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Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

### ***"THE GANG'S ALL HERE."***

***Lethal Weapon 4*** is a 1998 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and produced by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, and Jet Li (in his American film debut). Released in US cinemas on July 10, 1998 and September 18, 1989 in the UK, it followed Lethal Weapon 3 and is the fourth and final installment in the Lethal Weapon series.

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Sharon Osbourne

***Sharon Osbourne*** (born Sharon Rachel Levy on October 9, 1952), the daughter of Don Arden (born Harry Levy 1926–2007) who was a music promoter and rock and roll entrepreneur. Arden managed heavy metal band Black Sabbath and Levy began dating Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 after he was fired from the band, and took over his management from the Arden organisation. Levy coordinated the recruitment of a backing band (Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley, and Lee Kerslake) for the recording of the Blizzard of Ozz album and helped Ozzy launch what became a successful solo career. Arden resented his daughter for dating Ozzy and managing his career. While visiting her parents, her mother's dogs attacked her and it was some time before her mother appeared to call them off. She was pregnant at the time and subsequently lost the baby. She soon lost contact with her father and did not speak to him for 20 years.

Osbourne revealed she was surrounded by violence during her childhood and that it was a normal occurrence to see her father threatening someone, or brandishing a firearm.

Ozzy and Sharon were married in Maui, Hawaii, on July 4, 1982. Together they have three children: Aimee, Kelly and Jack. For years, the Osbourne marriage was plagued by alcohol, drug use, and violence, with Osbourne (Sharon) having even been arrested for driving while intoxicated. The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head. The most notorious incident arose in August 1989, when Ozzy was arrested for attempted murder after he had returned from a peace festival in Moscow, USSR, and tried to strangle Osbourne in a haze of alcohol and drugs. After the incident, he spent six months in rehabilitation as a result of his actions, after which time, Osbourne said she regained her strength in their relationship and did not press charges.

Osbourne gained celebrity status as one of the stars of MTV's reality show, The Osbournes (2002-2005), which followed her family's daily life and had a national audience. As the person who negotiated with MTV to screen the show, she is often credited with bringing about her husband's emergence from heavy metal icon into mainstream celebrity. In July 2002, Osbourne was diagnosed with colon cancer, she insisted that filming should continue. Osbourne has been a judge on the X Factor and America's Got Talent.
Radio 106/Century 106 (UK radio station)

***Radio 106*** launched at 6am on Tuesday September 23, 1997. Billed as "Radio for Grown Ups", the new regional station was led by ex-Radio Trent managing director Ron Coles with former Centre Radio MD Ken Warburton as programming controller. The first presenter on air was Dickie Dodd.

Radio 106's launch schedule included a heavy emphasis on speech content, including daily guests on mid-morning shows and a nightly 3-hour phone-in. Specialist music output featured country, soul and motown at weekends. The station's launch team included Kevin Fernihough, Mark Keen, Willie Morgan, Kenny Hague, Jake Yapp, Peter King and Sarah Graham.

Against competition from established BBC Local Radio and GWR-owned commercial stations, Radio 106 recorded positive listening figures for its first set of RAJAR audience figures, but within seven months of launch, the station's owners Border Radio Holdings opted for a complete relaunch.

In April 1998, John Myers took control of the station, which was rebranded as ***Century 106*** and relaunched with a new team of presenters including Adrian Allen and Chris Ashley.

Former Radio Trent presenter David Lloyd became the station's Managing Director and Programme Controller with ex-Trent colleagues including Tony Lyman, Craig Strong, Gary Burton and Andy Marriott joining the presenting line-up. Other additions to the team included Steve Jordan (breakfast) and Bernie Keith (afternoons).

#### After the 20th Century

In May 2000, Century 106, along with the other Century stations in the North East and North West, were sold to Capital Radio. David Lloyd left the station to join Galaxy 105 in Leeds while presenter Adrian Allen walked out mid-show in protest. The sale to Capital brought an increase in the station's sports coverage - as emphasised in the slogan music, fun and football. More new presenters joined Century, including Ian Skye, Jason King, Stuart Ellis, Sam Pinkham and Paula White.

When Capital later merged with GWR, the Office of Fair Trading ordered Century to be sold off. Chrysalis bought Century 106 for £29.5m and planned to rebrand the station as ***Heart 106***, to go with 100.7 Heart FM in the West Midlands as the area matched that of the ITV Central region and would make it more attractive to advertisers. On November 9, 2010, Orion Media announced that Heart 106 would be relaunched and renamed as '***Gem 106***' on January 1, 2011. Under the rebrand, the station ended its franchise agreement with Global Radio which allowed it to use the Heart identity and carry networked programming from London.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)

