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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 22, 2023 19:45:15 GMT -5
The newspaper strip Andy Capp debuted in the Sunday Mirror 65 years ago today. Here’s one strip:  Today marks 35 years since the Andy Capp TV series, starring James Bolam as the titular character, debuted. It ran for a colossal - wait for it! - six episodes. I haven’t seen it, and have no real desire to seek out the DVD that Network released. Hope this is okay here, the six-episode series hardly warrants a thread of its own! For a bit of context, most seasons (or Series, in the UK) run between 6 and 13 episodes, depending on the broadcaster, the popularity and the budget. BBC comedy series usually ran 6 or 7 episodes and 2 series would give a total of 13, which was the amount needed for foreign sales. Doctor Who, in the original run, ran about 6-10 serials, depending on the era. ITV was a bit different, though it depended on the type of show. Action/adventure, like The Avengers or The Saint had 20+ episodes and were often sold to the US networks and syndication, as well as other countries. Comedies had shorter runs. For instance, the classic comedy series, Rising Damp, averaged 7 episodes per series. 6 episodes was an entire season, for Andy Capp, which was broadcast by Thames Television (one of several independent broadcasters who made up ITV, broadcasting in the London area). The fact that it didn't get a second series is more indicative of success than the number of episodes, in total. One reason that may have worked against it, aside from the character is a bit nastier in real life, than in a comic strip, was that it was shot entirely on location, which is expensive, even for commercial television (ITV was commercial television, while the BBC was supported by license fees). You can see it on Youtube, if you are curious.... I preferred James Bolam on New Tricks, about a group of retired police detectives who are brought back to examine cold cases, using modern forensic testing. They provide the technical background for the period of the case, which is usually 10-20 years before. He got to work with his wife, Susan Jameson, who plays Esther Lane, the wife of another character, Brian "Memory" Lane, played by Alun Armstrong (Get Carter, Krull, Patriot Games, Braveheart, the original West End Les Miserables). |
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 23, 2023 15:15:26 GMT -5
The main thing I remember Andy Capp from is the Pub Fries, which I loved. They use to have an Andy Cap comic strip on the bag. Same, remember a lot of kids in my grade school eating them. Never tried them until years later. Thought they were good, interesting texture too Yeah, they were different than anything else on the market. |
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Post by tonebone on Feb 23, 2023 16:04:50 GMT -5
Same, remember a lot of kids in my grade school eating them. Never tried them until years later. Thought they were good, interesting texture too Yeah, they were different than anything else on the market. They still make them... although now Cheetos makes "hot fries" that are very similar. But they don't have a funnies star on the package (-1). |
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 23, 2023 16:58:50 GMT -5
Yeah, they were different than anything else on the market. They still make them... although now Cheetos makes "hot fries" that are very similar. But they don't have a funnies star on the package (-1). I didn't even realize they still made them. Cool. |
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Post by foxley on Feb 23, 2023 19:23:41 GMT -5
The British kids comic character Buster was originally the son of Andy Capp.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2023 8:18:37 GMT -5
There’s a new UK reprint title coming soon:  This will be priced £2.99, and will reprint 2 US stories in each issue, so will be 48 pages in total. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2023 8:47:24 GMT -5
Lest we forget... A comic book burning at a high school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 24, 1949. Over 8,000 comics were reportedly burned at this event.  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2023 19:47:46 GMT -5
 just don't tell her they're Liefeld Youngblood comics... -M |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 24, 2023 21:41:12 GMT -5
Lest we forget... A comic book burning at a high school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 24, 1949. Over 8,000 comics were reportedly burned at this event. -M And their kids burned Beatle records in 1966.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2023 10:31:22 GMT -5
Lest we forget... A comic book burning at a high school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on February 24, 1949. Over 8,000 comics were reportedly burned at this event. -M And their kids burned Beatle records in 1966. These images always bring me a measure of sadness. When viewing the folks in the pictures as a group, my instinct might be to say "what ignorance, and how fundamentally wrong trying to erase media from existence is". Then I look at the individual faces of each person, and I think many of them might have believed they were doing something right. If I got to know each of them, I bet we could find ways to relate to each other and get along. And I wonder what road led them to feeling the need to not only reject the content of these items (which is perfectly valid), but then need to make such a defiant statement in such a destructive matter. So many look so young here, again it just makes me sad to see them in this state. Oh...and yeah, on a less lofty note, the collector in me weeps as well! |
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Post by MDG on Feb 25, 2023 10:58:35 GMT -5
