Martin Marshall
@martinmauthor1.bsky.social
Indie researcher and author, former library assistant and documentation sub-editor. Vintage and cult TV enthusiast. Genre movie fan. Author of 'A THRILLER in Every Corner' https://tinyurl.com/mbcnpbcn
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Listing for the episode "Nowhere for the Kids" from Series 2 of LWT's prison drama "Within These Walls", 24th January 1975. Curiously this episode is missing and it's uncertain how it happened with all other episodes of the show's five series in existence, possibly a case of accidental wiping.
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Listing for the episode "Nowhere for the Kids" from Series 2 of LWT's prison drama "Within These Walls", 24th January 1975. Curiously this episode is missing and it's uncertain how it happened with all other episodes of the show's five series in existence, possibly a case of accidental wiping.
20% discount off 'A THRILLER in Every Corner' this week, the extensive 700+ page tome on all things #BrianClemensThriller.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
20% discount off 'A THRILLER in Every Corner' this week, the extensive 700+ page tome on all things #BrianClemensThriller.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
Just apply code GHOSTWRITER20 during checkout at this link bit.ly/4a1gsIO Available across the globe. Checkout the reviews at the above link. Happy Reading.
Before he hosted 'The Television Programme' from #WestwardTelevision, the Guardian TV critic Peter Fiddick wrote and presented 'Looking at Television' for ITV Schools, by #YorkshireTelevision www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXw... Kaleidoscope have uploaded to YT this episode, examining television drama
IBA Education Archive: Looking at Television - Make Believe (1977)
YouTube video by Kaleidoscope's Presentation Vault
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October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Before he hosted 'The Television Programme' from #WestwardTelevision, the Guardian TV critic Peter Fiddick wrote and presented 'Looking at Television' for ITV Schools, by #YorkshireTelevision www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXw... Kaleidoscope have uploaded to YT this episode, examining television drama
Just popped up on YouTube, the #ThamesTelevision tribute show to Eammon Andrews upon his passing in 1987, hosted by Terry Wogan with many guests, and featuring the full 'This is Your Life' programme when Eammon himself was 'caught' by David Nixon www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOk...
A Tribute to Eamonn Andrews Special Broadcast Itv Granada 1987
YouTube video by Ovide Video
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October 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Just popped up on YouTube, the #ThamesTelevision tribute show to Eammon Andrews upon his passing in 1987, hosted by Terry Wogan with many guests, and featuring the full 'This is Your Life' programme when Eammon himself was 'caught' by David Nixon www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOk...
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One to get you in that #Halloween season mood: Over at #SpookyIsles, I look at what just might be the creepiest of #Sapphire&Steel assignments: The Railway Station (1979)
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Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW | Spooky Isles
The quintessential Sapphire & Steel story? RICHARD PHILLIPS-JONES presents the case, for the chilling Assignment II: The Railway Station.
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October 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
One to get you in that #Halloween season mood: Over at #SpookyIsles, I look at what just might be the creepiest of #Sapphire&Steel assignments: The Railway Station (1979)
#SpookyIsles @spookyisles.bsky.social
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#SpookyIsles @spookyisles.bsky.social
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Philip Elsmore gave the first announcement on Thames Television on 30 July 1968. He also gave the final announcement on 31 December 1992.
It was announced in the last hour that he had passed in August 2025 at the age of 87.
Philip Elsmore
1937-2025
tvark.org/philip-elsmore
It was announced in the last hour that he had passed in August 2025 at the age of 87.
Philip Elsmore
1937-2025
tvark.org/philip-elsmore
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Philip Elsmore gave the first announcement on Thames Television on 30 July 1968. He also gave the final announcement on 31 December 1992.
It was announced in the last hour that he had passed in August 2025 at the age of 87.
Philip Elsmore
1937-2025
tvark.org/philip-elsmore
It was announced in the last hour that he had passed in August 2025 at the age of 87.
