Here's a picture of Mary Habberfield, who, as the sound editor for Ealing Studios, was responsible for the famous 'Guggle Glub Gurgle' sound effect from 'The Man in the White Suit'. It only took five years to find a photo of her. 🤷‍♂️

Not doing it again of course but if you check out #stonetapelive you’ll find lots of fun facts and info about the production curtsey of me, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social

Really enjoyed being on this episode to talk about one of my favourite 1980s neo noirs & what l maintain is the screen adaptation most faithful to the spirit & tone of James Ellroy’s work. Includes new interview with director James B. Harris, who deserves more recognition for his fascinating career

I'm well old enough to have been there: it's overrated.

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

Coming soon! Premiere Sunday 7th December, 2:30pm 🚒 THE BELLS GO DOWN (1943) Stars #TommyTrinder #JamesMason #PhilipFriend #MervynJohns #WilliamHartnell Classic Ealing drama! #TPTVsubtitles

I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books. They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵

"I've never had a job."

In the interests of transparency, why don't the BBC rename The One O'Clock News, "The Witter and Whine Show"?

The QUATERMASS EVENT @ Derby QUAD - 6/12/2025 derbyquad.co.uk

Cut-it-out™ Martian from TV's 'Quatermass and the Pit'. Fully articulated and ready to terrorise Ivor the Engine and his friends on any 2D landscape. Pit not included. Hope to have these on sale at QUAD's Quatermass Event which is barely a week away...

ESCAPE INTO NIGHT (1972): Adapted from the novel 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr, this classic child-frightener saw a young girl's drawings come to life in a nightmarish dream-world. How much cheese was she eating to dream up these cyclopean stones? Remade as the movie 'Paperhouse' in 1988!

Man… my heart goes out to the people/families affected by the fire in Hong Kong. My family and close relatives usually stay around the Tai Po area wherever they go back to HK, so even though I'm not directly affected it still feels very close to home.

The tragic Hong Kong fire is still burning, yet 3 construction company executives have been arrested. Here in the UK, 8 years on from Grenfell - zero arrests.

#blackandwhitefilm of the day: Meet John Doe, 1941. Corrupt journalism and politics are spotlighted in Frank Capra's comic tale of a nobody used by Barbara Stanwyck to sell a dream. Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan are victims on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 1.45am youtu.be/9j3gdbdnoEk?...

This is far more serious than accidentally publishing a Budget. Imagine being the sub who not only allowed the double metaphor to remain in the copy, but then used it as the fucking headline.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

#JackShepherd RIP - proving that good acting can be reacting as the MP being reprimanded by government whip #PeterCopley for voting against orders in BILL BRAND (1976)

"It is the people who create"... Bernadette Hyland looks back at the 1976 tv series Bill Brand by Trevor Griffiths in which Jack Shepherd, who died this week, played a left wing Labour MP from Manchester who clashes with his own party lipsticksocialist.com/2012/05/17/b...

Anyone enjoying the current re-runs of vintage Call My Bluff on BBC Four might like to check out the show's cameo appearance ten minutes into this barking mad NF Simpson parody. I remember watching this in 1973 and being flabbergasted.

RIP Jack Shepherd. One of the greats. He’s most famous for Wycliffe, but his legacy goes way beyond that, particularly with his performance as the eponymous Bill Brand in Trevor Griffiths’ brilliant series, and also for being the original Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross.

RIP Jack Shepherd, seen here in a TV adaptation of Robert Aickman's delightful story "The Hospice"

RIP Jack Shepherd. A very fine actor indeed.

What happens when the police meet violence with violence? #RayLonnen #AlbertWelling #JohnCording in 🚓 Z-CARS (1976) 🚓 12:05pm 'Guns' #TPTVsubtitles

Sometimes it pays to read through the answers to a post and not just click like and move on.

Oh interesting, thank you. Here's a discussion of the correction. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱 Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds

September 1961 - 6ft 4in Texan #RobertEaston (later STINGRAY's Phones) visits new wife June's mother in Grimsby before researching his ancestors in Devon. June's grandmother disapproved of films but made her first cinema visit to see Robert in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.

Happy Birthday Robert Easton. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayRobertEaston #RobertEaston #Birthday #RestInPeace #RIPRobertEaston #Legend #Legends

This exhaustive examination of Bob Monkhouse's story about how he stole THE GOLDEN SHOT off Jackie Rae is the sort of thing I've spent 30 years waiting for

Man near the cathedral in Durham: The amount of times we get a decent weather forecast and then it says 'except in the North East'.

26 November 1963: THE PLANE MAKERS provides some diversion from the grim international events....

Tuesday 17 November 1964 THE PLANE MAKERS: 'The Island Game' - #PatrickWymark as Wilder tries to force out #AlanDobie as Corbett. But the engineer has learned how to turn Wilder's tactics against him. wymark.org.uk/plane9995.html

20 October 1964 - a new direction for THE PLANE MAKERS - 'Empires Have To Start Somewhere' #AlanDobie #PatrickWymark #WendyGifford #PeterJeffrey - wymark.org.uk/plane99931.h...

12 November 1963 THE PLANE MAKERS 'Costigan's Rocket' - Wilder: "If the dog wins – fine! But if the dog loses, I want one stuffed greyhound and one stuffed welfare officer on that wall!” #BrianMurphy, #GeraldJames, #LarryDann #JoRowbottom - wymark.org.uk/plane9.html

#PatrickWymark star of THE PLANE MAKERS, at the Birmingham Press Ball, 26 November 1965.

#ReginaldMarsh as Arthur Sugden, the voice of conscience in THE PLANE MAKERS (1963-65) - here drawn by Richard Farrell for my book THE WILDER WAY. Sugden's back-story was established in the episode, 'NO Man's Land' www.wymark.org.uk/plane2.html

#DavidStone, screenwriter of REPULSION ( #PatrickWymark and director #Polanski) was launch editor of LOOK AND LEARN (1961) and wrote two episodes of FRONT PAGE STORY ( #WilfredGreatorex 's follow-up to THE PLANE MAKERS - 1965). Sadly died age 36 while drafting STAR for #RobertWise / #JulieAndrews

In a café, a flexible woman stands on one leg talking to a friend, whilst absentmindedly stretching the other leg up to touch her foot almost to her ear.

Beautiful stage direction from the pilot episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show: TED BAXTER ENTERS, AND AS ALWAYS, THERE IS THE FEELING THAT HE EXPECTS APPLAUSE. The entire character, summed up in one line.

Go on, you know you want to buy it... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845832221/

24 November 1962 - #JulietMills and #PatrickWymark in the MAN OF THE WORLD episode 'The Mindreader' wymark.org.uk/mindreader.h...

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Maybe I just need to change the thumbnail for the video.

Tickets are now on sale!! A #TPTV Exclusive Event!! PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23 & Sun 24 May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend! Tickets are limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/mLDl6jP

The first #DoctorWho star I saw in real life - Sarah Sutton in panto in January 1984! #DoctorWhoDay

The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...

My latest article: BBC PA Douglas Camfield, frustrated at not being offered a place on the director's course, investigated joining the SAS via the TA. Until fate intervened. You will also discover the third time he worked for Waris Hussein... michaelseely.substack.com/p/douglas-ca...

Tonight (Sun) at 9.45pm, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social - 1957 classic Night of the Demon. I did a Halloween round-up of the very best horror films for the BBC this year, and placed this as my all time favourite. 'it's in the trees...it's coming...' #TPTVsubtitles film-authority.com/2025/06/15/n...

Get your Bat-shark repellent at the ready! #Batman66