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@michaellevenson You cad! You got me! I came here expecting discourse on the Cliff Richard film and just had my socks blown of by rancid nostalgia for this instead! Bravo!

Quite right too, those dibs are all yours, petal! To my shame I have an unassembled bookcase gathering cobwebs in its box since the house-move before last, so in theory am as bookshelved as I deserve to be. I would cherish a chunk of Tardis coral to grow up into my own new one - I have quite...

To be honest, I think I skipped bits in both of those... and haven't reread them since the films came out. But I really love Rowling for writing as she wants to write - teachers and parents were thinking "don't blow it with overkill now you've got our kids reading"...but those kids just kept on...

@Janine The Barefoot I see your Monkees' album and raise you The Best of the Wombles.

To enhance the circulation of knowledge, here;s some applied usage to go with the theory class. Enjoy!

@Janine The Barefoot It came to me because I'd been over on The Monkees thread and their song was poodle-ing about my brain!

Wasn't that one of the regular features in Banana Splits?

I thought this might be fun for people who haven't come across it - for some reason the original doesn't seem to be on You Tube but this is! Who knew! It's just the idea that there is currently a generation of parents who have had to try to explain to their little kids who the Monkees were and...

Hi Doc - very good question, but again a nefarious either/or poll where I want a third option. In fact I'd like a Rowling-approved director's cut of the two parts condensed into one. For, as they say, the shits and giggles. And emergencies when a person just doesn't have time to watch both the...

Still gripping however many times I've seen it. Possibly my favourite Hitchcock (maybe tied with Rope) - and in both cases, because they are so concentrated - oh yes, and both have Jimmy Stewart - big bonus!

Funny, in our house the leotards were black and white- come to think of it, so was everything else. Imagine the shock when I was taken to the picture to see the film version - eyeball-popping, Funny thing, the action and slapstick comedy registered at an early age, loving the bonkers camp came...

Thank you for the kind advice, Janine - and I'm so sorry some people have made you feel this way. Sure, interesting discussions can have heated give and take, but sheer snotty bad manners for the sake of it is both unnecessary and misplaced. When it becomes predictable as well, as you say - avoid!

I had a huge crush on Toby - OK so I hadn't quite reached peak political / eco sophistication... Later (I think) was the original Survivors (I tried and failed to enjoy the remake).

Sometimes it's good to realise there's the occasional benefit of being an only child!

I remember years ago spending a whole day painting pantomime scenery with a group of friends and the only thing we listened to all day long and well into the evening was a tape of Python;s Greatest Hits. Still can't decide whether I prefer Decomposing Composers or Sit On MY Face as my number 2...

Not really - it's a year or so ago, but I heard a really good session on Radio 2 where he was playing old hits and newer stuff and mentioned that it was his son who'd encouraged him to play in public again. Glad he did!

And I shall provide the coconuts and a huge axe with which to cleave them asunder....today (hell, this week) has been fuller of Sophocles' Antigone than is commensurate with frisky and fluffy mental health. I shall shortly take myself off to watch Daft TV till Bedtime - really glad we caught up...

That one freaked me out totally at a very tender age (I was 10 FFS!) How about: Laurie Anderson's O Superman (found the link but haven't figured out how to post the full thing - sorry. Oh - apparently I have. That's OK then.

FRIENDS: "The One With the Really Screwed Up Seating Plan" ?

Sad that I never realised till now that he directed both Philadelphia and Silence of the Lambs - that's a hell of a range in just two huge films. And it's not that I was just edge-of-my-seat gibbering at the latter, it's that the seat was in a cosy flat watching it on quite a small TV with a...