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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark

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Commemorating actor Patrick Wymark star of The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Blood on Satan's Claw etc Website: www.wymark.org.uk

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't know whether it's right the first thing I should think of on learning it's James Whitmore's birthday is him singing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" along with Keenan Wynn in Kiss Me Kate, but that's immediately what sprang to mind. youtu.be/u8Zzl_HH4XQ
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Brush up your Shakespeare - Kiss Me Kate (1953) - Movie Version
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Electric Palace Hastings TV Festival (From October 8-11. With Hastings TV Museum). RED DWARF, COLUMBO, OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, LE CARRE and GREENE
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gailrenard.bsky.social @gailrenard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RIP Dame Esther Rantzen, broadcaster, campaigner, founder of Childline and Silverline. But her finest hour was surprising Sir Nicholas Winton with some of the 669 children he saved during the Holocaust. What a woman. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Esther Rantzen surprises Nicholas Winton with children he saved
One of her most memorable career moments came during one particular episode in 1988 - the footage of which has gone viral several times over in recent years.
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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Published today and available in all good bookshops or so I'm told! geni.us/TheBoyWithTh...
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Rhapsody Angel @rhapsodyangel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Thunderbirds was far more than puppets on strings – it was a strikingly optimistic view of humanity
The British TV show followed five brothers and their wealthy father in the year 2065 as they go on valiant rescue missions – with no strings attached
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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stunning film posters on display at the Istanbul Cinema Museum.
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Come and meet the fabulous #DianeKeen this Sunday at our #TPTV FESTIVAL OF FILM & TV at the Tivoli, Wimborne. Sunday 4th Oct. A whole day of great entertainment with star guests, lost films, live entertainment and more! Call the box office 01202 885 566 or online: buff.ly/7cVuJiD
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Born 30 Sept 1931, actress Angie Dickinson. From 1974 to 1978 she starred as Sgt "Pepper" Anderson in the crime series Police Woman for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress & Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She is 95 today. #AngieDickinson
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DANGER MAN 'Fair Exchange' - ITV regions from 7th to 17th November 1964. #PatrickMcGoohan is assigned to stop M9 agent #LeliaGoldoni from killing the East German who tortured her, unaware that a rival in East German security wants her to succeed.
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BBC Man: "RAF Fairford? I really don't know what's going on."
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#PatriciaHodge on ITV3 on her birthday, 29 Sept - INSPECTOR MORSE: The Ghost in The Machine. The days when the state school educated daughter of hoteliers could impeccably portray an aristocrat.
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ronaldlaceyfans.bsky.social @ronaldlaceyfans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flowers for Ron on his birthday yesterday, taken by Esther at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden.
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Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Have momentary stepped away from my fascination with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1979 to have a fun chat with @drgaine.bsky.social about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 for his excellent podcast The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses. open.spotify.com/episode/53r4...
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The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses #13 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses · Episode
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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join us this Tuesday, 29 September, for an evening walk around 17th century Huntingdon. Discover what the town was like in the 1600s, including stories of royal visits, a Civil War battle, Pepys, Cromwell and witchcraft. Details at: cromwellmuseum.org/whats-on/cro...
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Out of more than 1,000 empty units he helped audit nationally, on average more than half didn't have a letting agent actively marketing the property. He says some councils don't even know who the landlords are.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My hometown shows that high streets have to change or die
Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Michele Dotrice (Lady Imelda Hansen in Channel 5's THE HARDACRES) born at Croft Baker county maternity home, Cleethorpes on 27 Sept 1947. Parents, Kay and Roy Dotrice were members of 'The Famous Fortescue Players' at the Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes ( Roy was in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE on the day).
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𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Allan Smethurst, the Singing Postman, with his final 1966 single for Ralph Tuck's Suffolk based indy label before leaving to sign for Parlophone – Little Old Boy
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And another coincidence with a former DAN DARE artist drawing THE INVESTIGATOR @gleanniucha21.bsky.social
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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t know.. Could brand new episodes of Thunderbirds be on the telly next week? 🤷‍♀️ #promotions The underrated issue #88 below If not caught up yet
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1) Fascinating obituary of Ralph Land, European Sales Manager for Rank Xerox 1976-1991, who sold photocopiers & fax machines across the Soviet Union, overcoming lack of hard currency by bartering typewriters, office furniture and TV's from Eastern Europe. Also avoiding US controls on sales of tech
