Video Killed The Blog Entry

Video Killed The Blog Entry

Try as we might, there are only so many hours in the day, so we must apologise for not doing a blog entry yesterday. But there were the proverbial reasons for this, as we've somehow managed to do three videos in about 24 hours, which is incredibly prolific by our standards.

For we were lucky enough to have Warren round on Saturday and we could hardly pass up the opportunity to make good use of him, even if he did cause us to become terribly giggly as the afternoon and evening wore on, especially when we finally turned our attention to 'Blake's 7'...

But first, we had a look at the 16th February 1978 edition of 'Blue Peter', featuring Abba, a dog who plays rugby, a spelling lesson, a visit to Ironbridge and how some soldiers have helped with the Keynote Appeal.
This is a lovely example of how much the show was able to pack into 25 minutes and really makes us wish that the BBC could make some more examples available in some form or other, even if they won't all feature Peter being quite so cheeky about Biddy Baxter!

Our video about 'Blue Peter' can be seen here.

A week after this edition of 'Blue Peter', Lesley Judd showed us how to make a teleport bracelet, which even included a Cosmic Button, as the crew of the newly-named Liberator have now worked out how to beam down to the nearest planet, with the help of Avon's special stickers.

Meanwhile, Vila & Gan get a bad dose of the mints (this caused Warren several seconds of pure hilarity for some reason) and dodgy priest Vargas reaches BLESSED FACTOR 10!!!

To be honest, this one started going downhill the moment Lisa refers to Gan as 'the biggest member' and it never really recovered after that. It's the nearest we're likely to get to Pete & Dud (or possibly Derek & Clive) without some judicious editing...

Our video about 'Cygnus Alpha' can be seen here.

And this afternoon, we added to this plethora of visual material by recording our examination of Episode 2 of 'The War Machines', with a look at the letter Innes Lloyd sent to Jackie Lane, plus a reminder that some work was done on 'The Smugglers' before Episode 3 was even finished.

So we really have been busy bees, even if there was less to read here than normal.

But then we are trying to be multi-media and all that!

And our video about 'The War Machines' Episode 2 can be seen here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)