## *"The mission is a man."*

***Saving Private Ryan*** is a 1998 American epic war drama film set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Directed by *Steven Spielberg* and written by Robert Rodat, the film is notable for its graphic portrayal of war, and for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which includes a depiction of the Omaha Beach assault during the Normandy landings. It follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (*Tom Hanks*) and a squad (*Tom Sizemore*, Edward Burns, *Barry Pepper*, *Giovanni Ribisi*, *Vin Diesel*, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (*Matt Damon*), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

The film received critical acclaim, winning several awards for film, cast, and crew, as well as earning significant returns at the box office. The film grossed US$481.8 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of the year. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards; Spielberg's direction won his second Academy Award for Best Director, with four more awards going to the film. Saving Private Ryan was released on home video in May 1999, earning another $44 million from sales. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

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Released *July 24, 1998* (US); *September 11, 1998* (UK)
Wagon Train (US TV series)

***Wagon Train*** is an American Western series that ran on NBC from September 18, 1957– June 13, 1962 and then on ABC September 19, 1962– May 2, 1965, although the network also aired daytime repeats, as Major Adams, Trailmaster and Trailmaster (post-1961 episodes without original series lead Ward Bond), from January 1963 to September 1965. The show debuted at #15 in the Nielsen ratings, rose to #2 in the next three seasons, and peaked at #1 in the 1961–62 television season. After moving to ABC in the autumn of 1962, the ratings began to decline, and Wagon Train did not again make the Top 20 listing.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by Scott Miller and Robert Fuller.

The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

The show chronicles the adventures of a wagon train as it makes its way from Missouri to California.

The series aired for most of its run in black-and-white. That briefly changed during the show's fifth season (1961–62) on NBC, for five episodes, to help promote the sales of parent company RCA's color television sets.

Notable guest stars in clude Claude Akins, Martin Balsam, William Bendix, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr, Lou Costello, Yvonne Craig, Bette Davis, Angie Dickinson, Lorne Greene, Dennis Hopper, Carolyn Jones, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Ricardo Montalban, Leonard Nimoy, Ronald Reagan, Cesar Romero, Barbara Stanwyck, Rod Steiger, Dean Stockwell, Shelley Winters, and John Wayne in a brief scene billed as "Michael Morris".
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Van der Valk (UK TV series)

***Van der Valk*** is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" (real name Simon) van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere (but not the plots) of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series aired from September 13, 1972.

The stories are mostly based in and around Amsterdam, where Commissaris van der Valk is a cynical yet intuitive detective. Drugs, sex and murder are among the gritty themes of the casework, contrasted against picturesque Amsterdam locations.

Van der Valk also contrasts with his naïve assistant, Inspecteur Johnny Kroon, played by Michael Latimer, and his superior, Hoofd-commissaris Samson, who deals with the political fallout of the cases. Samson was played by three different actors over the course of the show. Van der Valk's French wife Arlette was played by three different actresses over the course of the show's twenty-year run. Other notable actors in the series included Alan Haines who played Brig Mertens, and Richard Huw who played Van Der Valk's son Wim, also a police detective, in the revival.

The first series, of six episodes, ran in the United Kingdom in September and October 1972, and the second series, of seven episodes, ran likewise in 1973. After a break of four years, a longer, twelve-episode, third series aired in the autumn of 1977. This series was generally made on location, by Thames's subsidiary Euston Films (perhaps best known for dramas such as The Sweeney and Minder), giving the programmes a consistently gritty tone. The format was revived once more, for the first time in just over 13 years, towards the end of Thames's life as a part of the ITV network, with four two-hour episodes of the fourth series in January and February 1991, and a fifth series of three two-hour episodes in February 1992.

The memorable signature tune, Eye Level, composed by Jack Trombey (a pseudonym of Dutch composer Jan Stoeckart) and played by the Simon Park Orchestra, reached number one in the UK singles charts on September 29, 1973, for four weeks. The b-side was "Distant Hills", the theme tune of 'Crown Court'. Also that year, Matt Monro charted with a vocal version titled "And You Smiled", peaking at No 28. In the final TV series, the theme was played at a slightly faster tempo than previously.
Lindsey Buckingham

***Lindsey Buckingham*** (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and then 1997 to the present day. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.

Fleetwood Mac, the band that gave Buckingham his greatest exposure, had been around since the late 1960s, beginning as a British blues outfit led by Peter Green. After Green left the group, they experienced several tumultuous years, without a stable frontman. Along with his then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks, Buckingham was invited to join Fleetwood Mac in 1975; the pair had recorded in the same studio, and Fleetwood Mac had been without a guitarist or male lead vocal at the time. Buckingham and Nicks became the face of the group during their most commercially successful period, highlighted by the multi-platinum Rumours album, which would sell over 40 million copies worldwide. Though highly successful, the line-up experienced almost constant creative and personal conflict, and Buckingham left the band in 1987 to focus on his solo career.

