It’s not Harp Lager. It’s much funnier.
Mind you, I watched this to remember Lionel today.
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My personal blog, started in 2006. No paid or guest posts, no link sales. Posts tagged ‘ITC’RIP Lionel Blair05.11.2021It’s not Harp Lager. It’s much funnier. Mind you, I watched this to remember Lionel today. Tags: 1971, 2004, celebrity, history, ITC, The Persuaders, TV, UK Forced to take prime-time nostalgia trips20.07.2018
I’ve always known what sort of telly I liked, and often that was at odds with what broadcasters put on. In the 1970s, my tastes weren’t too dissimilar from the general public’s, but as the years went on, they diverged from what New Zealand programmers believed we should watch. Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2018, Aotearoa, Banacek, BBC, Dempsey & Makepeace, Gerry Anderson, Hustle, ITC, ITV, Mission: Impossible, New Zealand, reality TV, Sky TV, technology, The Persuaders, The Protectors, TV, TVNZ Remarks on the typography of Star Wars16.12.2015Star Wars is in my feed in a big way. To get up to speed on the film series, I had to start with the memorable theme by John Williams. Thanks, Bill and Paul. Seriously though, I hope all friends who are big Star Wars fans enjoy Episode VII. It seems to be getting positive reviews, partly because it appeals to our sense of nostalgia. It hasn’t blown anyone away in the same manner as the 1977 original, but then Disney would be very foolhardy to stray for this sequel. If you are building a brand that was at its height 30 years ago, nostalgia isn’t a bad tool—just ask the team that came up with the 1994 Ford Mustang. J. J. Abrams—the creator of Felicity and What about Brian?, plus some other things—has apparently been a genius at getting just enough from the past. And if you really wish to compare them, here are all six overlaid on each other: I wasn’t a huge fan in the 1970s: sci-fi was not my thing, and I only saw Star Wars for the first time in the 1980s on video cassette, but I did have a maths set, complete with Artoo Detoo eraser (I learned my multiplication table from a Star Wars-themed sheet) and the Return of the Jedi book of the film. But even for this casual viewer and appreciator, enough of that opening sunk in for me to know that things weren’t quite right for The Phantom Menace in 1999. I hope, for those typographically observant fans, that The Force Awakens gets things back on track. Tags: 1970s, 1977, 2015, Disney, film, Ford, humour, ITC, merchandising, retro, science fiction, TV, typeface, typefaces, typography, USA Not quite a remake, but similar11.02.2011I saw the première episode of No Ordinary Family, plus a bit of the second, and I couldn’t help but think of this: Some folks fly to a strange place, have a plane crash, come back with special powers. One of them is an attractive blonde woman. Tags: 1960s, 2010s, 2011, ABC, humour, ITC, retro, TV, UK, USA |
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