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Post by hangerlane on Apr 24, 2020 15:56:16 GMT
There was an episode of 'The Sweeny' somewhere in season 2, it's on YouTube, called 'The Trojan Bus' where Patrick Mower & George Leyton, both with the worst Aussie accents you'll ever hear, steal a bus to carry out a robbery. The bus was RM3, SLT58, when first seen it shows 266 with a final destination of OLD FORD. When they steal it, George Leyton turns the back blind to show 'Private' The next time it's seen the back blind is now showing 52.going to West Kilburn. There are no doubt other errors. There was another episode of The Sweeney were the baddie is followed by George Carter on a bus. The bus used was an RT, and had the large route number 274 on the back blind. It was seen passing Willesden Green station. Many of the ITC programs like The Saint, Department S etc have location shots and general 'this is set in London' shots featuring RTs.
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Post by M1104 on Apr 26, 2020 14:42:57 GMT
In series 5 episode 1 of Luther E76 was used on the 15 but with dubbed sounds of a Routemaster bus.
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Post by redexpress on Apr 26, 2020 20:52:55 GMT
In series 5 episode 1 of Luther E76 was used on the 15 but with dubbed sounds of a Routemaster bus. Always annoys me when they do that. Seems that for anyone working in TV or film, the default sound of a bus, even well into the 21st century, is always from a 1960s bus - complete with "ding ding" of course. I'll bet most of the people working for these studios don't even know what a two-bell ring signifies.
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Post by richard on Apr 27, 2020 23:51:11 GMT
Brit Cops Law and Disorder season 4 episode 10. 18210 on the N8 sees the police report to a fight on a bus. It turns out that a passenger spat on the assault screen and is arrested.
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Post by riverside on May 1, 2020 19:20:32 GMT
In the Swinging Sixties London Transport itself got into the television making business. A book called The Tyrant King was written in conjunction with LT. Many bus photographs of the time show the two front advertising panels flogging the book. It was a mystery for children, but it was designed to encourage children to get out and about to explore all the interesting sights by public transport.
Thames Television had just taken over the London weekday franchise from Redifusion and the Tyrant King was one of the first programmes they made. Most television drama programmes of the time were because of equipment restrictions mainly or exclusively studio bound with constructed sets. The Tyrant King was made completely on location and in colour, a huge investment for a children(or even adult) series when most people had black and white sets. The experience gained making The Tyrant King led to the establishment within Thames of the subsidiary Euston Films that went on to make programmes such as The Sweeney, Minder and Widows. The Tyrant King shows all types of transport in the London of 1968 and sights such as St. Paul's, Tower of London, Kew Gardens and Chislehurst Caves. The latter used to be where the pirate ship Radio Caroline used to have their onshore club nights.
The other amazing thing about this London Transport sponsored project was the fantastic up to the minute progressive rock soundtrack on the programme. The amazingly catchy hook to the record The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack by The Nice served as part theme tune, plus during the series Pink Floyd, Cream and The Moody Blues all could be heard. The Tyrant King is probably the most creative thing London Transport did to generate extra custom. The idea was that children would buy Red Rover tickets and learn more about their city. It is of its time but is worth a glimpse. I think there are clips on YouTube.
When people think of The Bee Gees and film, Saturday Night Fever immediately comes to mind. There was however another film set in London that had an amazing Bee Gees soundtrack. Professionally it has an amazing pedigree of filmakers including Waris Hussein(original Doctor Who), Alan Parker(The Commitments/Bugsy Malone) and David Putnam(Chariots of Fire). The film was another attempt to team up Jack Wild and Mark Lester who had enjoyed such success in Oliver. Unfortunately, although the film has a cult following it never realised its true potential. It is unusual in being released under two names. On original release in 1971 it was called Melody and on rerelease SWALK(Sealed With A Loving Kiss).
