1980s BritishTelecom International Call Print Ads

[Richard1978]

Apparently George Lucas didn't think it was intimating enough....

[Richard1978]

Yes it's often true of actors playing villains who are a not nicer in real life.

[Richard1978]

I remember that advert.

[Richard1978]

My Mum used to buy Findus fish fingers & Cod portions.

Ross is another frozen food company that seems to keep a low profile, some brands are only sold in certain shops these days.

[Richard1978]

The ones I like that haven't already been mentioned include:

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Ronettes (almost very track on the Phil Spector Christmas album is worth including)
Lonely This Christmas - Mud
When a Child If Born - Johnny Mathis
All I Want For Christmas...

[Richard1978]

The 20th Anniversary story Five Doctors the Villain ended up being turned into a face carved into a stone slab.

[Richard1978]

I remember one comedian saying something was as pointless as giving Sooty his own radio show!

In the 1980s show I remember the props like the bath and shower were cleverly designed for the puppets to use.

[Richard1978]

I like most of Gerry Anderson's shows, so far I've collected up Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet box sets.

[Richard1978]

I do like their Jesus He Loves me, which is a take that to televangelists, who were in the news a lot in the early 1990s for all the wrong reasons.

The chorus sounds like a Christian Rock song, so hopefully some Religious Right people have tried using as an anthem like Born In The USA,...

[Richard1978]

I normally only go to MaDonald's as an occasional treat, unsurprisingly I've only been once so far this year when I was in Liverpool before the lockdown.

[Richard1978]

In the second half of 1990s the Rachel Cut was popular with young women, my Brother's ex-wife said it was one of the first styles she learnt to do when taking up hairdressing.

[Richard1978]

I used to hear it as "When Smokey Sins, I Hear Violence"...

[Richard1978]

Re: Story lines

I remember Ally McBeal often used to have flashbacks to when she was younger, or a previously on... teaser at the start of an episode to remind viewers of some plot elements that are relevant to the episode.

[Richard1978]

Re: What films have you been watching lately..

Two Mules For Sister Sara, I recorded it a few days ago but only just got round to watching it.

[Richard1978]

I remember British Telecom produced a number of print ads in the 1980s for cheap rate international calls around 1986.

These featured a telephone themed to a county, the ones I remember was a American Football Shirt for the USA, a marble one for Greece and a sausage one for Germany....

[Richard1978]

Re: ITN newsreaders and reporters

Reginald Bosenquet was another ITN news reader, maybe a bit too early for this thread, often sharing a bulletin with Anna Ford.

[Richard1978]

Re: Cigars

I heard Clint Eastwood is a non-smoker in real life & his trademark squint was due to a mixture of cigar smoke & horsehair affecting his eyes.

Considering he played cowboys for a lot of his early career it really was suffering for his art.

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Re: American Election 2020



I think that scuppered Al Gore's chances in 2000, though he ran a complacent campaign....

[Richard1978]

Re: Psycho'

Not by any stretch!

I remember watching it the first time it was on TV & my brother's then girlfriend pulling it apart scene by scene.

[Richard1978]

Re: American Election 2020

I liked Bill Clinton, he was a fair bit younger than both Reagan & Bush Sr and was willing to be more progressive in many areas than either of them.

I've got similar feelings about Reagan, being able to start winding down the Cold War by talking...