VISION ON SOUND

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VISION ON SOUND Podcast

ADVENTURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY TELEVISION... AND BEYOND...!Where the television of the past… …becomes the conversation of the present.Join us as we take a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and my guests and I investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.

4 DAYS AGO

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 207 - TX SEPTEMBER 22 2024

WARREN CUMMINGS takes a look at some Childten's Television Dramas. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 22nd 2024. This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back again, and this time he wanted to talk about three of the children’s television dramas that made a lasting - or is that disturbing? - impression on him when he was growing up. So, over the course of the next hour we will talk about the sinister stone circles of CHILDREN OF THE STONES, the steamy tales of THE FLOCKTON FLYER, and the terrifying nuclear brinksmanship of THE DOOMBOLT CHASE, as well as a few other things that cross our minds along the way. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

60 min
15 SEPT

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 206 - TX SEPTEMBER 15 2024

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI talks about the women in his TV life. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 15th 2024. This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back, and, I don’t know about you lot, but I’ve been noticing something about the kind of shows that PAUL has been telling us that he enjoys as he’s come onto the show to talk about them over the years. I mean, regular listeners will already know that, yes, he obviously enjoys his Australian soaps, and they’ll recognise his liking for horror stories, (and he’ll sometimes mention that mixture of soap opera and horror stories that begat DARK SHADOWS), and, of course, the regard in which he holds BERGERAC is beyond repute, but there does seem to be a common factor in the shows that particular draw the attention of those YETI eyeballs, and that seems to be that the majority of them do feature very strong female characters in significant roles, and so that’s what I decided to get him to talk about today. So, for the next hour, alongside his usual meanderings, we’ll mull over this topic and mention in passing series like THE AVENGERS, DOCTOR WHO, BLAKE’S SEVEN, SAPPHIRE AND STEEL, THE BIONIC WOMAN, and DEMPSEY AND MAKEPEACE, as well as venturing briefly into the more familiar territory of RAMSAY STREET and CELL BLOCK H. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

60 min
8 SEPT

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 205 - TX SEPTEMBER 8 2024

VISION ON SOUND live on stage at WHOOVERVILLE 15 with TOMMY KNIGHT, CHRIS CHAPMAN, & JASON QUINN. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 8th 2024. Whilst VISION ON SOUND is a show where we do like to try to explore the wider world of archive television, and is not just about one specific television series that gets a lot of far better coverage in other places, it’s hard not to admit that DOCTOR WHO was definitely the gateway into that wider world for a lot of people who grew up watching it. It is just one of those shows, I guess, that happens to have a lot of documentation written about it, and a lot of people who love it enough to want to find out more about it. Running on television for more than sixty years probably helps a little bit with that, too. This week, thanks to show regulars STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON, for the third year in a row, I was invited to record an edition of VISION ON SOUND live on stage at WHOOVERVILLE 15 the one-day DOCTOR WHO convention that they organise and run in conjunction with both their own fan group THE WHOOVERS, and with THE QUAD in Derby, which this year took place on the 31st of August 2024. I’m delighted to say that, for our afternoon VISION ON SOUND recording session this year, I was able to be joined on stage in Cinema 2 by TOMMY KNIGHT, the actor who, alongside other roles, played LUKE SMITH in THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES. Alongside him, I was able to welcome CHRIS CHAPMAN, the television producer/director, and writer for Big Finish Productions, who is currently one of the team producing new content for the popular DOCTOR WHO COLLECTION Blu-Ray sets. We were also very lucky to be joined by JASON QUINN who is the latest editor for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE, and between us I think that we managed to have an interesting session discussing DOCTOR WHO in a slightly wider context, and I hope that the audience on the day enjoyed it, and, hopefully, those of you who are now tuning in will enjoy it too. You’ll also hear STEVE introducing me at the beginning, but, because he is always having a very busy day when the event is running, he does have to slip quietly away to leave us to just get on with it. As ever, I’m always very moved and humbled that they are prepared to take that leap of faith in what we do here on VISION ON SOUND, and appreciate the trust that they have in me to do whatever it is that I do, and I can’t thank them enough, once again, for allowing me to take part. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

57 min
1 SEPT

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 204 - TX SEPTEMBER 1 2024

STEVE HATCHER on some "Edwardian" Adventurers First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 1st 2024. This week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER, and this week STEVE wanted to talk about two particular shows that he’s been enjoying recently that are based upon literary works, and which are both from a genre that we might like to call THE EDWARDIAN ADVENTURER, despite the fact that neither are truly set in the EDWARDIAN era, although they have a look about them that we have come to associate with those times The shows are RAFFLES, from the mid 1970s, featuring ANTHONY VALENTINE and CHRISTOPHER STRAULI as a pair of gentleman crooks, and HANNAY, from the late 1980s, and featuring ROBERT POWELL not exactly fresh from playing the role in the 1978 movie THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