A one-off reunion at the 1993 inauguration ball for President Bill Clinton would initiate some rapprochement between the former band members, with Buckingham performing some vocals on one track of their 1995 album Time, and rejoining the band full-time in 1997 for the live tour and album The Dance. Buckingham has remained in the band ever since.

Buckingham and his then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks recorded seven demos in 1972 on a one-inch 4-track Ampex recorder kept at his father's coffee roasting plant in Daly City, then drove to Los Angeles to pursue a record deal. In 1973, Polydor Records signed the pair. Their album, produced by Keith Olsen and second engineer Richard Dashut, Buckingham Nicks, was released on September 5, 1973; soon after its release, however, Polydor dropped the duo because of poor sales. To help make ends meet, Buckingham toured with Don Everly's backing band, singing Phil Everly's parts.

#### Selected discography (Fleetwood Mac unless specified)

* September 5, 1973: Buckingham Nicks
* July, 1975: Fleetwood Mac - US #1; UK #23; 5× Platinum

* February 4, 1977: Rumours - US #1; UK #1; 20x Platinum (Diamond)
* October 12, 1979: Tusk - US #4; UK #1; 2× Platinum
* December 8, 1980: Live - US #14; UK #31; Gold
* October 3, 1981: Law and Order (solo) - US #32
	+ November, 1981: "Trouble" - US Hot 100 #9; UK #31
* June 18, 1982: Mirage - US #1; UK #5; 2× Platinum
* April 13, 1987: Tango in the Night - US #7; UK #1; 3× Platinum
* November 15, 1988: Greatest Hits - US #14; UK #3; 8× Platinum
* June 16, 1992: Out of the Cradle (solo) - US #128; UK #51

* August 19, 1997: The Dance - US #1; UK #15; 5× Platinum

Find out more at lindseybuckingham.com.
The Last House On The Left (1972)

### ***"It rests on 13 acres of earth over the very center of hell...! Mari, 17, is dying. Even for her the worst is yet to come!"***

***The Last House on the Left*** is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, edited, and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham. The film follows two teenage girls who are taken into the woods and tortured by a gang of murderous thugs. The story is inspired by the 1960 Swedish film The Virgin Spring, directed by Ingmar Bergman, which in turn is based on a Swedish ballad - "Töres döttrar i Wänge".

Craven's directorial debut, the film was made on a modest budget of $87,000, and was filmed in New York City and rural Connecticut in 1971. It was released theatrically in the United States on August 30, 1972, and was a major box office success, grossing over $3 million domestically. Although its confrontational violence resulted in its being heavily censored and sometimes banned in other countries, the film was generally well received by critics.

The film was censored in many countries, and was particularly controversial in the United Kingdom. The film was refused a certificate for cinema release by the British Board of Film Censors in 1974 due to scenes of sadism and violence. During the early 1980s home video boom, the film was released uncut (save for an incidental, gore-free scene with the comedy cops, and the end credit roll) as a video that did not fall under their remit at the time. This changed when the "video nasty" scare which started in 1982 led to the Video Recordings Act 1984. This in turn banned the film as one of the Department of Public Prosecutions list of "video nasties". Wikipedia

On their way to a concert, Mari and her best friend become the victims of merciless convicts who take them into the woods and submit them to physical, mental and sexual torture, unaware of the impending vengeful retaliation Mari's parents will unleash upon them. IMDb.com
Pete's Dragon (1977)

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***Pete's Dragon*** is an American live-action animated musical fantasy comedy film based on an unpublished short story of the same name, written by classical Hollywood writer Seton I. Miller. It stars Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, and Charlie Callas. It revolves around an orphaned boy raised by an abusive hillbilly family who is friends with a dragon named Elliott.

Upon release, the film was a moderate success, grossing $39 million over a $10 million budget. Its reviews were mixed. The song "Candle on the Water" received an Academy Award nomination, but lost to "You Light Up My Life" from the film of the same name. Reddy's recording (with a different arrangement than the one her character sings in the film) was released as a single by Capitol Records, reaching #27 on the Adult Contemporary charts. Pete's Dragon also received a nomination for Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score, losing to A Little Night Music.

#### Plot Summary

A young troubled boy named Pete (Sean Marshall) and his guardian dragon Elliott (Callas, voice) elude the abusive Gogan family (Winters, Charles Tyner, Gary Morgan & Jeff Conaway), who uses him as a slave instead of a loved child. When he can successfully run away from them with Elliott, he stumbles into the town of Passamaquaddy - an ocean front harbour town filled with superstitious fishermen, drunken hooligans, and wary townsfolk. His arrival does not mix well with the citizens, as Elliott accidentally causes town rioting and gossip among the town drunks about him. Expecting to be an outcast yet again, Pete is taken in by the kind Nora (Reddy) who lives in a lighthouse with her father Lampie (Rooney). While Pete bonds with them, the townsfolk have not lowered their guards and suspicions about Elliott. And when Dr. Terminus (Dale) arrives, a phoney con artist posing as a doctor, he sees Elliott as the ultimate profit to his fame. With Passamaquaddy filled with superstition, greed, and lack of imagination, life will not be easy before the town can ever believe Elliott.

