I wouldn't have wanted to live in any other time ... neither before ... nor the hell that's coming. The 50s through to the 80s were the apogee of Western life.
I can't help feeling that 'The Towering Inferno' was a bad choice for a Christmas film. Lots of people being burned to death or falling to their doom, isn't really the short of jolly family fun you want at that time of year.
I think the rule at that time was a five year gap between cinema release & tv showing. Itv & BBC used to grab the ‘best’ available and paid so much for them that they had to broadcast at peak periods.
great days!!..... ....long gone in the mists of time..
Yes its funny how you appreciate that period more when you look back on it like this.
Yet right ere on TH-cam x
Orchestra conducted by Bernard Herrman. F...g hell, imagine having one of the greatest film composers ever conduct your orch for a variety programme.
That Bernard Herrmann died five years before the programme aired, if it wasn't a repeat.
Great upload thank s
That was one sad Christmas; w/ one less Beatle....
I wouldn't have wanted to live in any other time ... neither before ... nor the hell that's coming. The 50s through to the 80s were the apogee of Western life.
I was ten when Lennon was shot. 😢😢
As with JFK, there was more than one shooter...
I can't help feeling that 'The Towering Inferno' was a bad choice for a Christmas film. Lots of people being burned to death or falling to their doom, isn't really the short of jolly family fun you want at that time of year.
I think the rule at that time was a five year gap between cinema release & tv showing. Itv & BBC used to grab the ‘best’ available and paid so much for them that they had to broadcast at peak periods.
I remember watching it on Christmas Day, I was 12 and half at the time lol…
I remember John Lennon being shot! I can't believe I've lived 10 years more than him!
Yes same here. It was one of those iconic events that you remembered where you were at the time.
I was ten and a half when John Lennon was shot, so in my last year at junior school. I have now lived eleven years longer than him!
Awful bad Christmas for Yoko Ono