VISION ON SOUND
231 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 16 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingADVENTURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY TELEVISION... AND BEYOND...!Where the television of the past… …becomes the conversation of the present.Join us as we take a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and my guests and I investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.
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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 197 - TX JULY 14 2024
July 14, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBPAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI talks about his recent viewing. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 14th 2024. This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself returns and, in that way he has of watching new stuff to recommend so that I don’t have to, he’s been watching some shiny new TV shows that he’s going to talk about. So, in today’s show, he’ll be introducing me to Andrew Scott as RIPLEY, some DEAD BOY DETECTIVES, those very French ESCORT BOYS, the highly topical a...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 196 - TX JULY 7 2024
July 07, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBWARREN CUMMINGS on NEW NEW DOCTOR WHO and the acting life of WILLIAM RUSSELL ENOCH With the sad passing of WILLIAM RUSSELL at the grand old age of ninety-nine years in early June, WARREN CUMMINGS wanted to join me on VISION ON SOUND to talk, amongst other things, the incredible life of this much-loved actor from his particularly personal point of view, as well as, inevitably, because that is the nature of this show, discussing a few other topics that happened to cross our minds along the wa...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 195 - TX JUNE 30 2024
June 30, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBSUKY KHAKH on the differences between the book and the TV series when it comes to detective fiction. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 30th 2024. This week’s returning guest is SUKY KHAKH who has recently been ill in bed and spent much of that time reading a lot of the sort of books that have been adapted for television which inspired us to want to talk about how satisfying - or otherwise - such adaptations can sometimes be. So during the next hour we’ll chat abo...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 194 - TX JUNE 23 2024
June 23, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBBEN BAKER on that fateful night ALF turned up on the UK TV schedules. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 23rd 2024. I’ve been trying to get BEN BAKER back onto VISION ON SOUND for quite some time now, but various obstacles kept on getting in our way, which meant that our long-planned look at SPITTING IMAGE had to remain in the shadows as its anniversary sped by in a sea of cough linctus, paracetamol, and Lem-sip. Never mind, we’ll probably get round to it one day...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 193 - TX JUNE 16 2024
June 16, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBMICHAEL HERBERT on DOOMWATCH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 16th 2024. This week’s returning guest from our ever growing group of returning regulars is MICHAEL HERBERT who, you might remember from some earlier editions of VISION ON SOUND, has spent a lot of the last few years researching the life of MALCOLM HULKE, which, of course, because everything in the world of television is all interconnected somehow, means that he comes across other things that interest...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 192 - TX JUNE 9 2024
June 09, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBSTEVE HATCHER considers the TV life of HADLEIGH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 9th 2024. A few weeks ago on VISION ON SOUND, STEVE HATCHER took us on a brief tour through the television lives of several characters who were the kind of testosterone-fuelled monsters that used to inhabit the boardrooms and bedrooms of those high-profile dramas of the sixties and seventies whose dodgy dealings and shady shenanigans somehow came to define the notion of what the wor...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 191 - TX JUNE 2 2024
June 02, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBPAUL CHANDLER considers his TV happiness. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 2nd 2024 This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back once again for another of our cosy chats that might take the subject of television as its starting point, but then plays fast and loose with the self-imposed restrictions VISION ON SOUND has set itself. I was in something of a downbeat, sombre mood when I arranged to talk to PAUL, and so I thought that I might try something sl...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 190 - TX MAY 26 2024
May 26, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBLISA PARKER on DIXON OF DOCK GREEN and more! This week’s returning guest from our panel of returning regulars is LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast who volunteered to take part in another of our more random chats which sometimes happen when there’s not much going on in the wider world of ever decreasing telly appreciation circles, at least nothing much that I’m paying all that much attention to. But things have been getting rather exciting lately with regards to the rediscover...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 189 - TX MAY 19 2024
May 19, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBSANDY McGREGOR considers those ROCK FOLLIES. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 19th 2024 This week SANDY McGREGOR returns and, wearing his incisive musical expertise hat, he’s going to talk us through the various madnesses that are the ROCK FOLLIES, a BAFTA award-winning drama series about the experiences of women in the music business which starred CHARLOTTE CORNWELL as ANNA, JULIE COVINGTON as DEE, and RULA LENSKA as Q, a series which was made by THAMES TELEVISIO...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 188 - TX MAY 12 2024