Philip Elsmore
1937-2025
tvark.org/philip-elsmore
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A great watch tonight. 'Where the Action Is', with Edd Byrnes playing a suave, almost Bond-like character, Eddie Vallance. A completely different feel to last week's episode. #BrianClemensThriller rings the changes once again & delivers another fresh & thoroughly entertaining 65-minutes.
October 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A great watch tonight. 'Where the Action Is', with Edd Byrnes playing a suave, almost Bond-like character, Eddie Vallance. A completely different feel to last week's episode. #BrianClemensThriller rings the changes once again & delivers another fresh & thoroughly entertaining 65-minutes.
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Reading the chapter in @martinmauthor1.bsky.social's book on how 'The Thrillers' package netted ITC $20-million in the first 8 months, selling to US stations. I bet many of them didn't realise it was the same series that some of them had finished repeating only a year earlier. #BrianClemensThriller.
October 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reading the chapter in @martinmauthor1.bsky.social's book on how 'The Thrillers' package netted ITC $20-million in the first 8 months, selling to US stations. I bet many of them didn't realise it was the same series that some of them had finished repeating only a year earlier. #BrianClemensThriller.
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My rewatch of #BrianClemensThriller this evening is all about gambling, & with very high stakes. Here's the London area TV Times billing from Saturday 8th February 1975, with viewers in the captial (including me) getting to see the episode at least an hour ahead of the rest of the UK.
October 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My rewatch of #BrianClemensThriller this evening is all about gambling, & with very high stakes. Here's the London area TV Times billing from Saturday 8th February 1975, with viewers in the captial (including me) getting to see the episode at least an hour ahead of the rest of the UK.
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Where does 'Killer with Two Faces' fall on my radar? Well, it was among the first of LWT's in 1981 & I didn't video-record it, something I later regretted. I then had to make an extra effort to try to get it recorded from another region. Success came with the Anglia broadcast. #BrianClemensThriller.
September 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Where does 'Killer with Two Faces' fall on my radar? Well, it was among the first of LWT's in 1981 & I didn't video-record it, something I later regretted. I then had to make an extra effort to try to get it recorded from another region. Success came with the Anglia broadcast. #BrianClemensThriller.
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It’s the heavenly birthday of Donald Gee on Sunday. He starred as the hapless Tom Patterson in one of my favourite episodes of #BrianClemensThriller Murder in Mind. I’ll be watching it Sunday evening. George Drew,s book appeared in assignment 5 of Sapphire and Steel 8 years later
September 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It’s the heavenly birthday of Donald Gee on Sunday. He starred as the hapless Tom Patterson in one of my favourite episodes of #BrianClemensThriller Murder in Mind. I’ll be watching it Sunday evening. George Drew,s book appeared in assignment 5 of Sapphire and Steel 8 years later
5 episodes of ATV's 'General Hospital' just made available on ITVX ... including 4 of the peak-time hour-slot episodes not released on DVD! Hooray. @alanbriscoe.bsky.social
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September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
5 episodes of ATV's 'General Hospital' just made available on ITVX ... including 4 of the peak-time hour-slot episodes not released on DVD! Hooray. @alanbriscoe.bsky.social
www.itv.com/watch/genera...
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1970, in Studio 3 at #YorkshireTelevision for 'Joker's Wild' ... the solo spot is a Lance Percival impromptu Calypso
September 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
1970, in Studio 3 at #YorkshireTelevision for 'Joker's Wild' ... the solo spot is a Lance Percival impromptu Calypso
Part of the 'Screenplay strand, 'Waxwork' (1979) proved successful and was later spun-off into two series of 'Cribb' (1980/81) from #GranadaTelevision (based on the novels of Peter Lovesey) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5I...
Cribb S1 Ep. 1 (Pilot) - Waxwork (1080p) starring Alan Dobie
YouTube video by Forgotten British Television
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September 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Part of the 'Screenplay strand, 'Waxwork' (1979) proved successful and was later spun-off into two series of 'Cribb' (1980/81) from #GranadaTelevision (based on the novels of Peter Lovesey) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5I...
