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And Soon the Darkness (1970) Robert Fuest

February 22nd 2025

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"Yes Minister: Party Games" (1984) Derek Fowlds: Bernard Woolley Nigel Hawthorne: Sir Humphrey Appleby John Nettleton: Sir Arnold Robinson

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In 1883, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 7) and his companion Ace travelled to Earth to investigate the creepy manor known as Gabriel Chase. Among the manor’s secrets appeared to be a strange creature and a stone spaceship. To make matters worse, the Doctor learned that Queen Victoria’s life might be at stake. ("Ghost Light", Doctor Who, TV)

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JOHN NETTLETON (1929-Died July 12th 2023,at 94). English actor best known for playing Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister (1980–1984) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister (1985–1988). Another political role for Nettleton was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (Sir Stephen Baxter) in the sitcom The New Statesman. John Nettleton (actor) - Wikipedia

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The Flame Trees of Thika  -  ITV  -  September 1, 1981  -   October 13, 1981

Historical Drama (7 episodes)

Running Time: 50 minutes

Stars:

David Robb as Robin Grant

Hayley Mills as Tilly Grant

Holly Aird as Elspeth Grant

Nicholas Jones as Hereward Palmer

Sharon Maughan as Lettice Palmer

Morgan Sheppard as Piet Roos

Ben Cross as Ian Crawford

Mick Chege as Njombo

John Nettleton as Major

Carol MacReady as Mrs. Nimmo

Steve Mwenesi as Sammy

David Bradley as Alex Wilson

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First Photo: Pinewood Green in Iver, Buckinghamshire,

Second Photo: Ferry Road in Walberswick, Suffolk.

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Radio Free Skaro #916 - Electro Quarterstaff

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18 gennaio ... ricordiamo ...

18 gennaio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

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OBIT: Evalyn Nettleton

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Z Cars - Ritual (28 April 1975)

This latest episode of Z Cars shown on Talking Pictures TV continues the storyline that began in Distance, the previous episode with both being written by P.J. Hammond. With DC Skinner and Roy Hurst having both been shot dead close to the isolated country house at Scar's Edge, the Murder Squad, led by Detective Superintendent Holiday (Colin Douglas) and DI Lyal (John Nettleton) have moved in to investigate the murders, setting up their investigation centre at a village scout hut.

DS Haggar (John Collin) does not relish the prospect of being interviewed by Holiday and Lyal particularly as he is concerned that the arrangement between him and Skinner at Newtown where Skinner would often work on a case without Haggar knowing until his work was nearly complete would look like negligence to them. Haggar also feels that he is partially to blame for Skinner's death, having found out about his investigations into the Hursts earlier than he usually would.

After being interviewed by Holiday and Lyal, Haggar then goes down the M6 motorway to meet George Eames (Frederick Jaegar), his friend at Scotland Yard who provided the information about the Hursts to him back in Distance. When they meet, Haggar asks him why he was so eager to tell all he knew about the Hursts and the fact Eames was suspended after the first Hurst trial could have given him a motive for revenge against the Hursts...

While there are many positives in this continuation of the storyline that began in Distance, by the end I was feeling that the material was starting to be stretched thin and it does seem the storyline is going to be continued for a 3rd episode since it ended with no real resolution and the sight of Eames' car travelling towards Newtown in the closing scenes suggests his role in the story isn't finished yet either, while I will keep an open mind ahead of the next episode, I have a feeling this storyline has run out of steam and will limp to a conclusion next week.

That said, this was still mostly enjoyable. The scenes of activity at the temporary investigation centre are very well directed by Michael Hayes while John Collin gives as strong a performance as ever in the role of DS Haggar, who is clearly racked with guilt over what he feels is his role in DC Skinner's death. PC Quilley (Douglas Fielding) also feels some guilt and there is a good scene between him and Inspector Lynch (James Ellis) where Quilley admits how he feels about the situation while Lynch tries to get him to understand the reality of what's happened.

John Nettleton is also good as the weary Murder Squad DI investigating the case who knows that in a case like this, the chances of finding the killers themselves are low and that much of what they do is just going through the motions, as he puts it:

"We are the doers, not the talkers, right? We found a gun and we found a car and that'll be our lot. It'll all swing south tomorrow. We'll just be left with the paperwork and a couple of bodies".

Overall, Ritual is a decent episode, but if as I suspect next week's episode limps along on empty to this storyline's conclusion, I would rather this episode have concluded the storyline since it seems there isn't much left to tell apart from finding out who killed Skinner and Hurst, and being Z Cars, there's no guarantee that we'll get a neat and tidy conclusion with the killers being arrested.

