I've just been browsing the TV listings for Christmas here in the UK. A few of my own personal highlights of what's on are:
- Mighty Joe Young [1949]: the black and white original - I adored the lion cage scene as a kid!
- Inside No.9; Sardines - a re-run of episode 1, which I don't think I've seen
- Clash of the Titans [2010]: I'd prefer the original - but Greek mythology is always good.
- The Haunting - one of the scariest old flicks ever relying almost entirely on sound effects for its shocks.
- Wallace and Gromet Murder Most Fowl - the new one from the Lancastrian superstars
- The Woman of Stone: BBC Ghost Story for Christmas - Mark Gatiss at it again; can't wait!
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Speilberg's masterpiece and the he Grandon's favourite!
- Kong; Skull Island; one of the modern King Kongers
- A Christmas Carol [Alistair Sim] - the black and white ghost story that is as much Christmas as Santa himself.
I'm still looking for Jason and the Argonauts somewhere over the 14 day listings or indeed ANY Harryhausen. Its just not Christmas without a stop-motion monster!
I'll be checking the radio listings next. Ghosts and Ghoulies is what I want!
What are your TV and radio highlights around the world readers?
Hope you don't feel I'm self promoting here. But this coming Fridays Underground Edition will have the Urban Legend of the Trail of the Devils Footprints. Listen if you dare. It'll be a Scream!
ReplyDeleteI've posted your atmospheric promo picture Bill, which will appear this evening.
DeleteChristmas ain't Christmas without Alistair Sim as Scrooge! SFZ
ReplyDeleteis it on US TV this year SF?
DeleteI'll join you with choice 2. there Woodsy, the Inside No 9 episode, 'Sardines'.
ReplyDeleteMy wife, Eirwen Davies, was the Production Executive on it.
Indeed she held that role on all 9 series of the show.
Just watched the history of No.9 before Sardines and really enjoyed it Mish. What a small world, that Pemberton, Shearsmith and Gatiss all went to Bretton college down the road outside Wakefield! It must have been and a great experience for your wife. Is she sad its all over?
DeleteYes Woodsy, she does miss it.
ReplyDeleteLike Reece and Steve, she loved working on the show, and has had to come to terms with the fact that it isn't on her schedule any more.