In celebratation of the 50th anniversary of classic British TV series The Avengers, every episode featuring Diana Rigg will be shown back-to-back in a ’60s-themed gallery space at the BFI Southbank for the duration of the Vintage at Southbank Centre festival later this month.
James Bond star Sir Roger Moore will attend an exclusive event this autumn to mark the 40th anniversary of classic 1970s TV series The Persuaders!.
Classic 1970s TV series The Persuaders! will be released on Blu-ray for the first time this autumn, complete with brand new special features, to mark the show’s 40th anniversary.
Irwin Allen, the cult producer of various fanciful sixties TV sci-fi shows including Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel and Land Of The Giants, was best known as a purveyor of factually incorrect, faintly ridiculous camp classics.
So, the second and final season of science fiction TV and disaster movie producer Irwin Allen’s camp 1960s classic finally arrives on DVD.
If you grew up any-time between the late sixties and the early nineties, the chances are you may remember a curious clutch of kitsch science fiction shows under the stable of the prolific TV and film producer Irwin Allen. No? Well, how about the names Lost In Space, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and this release, Land Of The Giants?
There was a time when all live-action UK children’s TV shows were faintly disturbing with an oddly melancholic synth score. Or, at least from the success of ITV’s T-Bag, you could draw this conclusion.
There’s no easy way to describe this one-off 1981 kids show, starring what look like distant relations of the Smash family from the series of ‘70s adverts. It’s certainly very odd, occasionally very witty, and probably better enjoyed by immature grown-ups than any of the kids that it’s aimed at.
If there’s any chance you haven’t heard the of the name Jack Rosenthal, then you really should have. As a TV writer, he should be mentioned in the same breath as Harold Pinter and Dennis Potter, who also made their names on the halcyon days of one-off plays for television.
Unlike the elegant and suave spies from across the Atlantic, the British secret service in the 1960s and 1970s was a far more uncool and grimy place on screen – more realistic perhaps, but usually second best in popularity.