Beyond the Roundels

1. tardis_library seems to be starting off well, so I am pleased! I've nearly finished all my pimping now, you'll be relieved to know (sorry!) - but if anyone who hasn't already and is into Doctor Who or knows a few people who are could still pimp it on their journal or anywhere else that seems appropriate, I'll be very grateful! c+p banner coding here for LJ/Dreamwidth:

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With even more thanks to anyone who is kind enough to reblog this tumblr post for it. (The couple of people who have - thank you, it made a big difference. It's just there's no way for me to do the rounds myself there and I am entirely reliant on other people reblogging, so any help there is marvellous. thank you thank you.)


2. I don't know if it's a new Freeview channel, or just one that my TV Guide has deigned to cover now or what, but there's a channel full of very old films called Talking Pictures, which has just provided me with some more Margaret Lockwood in the shape of Hungry Hill (1947), an adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier book (from the days when Daphne du Maurier was still around to help with the scripting). I'm now nearly through it, and some more Margaret Lockwood being headstrong in big frocks has been very welcome!

Tomorrow, I see that it will be showing The Wicked Lady (and no doubt some other days this week), so, if you are also in the UK and want to see Margaret Lockwood and James Mason galloping about being highwaymen you should watch. It is not quite as fab as The Lady Vanishes obv. but it is excellent OTT melodrama with cross-dressing and villainy and shenanigans and also the lovely Patricia Roc. (Plus it's clearly the inspiration for a lot of the DW ep "The Woman Who Lived" too. Watching them close together is quite the experience.)

Via tumblr, some pics of Margaret Lockwood in Hungry Hill, big frocks v much included.

(And Drama are also starting showing Juliet Bravo from tomorrow (an early 1980s series about a female police officer policing Up North (but not pretty like All Creatures)). I like having my terrible elderly-TV/film watching habits enabled like this. I don't remember the early series(es) so well as the later ones with Anna Carteret, but I think Chris Boucher was script editor for 1 or 2 or the early ones, so naturally, I'm interested, especially in any eps he wrote for it. (I'll check IMBD).)