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Michael Seely @mpseely.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How Barlow looked east for his future and won over Watt in the penultimate episode of Softly Softly in 1969. michaelseely.substack.com/p/exit-barlo...
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Exit Barlow - for now...
Second part exploring how the long running police series Softly Softly moved three of its senior cast members from black and white west country and into colourful Thamesford.
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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 25/09/2026
I think this is one thing which leads to confusion from genuinely reasonable people all round - "But I didn't say anything *that* bad, why are they so annoyed?" But for others, they a) take arguments badly, and/or b) the rest of their life is so stressful, that they have extremely limited patience.
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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 25/09/2026
(As I have said before, I find the mass-abandoning of blogs as social media took hold, which really *did* happen, incredibly odd. Social media has never been a good replacement for a blog, that has always been incredibly clear, and not once did I ever feel like abandoning mine. I just don't get it.)
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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One time a girl poked me in a boring lecture & hissed "you were sleeping!" I hissed back "I know! You fucking woke me!" For some reason that caught the row's funny bone, & then the laughter spread outwards like an ink stain until the whole room was shaking so hard the lecture had to be stopped.
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally* got to watch DR BLOOD'S COFFIN, and I have to agree with Kevin Lyons (@eofftv.bsky.social ) on the commentary that it feels like someone tore a few pages out of the script (the "Linda" moment) .
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 24/09/2026
Prices didn’t leave working Americans behind all by themselves. Decades of weakened unions, stagnant wages, billionaire tax cuts, and policies favoring capital changed who gets the money… hartmannreport.com/p/the-bigges...
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The Biggest Lie About America’s Affordability Crisis Is Hiding in Your Paycheck
Prices didn’t leave working Americans behind all by themselves. Decades of weakened unions, stagnant wages, billionaire tax cuts, and policies favoring capital changed who gets the money…
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can a blood donor for a rare blood group be found in time? EMERGENCY CALL (1952) 9:20am #JackWarner #AnthonySteel #SidJames drama #TPTVsubtitles
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Dan Hollingsworth @dhollingsworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You what? 🤔 #EastEnders
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I used to think it was an affectation when people said the obituaries were the first part of a newspaper they read, but sometimes the summary of a remarkable life balances out the banal, short-term, trivia of the day's headlines.
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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes TV shows or films feature books "written" by one of the characters. Such an example is this book on longevity by notorious scientist Morgan C. Devereaux in the Timeslip serial "The Day of the Clone". Devereaux had also featured in the serial "The Time of the Ice Box" set in 1990.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Fantastic news Latest records show that RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history" via Daniel Lismore Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wonder if the landlord, George Ward, had any idea that his 1909 marketing scam to propose that Ye Olde Trip to Jersalem was 'the oldest inn in England' would still be paying merch dividends in 2026!? I'm sure the old fraud would be pleased! More info: triskeleheritage.com/mediaeval-my...
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Nationwide meets the people animatedly dubbing The Water Margin into English, adapted by David Weir who proved so successful at it he'd do the same for Monkey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0EZ...
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1976: Dubbing THE WATER MARGIN into English | Nationwide | Making Of... | BBC Archive
Patrick Stenson reports on how the Japanese TV epic The Water Margin - based on a 14th century Chinese classic - is being dubbed into English for the BBC by David Weir, a script editor who…
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just caught the end of a CORONATION STREET from 2009 on ITV3. Ken's BILLY LIAR era - you really should have caught that barge with Stephanie Beacham, Ken.
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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Movie marquee for Ace in the Hole (1951) See it next weekend on TCM'S #NoirAlley presented by @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social #FilmNoir #TCMParty #NewspaperNoir
Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American satirical drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. The film stars Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who creates a media circus surrounding a man trapped in a cave in rural New Mexico to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur and Porter Hall.
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"absorbing, funny, warm and heartbreaking.." Dr Terror on the new stage adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 20,000 STREETS UNDER THE SKY. wymark.org.uk/streetsplay....
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#JanetMunro and #JohnStride in BITTER HARVEST, the 1963 adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 20,000 STREETS UNDER THE SKY wymark.org.uk/bitter.html
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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Supermarionation Sunday The TV Century 21 🧵 issue #88 On sale 21 September 1966 This week’s cover: A rather striking image of Thunderbird 3 created during production on the feature film “Thunderbirds Are Go”
Operation Sunburst begins 

“OBJECT of mission-to set course for
Sun, locate breakout of solid matter of planetary size, attack and 
destroy!"