Melody is a London based tale of childhood innocence. It has many great transport shots. There are excellent real life shots of RMs on the 159 and RTs on the 109 on the Kennington Road. Parsons Green Underground Depot can be seen in the background when scenes are shot outside the home of the Mark Lester character. Another scene has Mark Lester and Jack Wild travel to the West End on an RT. This had to be staged and I think the bus is blinded as a 21 but it gets them up West! The conductor doesn't have a Gibson ticket machine, but you can't have everything. School life played a large part in the film. St. Paul's public school had recently vacated their premises on Hammersmith Road and moved to Barnes. In 1970 the film crew moved in and used the interiors for Melody. The surviving buildings used were the ones on the north side of Hammersmith Road. These buildings were later used by The Sweeney. To this day a few original St. Paul's buildings remain on the south side of Hammersmith Road. If you have passed by on a 9,23,27 or 391 recently you may have noticed that in part of these buildings a new restaurant opened called 'Melody', obviously in recognition of the film.
The opening shots of Melody start with a panoramic view of London that eventually zooms into Battersea Parish Church with the beautiful In The Morning being played. The Bee Gees songs The First of May(appropriately today!) and To Love Somebody feature and the end scene which is every schoolkids dream is played out to the Crosby, Stills Nash song Teach Your Children. I think the end scene was filmed in decaying/derelict railway land near Nine Elms but I could be wrong about that.
In 1967 Sidney Poitier came to London to star in To Sir With Love. The opening credits featuring Lulu'e American Number 1 of the same name feature Mr. Poitier catching a real live London Transport Country Area Green RT on the 457. They obviously just went outside the gate of Pinewood Studios to get a bus. What a journey for teacher though as his school was in Wapping. Presumably after getting the Metropolitan Line all the way from Uxbridge we next see Sir boarding an RTL on the 15(not an actual one in real service). On the bus there is a collection of cheery East End ladies including the late great Rita Webb. Talking of Rita Webb she often featured on ITV on a Saturday night on the Arthur Haynes Show and there was once a great sketch where Arthur Haynes and his tramp friend Dermot Kelly got on a bus with their big drum to do a bit of busking on the bus. The conductress(Rita Webb) was not amused when she came downstairs. This was a studio set so there was no actual upper deck.
Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques played brother and sister in several TV series. In one episode they become a bus crew. Eric was the driver and Hattie the clippie. I think it was about 1962/63 and amazingly London Transport allowed them to use a brand new Routemaster. All the shots were filmed on the roads within the old Chiswick Works complex. Strangely about 15 years later the exact same episode was remade, this time the bus was blinded as a 266 that traversed some residential roads.
I was born and brought up in Melrose Gardens in Hammersmith, just off the Shepherds Bush Road and in those days a working class area. When I was a very small boy the elderly owner of 1 Melrose Terrace died. Soon after it was used in 1964 to make the film The Knack. This starred Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks and Michael Crawford. This was a very swinging sixties film and was given an X on release in 1965, so as a child I never got to see it. In the film Michael Crawford who works as a teacher at Holland Park School is seen catching an RT on a '301' at the northbound stop at the Grampians on the Shepherds Bush Road. Part of the film has the characters pushing an old iron bedstead around the streets of West London and in one scene they stop the traffic on a crossing on Holland Park Avenue and there is a fantastic shot of an RMC on the Green Line 715 heading for Guildford. The Knack would not be made nowadays, although it was Richard Lester's(father of Mark Lester)next project after he had made the Beatles Hard Days Night.
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Post by george on May 1, 2020 20:44:27 GMT
A tower transit DN or DNH is in the latest episode of Killing Eve. Seen while watching Gogglebox tonight.
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Post by george on Jun 18, 2020 22:20:35 GMT
Was just watching the new BBC drama about the Salisbury poisonings and ex RATP bus OT30212 makes a very brief appearance in episode 3.
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Post by barrypotter on Jun 21, 2020 11:06:48 GMT
Dial-a-Bus in Harlow A charming film made in 1974 filmed all around Harlowe with the trail of the 'new dial a bus' scheme. Great shots of 1970s England. Not my mis-spelling. On Talking Pictures TV Monday 22 June at 1250 (plus repeats). Have never seen it, but must be worth 20 mins of anybody's time. Also, try TV ARK. Worth it for the adverts alone. Check out LT adverts on the regional adverts pages tvark.org/?page=1464#/
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Post by LK65EBO on Jun 21, 2020 11:16:16 GMT
In the Top Gear TGPD vs Captain Slow episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyNJt4e-3AAYou can see when Clarkson destroys the brick wall with the machine to reveal a First bus with the blinds on route 59.
