Comments on: Saturday Review

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:15:51 +0000

Gary - I just received my Bilko set from ebay. it didn’t come in any packaging, but it was 33 cheaper than yours and I’m planning on just ripping them to my ipod anyway.

Thanks a lot for the tip, it really made my week. Plus i can palm my box set that I bought off as a present or something. after watching all the special features obviously.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:52:01 +0000

Oh and Steve Martin was a genius during his early career, but like Dan Akroyd seemed to lose all his edge as he grew older. I would spare him the wall.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:50:19 +0000

*Ker-ching*

That was the sound of sarahbrooks86 on ebay receiving my Â£15 for the Bilko episodes and a set of 17 Sherlock Holmes movies.

Many thanks Gary.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:10:39 +0000

The Steve Martin film is a crime against humanity, as is his attempt to portray Inspector Clouseau, I propose that he is one of the first against the wall come the revolution comrades…

But Dan, Dan, I can save you man…

I bought all 143 episodes of Bilko on dvd from a very dodgy dealer on eBay last christmas - for Â£10.

OK, so he’d recorded them all from The Comedy Channel and other sources, but he pleaded in his submissions to eBay that Bilko was now over 50 years old and out of copyright and eBay seemed to believe him because he and others are still selling similar packages on there now .

The quality is never going to be HD anyway as they were all recorded in B&W on poor equipment but the vids are watchable, not grainy, not obvious non-originals (apart from the comedy channel logo in the top corner :) ) and well worth a tenner especially as they are all boxed and printed up nicely.

Worth a search, I also got a collection of Will Hay films from the same source - same deal.

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By: Avitable

Avitable — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:53:51 +0000

I like the Steve Martin movie, too. Avitable's last blog post..Folly of the gods

By: Morticia

Morticia — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:23:44 +0000

I love Bilko - especially the man who did the voice for Benny in Top Cat - he always made me smile and I always ended up feeling sorry for Bilko’s boss, how could you line manage a man like Bilko?

I also saw your pic of your recently purchased dvd’s and felt a flicker of jealousy til I saw it was the Jeremy Brett incarnation and then I didn’t feel jealous at all as my Holmes of choice is Basil Rathbone. I know Brett was closet in terms of character and that Holmes never fought nazis and Watson wasn’t that stupid and they weren’t especially close to the stories either but there is something about the Rathbone Holmes that I absolutely love, it has a charm all of its own and he would be one of my ideal back from beyond the grave dinner party guests.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:54:54 +0000

Arjan - It’s an American TV show from the 1950’s, I myself wouldn’t have ever seen it if it weren’t for that beneficent BBC 2 scheduler.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:45:15 +0000

I’m young..that shouldn’t be the reason to not know this..but I’m also not from Britain..another senseless reason..I’m ..well unfamiliar with this show but I guess that has changed.

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