These were the orders issued today to the crew of Thunderbird 3, with whom the last hopes for the world's survival must surely lie. The International Rescue organisation has been entrusted with the most powerful nuclear explosive device ever constructed, the incredible Planatomic bomb that has been carefully guarded in the secret pens at Space City ever since its manufacture.

That the missile is equal to its task, there is no doubt. The one snag... there can be no second time around.
If anything goes amiss the world - perhaps the whole solar system - is finished
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Huddersfield had built 7400 new council homes by 1951. My second post on the housing (and civic) history of the town tells the story from 1919 to 1951: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/a...
Black and white photo of post-war terraced council housingBlack and white photo of post-war semi-detached council housing in cul-de-sacBlack and white photo of post-war permanent prefab  terraced council housingBlack and white photo of post-war terraced council housing
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Alan Briscoe @alanbriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OTD 50 years ago (17 September 1976) UFO received its last 1970s broadcast on Granada with a post-midnight "The Cat With Ten Lives", one of those reserved for late-night screenings. Repeats in some regions such as LWT continued into 1977, the series not to return to ITV until around 10 years later.
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Fred McNamara - ALL SECTIONS ALPHA is out NOW! 🌔 @commandermac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Speaking of new Thunderbirds stories, I had a great natter with @danwhitehead.net, who's editing the upcoming Hidden Dangers comic anthology, Tales of Peril! gerryanderson.com/blogs/blog/d...
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Dan Whitehead Exposes Thunderbirds: Hidden Dangers: Tales of Peril
Thunderbirds: Hidden Dangers is go! Our forthcoming multimedia series tells brand new adventures of the daring heroes of International Rescue, told across comics, novels, audios and more. These offici...
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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was looking through the set of radical playing cards someone gave me and, for an awful moment, I thought they’d done one of Labour Party grifter Tom Watson but, thankfully, it was Chilean martyr Salvador Allende.
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#PatrickWymark as the Devil in #WendyToye's production of THE SOLDIER'S TALE at the Edinburgh Festival - September 1967 wymark.org.uk/soldier.html
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#PatrickWymark as the Devil in #WendyToye's production of THE SOLDIER'S TALE at the Edinburgh Festival - September 1967 wymark.org.uk/soldier.html
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jack Kirby adapts 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY as a Marvel tabloid edition in 1976 - you can read the dialogue here, so best read with the CD of Alex North's abandoned soundtrack in the background.
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy birthday to my old Marvel Comics Bullpen pal @dannyfingeroth.bsky.social! Celebrate by joining us on Eating the Fantastic for a meal made up of nothing but Marvel-branded food — and learn how comics could be both wonderful and heartbreaking — and much more. www.scottedelman.com/2020/09/25/d...
Danny surrounded by boxes and bags of Avengers Goldfish, Spider-Man SpaghettiOs, Avengers Shortbread Cookies, and Spider-Man Fruit-Flavored Gummis ... plus his Stan Lee bio A Marvelous Life.
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What you're missing on Twitter - People's Friend call for short stories.
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Latest volume of #SamKydd's memoirs from @jonathankydd.bsky.social tell how the role of ORLANDO in CRANE came as a result of #RoddyMcMillan's mishap - and this 1963 news report reveals that Orlando's iconic woolly hat was inherited from Roddy's location filming!
Sam Kydd Memoirs volume 3The four stars of "Crane" are Patrick Allen, Gerald Flood, Roddy McMillan and Laya Raki.Sam Kydd reveals that he inherited the woolly hat he wears in CRANE. "Roddy McMillan, who was to have played Orlando, was injured after some long-distance shots had been taken. Same took over and he had to wear the hat because it had been worn in the shots already taken."Annual for the ORLANDO TV series - with that iconic hat.
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A chance to catch-up with the adventures of DICK TURPIN (1979) starring #RichardOSullivan starting tomorrow Wednesday 16th September at 7:30pm. (Saturday evening screenings continue as usual).
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#PatrickWymark as Leigh Mallory in BATTLE OF BRITAIN - wymark.org.uk/battle.html
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