May 12, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBSTEVE HATCHER looks at some of the more obscure 1960s sitcoms. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 12th 2024 This week, STEVE HATCHER returns and we’re going to start a short occasional series in which STEVE talks about some of the more obscure or forgotten sitcoms of the 1960s. Whilst we’re all probably rather over familiar with the more famous sitcoms of that era, the likes of HANCOCK”S HALF HOUR, STEPTOE AND SON, and DAD”S ARMY were all on TV during that decade, ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 187 - TX MAY 5 2024
May 05, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBPAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, returns with some telly set in the middle of nowhere. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 5th 2024 This week, because he felt like getting away from it all, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back, and, in coming on this show, he’s obviously picked exactly the right place to do it. Well, perhaps not, but PAUL has been watching several shows that he realised were basically set in the middle of nowhere, and, as such, thought that they ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 186 - TX APRIL 28 2024
April 28, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBSTEVE HATCHER considers some TELEVISION MONSTERS (but maybe not the ones you were expecting) First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 28th 2024 Today on VISION ON SOUND, “HERE BE MONSTERS!” as the saying goes, but not necessarily the kind of monsters that you might be expecting. Well, they certainly weren’t the ones that I was expecting when our regular contributor STEVE HATCHER got in touch and told me that he wanted to do a show on the theme of monsters. After all, ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 185 - TX APRIL 21 2024
April 21, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBPAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI talks about THE TRAITORS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 21st 2024 This week, VISION ON SOUND moves into uncharted territory… Or does it? Certainly our main topic this week is not the kind of thing that we usually talk about on the show, as it’s a programme that’s shiny and new, and pretty much up to the minute, and is something that you might even regard as “trendy” if you were of a mind to do so. And whilst the realms of the kind...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 184 - TX APRIL 14 2024
April 14, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBLISA PARKER considers the series SHADOW OF THE NOOSE First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 14th 2024 This week, LISA PARKER, one half of the team behind the ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast returns to VISION ON SOUND to talk about a series that combines her love of television dramas about Law and Order with her love of period dramas. The series is SHADOW OF THE NOOSE, an eight part series which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1989 which does that tricky thing of building a...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 183 - TX APRIL 7 2024
April 07, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBWARREN CUMMINGS pays tribute to LAURIE JOHNSON First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 7th 2024 Last time we had him on the show, WARREN CUMMINGS turned up with a whole load of notes on the career of a great film & tv music composer that we ended up not using, so it only seemed fair to use them this week instead as VISION ON SOUND pays tribute to the late, great LAURIE JOHNSON. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 182 - TX MARCH 31 2024
March 31, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBSTEVE HATCHER on the multiple TV adaptations of DRACULA First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 31st 2024 This week, STEVE HATCHER wanted to talk about, amongst other things, four distinct television adaptations of Bram Stoker’s book DRACULA, so that’s exactly what we did. So let’s set those FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL Time Engines to “GOTHIC” and take a trip to the dark side… PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcas...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 181 - TX MARCH 24 2024
March 24, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBWARREN CUMMINGS discusses some of the grim reaper's recent work... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 24th 2024 We don’t often acknowledge the work of the Grim Reaper on VISION ON SOUND, but with Arabella Weir spooking me with talk of SNIPER’S ALLEY on the Christmas GONE FISHING, and the scythe striking down so many TV icons in the past few months, I thought I’d get together with WARREN CUMMINGS to chat about the TV lives of a few of them. So why not sit back as ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 180 - TX MARCH 17 2024
March 17, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBPAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, on guilt-free TV. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 17th 2024 This week we welcome back one of our more regular contributors to the show, PAUL CHANDLER, the SHY YETI himself, hotfooting it over from his endless production routine of making THE SHY LIFE podcast. For this show, I decided to give PAUL a prompt to give us something to talk about, and this was due to the fact that one of the streaming services that I use at home offered m...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 179 - TX MARCH 10 2024
March 10, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBTYLER ADAMS explores the roots of his GOONPOD podcast. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 10th 2024 This week we welcome another new voice to VISION ON SOUND in the form of TYLER ADAMS, although his won’t be an unfamiliar voice to you at all, if you happen to be a listener to his phenomenally successful GOON POD podcast, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, takes as its starting point the 1950s BBC radio comedy series THE GOON SHOW, and has attracted many brilliant peop...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 178 - TX MARCH 3 2024