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London Weekend Television

***London Weekend Television (LWT)*** was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00 am. From 1968 until 1992, when LWT's weekday counterpart was Thames Television, there was an on-screen handover to and from LWT at each end of the weekend; from 1993 to 2002, when LWT's weekday counterpart was Carlton Television, the transfer occurred invisibly during a commercial break as Carlton and LWT shared studio and transmission facilities.

The London Television Consortium (LTC) was created and led by television presenter David Frost, who at the time was working for the London weekday ITV station, Rediffusion. The consortium also consisted of three ex-BBC members of staff: Michael Peacock (controller of BBC1), Frank Muir (assistant head of BBC comedy) and Doreen Stephens (head of children's output). Rediffusion's Controller of Programmes, Cyril Bennett, also joined the consortium along with Clive Irving, theatre director Peter Hall and, for financial backing, Arnold Weinstock, managing director of GEC.

#### August 2, 1968: Launch and strike

The new company, renamed London Weekend Television, had planned on buying the superior Teddington Studios of former contractor ABC, but following ABC's merger with Associated Rediffusion to form Thames Television, the LTC were forced by the ITA to purchase Rediffusion's site at Wembley and legally obliged to employ all members of staff, although the workforce was slightly larger than LWT had wanted. Having previously worked weekdays for Rediffusion, transmission staff now had to work at weekends, and as a result, wanted extra pay for the unsocial hours. This led to threats of industrial action, and with the dispute still unresolved, fifteen seconds into their opening night, technicians went on strike and the screens went blank. An emergency service was provided by management from the transmission centre of ATV at Foley Street, London.
The Streets of San Francisco (US TV series)

***The Streets of San Francisco*** is a 1970s television crime drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television (QM produced the show on its own for the remainder of its run).

It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two detectives in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons, between September 16, 1972 and June 9, 1977 on ABC, amassing a total of 119 60-minute episodes.

The series started with a pilot movie of the same title (based on the detective novel Poor, Poor Ophelia by Carolyn Weston) a week before the series debuted. Edward Hume, who wrote the teleplay for the pilot, was credited as having developed the series based on characters in Weston's novel. The pilot featured guest stars Robert Wagner, Tom Bosley and Kim Darby. Douglas left the series at the start of its final season and was replaced by Richard Hatch.

The show revolved around two police officers who investigated homicides in San Francisco. The centre of the series was a veteran cop and widower, Lt Michael Stone (Malden), who had more than twenty years of police experience and was now assigned to the Homicide Detail of SFPD's Bureau of Inspectors. He was partnered with a young plainclothes detective and energetic partner, Assistant Inspector Steve Keller (Douglas), a college graduate, aged twenty-eight, who had no experience in the police force. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigours and procedures of detective work. Eventually, Keller was promoted to full inspector. As the series went on, Douglas became a star in his own right.

Among the guest stars over the five seasons were William Windom, Stefanie Powers, David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser (different episodes), John Saxon, Steve Forrest, Joe Don Baker, Leslie Nielsen, Martin Sheen, Nick Nolte, Bill Bixby, Mark Hamill, Tom Selleck, Don Johnson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

***Back to the Streets of San Francisco*** is a 1992 TV movie based on series. Malden reprised his role as Mike Stone, and Darleen Carr returned to portray his daughter. It was released on January 27, 1992. It was meant to be a pilot episode for a sequel series, which did not materialise.

The plot involves the efforts of Mike Stone (newly promoted to Captain of Inspectors) to solve the murder of his old partner, Steve Keller. Since Keller is dead, the absence of the actor who played him in the series, Michael Douglas, who chose not to appear in the film, has a built-in explanation.

At the same time, Stone is trying to decide which of two competing inspectors, Sarah Burns (Debrah Farentino) or David O'Connor (Conor O'Farrell), should take his place as the lieutenant in charge of Homicide.
Sykes (UK TV series)

***Sykes*** is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from September 14, 1972 to November 16, 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and a... (1960–1965) and Sykes and a Big, Big Show (1971). Forty-three of the 1970s colour episodes were remakes of scripts for the 1960s black and white series, such as "Bus" based on 'Sykes and a Following' from 1964 and the episode "Stranger" with guest star Peter Sellers based on 'Sykes and a Stranger' from 1961.

Sykes had the same premise as Sykes and A... with Sykes, Jacques, Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler reprising their former identical roles. The series was brought to an end by the death of Hattie Jacques of a heart attack on October 6, 1980.

