h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hi kat
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do you mean lou grant,i think lou grade was the one in charge of bbc programming.(could be wrong)
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i got up at 7-45, and was able to get an appointment,3-30pm.
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the doc as given me a bottle of drops for both ears, one for the right for wax,that needs to be softened, and the left is still a bit inflamed,i have to ring the dist nurse on monday, so on thursday i can get both seringed.
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hope you enjoy your book, as i think i said i havent read a book in years.jimxxxxx

I am enjoying my book, I have now noticed that alot has been left out in the Film Dune and the television series.

Jim it was Lou Grant.

Now and again I have wax in my ears but not alot most times it is dry skin. I have been to the doctors about but said there is nothing that they can give me except special shampoo.

hi kat
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you should know by now that the book and film are never anywhere near, if its an american book it will be miles out
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an example (british, in evry film of sherlock holmes, he says a least once elemetary my dear watson, read and like the specald band, baskerville, and h=its in none of conans books.
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the latest is the war of the worlds, the machines in the original are like swans, the design was well infront of the future, now look at the yuck in the latest version, need i say more.
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if you watch and read (the longest day)film by daryl f zanuck, they are near, but again the american part was overdone, with john whane,red buttons, greg peck to name a few.
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since ive been messaging you, i remeber things i thought ide long forgotten.
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in 1996 while in the army i was hit with a rifle, and suffered blackout for a few days,i came out a week later, but because my mother had a bad heart attack.
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a year later i realised i had lost some memeory and had a gap from about when i was 8 to 11,i pasted my old school i went to most days, but couldnt remeber anything about teachers, pupils, nothing.since 1980.s i seem to lose more from the 70.s, now its from the late 90,s,the war of the worlds was in the 70.s i think, so its a flash from messaging you loljimxx

opps that should be 1966 i was in the armyjimxx

Jim I have seen the old version of the War of the Worlds but not the new one. I know that they put music to it. For a time I used to see old sci-fi films ie the attack of the Killer tomatoes or the Blob.

My next door neighbour is having a party and they are all ready starting to have loud agrguments. When I ever have parties, they are very quiet.

hi kat
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have you the horror channel, it as the killer tomatoes and other old stuff on it, i watched a few oldies.
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im expecting a real racket tomorrow, both my lodger and the neibours are watching the england game,im not a footie fan, i might watch f1 tomorrow.
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do you remeber an old sci fi,with james harness as the moster,out in the artic, they find a spaceship under the ice,harness only has to touch someone and they are absorbed or something,
wasnt that the title(the thing).
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if i also remeber well didnt the blob have someone in it thats now very famous,was it a young bert renolds,blimey you are taxing my brain,loljimxxx

Hi Jim

When I am at my Mams (during the day and evening) she has the horror channel. I will have alook as I would like to see the Blob and attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

I do not remember the film but if I watched it will probably will come back to me as I do remember watching a film called The Thing.

In the Blob the actor was Steve McQueen, I have just looked at one of the Blob sites.

I can remember the music for the film.

hi kat
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i knew it was someone who became famous, is best films where bullit and the great escape.
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i take it you where also a chapions fan, the two men and a girl, lost in the himalares(my spelling lol)who got powers to telepath.
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did you ever watch the quaetermass films, where things where never what they seem.
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the one where an astronaut collided with a silver dust that was sharp, and people thought when he crashed and touched people that he was a monster.
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and the famour one with a man poking a stick at a blob that eventually became a spider looking thing in a chathedral.
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and who could ever forget the spaceship in the subway, that was from mars, and turned people into killers and prey, when a workman caused the spark.jimxxxx

Jim another one I watched was Lost Horizon but it was not the one made in the 1930's as it was in colour.

I remember seeing the Quatermass films both black & white and colour. I have also seen the television series.

The children of the Dammed was another one I saw and it was very eeire.

Films I have seen where the old and the new when a man turned a spider, one when went smaller and finally vanished were very scary. Also a film where man had x-rays which eventually turned him blind.

I do not remember much about the other films but if I watched them again, but I would like to see them again.

hi kat a flighing visit watching b.bro
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the man with the xray eyes, staring ray milland.
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some thing you might not know,
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when they decided to replace a current avenger, to side kick john steed, the choise was diana rigg, but the way she became emma peel was from the profile they wanted, ie (m apeal)dont ask me waht the m was in the producers mind lol.
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there where at least two versions of lost horison,jimxxxx

I have just been looking for the adaption of Lost Horizon but I could only find this one:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070337/

I remember seeing it in colour but I cannot remember it being a musical.

The only adaption of Lost Horizon I can find is for 1973 and the 1930's. I know there was a later one made but I cannot it.

hi kat
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i cant click any links to the internet,my tv email as limited power.
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i think you might find it as shangrila, seems to jog the memory.
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you see i was a sci fi buff back in the early days, i just never mentioned it to anyone.
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ive just watched a horror film on the horror channel called pumpkinhead.
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have you seen any of the lephracorn one 1 2 3 ,(my spelling agin)they are real video nasties.
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toxic avengers, ones , a bit yuck but over the top.
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two nights ago i watched the old silent version of dracula, nosfuratu, on the horror one.jimxxxx

hi again
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found this on a lurk might be of interest to you
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http;//www.restoration-team.co.uk
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wont spoil the suprise by telling you what its to loljimxxx

Jim

Here id what I found in the Lost Horizon Link (1973) This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La. Hidden from the rest of the world, Shangri-La is a haven of peace and tranquility for world-weary diplomat Richard Conway. His ambitious brother, George, sees it as a prison from which he must escape, even if it means risking his life and bringing destruction to the ancient culture of Shangri-La.

Thanks for the Doctor Who restoration link. I have read people all over the world have found old Doctor Who film reels in the most unusual places.

hi kat
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the last one i think was called the lion, from the crusade series.
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i lurk sometimes at night,and find things people have left as far back as 1999.jimxx

a blast from the past
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www.h2g2.com/A402850

Jim I have been trying to find the A402850 link but I cannot find anything. Please can you help.

Jim I have found it now.

I know apart from Tom Baker and Colin Baker, there was another Baker (related with Doctor Who) and he was a writer but I do not know his full name.