March 03, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBPAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI revisits the video age. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 3rd 2024 This week one of my more regular guests on VISION ON SOUND, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back, and we’re going to take a nostalgic meander that starts off with a few reflections on what it was like growing up in the video age, or rather, growing up in an era when we consumed our films and, perhaps to a lesser extent, television – at least as far as the video r...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 177 - TX FEBRUARY 25 2024
February 25, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBSTEVE HATCHER considers The Rivals of Hercule Poirot First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 25th 2024 This week STEVE HATCHER returns and wants to talk to me about what he calls THE RIVALS OF HERCULE POIROT, and, I think we’ll just let him explain what that might be as we go along… But, as it includes two television versions of LORD PETER WIMSEY, CAMPION, and THE MRS BRADLEY MYSTERIES, I think you’re all in for a very interesting evening of classic sleuthing… PLE...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 176 - TX FEBRUARY 18 2024
February 18, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBLISA PARKER looks at the various variants of LAW & ORDER... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 18th 2024 This week we welcome back LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST and we’re going to have a bit of a natter about one of my favourite USTV shows, the phenomenally successful LAW AND ORDER, the recently revived crime series that launched a franchise consisting of a whole raft of spin-offs, and we’ll also be talking about its UK counterpart unsurprisin...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 175 - TX FEBRUARY 11 2024
February 11, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBWARREN CUMMINGS and I have a grumpy old hour... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 11th 2024 It’s been suggested to me recently that AGEISM has become the last prejudice that television seems happy to tolerate. In an era when inclusivity and tolerance of all kinds of people has quite rightly finally become the norm on TV, it still appears to be apparently quite okay to mock the elderly in advertising, dramas, comedies, and everyday life. Now it’s sometimes bee...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 174 - TX FEBRUARY 4 2024
February 04, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBANDREW-MARK THOMPSON on THUNDERBIRDS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 4th 2024 This week ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON wanted to talk about the exciting and colourful GERRY & SYLVIA ANDERSON produced series from the mid-1960s "THUNDERBIRDS," so… well, that's exactly what we did, and, without a fast-cutting montage of highlights of this week's episode, I think you'll enjoy it. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the pod...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 173 - TX JANUARY 28 2024
January 28, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBSANDY McGREGOR on MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 28th 2024 We don’t often deal with all that much outrage in the generally cosy world of VISION ON SOUND, where often the most controversial opinion I make is about whether a fifty year old television series is still acceptable for modern viewing, how certain shows came to be wiped, or disagreeing with my guests as to whether certain TV shows can be considered to be absolute rubbish ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 172 - TX JANUARY 21 2024
January 21, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBPAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, is back to discuss TV ghosts... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 21st 2024 This week we welcome back PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, that prolific podcaster from his very own THE SHY LIFE podcast, and we’re going to talk about GHOSTS, but probably not the GHOSTS that you might think we are. Because, whilst we ought to note the passing of that much-loved sitcom of recent years on VISION ON SOUND - and who knows, perhaps on ano...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 171 - TX JANUARY 14 2024
January 14, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBSTEVE HATCHER is back to guide us over to the flipside... First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 14th 2024 What better way to welcome in another year than to take a time travelling journey to the flipside? We’re another year nearer to the future, and one further away from the television that we tend to talk about the most here on VISION ON SOUND. Anyway, to start us off on our latest brand new shiny adventure, this week we welcome back STEVE HATCHER, and we’re goin...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 170 - TX JANUARY 7 2024
January 07, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBBEN BAKER returns to talk about his book THE DREAMS WE HAD AS CHILDREN First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 7th 2024 Forty years ago this very week, after experimenting with the format through a strand called WATCH IT! during the previous three years or so, CHILDREN’S ITV was launched as an attempt at a coherent approach to children’s television output with linked presentations transmitted across the whole of the ITV network in the afternoon slot from 4:00pm to 5:...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 169 - TX DECEMBER 31 2023
December 31, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBA SHY YETI ON NEW YEAR'S EVE. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 31st 2023 It’s New Year’s Eve and everybody at Fab Towers is off doing whatever it is that they might do to give the ratty old year the old heave-ho, and welcome in another one with its fresh clean slates and all those opportunities to be different that rarely come to pass. Anyway, here on VISION ON SOUND we didn’t want to try anything too heavy or “in your face” (or should that be “in your ears”...
