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Rodney Marshall
@RodneyMarshall1
Author, editor & co-host of the ITC Entertained the World podcast. Latest publication: A Splash of Objection on a Canvas, celebrating 60 years of The Prisoner.
Stowmarket, England
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Jul 6, 2025
    Remembering actor & musician Richard Beckinsale, BOTD in 1947. Sparkled at RADA, winning the coveted comedy prize. Leading roles in The Lovers, Porridge & Rising Damp followed. Had his eyes set on serious straight roles. Little doubt in my mind that he would have shone bright. 1/
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    Feb 4, 2025
    As my grandfather discovered, after Stan Laurel retired if you wrote to him c/o the studio you'd always get a personal reply & questions answered, with his home address in Malibu - later Santa Monica - on the letterhead and sometimes even his Exbrook phone number added. A legend.
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    Aug 8, 2025
    Writer and puppeteer Gordon Murray with some of the characters he created for what was meant to be called Candlewick Green. Deciding that string-based marionettes he had previously used would look clunky, Murray turned to the stop-motion animation popular in Eastern Europe. 1/2
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    May 17, 2025
    "My name is Sam Tyler. I had an accident and I woke up in 1973. Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? Whatever's happened, it's like I've landed on a different planet. Now, maybe if I can work out the reason, I can get home." First aired in 2006. Still fun almost twenty years on.
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    Aug 1, 2025
    Alison Prince: "It dawned on me how quaint the remit was for Trumpton. You can't depict flames using stop-motion, nor can you do smoke and water. So I realised I would have to write 13 stories about a fire brigade that never went anywhere near a fire." 1/
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    Dec 11, 2024
    1966. There is a public outcry when the BBC moves The Magic Roundabout - aimed at the under-5s - to an earlier time [4.55 pm]. The outcry was from adults who couldn’t get home in time to see it. Faced with this backlash, the BBC restored it to its old slot [5.45 pm].
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Nov 19, 2023
    Joss Ackland, RIP. Dad was so pleased whenever this wonderful actor was cast in one of his episodes: The Sweeney, The Gentle Touch...From the Old Vic to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, from Evita to the Pet Shop Boys... what a career.
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Jul 31, 2025
    Remembering Richard Griffiths, BOTD 1947. For me, one of the most underrated British stage, screen and TV actors. His range was impressive, from playing tragi-comic roles, a serial killer, to the lead in an outré crime series. Just a few of my favourite RG performances here.
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Sep 10, 2024
    Granada Television produced some cracking drama with ambitious budgets during the 1980s, including two of my dad's series, but the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes (1984-94) was surely their jewel in the crown (pun intended).
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Oct 28, 2022
    The six-part series Edge of Darkness was initially screened on BBC2. It had such an impact it was immediately repeated on BBC1. It was artistically and politically daring, such philosophical and psychological depth, and a quite brilliant central performance from Bob Peck. #BBC100
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Oct 3, 2025
    Patricia Routledge in London, mid-60s. Long before her TV roles as Hyacinth Bucket, Hetty Wainthropp and her Alan Bennett monologues, she was dazzling audiences & critics with her performances in the West End and on Broadway. She could invest comic roles with emotive depth. RIP.
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Nov 9, 2022
    Honor Blackman, a motorcycle dispatch rider for the Home Office, during WW2, aged 15. She delivered information and messages between HQ and remote units out in the 'field'. “I was only just old enough to ride a bike and my mother was terrified, but I thought it was heaven. 1/2
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Aug 15, 2023
    Alec Guinness with the previously little known Katie Johnson, who received a BAFTA award at the mature age of 76 for her role as Mrs Wilberforce in the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers.
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    Rodney Marshall
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    Oct 27, 2024
    Patrick McGoohan: "Columbo was a classy show. It was a pleasure to work on them. How many TV series in the United States are done with that much care? By Dawn's Early Light is probably my favourite Columbo. It might be my favourite role in the United States." 1/
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