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"Who Killed Lamb?" from the same producers was included as an extra on the Thriller box set and maybe ideally this would have joined it. Gerald Sim was also in this and just two days later appeared in "Once the Killing Starts".
September 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Who Killed Lamb?" from the same producers was included as an extra on the Thriller box set and maybe ideally this would have joined it. Gerald Sim was also in this and just two days later appeared in "Once the Killing Starts".
Robert Shaw, Tony Selby and Jack Hedley in publicity shots for the tense #YorkshireTelevision play 'The Break' (1974), made in conjunction with David Paradine Productions
September 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Robert Shaw, Tony Selby and Jack Hedley in publicity shots for the tense #YorkshireTelevision play 'The Break' (1974), made in conjunction with David Paradine Productions
Trail for the programme menu on #GranadaTelevision for Sat 10 July 1981
September 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Trail for the programme menu on #GranadaTelevision for Sat 10 July 1981
From the early-1970s, an extended interview with Alfred Hitchcock conducted by Dick Cavett on his ABC-TV late-night talk show.
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Alfred Hitchcock Discusses His Legendary Film Career | Full Interview | The Dick Cavett Show
YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show
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September 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
From the early-1970s, an extended interview with Alfred Hitchcock conducted by Dick Cavett on his ABC-TV late-night talk show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHek...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHek...
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A rewatch tonight of another classic #BrianClemensThriller. This week 'The Next Scream You Hear' originally broadcast on ITV on Sat 6th July 1974. The US publicity promotes Christopher George as the star. However it is Dinsdale Landen as the very witty but likeable Matthew Earp who steals the show.
August 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A rewatch tonight of another classic #BrianClemensThriller. This week 'The Next Scream You Hear' originally broadcast on ITV on Sat 6th July 1974. The US publicity promotes Christopher George as the star. However it is Dinsdale Landen as the very witty but likeable Matthew Earp who steals the show.
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#BrianClemensThriller was very much part of my Saturday evening viewing as a child in the mid-70s. No matter what was on the Beeb, THRILLER on ITV was something special for me & I would never miss it. Tonight at 9pm a rewatch of 'Come out, Come out, Wherever You Are' from Sat 29th June 1974.
August 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
#BrianClemensThriller was very much part of my Saturday evening viewing as a child in the mid-70s. No matter what was on the Beeb, THRILLER on ITV was something special for me & I would never miss it. Tonight at 9pm a rewatch of 'Come out, Come out, Wherever You Are' from Sat 29th June 1974.
Poster art for the Robert Aldrich wartime-action movie 'Too Late the Hero' (1970) which, apart from the stars, featured many excellent British character actors
August 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Poster art for the Robert Aldrich wartime-action movie 'Too Late the Hero' (1970) which, apart from the stars, featured many excellent British character actors
VT Countdown clock slate for #SouthernTelevision 'Freewheelers' series, a long running action-adventure series of serials for kids that ran 1968-73
August 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
VT Countdown clock slate for #SouthernTelevision 'Freewheelers' series, a long running action-adventure series of serials for kids that ran 1968-73
'Into the 80s' ITV trail from December 1979
August 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
'Into the 80s' ITV trail from December 1979
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A rewatch this evening of another favourite #BrianClemensThriller. 'In the Steps of a Dead Man'. Originally broadcast on Saturday 22nd June 1974. One of the things I remember about this, & it seemed wondrous at the time, was the curious TV stop-motion device invented by George Cornfield. 🙂
August 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A rewatch this evening of another favourite #BrianClemensThriller. 'In the Steps of a Dead Man'. Originally broadcast on Saturday 22nd June 1974. One of the things I remember about this, & it seemed wondrous at the time, was the curious TV stop-motion device invented by George Cornfield. 🙂
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Pamela Franklin and Michele Dotrice cycle along Boulevard Carnot in Jargeau, Loiret 'And Soon the Darkness' will fall. www.reelstreets.com/...
August 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Pamela Franklin and Michele Dotrice cycle along Boulevard Carnot in Jargeau, Loiret 'And Soon the Darkness' will fall. www.reelstreets.com/...