Supercar at 60
June 18, 2021By Chris Dale 28th January 2021 may have been Supercar’s 60th anniversary, but we couldn’t let the year pass without doing something very special to mark the occasion! With the […]
Brian Desmond Hurst: The Human Blarney Stone and his Adaptation of The Playboy of the Western World
May 25, 2021By Caitlin Smith I was delighted to learn that Network have remastered the long-lost and long unseen final film of Brian Desmond Hurst, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ (1962). […]
Travelling Back in Time with Look at Life
May 21, 2021Is time travel possible? Not yet anyway, says the science. But do you actually need to climb into the driving seat of a souped-up DeLorean or walk through the doors […]
Rupert Davies: A Tribute
May 13, 2021On the 20th January 1962, The Guardian published an article Maigret in Paris, which stated that it was ‘incredible that an actor so British in temperament should have established himself […]
Gerry Anderson's Night In
April 14, 2021By Chris Dale Network Distributing and Anderson Entertainment present a feast of Gerry Anderson classics in a streaming ‘watchalong’ from 7pm on the very first Gerry Anderson Day, this April 14th! […]
Gracie Fields: The Mother of Pre-War British Musicals
March 14, 2021Say the name Gracie Fields today and most people, certainly those under pension age, will simply look blank. Yet the woman born above a chip shop on 9 January 1898 […]
World Book Day: Top Book to TV/Film Adaptations
March 4, 2021If you accept the first filmed novel as 1897’s Oliver Twist adaption, The Death of Nancy Sykes, then readers have spent more than 120 years debating whether you should watch […]
Supermarionation at 60
January 28, 2021By Chris Dale The word Supermarionation would have meant very little to viewers sitting down to watch the first episode of a new puppet adventure series on January 28th 1961. […]
The Bruce Forsyth Show
December 25, 2020Christmas 1965. Son is delighted with his Corgi 007 Aston Martin, mother plans to donate the Home Cooking With Fanny Cradock to charity as soon as possible, and daughter cannot […]