Unmarried twins Eric and Harriet (Hat) Sykes are now living at an end of terrace house, 28 Sebastopol Terrace, East Acton, two doors down from their house in the previous programme. As before, Eric is childish and accident-prone while Hattie is patient. Their neighbour is the snobbish unmarried Charles Fulbright-Brown (Wattis), and PC Corky Turnbull (Guyler) is the local policeman. Corky's wife, Elsie, is unseen, except for one episode, "Caravan", in which she appears with her face covered in porridge during a food fight between Corky and Eric. Deryck Guyler also played Corky's brother Wilfred Turnbull, a train attendant on the Glasgow to London sleeper train, in the episode "Journey".

Following the death of Richard Wattis in 1975 a new neighbour, Melody Rumbelow, moves in. The local baker is the widowed Madge Kettlewell (Joan Sims), who appears occasionally, and who fancies Eric - she is first seen in the episode "Football". Eric and Hattie are also the owners of a cuckoo clock, naming the very temperamental bird inside Peter. Both speak to it as if it were a real bird, and a great deal of comedy derives from the antagonistic and sarcastic 'conversations' between Eric and Peter.

Watch clips and out-takes on YouTube.
Steve Davis

***Steve Davis***, OBE (born August 22, 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player from Plumstead, London. Known for dominating the sport during the 1980s, when he won the World Championship six times and was ranked world number one for seven consecutive seasons, he is remembered particularly for contesting the 1985 World Championship final with Dennis Taylor, the black-ball conclusion of which attracted a record 18.5 million British viewers. He is a well known public figure and is generally viewed by his peers as one of the greatest players of all time. Until his retirement in 2016, Davis combined his ongoing playing career with his role as a television analyst and commentator for the BBC's snooker coverage, alongside being a DJ of electronic music on local radio station Phoenix FM and at the Bloc Weekend music festival.

In addition to his six world titles, Davis's career achievements include three Masters and a record six UK Championship titles. He won a total of 28 ranking events (tying with John Higgins and Ronnie O'Sullivan, and behind only Stephen Hendry) and made over £5.6 million in prize money. Davis compiled more than 300 competitive century breaks, including the first officially recognised televised 147 maximum break in professional competition, at the Lada Classic in 1982 against John Spencer. During the 1987/1988 season, he became the first player to complete snooker's Triple Crown by winning the UK Championship, Masters, and World Championship in the same season. His other accomplishments include winning the World Doubles Championship four times with Tony Meo and winning the World Team Classic/World Cup four times with England.

Davis won his last world title in 1989, and captured his last major title when he won the 1997 Masters at the age of 39, but he continued to play snooker at a high level into his 50s.

Outside snooker, Davis has competed in pool tournaments, notably playing on Team Europe at the Mosconi Cup between 1994 and 2004, helping the team win the event in 1995 and 2002. He is also noted for his participation in poker events, having reached the final stages of several televised tournaments. Since 1996 he has been a regular broadcaster with Phoenix FM and an expert in the progressive rock genres of Zeuhl, RIO and the Canterbury scene. A keen amateur chess player, he co-authored a chess book with grandmaster David Norwood and is a former president of the British Chess Federation. He has also published several books on snooker, including three autobiographies, one technical book and one comedy book called How To Be Really Interesting. He was made an MBE in the 1988 Birthday Honours and an OBE in the 2000 New Year Honours.

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We Can't Dance (album)

***We Can't Dance*** is the 14th studio album by English rock band Genesis, released on October, 28 1991 by Atlantic Records in the United States and November, 11 1991 on Virgin Records in the United Kingdom. It is their last album recorded with drummer and lead singer Phil Collins before his departure in 1996 to pursue solo projects full time. Production began after a four-year period of inactivity from the group, following the commercial success of Invisible Touch (1986) and its tour.

We Can't Dance was a worldwide commercial success for the band. It became the band's fifth consecutive No. 1 album in the UK (twice reaching the top on November 23, 1991 and August 22, 1992 for a week each time, and achieving 5x Platinum) and reached No. 4 in the U.S., where it sold over 4 million copies. Between 1991 and 1993, six tracks from the album were released as singles, including "No Son of Mine" and "I Can't Dance". The latter received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals. Genesis toured in support of We Can't Dance in 1992 which saw the band play large stadiums and arenas across North America and Europe.

**Track listing**

All tracks written by Banks/Collins/Rutherford.

1. "No Son of Mine" (UK single release October 1991)

2. "Jesus He Knows Me" (UK single release July 1992)

3. "Driving the Last Spike"

4. "I Can't Dance" (UK single release December 1991)

5. "Never a Time"

6. "Dreaming While You Sleep"

7. "Tell Me Why"

8. "Living Forever"

9. "Hold on My Heart" (UK single release April 1992)

10. "Way of the World"

11. "Since I Lost You"

12. "Fading Lights"

Listen to the album on Deezer.

