Having come across a blonde with her feet encased in cement while on a diving trip, Miami Private Eye Tony Rome (Sinatra) is helping out his police buddy on the case when he is hired by a very large guy to find a girl who just might be the same one. Rome is soon wanted by both hoods and cops, but help may (or may not) be at hand from the striking Kit. IMDb.com