"With a little help from our friends..."

"With a little help from our friends..."

In planning Episode One we were very keen to involve our old chum Nick Goodman as he's a sterling chap with a wide knowledge of classic television. Not only that though, as he's highly experienced in audio and video productions. His 'Doctor Who' tapezine 'Rayphase Shift' ran from 1989 to 1996 and was always a pleasure to work on and listen to. Also he's written and produced all manner of amateur films (well, videos if we're being pedantic!) and has been releasing them on DVD in recent years.

These days, we don't get to meet up as often as we'd like, but we had been invited to record a DVD commentary for his 'Tide Of Freedom' and Nick was able to come round to our place with his impressive equipment. Ooer!

Now a confession. The above picture (which may be familiar to regular listeners) is a bit of a fake. It's not us recording 'Round The Archives', but a slightly staged picture of us after we'd done the 'Tide Of Freedom' commentary. But it is us and it is our sofa, before anyone asks!

We'd jotted down a few subject headings and questions for Nick's interview and just nattered away. As always, Nick provided some highly interesting and entertaining material which meant we were off to a flying start. So all praise to the Goodman!

Bonus material:

We have recently found a piece of paper with the unused draft introduction to Episode One which goes something like this...

"Hello and welcome to what is a bit of an experiment. I'm Andrew Trowbridge. And I'm Lisa Parker. And we must confess that we've bought far too many DVDs over the years...

This podcast is going to about some of the many and varied TV shows in the BBC and ITV archives that we've been watching. It will mainly feature 60s, 70s and 80s shows, some of which are quite famous, but others that have been totally forgotten. Hopefully, we'll be able to entertain you along the way...

So this week, we have been mostly watching... 'Zodiac'!"

Which, considering that we finally did 'Zodiac' in Episode Eight, proves how long-term this project is turning out to be!

(By Andrew Trowbridge)