According to Londoners:
Our poll (https://www.pwsanders.uk/opinion-polls/) is rather different as it’s not the best but your favourite, plus we don’t include the Elizabeth line, Overground etc. We know the Northern is horrible, but could still be quite popular as it links so many important and central places.
If you are a fan of the Bonzo Dog Band, then you may be interested in the new extensive box set “Still Barking”.
To be honest, if you are a fan then you will probably already know, and will have seen this:
It looks like the cost is approaching £300 at launch.
There are 20 discs, a book and all sorts of other stuff which you may look at occasionally.
If you are a fan, then you will probably have much of this anyway. We certainly have many original vinyl discs. How much is completely new needs to be determined, and demo versions and backing tracks are fine to listen to once but often don’t bear repeated listenings.
We’ve yet to hear a CD version of The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse that is actually a correct reproduction of the original.
We’re not trying to put anyone off, but if you’re buying it, do tell….
One of our favourite tv series from the very early 1960s was Space Patrol. This is the UK puppet (actually marionette) series about Captain Larry Dart and his crew who fly round the galaxy (actually, just the solar system) trying to keep the peace and sort out problems.
It was a black and white series, though you can find colourised episodes on YouTube. There are box sets available of the originals.
It’s a little forgotten these days, partially we suspect because it is not Gerry Anderson.
The stories were a bit silly. Science seemed to go out of the window. It took them months to fly anywhere so they went into deep freeze, while the people left behind got no older.
There’s also some oddly weird dialogue that you may hear if you watch an episode.
There were some things we liked: the design of New York and Space Patrol HQ, watching Galasphere 347 coming in to land on that building, and the electronic music and sounds. In truth, 60 odd years later and we still like them.
Here’s a clip:
