First on this tape, episode 2 of Stephen King’s Golden Years. Keith Szarabajka has noticed he’s gradually getting younger.
Shady agent RD McCall is threatening the scientist from the research center with ad hoc dental surgery.
Another appearance from Frances Sternhagen. Always a plus.
Felicity Huffman is definitely going for a Sharon Stone vibe with her character
McCall kills a photojournalist, which is probably a good thing because the guy was using a camera that was old in the 1940s.
As if this programme isn’t slow enough, we get a flashback to see how McCall and Huffman used to work together. It appears they worked together in a Bacardi advert.
After this, there’s the start of Ready Steady Go. The audience are a little bit familiar with the band. That’s Mick Jagger there.
They even get the Beatles to do an intro.
Recording switches, and there’s Tracey Ullman’s A Class Act. Some heavy prosthetics there.
Appearances from Timothy Spall
Michael Palin plays a 7 year old in a parody of 35-Up.
Ullman and Palin are also a couple.
This isn’t bad. I found the long sketch about the working class girl sent to a private school who ends up despising her parents – to their delight – very sad.
After this. recording switches to the end of ITV News, some weather, London Tonight.
Then, an episode of The South Bank Showabout Dracula, tying in with the release of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Chris Frayling is a Stoker expert.
Here’s some members of the Vampyre Society
Winona Ryder appears, talking about the erotic nature of Dracula.
OK, now I’m seriously freaked out. I tend to watch these tapes while doing other stuff. Often scrolling through twitter. While the show is talking about the old silent film Nosferatu, someone on Twitter retweets this tweet into my timeline.
And less than a minute later, as I was showing this tweet to my family and wondering, loudly, if I’m somehow experiencing a glitch in the matrix with all these coincidences, EXACTLY THAT SHOT plays out on screen. Really, I’m starting to worry. If only I could harness this power for good.
Wow, the programme managed to get Christopher Lee to talk about Dracula.
I don’t think I’ve seen Jim Hart being interviewed before. He was quite busy around this time, I think.
Director Francis Coppola is also interviewed
As is star Gary Oldman
After this programme, the recording continues with the start of The James Whale Question. Surely the answer is no?
Recording stops during this programme.
In the adverts, I noticed an advert for Lea & Perrins’ Tomato Ketchup with Worcestershire Sauce, but they caption it ‘Worcester Sauce’. Very odd.
Adverts:
- Mail on Sunday
- Colman’s Sauces
- Lemsip Flu Strength
- Radion Micro Plus
- Singapore Airlines
- Hong Kong
- Harrods Sale
- trail: High Interest
- trail: The Stuntman
- Sunday Times
- Flora
- Toyota Carina
- Homepride
- Weetabix
- Radion Micro Plus
- Hofel’s Garlic Pearles
- Kellogg’s All Bran
- News of the World
- Nissan
- Thomson
- Persil Micro
- PG Tips
- Andrews Antacid
- Sainsbury’s
- Holiday Autos
- Lea & Perrins Tomato Sauce with Worcestershire Sauce
- Renault Clio
- Braun Oral B
- The People
- Tennent’s Pilsner
- Pickford’s Travel
- Tesco
- PG Tips
- Dairylea
- trail: Mona Lisa
- News of the World
- Kleenex
- I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
- Benylin – Jeremy Beadle
- Pledge
- Citroen AX
- Harrods Sale
- Tetley Bitter
- trail: Absolutely
- trail: The Stuntman
- Tennent’s Pilsner
- The People
- Mitsubishi
- Thames Ford Dealers
- Mr Muscle
- trail: GMTV
- trail: Head over Heels
- Thomas Cook
- Boots
- Sunday Times
- Prudential
- Fiat Tipo/Tempra – Mark Strong
- Duracell
- Holiday Autos
- Turkey
- Nissan
- Continental Airlines
- Dishwash Electric – Creature Comforts
- Diet Coke
- Finesse
- Sunday Mirror
- Tetley Bitter
- MFI
- Lunn Poly
- Nissan
- Sensodyne
- San Marco
- Stella Artois Dry
- Holiday Autos
- Campbell’s Soup
- Leeds Liquid Gold
- Sainsbury’s
- Car Crime
- BMW
- trail: LWT
- Ford Fiesta
- London Stansted
- Lunn Poly
- Lemsip Flu Strength
- Legal & General
- Sensodyne
- Microsoft – Basketball
- Finesse
- Australia
- trail: The Big Fight Live