Birthday Bits - Part Two

Birthday Bits - Part Two

When I have a birthday, Lisa's one tends to follow on a couple of days later and this has been happening now for quite a few years. It's rather odd, but at least it means we have a vague chance of remembering, although it means our postman tends to get ridiculously overworked in the period leading up to these fateful days.

As as listeners to 'Round The Archives' might have noticed, we have enough of a crossover in our archive TV interests that some of the stuff we buy for the other is potentially as interesting to the purchaser as it is for the recipient.

Today's video runs through the majority of our new DVDs, but I couldn't resist adding the book 'Medieval Monsters' to the featured items, as although it's not the largest book in the world, it does boast some lovely illustrations of weird and wonderful creatures. Frankly, whenever we see a picture of a knight battling a dragon, we tend to be on the side of the chap with the green scales.

It was about time that we added 'The Ladykillers' to our collection and the 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition adds some extra material which will hopefully fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of the behind-the-scenes details.

'Village Hall' is another of those series I'd never even heard of before it appeared on Lisa's list of possible present, but a quick down the cast list made it an obvious choice. Running to two seasons over 1974 and 1975 it features such names as Ron Moody, Bernard Hepton, Patrick Troughton, John Le Mesurier and Zoe Wannamaker. We might well sample one tonight over our customary cup of tea, this time with a slice or two of birthday cake,

Finally, 'Andrew Marr's History Of The World' is perhaps too recent to immediately feature on an archive TV podcast, but it promises to teach us a thing or two and I was pleased to note it does cover the Nazca lines from Peru. Which not only links it with 'Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World', which covered this subject, but also 'Michael Bentine's Potty Time', as Michael's father came from Peru.
Proof again that the more you cover TV shows, the more weird connections you start to notice. A theory which James Burke would probably raise a glass to...

Happy Birthday Lisa!

Our video detailing our birthday DVDs can be seen here.

(By Andrew Trowbridge)