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We've recently watched a few episodes of what to us was a long forgotten TV series called Tales of the Unexpected. Each half hour episode is supposed to have an unexpected twist to the ending although it didn't always work. Decades ago we used to call the series Fat Chance - meaning "fat chance of it being unexpected".
A little unfair really, from what we've seen they pass an easy half hour although now it's a nostalgic half hour spotting clothes, hairstyles, cars and domestic interiors. Lockdown nostalgia perhaps.
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We have been watching Time Team. It must be nostalgia for the days when you could go outside and mess around
AKH - We find that so many of those TV series we enjoyed at the time are truly awful when dug up!
Graeme -I trust you have been watching those where Baldrick DOESN'T run about like a demented presenter while they're digging up the wrong field. He was the reason we stopped watching it.
I think people have become much more savvy when watching TV, and look out for the tricks of the trade. It's all illusion, isn't it, from trying to convince us that some luvvie is a real person in a Roald Dahl short story, to a "scientist" telling us all about Chinese bat flu. The next test is going to be AI, of course, which is either going to enslave us for years to come, or make people switch off completely as we just can't trust our eyes any more.
The Time Team episode where they looked for some Roman remains near Hastings was a rude, embarrassing farce.
Gerald Brodribb was a distiguished and respected historian, his knowledge of cricket was renowned with several books, and to get rubbished by some little twerp like Robinson stopped so many people watching TT. There is still proven documented evidence of the Roman Bath house, but the BBC chose to mock the issue, as they usually do.
Apart from that (sorry, Graeme, this wasn't meant to be personally rude to you, in fact, the sone of a close friend used to be on the team), we're watching - again, our favourite ever programme, 'Turtle's Progress', which we have to limit to one viewing every two years! It is totally hilarious, and we love it!
No offence taken. Yes Baldrick does get irritating at times but the interplay between the diggers and the techies is fascinating as are the times when the grand old man of British archaeology, Francis Pryor, puts on the helmet and goes digging or driving the JCB
Graeme - ah, those were the days. Lots of healthy fresh air to keep us fit and well. The government should encourages us to get out and... oh hang on.
Jannie - lots of them were truly awful. It surprises me that we watched them, but we did. Lack of choice perhaps - like libraries. Now have access to millions of Kindle books we would never visit the local library.
Sam - I'm sure you are right, people have become much more savvy when watching TV. Much of it could simply be choice - a much wider choice allows people to compare and being able to choose when to watch leaves traditional TV floundering.
Scrobs - we once saw Robinson doing a piece in Derbyshire. All togged up as if walking in the hills yet only a few hundred yards from the car park.
Sorry scrobs, but I find it hard to take dowsing seriously
I watched that episode. They showed great respect for Gerald Brodribb and they put a trench over his dowsing results. They found nothing. They didn't diss him at all
And it wasn't the BBC anyway... Lmao
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