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They smile in your face, all the time they want to take your place 17 May 2024 Another helping hand from Phil Ellis, identifying background actors for The New Avengers across most of series 1 and three from series 2. https://youtu.be/UCY6flzgfA4 Come on Auntie, we'll miss the bus! 19 May 2024 That ...

These as well:

emmaslave wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 4:09 pm THE villagers are all dressed in boring, contemporary clothes....

while Emma
is dressed in the latest lycra outfit......!

Those catsuits were made of stretch jersey

May off with a bang in my now weekly updates to finish off Series 4: In your room, where time stands still 5 May 2024 The Cold War spies kidnapping scientists story, Room without a View is revised in the new format, with quotations and footnotes added along with extra trivia and production informati...

The original: https://www.alamy.com/the-abc-television-autumn-press-reception-attended-by-many-of-the-stars-who-will-appear-in-the-new-autumn-line-up-left-to-right-richard-dickie-davies-philip-harben-dusty-springfield-patrick-macnee-diana-rigg-bruce-forsyth-britt-ekland-ian-hendry-and-david-buck-22n...

Franky once very helpfully pointed out percussive distortion to me:

The picture interference caused by percussion (the gunfire) affecting the tube cameras is called "microphony".
https://www.effectrode.com/knowledge-base/microphonics/

There's also a tiny bit right at the end of Act 3 of "A Sense of History" (before the epilogue with the motorcycle) which is really low res and seems to have been recovered from video tape.

I explain it all (a bit) in my upcoming update to my episode pages. There are two "master" prints, the full version, which has been available on VHS, DVD & blu ray since the 1993 Lumiere Pictures release, and the 38 second shorter version which is still being used by many broadcasters,...

Frankymole wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:10 am Which scene was trimmed? Is it censorship of the whipping scene? I've heard that that had to be cut down originally.

Yes it was the whipping scene that was reduced in length.

Yes, all were telerecorded, some of them from live transmission. There's a memo proposing a catch-up season for areas that missed out on the early episodes.