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St elsewhere episodes youtube8/18/2023 One is to think that who has time for broadcast telly any more? Television is like a delivery mechanism now, it’s a way of getting Fleabag ready for us. It makes my mind split in two different directions. And where to find something to watch, you no longer use Radio Times, you use Google. Where a small whim is filled in a thrice. We are at the stage where a stray recollection is instantly satisfied. Now, I know that movie under another title, Boyfriends and Girlfriends, and it’s one I delight in that’s written and directed by Eric Rohmer. Not only because I relish that film and have just watched it again, but also because my prodding searches online for what detail I could recall of this film also turned up a movie called My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. That was Your Sister’s Sister by writer/director Lynn Shelton and it is more than worth the hour I spent looking. Even when I did find it and I did recommend it to my friend, I knew I’d forget the title again so I just bought it on iTunes. It took forty seconds to go from Doctor Blake to a 1976 episode of Motley Hall but an hour to get a film –– solely because I couldn’t remember its name. Earlier this week, a friend was looking for recommendations for something to watch before her Amazon Prime trial ran out and I spent an hour trying to find the name of something I’d relished on it. Last week I bought the first seasons of St Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues. It’s far from true that any film or show you can think of is available for you to watch immediately, but it feels as if it is. Whereas no sooner than Doctor Blake had saved the day than we were actually watching the first episode of The Ghosts of Motley Hall. Only, that 1970s viewer being reminded of a 1960s film could do nothing more than be reminded of it. You’ve had this, you’ve been thrown back to something and doubtlessly someone watching Motley Hall at the time was drawn to remember seeing Freddie Jones in 1967’s Far from the Madding Crowd. So far this is all current, topical, present-day stuff but then she tells me that Toby Jones is the son of Freddie Jones and I am instantly right back to the mid-1970s when I was a child watching him in The Ghosts of Motley Hall by Richard Carpenter. Toby Jones co-stars in The Detectorists and my wife Angela Gallagher, who has the most amazing knowledge of casts, told me that he’s just become patron of Claybody Theatre, the tremendous company founded by Deborah McAndrew and Conrad Nelson. But then it leads to information in the many ad breaks on the Alibi channel. This kind of couch behaviour gets noticed when someone else is trying to watch The Doctor Blake Mysteries. Last night I was laughing at the script to an episode of The Detectorists.
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