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Post by YY13VKP on Jun 21, 2020 12:02:32 GMT
In the Top Gear TGPD vs Captain Slow episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyNJt4e-3AAYou can see when Clarkson destroys the brick wall with the machine to reveal a First bus with the blinds on route 59. Back in the day when Top Gear was actually worth watching! It really isn’t the same now that Clarkson, Hammond and May are gone
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Post by busoccultation on Jun 21, 2020 12:50:56 GMT
Loved the bit when Clarkson took the Peel P50 in around West London especially at the 2 minute mark where a TLA on the 94 overtook Clarkson in that tiny P50
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Post by busaholic on Jun 21, 2020 12:57:56 GMT
In the Swinging Sixties London Transport itself got into the television making business. A book called The Tyrant King was written in conjunction with LT. Many bus photographs of the time show the two front advertising panels flogging the book. It was a mystery for children, but it was designed to encourage children to get out and about to explore all the interesting sights by public transport. Thames Television had just taken over the London weekday franchise from Redifusion and the Tyrant King was one of the first programmes they made. Most television drama programmes of the time were because of equipment restrictions mainly or exclusively studio bound with constructed sets. The Tyrant King was made completely on location and in colour, a huge investment for a children(or even adult) series when most people had black and white sets. The experience gained making The Tyrant King led to the establishment within Thames of the subsidiary Euston Films that went on to make programmes such as The Sweeney, Minder and Widows. The Tyrant King shows all types of transport in the London of 1968 and sights such as St. Paul's, Tower of London, Kew Gardens and Chislehurst Caves. The latter used to be where the pirate ship Radio Caroline used to have their onshore club nights. The other amazing thing about this London Transport sponsored project was the fantastic up to the minute progressive rock soundtrack on the programme. The amazingly catchy hook to the record The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack by The Nice served as part theme tune, plus during the series Pink Floyd, Cream and The Moody Blues all could be heard. The Tyrant King is probably the most creative thing London Transport did to generate extra custom. The idea was that children would buy Red Rover tickets and learn more about their city. It is of its time but is worth a glimpse. I think there are clips on YouTube. When people think of The Bee Gees and film, Saturday Night Fever immediately comes to mind. There was however another film set in London that had an amazing Bee Gees soundtrack. Professionally it has an amazing pedigree of filmakers including Waris Hussein(original Doctor Who), Alan Parker(The Commitments/Bugsy Malone) and David Putnam(Chariots of Fire). The film was another attempt to team up Jack Wild and Mark Lester who had enjoyed such success in Oliver. Unfortunately, although the film has a cult following it never realised its true potential. It is unusual in being released under two names. On original release in 1971 it was called Melody and on rerelease SWALK(Sealed With A Loving Kiss). Melody is a London based tale of childhood innocence. It has many great transport shots. There are excellent real life shots of RMs on the 159 and RTs on the 109 on the Kennington Road. Parsons Green Underground Depot can be seen in the background when scenes are shot outside the home of the Mark Lester character. Another scene has Mark Lester and Jack Wild travel to the West End on an RT. This had to be staged and I think the bus is blinded as a 21 but it gets them up West! The conductor doesn't have a Gibson ticket machine, but you can't have everything. School life played a large part in the film. St. Paul's public school had recently vacated their premises on Hammersmith Road and moved to Barnes. In 1970 the film crew moved in and used the interiors for Melody. The surviving buildings used were the ones on the north side of Hammersmith Road. These buildings were later used by The Sweeney. To this day a few original St. Paul's buildings remain on the south side of Hammersmith Road. If you have passed by on a 9,23,27 or 391 recently you may have noticed that in part of these buildings a new restaurant opened called 'Melody', obviously in recognition of the film. The opening shots of Melody start with a panoramic view of London that eventually zooms into Battersea Parish Church with the beautiful In The Morning being played. The Bee Gees songs The First of May(appropriately today!) and To Love Somebody feature and the end scene which is every schoolkids dream is played out to the Crosby, Stills Nash song Teach Your Children. I think the end scene was filmed in decaying/derelict railway land near Nine Elms but I could be wrong about that. In 1967 Sidney Poitier came to London to star in To Sir With Love. The opening credits featuring Lulu'e American Number 1 of the same name feature Mr. Poitier catching a real live London