"Living in Milan in the 18th century..."

"Living in Milan in the 18th century..."

We're glad to report a pretty productive day yesterday (Saturday 9th June) with Warren helping us make good inroads on Episode 23 of 'Round The Archives' along with recording his first Random Episode Of 'Doctor Who' reaction video.

This time we cast our ancient eyes over 'The Daemons' Episode Two, broadcast on 29th May 1971, when we were very young.

We kicked off with our usual attempt to place the episode in the wider television landsscape with a look at BBC Genome and the 'TV Times; from that week. Though honestly, the most exciting thing was an advert for Sanatogen Nerve Tonic which received much praise from Mrs E Burrows from Shanklin on the Isle Of Wight. Apparently it "renews interest in life" if you're "suffering from 'nerves'" - note the quotation marks around the word 'nerves' which, frankly, could mean anything in reality...

I think we got a good double-act going with this one. We've known each other for a long time and can often tell what the other one is thinking. We even managed to say 'everlasting candles' in perfect unison without any forward planning.

But along with the silliness, there's hopefully the odd fact that might be new to some viewers. I'm quite pleased we managed to reference the 1855 report of the 'Devils's Footprint' from down Devon way, which make an appearance in the book version of 'Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World' even though they don't pop up in the TV version,

There's also some stuff about mobile shops which might be of interest to people who lived in tiny out-of-the-way villages like we did. Alhough once again YouTube's subtitling facility got a bit surreal from time-to-time.

Lisa joined us later in the evening to do an article on 'Killers', the first episode of 'The Gemtle Touch' from 11th April 1980.

We won't go into to much detail here, as we don't want to spoil the piece, but for students of television in general, this episode does provide a weird collision of the universes of 'Pipkins' (or 'Rentaghost' if you prefer), 'Blake's 7' and 'Howards' Way' as Sue Nicholls, Brian Croucher and Stephen Yardley get some scenes together.

With Martin Holmes providing another lovely piece (this time on the first episode of Nigel Kneale's 1980 comedy 'Kinvig'), that's a decent chunk of Episode 23 now recorded.

What could be next we wonder?

Well, we're toying with the idea of something that features Christopher Biggins and Sylveste (sic) McCoy in supporting roles...

Surely it can't be...

Oh my word!

(By Andrew Trowbridge)