George C Scott is the token nice Nazi investigating the airship disaster sadly most famous for being accompanied by Herbert ‘Not Mandelson’s granddad’ Morrison’s rather crap commentary. We know it can’t have been the easiest gig in town, but really: ‘It’s fire and it’s crashing! It’s crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please!’ Hardly Classic Sindstadt, is it? Anne ‘Freddie and Max’ Bancroft, Roy ‘Invaders’ Thinnes and Burgess ‘Batman’ Meredith remove their pointy hats before boarding.
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Invaders, The
CHIRPY APOCALYPSE CAPERS with ROY THINNES looking like he’d been on the thinners touring the New World desperately warning of how aliens had taken over the world disguising themselves as people who looked like, well, him. And he wondered why nobody believed him. Aliens had giveaway, as is TV law, by dint of Inspector Gadget-esque bendy fingers. Plus the handy fact they went orange and disappeared when they died, supplying many “oh, so he was one then” plotwrap. Neat runarounds, twist being we never discovered who the eponymous belligerents actually were.
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Electric Dreams – The Giorgio Moroder Story
Monday, 22.00, BBC Radio 2Second part of this, where our hero moves slightly more towards the mainstream and starts penning film soundtracks, including the likes of Flashdance and Top Gun, plus of course The Never Ending Story which means we get to enjoy Limahl nestling alongside the rest of the heavyweight contributors, plus another film where his soundtrack is probably about a hundred times more famous now than the actual film. It’s the title of this programme, for a start.
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