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Nick<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TeddyBoys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TeddyBoys</a>A really good 1970s London Weekend special, about the British Teddy Boy movement and how it was surviving and thriving as late as 1979. Featuring Crazy Cavan, Carl Perkins, old Tailor's shops, and plenty of interviews with the Teddy Boys and Girls, conducted by a young Janet Street Porter<a href="https://youtu.be/_P0xRsPU7_8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/_P0xRsPU7_8</a>

ShomilaIt's the <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/Saturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Saturday</a> after <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a> and time for a new batch of stickies to be been added to <a href="https://recknsense.com/recknlist/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://recknsense.com/recknlist/</a>There's now a 'New this week' section with accounts to follow on Handpicked <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/Curators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curators</a>, <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/EarthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EarthDay</a>, <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/Anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anime</a>, <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/AudioFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AudioFiction</a>, <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/Baseball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Baseball</a>, <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Libraries</a>, <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Learning</a> and <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>!Thanks to <a href="https://indieweb.social/@tchambers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tchambers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DoomsdaysCW</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Flipboard</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/@mattmaison" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mattmaison</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@harleygin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@harleygin</a> <a href="https://mas.to/@seanbala" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@seanbala</a> <a href="https://podvibes.co/@theendupdates" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@theendupdates</a> Remember if you have any <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/Follow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Follow</a> posts to add, tag <a href="https://masto.recknsense.com/tags/BeFound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeFound</a> in case I haven't found you already

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> Ah yes! "John Peter McAllister, the only Occidental American ..."<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheMaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheMaster</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cstross</a> In the original discussion, we began with <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Space1999" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Space1999</a> rather than <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StarCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarCops</a>, but even that, in hindsight, turned out more plausible than <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MissionImpossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MissionImpossible</a> did.Perfect disguises still take hours and days.Whereas Space:1999 had little hand-held communicators with built-in tellies, and people continually asking a computer where they are. Both of these are quite familiar in the 21st century. The only bit that's missing is the ecological catastrophe. (-:<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciFi</a>

JdeBPHere's another thought for <a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cstross</a> et al. to play with.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StarCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarCops</a>: Set in 2027. Hand-held computer answers voice requests. Genetic engineering. Video conferencing with table-top devices showing people's heads in windows, and lag.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MissionImpossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MissionImpossible</a>: Set in the 1960s. Face masks, 3-D printed in the updates, so accurate and flexible that they look exactly like the other actor; donnable and doffable in seconds.Which is actually the more plausible, in hindsight?<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciFi</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@rialobran" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rialobran</a> I hope that you've seen it since. Unlike the critics who only liked it in hindsight, I actually liked it at the time.And Box, a hand-held computer that answers spoken requests? Once again, it turned out that <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MissionImpossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MissionImpossible</a> was in fact the less plausible.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StarCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarCops</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@rialobran" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rialobran</a> Just think about how much the future of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Space1999" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Space1999</a> has come true: from little hand-held communicators with built-in tellies to people continually asking a computer where they are.Whereas people _still_ aren't managing to wander around in 3-D printed facemasks of eastern European diplomats that were so convincing one couldn't be blamed for thinking it was the other actor.Clearly <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MissionImpossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MissionImpossible</a> was the more implausible in the long run. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://glasgow.social/@mpjames" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mpjames</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> I have the album, and I recently re-watched the entire run when it got repeated on one of the cable telly channels. I think that once per year cannot be right. The incidental music _never_ got updated. I think once, in total.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Clannad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clannad</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RobinOfSherwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobinOfSherwood</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>

The Hand of Fear<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> And here's the musical version: <a href="https://youtu.be/DkOl2WnEgSM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/DkOl2WnEgSM</a><a href="https://aus.social/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DoctorWho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DoctorWho</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cybermen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybermen</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@Llordllama" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Llordllama</a> For <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Crackerjack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crackerjack</a>, you might care to ask <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> .<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@PhilRudland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@PhilRudland</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> Ironically, the actual original followed the common pattern for library music of being available in a number of A/B/C/"underscore"/&c. versions, which telly producers could use for opening and closing sequences, "stings" for commercial breaks and transitions, and so on.Here's "Quiz Wizard (B)", a short "sting" version as aforementioned, that the show never used to my knowledge.<a href="https://youtu.be/kxwdFsrblII" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/kxwdFsrblII</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Blockbusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blockbusters</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BobHolness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BobHolness</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThemeTunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThemeTunes</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EdWelch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EdWelch</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> When the show became popular, the theme music was released as a single. Most library music aimed at telly producers is not particularly long, so the piece had to be spun out a bit to get it up to conventional single length, including an added bridge.This is a common thing for successful telly <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThemeTunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThemeTunes</a>. The version released as a single to make money isn't "the original".<a href="https://youtu.be/c5m9luH0Da4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/c5m9luH0Da4</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Blockbusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blockbusters</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BobHolness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BobHolness</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EdWelch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EdWelch</a> (continued...)

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> For those of you who like <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThemeTunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThemeTunes</a>, this is the original library music by Ed Welch that was used for the show, entitled "Quiz Wizard".<a href="https://youtu.be/EWvaG6y1vs4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/EWvaG6y1vs4</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Blockbusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blockbusters</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BobHolness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BobHolness</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EdWelch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EdWelch</a> (continued...)

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> No time to watch. Was it chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla?<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Bod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bod</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AlbertoFrog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlbertoFrog</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodon.social/@adwright" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@adwright</a> The amount of effort that they put into the props for a parody was quite impressive.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GerryAnderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GerryAnderson</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PeteAndDud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeteAndDud</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> What surprises me is not that <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GerryAnderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GerryAnderson</a> made all of these things before I was born.What surprises me is that I have a DVD set of Captain Scarlet, a random 2nd hand Captain Scarlet annual, several CDs with Gerry Anderson TV themes music, and _still_ didn't know that Gerry Anderson made some of these things before I was born; until the Age Of YouTube came along.So much for sleeve notes. (-:<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/CaptainScarlet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CaptainScarlet</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@Probertd8" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Probertd8</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@oldbritishtelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oldbritishtelly</a> They were right that only a decade into the future, people indeed did go around with bright purple hair.However, I have never seen an episode.<a href="https://youtu.be/3TwrPJaoGSA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/3TwrPJaoGSA</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GerryAnderson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GerryAnderson</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GeoffLove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeoffLove</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UFO</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>

JdeBP<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@Erased_Citizen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Erased_Citizen</a> If they'd called it "Steve", people would have assumed that it was male.That's one of the odd things about <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RobotWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobotWars</a>: people not using "it" for things which are demonstrably sexless, and not even living creatures. There's anthropomorphism going on, which makes for better telly obviously, although something like _that_ surely is not deserving of the name "android".<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OldBritishTelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldBritishTelly</a>

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