tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post4726998887093317902..comments2024-03-28T09:49:29.979+00:00Comments on Eccles is saved: Have we got news for you?Eccleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357168852208499013noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-76707486649952544572013-05-09T14:35:11.709+01:002013-05-09T14:35:11.709+01:00Some of the comments here are too long for me to r...Some of the comments here are too long for me to read!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115383788794738941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-19779778843836578002013-05-08T20:40:03.290+01:002013-05-08T20:40:03.290+01:00Sorry, with East Enders I am probably referring to...Sorry, with East Enders I am probably referring to 1990/1991, not the 1980s.FrereRabithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164077376680047600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-23369720609647975192013-05-08T20:36:57.046+01:002013-05-08T20:36:57.046+01:00Yes, of course. But "issues" only reall...Yes, of course. But "issues" only really became "issues" when they reflected a left liberal agenda. E.g. promoting a gay lifestyle in East Enders in the 1980s. My father as script editor used my own experience as a church worker in East London to explore the AIDS issue through the story line. It had to be done from a left liberal point of view. And yet -please mark this carefully - he maintained his South Wales working class attitude towards homosexuals while working on that programme (in a strange kind of doublethink) and told me he had "no sympathy for these queers who deserve all the plagues that fall upon them". <br /><br />That is what I understand by the cynical manipulation of "issues" by those liberal lefties who do not even have the conviction but simply bask in the audience figures!FrereRabithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164077376680047600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-40520994104371060602013-05-08T20:17:28.625+01:002013-05-08T20:17:28.625+01:00Actually the original Dr Finlay stories, based as ...Actually the original Dr Finlay stories, based as they were on the experiences of AJ Cronin, the Catholic authior, deal with a lot of the public health issues of the 1920s. Who can forget the episode when Janet nearly poisoned Lord Bellamy (David Langton) by sloppy care of her knives, and where Private Walker (James Beck) gets blood poisoning in the arm he has used to punch Dr Finlay with. Oh! and the one where the District nurse gets Foot and Mouth. That gave me nightmares for weeks.jadishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630935810012897371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-45642340134993277382013-05-08T18:43:12.811+01:002013-05-08T18:43:12.811+01:00Eccles, I am sorry to have to correct you but the ...Eccles, I am sorry to have to correct you but the esteemed casebook of Dr Finlay (at one time edited by my father, Barry Thomas) was before the time of "issues" in soap opera. <br /><br />Later (again edited by my father) East Enders began bringing in political and social "issues", and Coronation Street and the other soaps responded. I can say quite categorically that any pro-life or abortion issues that a script writer may have wanted to bring into the Finlay saga would have been blue-pencilled immediately by my father, who would have seen "issues" as quite distracting from the audience engagement with the anodine BBC social drama.<br /><br />Of course, these days the BBC people do not make programmes at all. They just make deals.FrereRabithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164077376680047600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-69274711640775894202013-05-08T06:02:46.188+01:002013-05-08T06:02:46.188+01:00Apparently, The Flowerpot Men were the main inspir...Apparently, The Flowerpot Men were the main inspiration for the St Louis Jesuits' "Earthen Vessels".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115383788794738941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-10266634462307229282013-05-08T06:00:03.234+01:002013-05-08T06:00:03.234+01:00"I'm sorry I haven't a clue" is ..."I'm sorry I haven't a clue" is much more suited to Ian Hislop's mental age.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115383788794738941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508374680487030801.post-51653078260724313442013-05-08T00:23:41.949+01:002013-05-08T00:23:41.949+01:00I'm sure the lady concerned had a more sympath...I'm sure the lady concerned had a more sympathetic hearing from Dr Snoddy.jadishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630935810012897371noreply@blogger.com