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Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26,[1] 1921 – October 16, 1999)[2] was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semi-autobiographical stories.[3]

When discussing his personal life, Shepherd was evasive to the point of being intentionally misleading about the actual details.[29] To what extent Shepherd's radio and published stories were fact, fiction, or a combination of the two is unknown. The childhood friends included in many of his stories were people he claimed to have invented, yet high-school yearbooks and numerous other sources confirm that many of them, including school buddies "Flick" and "Schwartz", did indeed exist.[30] His father was a cashier at the Borden Milk Company; Shepherd always referred to him as "the old man". During an interview on the Long John Nebel Show – an all-night radio program that ran on WOR starting at midnight – Shepherd once claimed that his real father was a cartoonist along the lines of Herblock, and that he inherited his skills at line drawings. This may well have not been true, but Shepherd's ink drawings do adorn some of his published writings, and a number of previously unknown ones were sold on eBay from the collection of his former wife Lois Nettleton after her death in 2008.

The 1930 Federal Census Record for Hammond, Indiana, indicates that Jean's father did work for a dairy company; his occupation reads "cashier". The 1930 census record lists these family members: Jean Shepherd, age 30, head; Anna Shepherd, age 30, wife; Jean Shepherd Jr, age 8, son; and Randall Shepherd, age 6, son. According to this record, Jean Sr., Anna, Jean Jr., and Randall were all born in Illinois, and Jean Sr.'s parents (Emmett and Flora) were born in Kansas. However, all other decennial federal and state census records, as well as other official documents such as death certificates, indicate that Emmett and Flora were born in Indiana. Anna's parents, August and Katherine, were born in Germany.

Shepherd lived in several New York City locations during his WOR days and for a time in New Milford, New Jersey,[31] and in Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey.[32]

Shepherd was married four times. He was briefly married in 1947 to Barbara Mattoon in Hammond.[33] Shepherd had two children, a son Randall and daughter Adrian, with his second wife, Laverne Warner. (He publicly denied this, including in his last will and testament, executed some five months prior to his death.)[citation needed] Randall has said that Shepherd left his mother shortly before they divorced in 1957;[34] he had almost no contact with his father after his parents' divorce.[35] Shepherd's third wife was actress Lois Nettleton. In 1984, he moved to Sanibel Island, Florida, with his fourth wife, Leigh Brown.

Shepherd died in a hospital in Fort Myers, Florida, in 1999, of natural causes.[36]

Shepherd's oral narrative style was a precursor to that used by Spalding Gray and Garrison Keillor. Marshall McLuhan in Understanding Media wrote that Shepherd "regards radio as a new medium for a new kind of novel that he writes nightly."[37] In the Seinfeld season-six DVD set, commenting on the episode titled "The Gymnast", Jerry Seinfeld said, "He really formed my entire comedic sensibility – I learned how to do comedy from Jean Shepherd."[38] Seinfeld was interviewed at a tribute to Shepherd held at the Paley Center for Media on January 23, 2012, confirming the importance of Shepherd on his career and discussing how he and Shepherd had similar ways of humorously discussing minor incidents in life.[39] The first name of Seinfeld's third child is "Shepherd."[40]

Shepherd's life and multimedia career are examined in the 2005 book Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd by Eugene B. Bergmann.[23]

Shepherd's 7-step approach to "compassionate humor" in storytelling is described in the appendix to the 2024 book You'll Shoot Your Eye Out! Life Lessons from the Movie A Christmas Story, by writer and communication professor Quentin Schultze, who taught with Shepherd.[41]

Shepherd was an influence on Bill Griffith's Zippy comic strip, as Griffith noted in his strip for January 9, 2000. Griffith explained, "The inspiration – just plucking random memories from my childhood, as I'm wont to do in my Sunday strip (also a way to expand beyond Zippy) – and Shep was a big part of them".

In an interview with New York magazine, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen says that the eponymous figure from his solo album The Nightfly was based on Jean Shepherd. Fagen devoted a chapter of his autobiography, Eminent Hipsters, to Shepherd.

Though he primarily spent his radio career playing music, New York Top-40 DJ Dan Ingram has acknowledged Shepherd's style as an influence.

An article Shepherd wrote for the March–April 1957 issue of MAD, "The Night People vs Creeping Meatballism", described the differences between what he considered to be "day people" (conformists) and "night people" (nonconformists). The opening credits of John Cassavetes' 1959 film Shadows include "Presented by Jean Shepherd's Night People".

In 2005, Shepherd was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, and in November 2013, he was posthumously inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame.[42]

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Birthdays 8.16

Beer Birthdays

Emile A.H. Seipgens (1837)

Johann Kjeldahl (1849)

Dann Paquette (1968)

John Pinkerton (1969)

Justin Dvorkin (1982)

Jacob McKean (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Charles Bukowski; writer (1920)

James Cameron; Canadian film director (1954)

Steve Carell; comedian, actor (1962)

Pierre de Fermat; French mathematician (1601)

Hal Foster; Canadian-American author and illustrator (1892)

E.F. Schumacher; philosopher, economist (1911)

Famous Birthdays

Arthur Achleitner; German author (1858)

Scott Asheton; drummer (1949)

