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Tales Of The City – tape 1635
Here’s another episode of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City about a group of people living in San Francisco and their various romantic lives. Laura Linney’s night shift working at the suicide...
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Without Walls – Tales Of The City – tape 1638
First on this tape, an episode of Without Walls. Timothy West plays Lord Reith, founder of the BBC, returned to life to look at the state of the BBC. He talks to John Drummond, who ran the Proms...
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Delicatessen – Hollywood Shuffle – tape 1487
First on this tape, from Channel 4, Delicatessen. It’s a French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (who got the directing gig for Alien Resurrection based mostly on the success of this film) and Marc...
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Inspector Morse – The Prisoner – tape 1494
On this tape, from the London Franchise that used to be Thames, Inspector Morse and Twilight of the Gods. Announced as the final episode, it turns out not to be that – there’s several one-off episodes...
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All Or Nothing At All – tape 1619
Weirdly, about the only thing I remember about All Or Nothing At All is the theme song. It opens dramatically, with a young boy at private school being summoned to see his mother, who tells him she...
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Wayne’s World – Trust – tape 1625
Here’s a couple of movies today. First, on a festive Sky Movies, it’s Wayne’s World. At this stage, I think all the Wayne’s World schtick is just too familiar for me to say if I think it’s any good any...
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Cracker – Inside Victor Lewis Smith – tape 1634
First on this tape, the third part of the Cracker story To Say I Love You. I looked at the first two parts a long time ago – nearly two years ago. It starts with Fitz being sacked. He’s not taking it...
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Film 93 – tape 1621
Here’s a tape full of episodes of Film 93. The first episode has reviews of the following films: The Remains of the Day Demolition Man La Fille de L’Aire L’Accompagnatrice Guilty as Sin There’s a set...
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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle – The Lawnmower Man – tape 1623
First on this tape, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, one of a number of movies in the early 90s featuring psycho women. Not that it was a new theme – just look back to Play Misty For Me for example –...
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Kate Bush Live – The Mystery Of Morse – Horizon – tape 1496
Here’s an interesting tape. I usually do a very quick scrub through a tape to make sure it really is the one I think it is, and in this case, it was, but it’s slightly mislabelled, and meant there was...
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Hook – Body Parts – tape 1628
First on this tape, from The Movie Channel, is Steven Spielberg’s Hook. It was not particularly well received on its first release, although any doubts about Spielberg losing his magic touch were...
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