Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]17 45-minute episodes in all. Enough to keep you going through the cold winter evenings:-) :-) Will classic TV series one day achieve the status of classical music? (dicuss):-) Douglas On 07.01.2011 23:43, Jeffery Smith wrote: > It's been 35 years or so since I watched it. This talk has piqued my > interest, though. I remember liking the series, even though it was quite > brief. I just noticed that I can buy all 840 minutes of the episodes on > DVD for about $39. > > Jeffery > > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > >> I only seem to remember "All you need is love", but I may be mistaken, >> wasn't Dem Bones sung in the courtroom scene? >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> On 07.01.2011 22:13, Jeffery Smith wrote: >>> I think the producers of "The Prisoner" were ticked off about being >>> canceled, and turned the finale into a farce. Weren't they dancing to >>> the song "The knee bone's connected to the thigh bone"? >>> >>> Jeffery >>> >>> >>> On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: >>> >>>> Ilya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo - great stuff! >>>> >>>> They've just started re-running the surviving episodes of the first >>>> series of the Avengers on German TV (one of the culture channels, no >>>> less) the episodes with Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) and the first >>>> appearances of Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale - all in glorious black and >>>> white. >>>> >>>> The same channel recently also showed the still rather weird "The >>>> Prisoner". And I still don't understand the finale:-( >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Douglas >>>> >>>> On 07.01.2011 21:45, Jeffery Smith wrote: >>>>> Now, that's better. There's a certain degree of cold war coolness to >>>>> it. Do you remember "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."? >>>>> >>>>> Jeffery >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Jeffery asked about the cigarette subminiature camera. >>>>>> - - - - - >>>>>> The camera is an Echo 8, produced by Suzuki on and off after 1951. It >>>>>> looks >>>>>> like a Zippo lighter of that era and actually works as a lighter. It >>>>>> had a >>>>>> fixed focus lens and took a mini roll of 8 mm film. Allegedly it was >>>>>> intended to be a spy camera or at least a topic of curiosity. There >>>>>> is one >>>>>> on display in the CIA museum although there is no evidence that it was >>>>>> actually used in spying. I recall the price being in the neighborhood >>>>>> of $50 >>>>>> or $60 rather than the $2000 currently being asked. >>>>>> Here is a listing of the camera: >>>>>> http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Echo_8_and_Camera-Lite >>>>>> Larry Z >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information