Transport Country Area Green RT on the 457. They obviously just went outside the gate of Pinewood Studios to get a bus. What a journey for teacher though as his school was in Wapping. Presumably after getting the Metropolitan Line all the way from Uxbridge we next see Sir boarding an RTL on the 15(not an actual one in real service). On the bus there is a collection of cheery East End ladies including the late great Rita Webb. Talking of Rita Webb she often featured on ITV on a Saturday night on the Arthur Haynes Show and there was once a great sketch where Arthur Haynes and his tramp friend Dermot Kelly got on a bus with their big drum to do a bit of busking on the bus. The conductress(Rita Webb) was not amused when she came downstairs. This was a studio set so there was no actual upper deck. Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques played brother and sister in several TV series. In one episode they become a bus crew. Eric was the driver and Hattie the clippie. I think it was about 1962/63 and amazingly London Transport allowed them to use a brand new Routemaster. All the shots were filmed on the roads within the old Chiswick Works complex. Strangely about 15 years later the exact same episode was remade, this time the bus was blinded as a 266 that traversed some residential roads. I was born and brought up in Melrose Gardens in Hammersmith, just off the Shepherds Bush Road and in those days a working class area. When I was a very small boy the elderly owner of 1 Melrose Terrace died. Soon after it was used in 1964 to make the film The Knack. This starred Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks and Michael Crawford. This was a very swinging sixties film and was given an X on release in 1965, so as a child I never got to see it. In the film Michael Crawford who works as a teacher at Holland Park School is seen catching an RT on a '301' at the northbound stop at the Grampians on the Shepherds Bush Road. Part of the film has the characters pushing an old iron bedstead around the streets of West London and in one scene they stop the traffic on a crossing on Holland Park Avenue and there is a fantastic shot of an RMC on the Green Line 715 heading for Guildford. The Knack would not be made nowadays, although it was Richard Lester's(father of Mark Lester)next project after he had made the Beatles Hard Days Night. Great post. I only once came across Rita Webb in real life (she was the female counterpart to Arthur Mullard) and that was when I was on a 28 or 31 bus, and saw her hanging out of a first floor window in a large house a little west of Kilburn Park Station holding forth to three or four people on the pavement. No TV cameras in sight, by the way, but I could imagine that foghorn voice declaimig. Pat Coombs played similar, but less raucous parts, and she lived near me in Blackheath: she was one of the women drivers in an episode of 'On the Buses' I.E. the non dolly bird one!
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Post by LK65EBO on Jun 21, 2020 13:00:31 GMT
Loved the bit when Clarkson took the Peel P50 in around West London especially at the 2 minute mark where a TLA on the 94 overtook Clarkson in that tiny P50
Top Gear glory days are long gone now... In "the news" segment the old furnishings where the presenters sat made the show feel more homily. The new Top Gear doesn't have the same appeal with a copy of the furnishings. There seems to be a lot of London buses seen in Top Gear (2002-2015) and The Grand Tour episodes.
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Post by Paul on Jun 21, 2020 16:51:15 GMT
In the Top Gear TGPD vs Captain Slow episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyNJt4e-3AAYou can see when Clarkson destroys the brick wall with the machine to reveal a First bus with the blinds on route 59. Back in the day when Top Gear was actually worth watching! It really isn’t the same now that Clarkson, Hammond and May are gone That’s a familiar rhetoric over the past couple of years but I think the relationship between Freddie, Paddy and Chris is approaching the level of that between Clarkson, Hammond and May. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the Freddie, Paddy and Chris version of the show personally
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Post by vjaska on Jun 21, 2020 17:20:54 GMT
Back in the day when Top Gear was actually worth watching! It really isn’t the same now that Clarkson, Hammond and May are gone That’s a familiar rhetoric over the past couple of years but I think the relationship between Freddie, Paddy and Chris is approaching the level of that between Clarkson, Hammond and May. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the Freddie, Paddy and Chris version of the show personally I haven't watched it at all since Clarkson, Hammond & May left but of small clips I've seen, I think Chris tries a little hard but again, my viewing is very limited compared to yours. I like Flintoff from A League of their Own where him & Redknapp are very hilarious and also rate McGuinness a lot. Still, much prefer the Grand Tour myself, was absolutely brilliant and looking forward to more one off shows from them in the future.
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