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Casanova '73
''Casanova '73'' is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in September and October 1973. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the series starred Leslie Phillips as wealthy womaniser Henry Newhouse (the English translation of "casa nova"). Background and plot ''Casanova '73'' followed an episode of ''Galton and Simpson Comedy'' ("The Suit", 1969) for London Weekend Television in which Phillips played Howard Butler, a philandering businessman whose clothes are stolen whilst he is in bed at his secretary's home. As with this series, it also featured Jan Holden as his wife. ''Casanova '73'' was specially written for Phillips. Henry Newhouse has a successful career in public relations. Although happily married to Carol, he is a compulsive philanderer and leads a double life. His relationships invariably backfire and lead to farcical situations. Cast *Leslie Phillips – Henry Newhouse *Jan Holden – Carol Newhouse *Yolande Turner – Connie Langham *Elvi Hale – Muriel *Cyd Hayman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. Critics disagree over the utility of the term "sitcom" in classifying shows that have come into existence since the turn of the century. Many contemporary American sitcoms use the single-camera setup and do not feature a laugh track, thus often resembling the dramedy shows of the 1980s and 1990s rather t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeline Smith
Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress. After working as a model in the late 1960s, she went on to appear in many television series and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s. She is perhaps best known for playing Bond girl Miss Caruso in '' Live and Let Die'' (1973), but also had larger roles in the Hammer horror films ''The Vampire Lovers'' (1970), ''Taste the Blood of Dracula'' (1970), '' Tam-Lin'' (1970), ''Theatre of Blood'' (1973) and ''Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell'' (1974) and comedy films including ''Up Pompeii'' (1971), ''Up the Front'' (1972) and ''Carry On Matron'' (1972) amongst others. She also appeared in the films ''The Killing of Sister George'' (1968), ''Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You'' (1970), ''The Amazing Mr. Blunden'' (1972) and the musical film ''Take Me High'' (1973) with Cliff Richard. After leaving the acting profession in the mid 1980s to bring up her family, she returned to acting in 2011. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 British Television Series Debuts
Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. * January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is Second inauguration of Richard Nixon, sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Nixon is the only person to have been sworn in twice as President (First inauguration of Richard Nixon, 1969, Second inauguration of Richard Nixon, 1973) and Vice President of the United States (First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957). * January 22 ** George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship. ** A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acorn Media UK
RLJE International Ltd, d/b/a Acorn DVD, a British company that publishes and distributes DVDs, as well as selling home-video products and streaming videos with a particular focus on British television. History Launched in 1997, Acorn Media U.K. Limited distributes collectible home video products in the U.K. market. By design, Acorn U.K.'s product line often overlaps with the Acorn Media U.S. line. This division of the company also serves as a permanent presence in the U.K. television programming community, a primary source of both Acorn Media U.S. and Acorn U.K. acquisitions. Important programming franchises for this Acorn division include ''New Tricks'', ''Criminal Justice'', ''Midsomer Murders'', ''Foyle's War'', ''Trial & Retribution'', '' Wild at Heart'', ''Wainwright Walks'', and ''Inspector George Gently''. In April 2007, Acorn Media U.K. launched Acacia U.K., a healthy joyful living brand encompassing licensed and original programming on DVD. In 2012, RLJ Companies b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mastermind (TV Series)
''Mastermind'' is a British television quiz show for the BBC, currently presented by Clive Myrie. Its creator, Bill Wright, drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II. The show features an intimidating setting and challenging questions. Four (and in later contests five or six) contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the contestant's choice, the other a general knowledge round. ''Mastermind''s theme music is "Approaching Menace" by the British composer Neil Richardson. The show was recorded, with original presenter Magnus Magnusson, on location at UK universities. Later, it was recorded in Manchester at studios such as New Broadcasting House and Granada Studios, before moving to dock10 studios in 2011. The show relocated to Belfast for the 2019–2020 series. Format For the first round, each contestant in turn is given a set length of time, usually two minutes (one minute and a half in semi-finals), to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediawatch-UK