60 min
25 AUG

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 203 - TX AUGUST 25 2024

RICK LAWLOR on discovering classic cinema via TV. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 25th 2024. This week we welcome back, after far too long an absence, an old friend of the show, RICK LAWLOR, who moved to Canada from the UK over a decade ago, and occasionally likes to keep me posted as to what’s going on in the world of telly on the other side of the Atlantic. Not that we always just talk about television, of course, but that is always the initial prompt for conversations that can take us pretty much anywhere. This time RICK specifically wanted to talk about how his lifelong love of the sort of old movies that keep a viewer amused on a damp and dismal weekend afternoon was born by watching films on television when he was a youngster, and how exposure to such wonderful films as OH, MISTER PORTER, starring WILL HAY, or ALFRED HITCHCOCK Directed classics like THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, or the Ealing Comedies, led to an appreciation of the art of movie lighting. Over the course of the next hour, a few technical issues aside, we indulge ourselves a little, whilst wondering whether seeking out the delights of watching Black and White cinema is something that people are starting to worry might be getting lost as our increasingly parochial and targeted viewing habits start to prevent many viewers from trying out something older or unfamiliar, and so not discovering what might be a classic from another age that they come to love, and whether this is perhaps meaning that new generations may never come to enjoy such cinema in the way we once did. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

59 min
18 AUG

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 202 - TX AUGUST 18 2024

WARREN CUMMINGS on some 1970s USTV Cop Shows. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 18th 2024. This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back, and we’re going to talk about all of those 1970s US TV Cop Shows that we used to love like KOJAK and IRONSIDE and THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, all of which were on our British television screens during a decade in which it seemed not a week could pass without a brand new cop show turning up on TV, each one with a brand new quirk or unique selling point to persuade us that it really was not the same as all of those OTHER cop shows that you might be enjoying, often with attributes so distinct that they made inroads into the pop culture of this country to the point that the likes of BENNY HILL or MIKE YARWOOD could don the old raincoat, or brandish a lollipop, and everyone watching at home would know exactly what they meant. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

60 min
11 AUG

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 201 - TX AUGUST 11 2024

THE REWATCHABLES, with PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 11th 2024. Here we all find ourselves in realms that I never thought possible, as I really had considered not carrying on with the show beyond that 200th edition, but those lovely people who support me in producing VISION ON SOUND keep on suggesting things to talk about, and so, well, we keep on talking about them. This week’s lovely person is PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI who joins me to talk about what I’m going to refer to as THE REWATCHABLES, or rather, what is the kind of telly that draws you back again and again and again, and why it might do so. So, during the next hour we talk about several of PAUL’s familiar favourites, but really we’re giving some thought to what it is about certain shows that makes PAUL want to rewatch them, and whether – or not – he actually does. Along the way we mention shows as diverse as SONS AND DAUGHTERS, PRISONER (CELL BLOCK H), TWIN PEAKS, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and QUANTUM LEAP, in a conversation that I hope might inspire you to consider your own list of REWATCHABLES. I have snuck in a few British classics along the way, but let’s just take ourselves back to the eighties for an hour of pure televisual audio nostalgia… PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

60 min
4 AUG

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 200 - TX AUGUST 4 2024

Eighties TV music special... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 4th 2024. This week, there isn’t a guest with me on the show, because I thought I’d do another of our theme music specials, and, because I’ve finally crossed into sniper’s alley, I thought I might share a selection of some of my favourite theme tunes from a decade when I was full of hope, vim, and vigour, during which a whole host of classic TV title tunes assailed our eardrums as they introduced some of the more memorable shows from the nineteen eighties, and also, perhaps, some of those you might prefer to forget. Strangely, it seems that quite a few of the most recognisable tunes come from the television of the United States, and so many come from series that might be deemed “Action/Adventure” series, which probably explains a lot about the sort of television that I was watching in my late teens and early twenties. I have snuck in a few British classics along the way, but let’s just take ourselves back to the eighties for an hour of pure televisual audio nostalgia… PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show. PLAYLIST: HOWARD’S WAY MIAMI VICE AIRWOLF BLUE THUNDER KNIGHT RIDER BAYWATCH THE FALL GUY ROCKING ALL OVER THE WORLD (Status Quo) DANCING IN THE STREET (Jagger/Bowie) DRIVE (Cars) THE BLACK ADDER ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES LOVEJOY THE HITCH-HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES HILL STREET BLUES MOONLIGHTING THE A-TEAM DYNASTY MURDER SHE WROTE CHEERS QUANTUM LEAP THE EQUALIZER INSPECTOR MORSE

60 min

ADVENTURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY TELEVISION... AND BEYOND...!Where the television of the past… …becomes the conversation of the present.Join us as we take a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and my guests and I investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.

Creator

Martin Holmes
Years Active

2020 - 2024
Episodes

220
Rating

Clean
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