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Subject: OT : ancien series

Date: Fri 12/04/13 14:10:55 GMT

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By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Sun 31/03/13 15:37:46 GMT

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I rarely watch much "broadcast tv" at all these days too.....cos I find most of it to be too depressing or not to my tastes....i.e. everything on the news channels is bad news....and all the modern tv shows on primetime tv feature characters I can't relate too.....e.g. there is no such thing as an "Alpha Male" on tv shows these days....cos every male character you see in commercials or tv sitcoms are either beta-males who act like blithering weeny idiots to a smarter female....or they are gay...and shows like "Glee" are more like a freakshow to me.....

So....I turned off my tv months ago.....cos I started to find much more interesting things to watch by connecting my big screen tv to my notebook via a 50ft hdmi cable...and then I could go back in time and watch all the great shows I enjoyed in the 60's and 70's.....cos now everything I like to watch can be found on Youtube or a great new streaming site called

 http://veehd.com/ .

..which has all the old classic UK TV series I enjoy...including Classic Dr Who and many other UK series my Uncle Pat also appeared in (i.e. The Young Ones, The Bill, Filthy Rich and Catflap, The Fenn Street Gang, Please Sir, Benny Hill etc)

Once you get a decent internet download speed....this is a "game changer"...cos then you no longer need satellite or cable tv any more. I got rid of my 4 satellite dishes last year4...cos now my ISP gives me a download speed of 70 megs....so now my wife is very happy watching online tv channels from Asia, and I am happy watching live UK tv shows via proxy......so now I try to avoid watching U.S. tv off the air....cos whenever I tune in.....it makes me depressed with all the bad news about the economy or the antics of our politicians.

I do not want to hear every day about how the value of my house has declined by 40% since I bought it....or how high the unemployment rate is.....and my father just went on a vacation to CYPRUS 2 weeks ago.....I bet he had some fun trying to find an ATM that was working where he could get some cash during the current banking crisis out there....and it makes me irate when I have to tighten my budget and control my spending.....while politicians do not bother to balance their budget and control their spending...and all they want to do is print more money. So...this just makes my blood boil....so I try to get away from all this crap I see on live TV these days....and if I want to brighten my day....I will just watch my favorite classic UK tv shows like "On the Buses" or "Hi De Hi"....which are all online on streaming sites for free these days.

MK

By guitar guy - Sun 31/03/13 06:37:08 GMT

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BTW there were numerous "wetlook" weather channel clips from the early to mid 90's that I wish I had captured. These were always short clips, 10 to 15 seconds, sometimes longer. These clips involved people coping with (usually) minor flooding situations, ie: curbside flooding they had to wade through, or in a park with low lying areas filled with deeper water than expected. The reason these scenes were so hard to capture was first, they were unannounced, and secondly the VCR took 5 seconds or more to engage in record (which seemed like forever as valuable seconds ticked by, of material I wanted to record) And the old VCR's didn't have flying heads, so the first 5 seconds or so of recording time was unstable video. So once started, entire scenes were missed, although I did try. But it was impossible except to let the tape run.. and I wasn't THAT motivated which could have been days or weeks to capture 20 seconds worth of "wetlook".

Among memorable "wetlook" scenes was a lady with baby in stroller wading through a flooded gulch in the park. She wore tight fitting "capri" leggings, with white trainers, and white socks. The camera angle was low, near ground level, apparently "staged" or a very astute camera person getting a good "point of view" shot. A wetlook producer could not have done better. As the woman approached the camera (attractive woman) with baby in stroller, (the subject framed in a full shot) she straightaway entered the flooded ditch, completely covering the wheels of the stroller, and her white trainers. The camera person then lowered the camera to ground level to get the shot of her trainers entering the water.. and remained there panning left until she exited left of the frame, (right to left moving toward the camera and out of frame) The idea of course was to provide video of people coping with minor flooding situations, or carrying on normally in spite of getting wet, as the announcer describes a line of T-storms (usually T storms) that had moved through the area... and now threatening other areas off to the east ... ...

Another scene was coverage of the Mississippi flood of 1993, a community effort to sandbag the levees. These people were not dressed for a day at the beach of course, and in this particular clip, some were standing in water. The camera view was at first rather close up, following the hand to hand movement of the sandbags. As the camera zoomed out to a full shot, it was revealed that at least 3 or 4 ladies were in office attire, in high heels standing in ankle deep water, a definite plus for heels fans, of which I am of that variety. I missed that too. Perhaps this would quality less since it is more a distressed situation, since these people were desperate to save their homes, so this doesn't count as a banal scene where a person makes the choice to "cope" or avoid a flooded situation. (they had no choice)

Yet another clip was of two young ladies strolling on a flooded sidewalk up to their chests in water, obviously coping, but also laughing and enjoying their adventure. (a good scene) They were dressed for cooler weather, in a jacket, the other in a sweater. There were no "before" or "after" shots, just of them wading in deep water in a clip that ran about 20 seconds.

The best one (IMO) was of a well dressed woman in heels and nylons wading to her front door, as the meteorologist describes "storms that rolled through the area earlier today, causing minor flooding"!

I wonder if anyone remembers these clips like these from the weather channel? Does the weather channel currently show clips like the ones I described? Or, are they of mass destruction and grief stricken people? I haven't watched television since about 1996, since it consumed too much free time. So, I no longer have a TV in my house.

By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Sat 30/03/13 18:59:10 GMT

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Sadly, some of the best wetlook scenes from Dr Who that I saw as a kid....are now among the 150 "Lost episodes" Dr Who where the BBC erased the tapes. e.g.

The Underwater Menace episodes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underwater_Menace

and the "Fury from the Deep" epsiodes....where I saw 2 nice wetlook scenes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_from_the_Deep

I still have my 25ft long Dr Who scarf.....cos I was a huge fan of Tom Baker....cos I met him and his companion (in real life too) Lalla Ward in Ireland in 1978....cos I was staying at hotel in Ireland and they were staying at the same hotel too....and one morning they were having breakfast at hotel and were seated next to us, and they were kind enough to give me their autographs.

MK

By Frank (the noname) - Sat 30/03/13 14:23:27 GMT

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By wetlookstu - Sat 30/03/13 11:37:51 GMT

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'The third episode in this current run, called Cold War, is set on board a Russian submarine and marks the return of the classic Doctor Who monsters the Ice Warriors. Before every take in that episode they'd come and spray us with water, so we were soaking wet for two weeks.

Sounds good!