VISION ON SOUND CHRISTMAS EXTRA 2023
December 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBSTEVE HATCHER & ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON join me to chat about DOCTOR WHO's SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS. A VISION ON SOUND CHRISTMAS BONUS EXTRA EPISODE Here’s a bit of a Christmas Bonus for you… After the DOCTOR WHO SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS (THE STAR BEAST, WILD BLUE YONDER, and THE GIGGLE) were shown on television for the first time, that pair of regular contributors to VISION ON SOUND, STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON from the DERBYSHIRE WHOOVERS, suggested we get together ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 168 - TX DECEMBER 24 2023
December 24, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBWARREN POPS IN FOR A CHRISTMASSY NATTER. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 24th 2023 Here we are once again having a Christmas Edition of VISION ON SOUND – don’t they come around so fast these days? – and this year I’ve invited one of our more regular guests – WARREN CUMMINGS - to come around to FAB TOWERS, raid the FAB TOWERS fridge and sit in front of our crackling FAB RADIO fireplace with our tiny little twelve-inch black and white portable telly for that a...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 167 - TX DECEMBER 17 2023
December 17, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBNEW VOICES: LYNNE HARVEY on TV DRAMA. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 17th 2023 This week we welcome another new voice to VISION ON SOUND, LYNNE HARVEY, a creative writing tutor who has an interesting tale to tell involving WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN, as well as having some fascinating memories of PUBLIC EYE, and she’s someone who is also very fond of TV theme tunes, which makes for a rather fascinating hour. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical conten...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 166 - TX DECEMBER 10 2023
December 10, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBNEW VOICES: SUKY KHAKH's TV MEMORIES. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 10th 2023 This week we welcome a new voice to VISION ON SOUND, although I’m sure it will be a familiar one, as he’s the prolific podcaster SUKY KHAKH from the TREK THIS OUT, AROUND THE CONSOLE, and TAKE YOUR SEATS podcasts. I first met SUKY at WHOOVERVILLE THIRTEEN, which only goes to show that you lot should always be careful who you talk to, as you might find yourself getting invited to...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 165 - TX DECEMBER 3 2023
December 03, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBTHE SHY YETI RECOMMENDS SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 3rd 2023 This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, is back, but instead of continuing his journey through the history of American television shows that he’s discovering through YouTube recommendations, this time he wanted to make a few recommendations of his own. More specifically, he wanted to share some of his enthusiasm for the darker side of dramatic television sho...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 164 - TX NOVEMBER 26 2023
November 26, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBWARREN CUMMINGS REMEMBERS PARKINSON First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 26th 2023 Back in August this year, the lights came down on yet another of the broadcasting giants from the younger lives of many of us, when MICHAEL PARKINSON, the person who many considered to be one of the greatest television interviewers ever, passed on at the grand old age of eighty-eight. A cornerstone of British television throughout the 1970s and beyond, “PARKY” was a no-nonsense Yo...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 163 - TX NOVEMBER 19 2023
November 19, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBSTEVE HATCHER ON DOCTOR WHO First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 19th 2023 There’s a lot of anniversary celebrations going on at the moment to commemorate the sixtieth birthday of one of those television perennials that crosses the void between archive and modern TV, DOCTOR WHO, and as here on VISION ON SOUND we rarely avoid any archive TV bandwagons, we thought we might have a bit of a chat this week about this old favourite. With that in mind, this week I’ve i...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 162 - TX NOVEMBER 12 2023
November 12, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBGRAHAM WARD ON RICHARD CARPENTER First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 12th 2023 This week, we welcome GRAHAM WARD, yet another new voice to the ever expanding list of contributors to the VISION ON SOUND pool of talent, and, whilst we do start off today with my usual introductory interrogation about his own fascinating earliest television memories and so forth, we very swiftly move onto the topic that he primarily wanted to talk very fondly about, which is the tel...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 161 - TX NOVEMBER 5 2023
November 05, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBAnother 1970s USTV Quartet with THE SHY YETI First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 5th 2023 This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back for another in his series of trawls through what YOUTUBE has to offer in the way of classic American TV, and this time he’s reached the mid-to-late-1970s, and his quartet of choices are DIANA, a 1973 American sitcom built around the considerable talents of DIANA RIGG; THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN featuring NICHOLAS HAMMOND in a short...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 160 - TX OCTOBER 29 2023
October 29, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBSTEVE GETS RANDOM First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 29th 2023 This week it’s STEVE HATCHER’s turn to sit in the chair and face up to some of the questions designed to prompt one of our random chats, and, as ever, this prompts a fascinating telly-related conversation that heads off in all sorts of unexpected directions. So, by taking the recent untimely passing of PETER VAUGHAN CLARKE as our starting point, we discuss THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, in which he played STE...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 159 - TX OCTOBER 22 2023
