Jaffa Cakes For Proust returns in a new, fortnightly series – first up, Gary and Tilt discuss Alan Plater’s TV adaptation of JB Priestley’s The Good Companions.
PRE-LAUNCH SPECIAL - NUTS AND OTHER ELUSIVE MEMORIES
A show too short to be declared the first proper podcast from Jaffa Cakes, but too relevant not to be recorded.
THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT (1987)
NUTS (1982)
Trond Kirkvaag, Knut Lystad og Lars Mjøen Montreux 1982
On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal intrusion. After a brief intrusion during the sports report on WGN's 9:00 news, a later broadcast on channel 11 - PBS affiliate: WTTW - of the Doctor Who episode "Horror of Fang Rock" was interrupted by a man wearing a Max Headroom mask.
THE UPPER HAND: "QUANTUM LEAP" (Series 6, Episode 12)
Series 6 (6 Jan 95 - 8 Apr 95) Charlie starts to wonder how he life might have turned out if he had not had his accident and had gone on to be a millionaire footballer. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Series 6 (6 Jan 95 - 8 Apr 95) Charlie starts to wonder how he life might have turned out if he had not had his accident and had gone on to be a millionaire footballer. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
THE PAUL SQUIRES SHOW PROMO (1981)
"It's a show within a show that wouldn't be a show without... er... show... hang on..." An advert for The Paul Squires Show. Which wasn't very good. But hey. It's a very "ITV In 1981" promotional trail, this.