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sw33n3y2 · 1 year

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Raise a glass of something green to the ‘inimitable’ Marge: shrewd, passionate and nobody’s fool. This is an ode to her cheerful mercenary nous and Lorelei charm. ...More than a match for our Lads. I do not own the show, characters or music. The music track is 'Ex's and Oh's' by Elle King.

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inthedarktrees · 1 year

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Emma Peel as the “Queen of Sin”

Diana Rigg, “A Touch of Brimstone,” The Avengers, 1965

#diana rigg #emma peel #the avengers #60s #1960s #retro tv #vintage #british television #classic television #60s television #60s tv shows #a touch of brimstone #tv #black and white #costume designed by diana rigg

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comepraisetheinfanta · 5 months

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BUY THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE PERSON IN YOUR LIFE WHO IS ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT ANCIENT ROME!

If they don't get the reference then give them the second gift of bringing more of Ancient Rome into their life by introducing them to the Classic TV miniseries "I, Claudius"!

Stay safe from Livia's plots, don't eat the figs!

#Ancient Rome #rome #Augustus #Emperor Augustus #Livia #I Claudius #History #Classic TV #British TV #Sian Phillips #Brian Blessed #Robert Graves #Historical Fiction #Fig #my art #my redbubble designs #Roman Empire

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cladriteradio · 3 months

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Here are 10 things you should know about Ida Lupino, born 106 years ago today. She enjoyed success as an actress, director, producer and screenwriter in film and television.

#Ida Lupino #old movies #film noir #classic film #classic movies #British actresses #classic Hollywood #Golden Age of Hollywood #classic TV #classic television #precode #precode movies #pre-code #pre-code movies #female directors #female producer

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whovianblogger · 9 months

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me when i want to interact more with online doctor who communities and content but i don't want to get spoiled.

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quattroneuville · 1 month

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Patrick Depailler in an interview by Roger Gicquel for TF1, 1980.

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#dumb translation who cheer (pls dont jump me this is like some subpar knowledge i get from watching too much french tv)#interview was probably during british gp since the broadcast said it was a few weeks before hockenheim #classic f1 #patrick depailler

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pepperbag76 · 1 year

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🎅 Linda Lusardi

#beauty #beautiful #sexy #seductive #vintage #glamour #celebrity #linda lusardi #goddess #venus #legend #british #movie stars #tv stars #old hollywood #classic beauty #pinup #christmas #santa baby

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mariocki · 9 months

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An uncredited Jacqueline Hill appears as an unnamed Irish barmaid in The Vise: Death Pays No Dividends (1.5, ABC, 1954); in the UK, this episode wasn't seen until 1960 as part of ITV anthology The Crooked Path

#fave spotting #jacqueline hill #barbara wright #doctor who #the vise #classic doctor who #death pays no dividends #the crooked path #1954 #classic tv #oof. ok. here goes. the story behind The Vise is needlessly convoluted and frankly absurdly confusing. the Danzigers were a pair of #American brothers who moved to the UK in the early 50s to produce tv film serials‚ The Vise being their first major production. the used #British casts‚ writers‚ crews and directors but the series was being explicitly made for American tv; the ABC mentioned above is not the #Associated British Cinemas group who were one of the big four franchise holders in UK television‚ but the American Broadcasting Company for #whom this series was being made and who transmitted it across the pond. there the series was The Vise‚ and then when recurring character #Mark Saber became popular‚ it was retooled as The Vise: Mark Saber and then again when the series later moved to NBC it became Saber of #London. despite being almost entirely a british production‚ The Vise was never seen here in that format; the episodes were split up and #appeared under various different anthology titles including The Crooked Path and Tension‚ sometimes not appearing on uk #screens until years later (if indeed they did all end up getting a uk showing). others were edited together into loose portmanteau films #for cinema release. Mark Saber‚ to add confusion upon confusion‚ was a pre existing character who'd been around for several years before #The Vise and had had his own series (albeit with a different star) already on American television (itself having gone through several #titles‚ including ABC Mystery Theatre and simply Mark Saber; that latterly being one of the titles which later Vise episodes went out under #back in the UK). i know. i know. my head hurts too.#regardless of the (very confusing) background‚ the series is quite a lot of fun and rather better than its reputation (it's true that #the Danzigers were businessmen first and artists a very distant second). it has an unmistakable wash of the USA about it despite featuring #almost zero americans (it has a host delivering to camera introductions‚ which feels very american‚ but even he's not a yank; Australian #actor Ron Randell got the gig and very good he is too). it also has a definite degree of luridness which I'm not certain UK tv was quite #ready for in 54 (stories typically involving adultery‚ blackmail and some really quite suggestive scene settings). poor Jac doesn't get #much of a part‚ but she does get a few lines (it's not unusual that she's still uncredited‚ with most Vise eps seeming to credit only 3 or #4 main players and of course Randell). her Irish accent is pretty good but she doesn't get any closeups alas