Kevin Ayers; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Angela Bassett; actor (1958)

Bruce Beresford; Australian film director (1940)

Ivan Bilibin; Russian illustrator, artist (1876)

Gloria Blondell; actress (1910)

Ann Blyth; actress and singer (1928)

Frankie Boyle; Scottish comedian (1972)

Ida Browne; Australian geologist and palaeontologist (1900)

Arthur Cayley; English mathematician (1821)

Matt Christopher; author (1910)

Madonna Ciccone; pop singer (1958)

Mae Clarke; actress (1910)

Albert Cohen; Greek-Swiss author and playwright (1895)

Vincenzo Coronelli; Italian cosmographer and cartographer (1650)

Robert Culp; actor (1930)

Jean de La Bruyère; French philosopher (1645)

Bill Evans; jazz pianist (1929)

Suzanne Farrell; ballet dancer (1945)

Ernie Freeman; pianist and bandleader (1922)

Barbara George; R&B singer-songwriter (1942)

Hugo Gernsback; Luxembourger-American author (1884)

Frank Gifford; New York Giants QB, tv sportscaster (1930)

Anita Gillette; actor (1936)

Eydie Gorme; singer (1932)

Georgette Heyer; English author (1902)

Timothy Hutton; actor (1960)

Laura Innes; actress and director (1957)

Eddie Kirkland; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1928)

Reiner Kunze; German poet (1933)

Jules Laforgue; Uruguayan-French poet and author (1860)

Ketty Lester; singer and actress (1934)

Robert Squirrel Lester; soul singer 91942)

T. E. Lawrence; British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (1888)

Kathie Lee-Gifford; television personality (1953)

Gary Loizzo; guitarist, singer (1945)

Gabriel Lippmann; French physicist (1845)

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.; novelist, short story writer, and essayist (1908)

George Meany; labor organizer (1894)

Pierre Méchain; French astronomer (1744) Otto Messmer; cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (1892)

Lois Nettleton, American actres (1927)t

Julie Newmar; actor (1933)

Fess Parker; actor (1924)

Armand J. Piron; violinist, composer, and bandleader (1888)

Taylor Rain; porn actor (1981)

Billy Joe Shaver; singer-songwriter and guitarist 91939)

Bill Spooner; rock musician, singer (1949)

John Standing; English actor (1934)

Wendell Meredith Stanley; biochemist (1904)

James "J.T." Taylor; R&B singer-songwriter (1953)

Nigel Terry; British actor (1948)

Wallace Thurman; author and playwright (1902)

Mal Waldron; pianist and composer (1925)

Lesley Ann Warren; actor (1946)

Eric Weissberg; singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (1939)

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Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Oliver Twist: Barney Clark Fagin: Ben Kingsley Bill Sikes: Jamie Foreman The Artful Dodger: Harry Eden Mr. Brownlow: Edward Hardwicke Nancy: Leanne Rowe Mr. Limbkins: Ian McNeice Noah Claypole: Chris Overton Mr. Gamfield: Andy Linden Charlotte: Teresa Churcher Barney: Jake Curran Bullseye (Dog): Turbo Charley Bates: Lewis Chase Nicky: Levi Hayes Mr. Bumble: Jeremy Swift Mrs. Sowerberry: Gillian Hanna Mr. Sowerberry: Michael Heath Bookseller: Patrick Godfrey Toby Crackit: Mark Strong Bet: Ophelia Lovibond Old Woman: Liz Smith Workhouse Master: Andy de la Tour Board Member: Richard Durden Dining Hall Master: Peter Copley 1st Magistrate: John Nettleton 2nd Magistrate: Tony Noble Farmer: Gerard Horan Farmer’s Daughter: Morgane Polanski Magistrate Fang: Alun Armstrong Mrs Bedwin: Frances Cuka Mr Grimwig: Paul Brooke Inspector Blather: Nick Stringer Elderly Officer: Frank Mills Warder: Richard Ridings Parson / Man with a Punch: Timothy Bateson Workhouse Boy: Filip Hes Workhouse Boy: Laurie Athey Hungry Boy: Joe Tremain Film Crew: Casting: Celestia Fox Producer: Roman Polanski Novel: Charles Dickens Screenplay: Ronald Harwood Producer: Robert Benmussa Producer: Alain Sarde Director of Photography: Paweł Edelman Original Music Composer: Rachel Portman Production Design: Allan Starski Editor: Hervé de Luze Executive Producer: Timothy Burrill Costume Design: Anna B. Sheppard Art Direction: Jindřich Kočí Hairstylist: Jean-Max Guérin Set Decoration: Jille Azis Makeup & Hair: Ivo Strangmüller Script Supervisor: Sylvette Baudrot Art Direction: Jiří Matolín Executive Producer: Petr Moravec Makeup & Hair: Linda Eisenhamerová Movie Reviews:

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Actor played Sir Arnold Robinson in BBC political satire in the Eighties