TV Episodes You Have Just Watched

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Thriller: If It's A Man, Hang Up! (1975)


Ridiculous stuff. A model (Carol Lynley) is stalked by someone making threatening telephone calls, who eventually tries to kill her, of course. The culprit, as usual, proves to be the last person you'd suspect, but the lengths the scriptwriters have to go to in order to achieve this result just destroy the whole credibility of the plot. The characters aren't very likeable or even interesting either, and I'm baffled as to why IMDB reviewers seem to rate this so highly.

Also stars the Scottish actor Tom Conti, whose supposedly Sicilian-accented English isn't very convincing, just like the episode as a whole, I suppose. Lynley's wonderful ornamental clock is actually the most appealing member of the cast






https://youtu.be/LFIweYN8tWg

Thriller: The Double Kill, (1975)

American man married to an English heiress comes up with a ludicrously complicated and unlikely way to bump her off, but gets caught up in the ramifications of his own ingenuity on the one hand, and his lack of awareness on the other. Maybe I've watched too many of these Brian Clemens stories (this is episode 32), and I'm just becoming cynical about them, but I'm pretty fed up with all the 'plot twists' and the very contrived nature of the proceedings. A lot of those 1940s American 'Films Noirs' had a similar effect. Ho Hum.

Snowfall (finale).

All Creatures Great And Small (1988)

Episodes 1-3 from series 6. Never thought this sort of stuff would be my thing, but it's very watchable and enjoyable. Deals with the goings on in a Yorkshire Dales veterinary practice in the early 1950s, though the earlier series are set in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Real Time With Bill Maher.
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.

My Favourite Hymns (ITV series)

With Anna Raeburn, interviewed by John Stapleton, from around 2005.

Interesting.

Gaslit. Story of the Watergate break in that ended the Nixon Presidency, told from the perspective of Mitchel and his opinionated wife. G. Gordon Liddy is a complete psycho. So far so good.

Fear The Walking Dead.
61st Street.
Better Call Saul.

'The Mod Squad' pilot episode. All the episodes are on Youtube now.

Coronation Street

4 episodes from January - April 1975, largely involving Bet Lynch, Mavis Riley and Eddie Yates. Mavis turns down a marriage proposal from a Spanish man called Carlos, and Bet learns of the death of her son (whom she gave away for adoption just after his birth). Bet also has very brief relationships with Eddie and Len Fairclough in these episodes. The actor who played Carlos in 1974/75 took on the role of Norris Cole in the series thirty years later.

Killing Eve.
The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Billy The Kid.

Coronation Street

Two episodes from July 1975 and October 1975. Ray Langton marries Deirdre Hunt, and they're arguing with each other before they've even left the registry office. There's a big warehouse fire in the street, and the wife of Fred Gee is one of the victims - this was the first appearance of Fred in the show, as far as I can make out.

My Favourite Hymns

Another episode from around 2005. John Stapleton interviews novelist Jilly Cooper, who is also known in some quarters as 'Jolly Sooper' or 'Silly Jilly'. She seemed to be quite amused and flattered by both of these nicknames.

Coronation Street, 24 November 1975

A very unlikely pair of young burglars break into The Rovers Return and terrorize the landlady, Annie Walker, in her bedroom. I say 'unlikely' as they speak with middle-class, Southern English accents. Len Fairclough and Ray Langton come to the rescue, and the intruders take a heavy beating in the back yard before making their escape. Mrs Walker initially seems fine, but collapses the following afternoon.

Better Call Saul S06 Ep03

Not gonna say much cause spoilers everywhere