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sw33n3y2 · 5 months

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Title: 'Bodie and Doyle Saut Dans le Vide'. Vidder: zzebeddy Relationship: M/M Characters: Bodie/Doyle Rating: Not rated

Summary: Love and risk, a leap into the void.

For now, this is an unlisted video, which means it can be accessed via this link but not through general YT searches.

Disclaimer: I do not own the show, characters or music. The music track is 'Nara' by alt-J

#bodie/doyle #songvid #fanvid #the professionals #ci5 #70s tv series #british action series #classic 70s TV #buddy cop tv #professionals fandom #vidding #otp #action series ship #old fandoms #bodie and doyle #the professionals 1977

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thetreaclepeople · 9 months

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When the Mum friend stays at home... The Treacle People

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inthedarktrees · 1 year

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Diana Rigg, The Avengers, 1966

#diana rigg #the avengers #emma peel #60s #60s fashion #1960s #1960s fashion #vintage fashion #cat suit #vintage #opening credits #classic television #tv #60s television #british television #retro tv #black and white

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georgefairbrother · 9 months

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Remembering Stephen Lewis, merchant seamen turned actor and writer, who passed away August 12th, 2015.

Born in Poplar, East London, in 1926, he initially went to sea, before joining Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, where he made his West End debut in The Hostage, by Brendan Behan, in 1958.

He wrote Sparrers Can't Sing, a play performed in broad cockney with significant improvisation, which was adapted as a feature film in 1963.

According to Variety:

"…The film is based on a play that (Joan Littlewood) staged at the Theatre Workshop. She and the author of the play, Stephen Lewis, collaborated on the loose screenplay and Littlewood surrounds herself with most of the Workshop cast. She also operates almost entirely on location in the East End that she knows and clearly loves so well…Much of the dialog, which is rather salty, appears to have been made up off the cuff of the players. This shows up dangerously in the intimate scenes, but gives gusto to others..."

Stephen Lewis later found lifelong fame as Blakey in LWT's On the Buses, on television and in three movie adaptations by Hammer, which went on to be some of the most profitable British feature films of the early 1970s. He wrote 12 episodes of On the Buses with co-star Bob Grant, as well their segment for the 1972 ITV Christmas special, All Star Comedy Carnival, and IMDb lists him as a contributing writer for the anthology series Armchair Theatre (Thames/ITV) and Comedy Playhouse (BBC).

He reprised the character of Blakey in the On the Buses spinoff, Don't Drink the Water (1974-75), with Blakey having retired to Spain with his sister, played by Pat Coombs.

He popped up on British television over the years with the occasional cameo, and appeared in David Croft and Richard Spendlove's Oh Doctor Beeching (1995-97), and in 135 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine.

Unlike Bob Grant, who struggled with the legacy of his On the Buses stardom and subsequent typecasting, with ultimately tragic consequences, Stephen Lewis happily embraced his persona to the very end...and beyond.

(This image: 70s Time Machine. Other Background from IMDb, Variety and The Guardian)