I've been watching a 50 year-old episode of this programme. The acting and production are far superior to any modern programme. Good clear dialogue, good acting, no wobbly cameras, correct focussing, good lighting.
Bill
I've been watching a 50 year-old episode of this programme. The acting and production are far superior to any modern programme. Good clear dialogue, good acting, no wobbly cameras, correct focussing, good lighting.
Bill
And no good ethnic/bad white person storyline. And no bad language.
Bill
In message , Bill Wright writes
I have been watching a few of the earliest episodes of Open All Hours, from 1976. That is almost 40 years ago, now. I was almost crying with laughter. So well written and well acted. I knew I enjoyed it first time around, but had forgotten just how good it really was.
My mother was a nurse and said it was true to life in most ways.
She loved watching it as did many millions.
Very depressing though. I can recall one episode where the lady in the bed asked the nurse: "Am I going to die"?
How odd that you should bring this up now. Around lunchtime I was thinking about this serial, in particular I was comparing, in my mind the theme tune to that of Dr Kildare.
The episode I remember was when one of the male protagonists ditched his conventional stethoscope, in favour of an electronic one he had cobbled together himself.
I remmeber the one when they stopped someone hyperventilating using a paper bag.
Standard technique.
But a big tip for a doctor who tells someone to do this: Make sure they really are hyperventilating and not suffering from something else. (Yes
- I have seen this happen. That doctor did not know what he was doing.)
Are you sure you weren't watching the movie spinoff, just shown on the digital Talking Pictures channel? Considerably higher production values than the TV show.
Yes you're right.
Bill
Black and white? The film, I mean.
MM
But people in 2015 are still asking the same question. No change there then.
MM
That is a useful trick that I only found out about AFTER I had had my first panic attack due to overwork in the 1980s. If you have no paper bag handy, try breathing into your jacket, or even into your clasped hands.
MM
Anyone remember Dr Cameron and his funny auld nurse with the quavery voice? "Ooh, Doctor, ye cannae puit your hand down there!"
MM
Yes, longer nails holding the sets up.
Oddly, the cameras of the day were such that the best picture was achieved by having all the stuff that was to appear white actually in yellow.
One of the doctors still broadcasts regularly - "hot rocking" Desmond Carrington.
Chris
In message , Chris J Dixon writes
Yes indeed. Sunday evening? Catching Desmond Carrington on Radio 2 is like taking a step back in time. His show really is exactly as the Light Programme was 50+ years ago, before those pesky pirates upset the status quo.
No, Fridays 19:00. His voice does have something of a vibrato these days, but he is approaching 90 now.
Chris
Yes, of course. I caught him when I was driving home on a Friday evening, a few weeks ago.
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