**Personnel**

Tony Banks – keyboards

Phil Collins – drums, percussion, vocals, drum machines

Mike Rutherford – guitars, bass guitar

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The Love Boat (US TV series)

***The Love Boat*** is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from May 5, 1977, until May 24, 1986; three-hour specials aired in 1986–87 and 1990. The series revolves around the ship's captain (played by Gavin MacLeod) and a handful of its crew, with several passengers – played by various guest actors for each episode – having romantic and humorous adventures. It was part of ABC's popular Saturday-night lineup that included Fantasy Island until that series ended in 1984.

The executive producer for the series was Aaron Spelling, who produced several TV series for ABC from the 1960s into the 1980s.

The original 1976 made-for-TV movie on which the show was based (also titled The Love Boat) was itself based on the nonfiction book Love Boats by Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director. It starred Don Adams and Tom Bosley and aired on September 14, 1976.

Another TV movie, The Love Boat II, aired January 21, 1977. This was followed by the pilot TV movie for the series, The New Love Boat, on May 5 1977, before the series began its first season on September 24, 1977.

In 1997, the episode with segment titles "Hidden Treasure," "Picture from the Past," and "Ace's Salary" (season 9, episode 3) was ranked No. 82 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. The Love Boat ran for nine seasons plus four specials.

A comprehensive list of guest stars can be found on Wikipedia.

A fourth made-for-TV movie, titled The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage, starring four of the original cast members, aired on February 12, 1990.

***Love Boat: The Next Wave*** appeared on April 13, 1998, starring Robert Urich as Captain Jim Kennedy III, a retired and divorced U.S. Navy officer with a teen-aged son, Danny (Kyle Howard). Phil Morris played Chief Purser Will Sanders, and Joan Severance played Security Chief Camille Hunter. The series aired in the UK from September 10, 1999.

A reunion-themed episode reunited several cast members of the original The Love Boat – Gavin MacLeod (Captain Stubing), Bernie Kopell (Dr. Adam "Doc" Bricker), Ted Lange (Isaac Washington), Jill Whelan (Vicki Stubing) and Lauren Tewes (Julie McCoy). This episode revealed that Julie and "Doc" had been in love all along.

Guest stars include Jessica Alba, Judy Geeson, C Thomas Howell, Rue McClanahan, Ricardo Montalban, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Ian Ogilvy. The show lasted two seasons, until May 21, 1999.
Sam Neill

Nigel John Dermot Neill, born September 14, 1947, known professionally as ***Sam Neill***, is a New Zealand actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as Omen III: The Final Conflict and Dead Calm and on television in Reilly, Ace of Spies. He won a broad international audience in 1993 for his roles as Alisdair Stewart in The Piano and Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Neill also had notable roles in Merlin, The Hunt for Red October, Peaky Blinders, and The Tudors.

Neill was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to a New Zealander father and English mother. His father was stationed in Northern Ireland, serving with the Irish Guards.  His father's family owned Neill and Co., the largest liquor retailers in New Zealand. In 1954, Neill returned with his family to New Zealand where he first took to calling himself "Sam" at school because there were several other students named Nigel, and because he felt the name Nigel was "a little effete for ... a New Zealand playground".

Neill lives in Queenstown and owns a winery called Two Paddocks made up of a vineyard at Gibbston and two near Alexandra, all in the Central Otago region of New Zealand's South Island. Neill's hobby is running Two Paddocks. "I’d like the vineyard to support me but I’m afraid it is the other way round. It is not a very economic business", said Neill, "It is a ridiculously time- and money-consuming business. I would not do it if it was not so satisfying and fun, and it gets me pissed once in a while."

#### Selected filmography

1981: Omen III: The Final Conflict

1982: Attack Force Z

1988: Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark)

1989: Dead Calm

1990: The Hunt for Red October

1992: The Rainbow Warrior

1992: Memoirs of an Invisible Man

1993: The Piano

1993: Jurassic Park

1993: Sirens

1994: The Jungle Book

1994: In the Mouth of Madness

1995: Restoration

1997: Event Horizon

1997: Snow White: A Tale of Terror

1998: The Horse Whisperer

1999: Bicentennial Man

#### Selected television

1982: Ivanhoe

1983: Reilly, Ace of Spies

1985: Kane & Abel

1998: Merlin

Get a taste of Two Paddocks at twopaddocks.com and follow Sam Neill on Twitter.
Men In Black (song)

***"Men in Black"*** is a 1997 song by Will Smith (featuring singer Coko from group SWV) from the movie Men in Black, in which he also starred. The song is Smith's first solo single, following his work with DJ Jazzy Jeff. The song plays during the movie's closing credits. Smith raps about how the Men in Black "Walk in shadow, move in silence" and play the role of "first, last and only line of defense, against the worst scum of the universe", while Coko adds her soulful soprano and alto vocals in the background. The song won Smith a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Rap Solo Performance. "Men in Black" features a sample of, and a re-sung chorus from, "Forget Me Nots" by Patrice Rushen. Wikipedia

The single was released in the UK in August 1997 and went straight to No 1 in the UK Singles Chart on August 16, 1997 for four weeks.
The Time, The Place (UK TV series)

***The Time, The Place*** was a British audience participation talk show that was produced by a number of different ITV companies, and broadcast live on ITV from 1987 to 1998. Presented by Mike Scott from 1987 to 1993 and by John Stapleton from 1991 to 1998, Henry Kelly also presented the programme for a period before Stapleton took over full time.

