> On 20 February 2020 at 00:31 Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It was one of those era-defining TV programmes. In 1967/8, when I was 10 and > surrounded by images of Vietnam, the Beatles and flower power, the year > before I went away to school when my older brother and my sister were already > away, my parents used to go out on a Friday evening leaving me to look after > my younger brother. I watched the entire series completely spell-bound. None > of my friends were allowed to watch it, and when I came to school in England > nobody seemed to have heard of it, so it wasn't until I was 18/19 that I met > anyone else who'd ever seen it. For that whole time it was like a > half-remembered weird dream. I had no idea what was going on, but I loved it > and it felt like something cool that only I knew about. Like being a fan of > Gormenghast when everyone else liked Lord of the Rings.
One of my many unfulfilled early 1970's business plans was to hire a set of projectors and a copy of the films and tour campuses showing the wholes series as an overnighter. I forget who owned them at the time but they point blank refused to have anything to do with it. Probably a good thing, in hindsight. I also invented stadium rock. Management of The Who, the Rolling Stones and led Zeppelin were very interested but both local clubs laughed us out of their boardrooms. And then made their own approaches to the band managements. > > > On 19 Feb 2020, at 22:16, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I found his reference to be a /British /Sci_fi TV show from the 1960's.. > > What I read about it just now informed that it would continue to be a > > lacuna.. too creepy for me these days. I don't know if I would have > > watched it in the 60's .. I did fancy some sci-fi books. > > > > Between 1960 and 1980 there were no TV's in my home after Richard moved in > > there were suddenly two of them. Then there was a TV but no cable until the > > mid 90's > > becuse our landlord would not permit cable in this old building. > > > > So I have lots of lacunas of a tv nature across those 20 years - some of > > which I have filled over the last 40 years . > > > > ann > > > > On 2/19/2020 4:44 PM, mike wilson wrote: > >>> On 19 February 2020 at 21:24 ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Mike showed he got it... but I'm only seeing his mail because Mark > >>> replied to it ... hmmmm > >> It's OK. _I_ don't get to see my own posts. More gmail madness, I > >> believe. > >> > >>> I had to ask Google what Mark was quoting... not in my data bank. > >> <Stunned> This is a major lacuna in your knowledge of the cinematic art. > >> > >>> ann > >>> > >>>> On 2/19/2020 4:15 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >>>> mike wilson wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>> On 19 February 2020 at 19:40 ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> NUmber 5 is ALIVE! :-) > >>>>>> extra points if you get the cinematic reference) > >>>>> Short Circuit. From someone who is definitely not a number. > >>>> I AM NOT A NUMBER, I AM A FREE MAN! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
