The BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped returns to BFI Southbank this December to present British television rediscoveries, not seen by audiences for decades, most since their original transmission dates…. The bespoke line-up of TV gems feature some of the countries most-loved television celebrities and iconic characters including Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part: Sex Before Marriage, Cilla Black in her eponymous BBC show featuring Dudley Moore , Jimmy Edwards in Whack-o!, a rare interview with Peter Davison about playing Doctor Who, an appearance by future Doctor Who Patrick Troughton from ITV’s early police drama, No Hiding Place plus a significant screen debut from a young Pete Postlethwaite.
However for Nerdly readers, one of the real highlights of this edition of Missing Believed Wiped is the uncovering of TV horror Late Night Horror: The Corpse Can’t Play. Originally broadcast on 3 May, 1968 on BBC2 this is the only...
However for Nerdly readers, one of the real highlights of this edition of Missing Believed Wiped is the uncovering of TV horror Late Night Horror: The Corpse Can’t Play. Originally broadcast on 3 May, 1968 on BBC2 this is the only...
- 12/11/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The British maestro Mike Leigh came to worldwide fame only in the '90s, with films like “Secrets & Lies, “Naked” and “Topsy-Turvy,” and he's been immensely critically well-regarded ever since, with 2008's “Happy Go Lucky” frequently featuring on “best of the century so far” lists. But Leigh didn't come out of nowhere, and when he moved to feature films, he was already well known to the British public as a director of incisive television dramas about class and family (it's Britain, everything's about class).The most famous of these television plays (as they used to be called, back when they still existed) is the 1977 “Abigail's Party,” an excruciatingly brilliant piece about snobbery, social climbing and secret sadnesses, but Leigh made a number of others, including this one right here, “The Permissive Society," from 1975. Made for the ITV series “Second City Firsts,” so named because most of them were the first...
- 8/28/2013
- by Ben Brock
- The Playlist
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