VISION ON SOUND

• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 240 - TX MAY 11 2025

  WARREN CUMMINGS gets all eclectic.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 11th 2025.This week, WARREN CUMMINGS is back for another of our eclectic little meanders around the fringes of this strange little obsession we have with the thing we call Archive TV. As ever, we start off not really knowing where our conversations are going to take us, so, whilst we begin with a few reflections on the Christmas TV viewing delight that was WALLACE AND GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL, we deviate through such murky waters as the reimagined version of THE PRISONER from 2008, the antipodean sequel to THE ADVENTURES OF BLACK BEAUTY, and give some consideration to the whole philosophy of classic TV remakes such as VAN DER VALK and BERGERAC.As we are in a philosophical mood we also pay a brief visit to what was perhaps HILDA OGDEN’s most astonishing television moment, and mull over the various dramas that investigated what happens when the investigators are investigating the very institutions that they work for in BETWEEN THE LINES and REDCAP.Not only that but, as is our wont, in this packed hour, we also give a little thought to the future of television, and mull over the influence or otherwise of the celebrity lead actor upon our lives.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 239 - TX MAY 4 2025

  LISA PARKER with someof her recent TV viewing.This week, after far too long an absence, LISA PARKER from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST is back and, as is often the case, we spend a very pleasant hour just chatting about what kind of archive television shows she and her partner ANDREW have been watching during the intervening months.So we talk a little bit about their recent viewing choices which include season thirteen of DOCTOR WHO (The one that includes such classics as TERROR OF THE ZYGONS and THE SEEDS OF DOOM which is yet to be released on Blu-Ray) and her recent rediscovery of the nineteen-nineties sci-fi classic BABYLON 5, and if both of those series don’t convince you of our sci-fi credentials this week, we also give a nod towards PICARD, season seven in the DOCTOR WHO BLU-RAY COLLECTION, and even BLAKE’s SEVEN.Although, to be fair, the bulk of our conversation is given over to an appreciation of Z-CARS (as can currently be enjoyed on TPTV) and her recent rediscovery of THE COLLECTORS, an almost forgotten one-series wonder of a drama series which was filmed in the town of POOLE where they now live, which prompts a few thoughts on the joy of seeing familiar locations in the TV series we enjoy.And if that’s not enough, we also get a swift update on their epic CROSSROADS marathon viewing, and touch on one or two other series along the way.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 4th 2025.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 238 - TX APRIL 27 2025

  STEVE HATCHER with some more "forgotten" TV sitcoms.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 27th 2025.STEVE HATCHER is back this week, and this time he’s been watching a selection of the more obscure and mostly forgotten British sitcoms from the 1960s, so, over the next hour, we’ll be discussing his thoughts on THE LARKINS, HUGH AND I, NEVER MIND THE QUALITY FEEL THE WIDTH, NO THAT’S ME OVER HERE, TWO IN CLOVER, and the DUSTBINMEN, as well as one or two other rarities related to those series.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 237 - TX APRIL 20 2025

  STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON (plus guests!) on ACE OF WANDS and AN AUDIENCE WITH TAROT at DERBY QUAD.First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 20th 2025.On SATURDAY the 29TH of MARCH, our friend ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON along with his colleague STEVE HARDY organised an event at THE QUAD in DERBY to celebrate all things ACE OF WANDS, the popular (but largely now lost) children’s fantasy drama series created by TREVOR PRESTON which was made and broadcast by THAMES TELEVISION for three years across 46 episodes, and 14 stories from 1970 to 1972.Two of the series’ stars, TAROT himself MICHAEL MACKENZIE alongside PETRA MARKHAM who played MIKKI DIAMOND in the surviving third season, were on stage to answer questions and available to pose for photographs with fans, and two complete stories - THE MEDDLERS and PEACOCK PIE - were shown on the big screen, and, by all accounts it all went down rather well and was something of a success which hopefully might lead to other similar Archive TV themed events.I was unable to attend in person, but happily our old friend STEVE HATCHER was on hand and was able and willing to grab a few quick interviews with MICHAEL, PETRA, and co-organiser STEVE HARDY which will pop up during today’s show, in which I am joined by STEVE HATCHER and ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON to talk all about the enduring appeal of ACE OF WANDS, as well as their experiences of the event itself.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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• VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 236 - TX APRIL 13 2025

  PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI and IRWIN ALLENFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 13th 2025.Recently, I’ve been re-watching a whole load of late-era VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episodes, as well as a smattering of examples from THE TIME TUNNEL, and this set me to thinking that I’d quite like to talk to one of my regulars about the quartet of high-concept television adventure series that were created by IRWIN ALLEN in the mid 1960s, which also included LOST IN SPACE and LAND OF THE GIANTS.Across a highly productive five years from 1964, around three hundred episodes of these shows were produced for the American networks, which, in an era of three main channels, where having just one show on the air is quite some achievement, is nothing short of impressive.Granted, the IRWIN ALLEN productions can sometimes be rightly accused of being a little bit eccentric or simplistic in their storytelling, and perhaps sometimes concentrate far more on the action and not so much on the drama, but these four shows definitely influenced a generation, both at home, and internationally, as they were sold across the world, and excited young minds wherever and whenever they were broadcast.Furthermore, such were the strong ideas at the core of these shows, that elements from all of them have often been taken and used in other series that built upon the imaginative ideas that were always at the core of IRWIN ALLEN’s shows.Anyway, after our shows last year in which PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI joined me to talk about various quartets of classic USTV shows, he seemed the obvious choice to join me this week to mull over his experiences of discovering these four shows during their repeat runs in the 1980s, and I hope you enjoy the hour as much as I did.PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

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