October 22, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBLISA GETS RANDOM First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 22nd 2023 This week we welcome back our good friend LISA PARKER, one half, alongside ANDREW TROWBRIDGE, of the team behind the rather fabulous ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST for yet another of our random chats about this wondrous thing that we still prefer to call Archive Television rather than simply “old telly”. “I can’t watch that sort of stuff, it’s before my time!” might be the kind of words we are hearing mo...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 158 - TX OCTOBER 15 2023
October 15, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBA QUARTET OF USTV SEVENTIES COP SHOWS First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 15th 2023 This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, is back with another quartet of TV shows that he’s been watching in his quest to discover what sort of television he might be able to find when he’s off on his travels and far, far away from his own personal archive of DVDs, blu-rays, and other television that he might have about the house to entertain himself with. This week he’s reached t...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 157 - TX OCTOBER 08 2023
October 08, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBTHE FUTURE OF ARCHIVE TV WATCHING. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 8th 2023 Recently I was pointed in the direction of a particular streaming platform because it happened to have made available, gratis, for free, and without any need to subscribe to anything, the opening episode of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS season two, so that the more disinclined, or financially challenged, amongst us might have a look at it and perhaps find out what all of the fuss was ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 156 - TX OCTOBER 01 2023
October 01, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBA FOR ANDROMEDA & THE ANDROMEDA BREAKTHROUGH. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 1st 2023 This week, our resident researcher of some of the earliest examples of television science-fiction, MICHAEL HERBERT returns, this time to talk all about the seven-part 1961 BBC television serial A FOR ANDROMEDA, and its six-part sequel from the following year, THE ANDROMEDA BREAKTHROUGH. Mostly remembered as being a breakthrough role for JULIE CHRISTIE, and possibly as one ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 155 - TX SEPTEMBER 24 2023
September 24, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBPAUL CHANDLER on THE INVADERS, THE WILD WILD WEST, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, and BEWITCHED. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 24th 2023 This week, all the way from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself is back here on VISION ON SOUND because, well, he had an idea that he thought that I might like to talk about for the show, and knowing - as he does - that I’m always eager to grab at any such demonstration of enthusiasm from the team...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 154 - TX SEPTEMBER 17 2023
September 17, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBWARREN CUMMINGS on T J HOOKER...!!! First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 17th 2023 This week WARREN CUMMINGS is back and we’re talking about a show we touched on when we discussed TV CHEESE a few weeks ago, the strangely successful WILLIAM SHATNER Police Series from the early 1980s, TJ HOOKER...! So let’s kick up those FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL TIME ENGINES and do an unnecessary forward roll back to 1982… PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content s...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 153 - TX SEPTEMBER 10 2023
September 10, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 105 MBVoS live on stage at WHOOVERVILLE 14 with guests GARY RUSSELL, TIM TRELOAR, JONATHON CARLEY and STEVE HATCHER. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 10th 2023 As an Archive TV fan, I’m always very impressed whenever I hear about any kind of organized event where fans of a certain type of television gather together to celebrate and appreciate any kind of archive television show. This is, after all, how we keep the memory of these classic series alive and pass on ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 152 - TX SEPTEMBER 3 2023
September 03, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 3rd 2023 This week we welcome back PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself for another one of our more random television-related chats, which will take us on one of those journeys where neither of us are really certain of where we’re going. However, somehow PAUL managed to make at least some little sense out of my usual word salad, and so we ended up tip-toeing lightly around the subject of celebrity podcasts in our own non-celeb...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 151 - TX AUGUST 27 2023
August 27, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 27th 2023 Like a lot of other archive TV fans, over the years I’ve accumulated a lot of Telly-related ephemera, much of which seems destined to sit around undisturbed in dark corners of the house waiting for me to notice that it’s there. Anyway, in a recent rare moment of churning, I randomly picked up a copy of the RADIO TIMES that was in a festering stack in a forgotten corner of the room. That particular edition was dated 24 ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 150 - TX AUGUST 20 2023 - SO EXCITING
August 20, 2023 18:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 20th 2023 Often it was the exciting thumping nature of the theme music that became most identified with so many TV series, and was remembered long after the various shenanigans of that week’s episode was forgotten, and so, for one week only, VISION ON SOUND presents an hour of what might be the most exciting TV theme tunes ever...! In a playlist including STINGRAY, SUPERCAR, FIREBALL XL5, THUNDERBIRDS, UFO, CAPTAIN SCARLET AND T...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 149 - TX AUGUST 13 2023 - CROSSROADS
August 13, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 13th 2023 Fans of archive television didn’t used to talk about CROSSROADS much, despite it having an iconic theme tune written by TONY HATCH, an amazing array of guest performers, a whole host of top behind-the-scenes talent often cutting their teeth on this show, and being a series that ran for twenty-four years across several golden ages of British television production, which, for a lot of its long history produced an astonish...