The program was developed as ITV's competition to the BBC's Kilroy morning discussion show which premiered in 1986. It differed from Kilroy in that Kilroy delved into more political and current event related issues, while TTTP focused on human interest topics.

The programme toured the country and came from the various ITV regional studios, including Aberdeen after the Piper Alpha. Towards the end of its run, the programme came from London at least three days a week to save money. It was axed on 20 March 1998, to make way for the less topical, more issue-led programme Vanessa, which mainly dealt with personal matters.

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September 1 in the 20th Century

* *Births*
	+ Yvonne De Carlo born (1922, died 2007)
	+ Conway Twitty born (1933)
	+ Lily Tomlin born (1939)
	+ Barry Gibb born (1946)
	+ Gloria Estefan born (1957)
* *Cinema (UK)*
	+ The Four Musketeers: Miladys Revenge (1975)
	+ The Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)
	+ Cousins (1989)
	+ See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
* *Cinema (US)*
	+ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
	+ Voyage In Italy (aka Journey To Italy) (1955)
* *Literature*
	+ Star Trek Annual 1970 (1969)
	+ 01 - Little Miss Bossy by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 02 - Little Miss Naughty by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 03 - Little Miss Neat by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 04 - Little Miss Sunshine by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 05 - Little Miss Tiny by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 06 - Little Miss Trouble by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 07 - Little Miss Helpful by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 08 - Little Miss Magic by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 09 - Little Miss Shy by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 10 - Little Miss Splendid by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 11 - Little Miss Late by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 12 - Little Miss Scatterbrain by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ 13 - Little Miss Greedy by Roger Hargreaves (1981)
	+ K9 Annual 1983 (1982)
	+ Sweet Valley High: Double Love by Francine Pascal (1984)
* *TV (UK)*
	+ The anticipated outbreak of war brings television broadcasting at the BBC Television Service to an end at 12:35 p.m. after the broadcast of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickeys Gala Premiere and various sound and vision test signals. It is feared that the VHF waves of television would act as a perfect homing signal for guiding enemy bombers to central London: in any case, the engineers of the television service would be needed for the war effort, particularly for RADAR. The BBC Television Service would resume its broadcasting, with the same Mickey Mouse cartoon, after the war in 1946. (1939)
	+ Border Television, the ITV franchise for the English-Scottish Border and Isle of Man, goes on air. (1961)
	+ Channel Television, the ITV franchise for the Channel Islands, goes on air. (1962)
	+ Rainbow (1972–1991, 1994–1995) first airs (1972)
	+ Angels (1975–1983) first airs (1975)
	+ Star Maidens (1976) first airs (1976)
	+ Galactica 1980 (1984)
	+ Howards Way (1985)
	+ In Sickness and In Health (1985)
	+ Brush Strokes (1986)
	+ Bad Girls (1999)
The Tomb of the Cybermen (Doctor Who story)

***The Tomb of the Cybermen*** was the first story of season five. It introduced the first Cyber-Controller and the Cybermats. It is the earliest Second Doctor serial to survive in its entirety.

*The TARDIS arrives on the planet Telos, where an Earth archaeological expedition led by Professor Parry is trying to uncover the lost tombs of the Cybermen. With a lot of help from the Doctor, the archaeologists enter the tombs. There, one of the party, Klieg, reveals himself and his business partner, Kaftan, to be planning to revive the Cybermen.*

*He wants to use their strength, allied with the intelligence of his own Brotherhood of Logicians, to create an invincible force for conquest. It transpires, however, that the tomb is actually a giant trap designed to lure humans suitable for conversion into Cybermen — a fate that almost befalls Kaftan's assistant Toberman.*

*After fending off an attack by Cybermats — small but dangerous cybernetic creatures — the Doctor destroys the Controller, defeats the revived Cybermen and reseals the tombs.*

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Episodes

September 2, 1967 05.037.01: The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode One

September 9, 1967 05.037.02: The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode Two

September 16, 1967 05.037.03: The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode Three

September 23, 1967 05.037.04: The Tomb of the Cybermen - Episode Four

The novelisation written by Gerry Davis was published by Target Books on May 18, 1978 as ***Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen***.