Mediawatch-UK, formerly known as the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (National VALA or NVLA), was a pressure group in the United Kingdom, which campaigned against the publication and broadcast of media content that it viewed as harmful and offensive, such as violence, hate speech against any race, creed or sexual orientation, xenophobia, and profanity. History NVLA was founded in 1965 by Mary Whitehouse to succeed the earlier Clean-Up TV Campaign, which Whitehouse co-founded with her husband Ernest and the Reverend Basil and Norah Buckland early in the previous year. NVLA Vice President was Christian activist and educationalist, Charles Oxley. Whitehouse remained the group's leader until 1994, when she was succeeded by John Beyer. NVLA changed its name to Mediawatch-UK in 2001. Mediawatch-UK monitored traditional broadcast channels, as well as social and digital media, published reports about programme content, and responds to Government and other consultations on b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Whitehouse
Constance Mary Whitehouse (; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. She was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the BBC. A hard-line social conservative, she was termed a reactionary by her socially liberal opponents. Her motivation derived from her Christian beliefs, her aversion to the rapid social and political changes in British society of the 1960s, and her work as a teacher of sex education. Whitehouse became an art teacher, at the same time becoming involved in evangelical Christian groups such as the Student Christian Movement (which became increasingly more liberal leading up to, and after, a 1928 split with the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) and Moral Re-Armament. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Reynolds
Stanley Ambrose Harrington Reynolds (1934–2016) was an American journalist, author, and critic who spent most of his life in the UK. Reynolds was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts on 27 November 1934, to Ambrose Harrington Reynolds, a sales manager for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Irene Ducharme, who was French-Canadian. He was raised as a Catholic, and spoke only French until he was four. He served in the US military with the First Infantry Division. He met his first wife, Gillian Morton, in Holyoke; she was from Liverpool and was spending a year studying at Mount Holyoke College. The couple moved to the UK together, where they married in 1958. They returned to the US for a year, and Reynolds worked as a reporter for ''The Providence Journal'' in Rhode Island, but the couple had returned to the UK by 1960. Reynolds worked for ''The Guardian'' in the 1960s, and published his first novel, ''Better Dead than Red'', in 1964; it was praised by Anthony Burgess as "savagel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Davies (actress)
Janet Kathleen Davies (14 September 1927 – 22 September 1986) was an English actress best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Pike in the long-running sitcom ''Dad's Army''. Although mainly remembered for her role in ''Dad's Army'', appearing in 30 episodes of the series, she also featured in many other television and film roles including '' Dixon of Dock Green'', ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'', '' All Creatures Great and Small'', ''Last of the Summer Wine'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Citadel'', ''Pride and Prejudice'', ''Open All Hours'', ''Are You Being Served?'', and in the films '' The Ghost Goes Gear'' (1966) and '' Interlude'' (1968). When she was not acting, Davies exploited her typing and shorthand training by working with various theatrical agencies. She was married to the actor Ian Gardiner, who was best known for having played Reginald Molehusband in a Central Office of Information public information film in the 1960s. She died on 22 September 1986, aged 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Knowles (actor)
Michael Sydney Knowles (born 26 April 1937) is a British actor and scriptwriter who is best known for his roles in BBC sitcoms written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. He often starred alongside Donald Hewlett with whom he first appeared in ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum''. They later appeared together in '' Rogue's Rock, Come Back Mrs. Noah'' and '' You Rang, M'Lord?'' In Knowles' writing career, he co-adapted (with Harold Snoad) the radio version of ''Dad's Army'' and writing with Snoad the ''Dad's Army'' spinoff series '' It Sticks Out Half a Mile'' for radio, which became the television series ''High and Dry''. Early life Knowles attended Bemrose Grammar School for Boys, Derby (now Bemrose School), where he stayed on into the 6th form and played the lead role in the school's production of Shakespeare's ''Henry V.'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Lipman
Dame Maureen Diane Lipman (born 10 May 1946) is an English actress, writer and comedian. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and her stage work has included appearances with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was made a dame in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to charity, entertainment and the arts. Early life and education Lipman was born on 10 May 1946 in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman. Her father was a tailor; he used to have a shop between the Ferens Art Gallery and Monument Bridge. Lipman grew up Jewish and found post-war Hull a welcoming place for the Jewish community. She lived on Northfield Road, Hull and attended Wheeler Primary School. Lipman then attended Newland School for Girls in Hull, and became interested in performing as a youth; she performed in school shows, attended an early Beatles concert, and watched Elizabeth Taylor's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