And their kids burned Beatle records in 1966. These images always bring me a measure of sadness. When viewing the folks in the pictures as a group, my instinct might be to say "what ignorance, and how fundamentally wrong trying to erase media from existence is". Then I look at the individual faces of each person, and I think many of them might have believed they were doing something right. If I got to know each of them, I bet we could find ways to relate to each other and get along. And I wonder what road led them to feeling the need to not only reject the content of these items (which is perfectly valid), but then need to make such a defiant statement in such a destructive matter. So many look so young here, again it just makes me sad to see them in this state. Oh...and yeah, on a less lofty note, the collector in me weeps as well! Yeah--which gives me mixed feelings about disco record burnings  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 25, 2023 11:22:48 GMT -5
These images always bring me a measure of sadness. When viewing the folks in the pictures as a group, my instinct might be to say "what ignorance, and how fundamentally wrong trying to erase media from existence is". Then I look at the individual faces of each person, and I think many of them might have believed they were doing something right. If I got to know each of them, I bet we could find ways to relate to each other and get along. And I wonder what road led them to feeling the need to not only reject the content of these items (which is perfectly valid), but then need to make such a defiant statement in such a destructive matter. So many look so young here, again it just makes me sad to see them in this state. Oh...and yeah, on a less lofty note, the collector in me weeps as well! Yeah--which gives me mixed feelings about disco record burnings Everything I've seen or read about that travesty brings up not just the amount of alcohol consumed that night, but the racism that was at the heart of the crowd's interest in the record-burning. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 25, 2023 12:37:35 GMT -5
And their kids burned Beatle records in 1966. These images always bring me a measure of sadness. When viewing the folks in the pictures as a group, my instinct might be to say "what ignorance, and how fundamentally wrong trying to erase media from existence is". Then I look at the individual faces of each person, and I think many of them might have believed they were doing something right. If I got to know each of them, I bet we could find ways to relate to each other and get along. And I wonder what road led them to feeling the need to not only reject the content of these items (which is perfectly valid), but then need to make such a defiant statement in such a destructive matter. So many look so young here, again it just makes me sad to see them in this state. It's because they're unthinking, easily manipulated idiots, spawned and raised by other unthinking, easily manipulated idiots. The world is full of 'em and always has been, sadly. It'd be funny if it weren't so dangerous. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 25, 2023 18:37:22 GMT -5
These images always bring me a measure of sadness. When viewing the folks in the pictures as a group, my instinct might be to say "what ignorance, and how fundamentally wrong trying to erase media from existence is". Then I look at the individual faces of each person, and I think many of them might have believed they were doing something right. If I got to know each of them, I bet we could find ways to relate to each other and get along. And I wonder what road led them to feeling the need to not only reject the content of these items (which is perfectly valid), but then need to make such a defiant statement in such a destructive matter. So many look so young here, again it just makes me sad to see them in this state. Oh...and yeah, on a less lofty note, the collector in me weeps as well! Yeah--which gives me mixed feelings about disco record burnings It was a dumb stunt by promoted by Chicago DJ Steve Dahl, who was a complete tool. He was fired from WDAI, after they changed formats to disco and he went to the competing station, WLUP (The Loop) and orchestrated this, as a publicity stunt. Steve Dahl & Gary Meier were annoying little morons, who wished they had the following of Larry Lujak, at WLS-AM (Back when the AM station was THE top rock station in Chicago, with a signal that went all through the state and into Kentucky and parts of Indiana. Sadly, they ended up the drive time DJs at WLS, later on, which got me to turn of the station, when I was in college. The White Sox got a lot of heat for allowing it to occur, at Comiskey Park. Disco Stu was unhappy! |
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Post by Calidore on Feb 25, 2023 20:10:04 GMT -5
Yeah--which gives me mixed feelings about disco record burnings It was a dumb stunt by promoted by Chicago DJ Steve Dahl, who was a complete tool. He was fired from WDAI, after they changed formats to disco and he went to the competing station, WLUP (The Loop) and orchestrated this, as a publicity stunt. Steve Dahl & Gary Meier were annoying little morons, who wished they had the following of Larry Lujak, at WLS-AM (Back when the AM station was THE top rock station in Chicago, with a signal that went all through the state and into Kentucky and parts of Indiana. Sadly, they ended up the drive time DJs at WLS, later on, which got me to turn of the station, when I was in college. The White Sox got a lot of heat for allowing it to occur, at Comiskey Park. Disco Stu was unhappy!
I don't feel quite as harshly about Steve and Garry, but this is pretty much it. I don't think racism was involved at all. "Disco sucks" had become a catchphrase for the cool and edgy, and a local cool and edgy DJ of a cool and edgy radio station ran with it.
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