BBC Archive 1973: England’s Deadliest Chair!
Are you ready to face the horror of England’s deadliest chair? “In the last six years, five people have sat in the murderer’s chair… and every single one has met sudden death.” Click here, if you dare!
BBC Archive: “The Joy of Role-Playing Games”
BBC Archives shares Heart of the Matter: Swords and Sorcery from 1980. “”People are turning themselves into wizards and demons, knights and clerics, and a bewildering variety of mythical figures.’ As the new Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, is released in the UK to extraordinary box […]
BBC Archive: “Nineteen Eighty-Four: the Controversial 1954 BBC adaptation”
The BBC Archive has video of a 1965 discussion of 1984 (1954). “Late Night Line-Up looks back on the 1954 BBC television adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasance and André Morell. The television play was performed live on the evening of Sunday […]
BBC Archive: “Max Headroom–TV Host of the Future?”
BBC Archive shares a video segment of Terry Wogan on Max Headroom. “Terry Wogan comes face to face with the future of television presenting, the world’s first ‘computer-generated’ host, Max Headroom. Does the emergence of Max spell the end for homo sapiens as chat show hosts? Originally broadcast […]
BBC Archives: The Enfield Poltergeist
BBC Archives has a report from 1977 on a poltergeist in Ponder’s End, Enfield. “‘Either 17 people have all been having hallucinations – including the police – or this is the best-documented ghost story of all time.’ Nationwide’s James Hogg reports from a seemingly ordinary, suburban house in […]
BBC Archives 1981: Ray Harryhausen on Clash Of The Titans!
BBC Archives shares video of Ray Harryhausen talking about his work on Clash of the Titans (1981)! “Ray Harryhausen – master of models, magician with miniatures, the stop-motion Svengali, doyen of Dynamation–pops into the Take Two studio, to discuss producing the special effects for his latest film blockbuster, […]
The Cultural Gutter 