*The Cybermen - silver, indestructible monsters whose only goal is power - seem to have disappeared from their planet, Telos. When a party of archaeologists, joined by the Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria, land on the Cybermen's barren, deserted planet, they uncover what appears to be their tomb.*

*But once inside it becomes clear that the Cybermen are not dead, and some in the group of archaeologists desperately want to re-activate these monsters! How can the Doctor defeat these ruthless, power-seeking humans and the Cybermen?*

The cover depicts the version of the Cybermen first seen in The Invasion.
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)

***The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It*** is a 1977 comedy starring John Cleese. It is a low-budget spoof of the Sherlock Holmes detective series, as well as the mystery genre in general.

The film begins aboard a luxury aircraft as Dr. Gropinger (Ron Moody) (an obvious parody of Henry Kissinger) travels on a goodwill tour. He misplaces his diary and is thrown into a panic as, without the diary, he no longer knows where he is or is supposed to be next. Stepping off the plane, he is shot dead after extending greetings in Hebrew to a congregation of Arabs. Soon after, the U.S. President (Joss Ackland in a caricature of Gerald Ford) receives a threatening letter signed only "Moriarty", claiming responsibility for the death. The letter also claims Moriarty has set in motion a plan that will allow him to gain control of the world. The president dispatches a top agent to London to work with the world's top law enforcement officials and find a strategy to combat Moriarty.

Headed by an incompetent Englishman (Denholm Elliott), the committee settles on contacting the "present-day" Sherlock Holmes (Cleese). He is enrolled by the Commissioner of Police (Stratford Johns) to lay plans for the capture of the descendant of Moriarty before he gains control of the world. Holmes reveals himself to be a great eccentric, with an affinity for certain addictive drugs (a nod to the literary Sherlock Holmes' experience with cocaine). He is accompanied by the descendant of Dr. Watson (Arthur Lowe), both a medical doctor and utter fool. Unfortunately, the commissioner is murdered before leaving the Holmes residence, his death mainly the result of Watson's rampant stupidity.

The duo then proceed to Scotland Yard to discuss the situation with the committee. Before any plans can be made, much of the committee is murdered by a distant sniper. Without their help, Holmes dreams up a plan to invite all of the great detectives in the world to a party, with the hope of discovering the true identity of Moriarty. He reasons that Moriarty will be unable to pass up a chance at attacking all of them in one fell swoop. Many fictional detectives are parodied and handed gruesome deaths while Holmes and Watson wait in a suite. The murderer is revealed to be none other than an exact copy of Watson. Due to Watson's ineptitude and the impersonator's great skill in deception, Holmes is faced with a quandary in determining the real culprit (who is actually Moriarty).

Nick Tate, Josephine Tewson, Burt Kwouk, Derek Griffiths and Connie Booth also appear in the movie, released in UK cinemas on September 18, 1977.
The Protectors (UK TV series)

***The Protectors*** is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series to exclusively use live actors as opposed to marionettes (following UFO), and his second to be firmly set in contemporary times (following The Secret Service). It was also the only Gerry Anderson-produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor, Brut, ended its funding and thus forced the series' cancellation.

The Protectors was broadcast from September 29, 1972 and March 15, 1974, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long—making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn (of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. fame) as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter (co-star of The Forsyte Saga) as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt (later to star in Space: 1999 and Howards' Way) as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.

Three inexplicably affluent international private detectives/troubleshooters are charged with ensuring the protection of innocents. They belong to an organisation called The Protectors, based in London. Harry Rule leads the group. The Contessa lives in Italy (when she is not working with Harry). She runs her own detective agency, which specializes in exposing art frauds and recovering stolen art. Paul Buchet works out of Paris, and is the group's researcher and gadget specialist. Adventures range from simple kidnapping to convoluted cases of international intrigue. These characters are all very wealthy and drive exotic cars of the era, such as the Citroën SM and Jensen Interceptor.

The theme tune used was based on "Avenues and Alleyways" by Tony Christie.
Walt Disney Feature Films 1937 - 1948

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***Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*** is an American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film.

The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one - her jealous stepmother, the Queen. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest, where she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs - Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, and Dopey. But when the Queen tricks Snow White with an enchanted apple, only the magic of true love's kiss can save her. [IMDb.com]

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#### Pinocchio (1940)

* Released February 23, 1940 (US); May 13, 1940 (UK)

#### Fantasia (1940)

* Released November 13, 1940 (roadshow, New York); January 29, 1941 (roadshow, Los Angeles); February 13, 1941 (roadshow, Philadelphia); February 19, 1941 (roadshow, Chicago)
* Released July 21, 1941 (UK); January 6, 1942 (US)

#### Dumbo (1941)

* Released October 31, 1941 (US); February 8, 1942 (UK)

#### Victory Through Air Power (1943)

* Released July 17, 1943 (US); October 25, 1943 (UK)

#### Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

* Released September 27, 1947 (US); January 22, 1948 (UK)