Followers on Twitter will no doubt have seen that I produced some tat for BBC4
over Christmas. One item didn't get used. Although it was funny, it
didn't fit for the remit to produce a selection of retro Christmas
toys/gifts based on the channel's festive output.
One
of BBC4's major contributions to the Christmas television schedule was a
documentary chronicling the British creativity behind the original Star Wars
movies. It was thought a good idea to meld the sci-fi franchise with
possibly the most successful British movie franchise after James Bond.
So I did this cinema poster in the vein of those Hammer comedy ones I did a year ago...
Instead of promoting the documentary's broadcast, it's here instead.
Following on from my follow on in the previous post, here's some more attempts to scrape the barrel of creativity with the 'Doctor-Who-Movie-Posters' theme.
Not sure I'll do any more for the time being as the results are getting pretty desperate.
(There's also a bonus cover from a VERY rare Channel Five VHS release in the late 80s for Colony In Space. TV's Michael Dennis reminded me about it. Thanks Mike! Not alot of people have heard of this curiosity piece... and for good reasons!)
Folliowing on from the ones I did for the first three Dr WHOs, here are four for the first season to feature Jon Pertwee in the title role.
I've broadened the design work a little and some of them may be familiar to movie buffs.
If not, take a look at the original versions at the foot of this post.
On The Buses was a bawdy long-running ITV sitcom popular on the channel during the late 60s and early 70s. It was about a chirpy cockney bus driver, his family and his colleagues at work. It starred Reg Varney together with Bob Grant as his clippy, Doris Hare as his mum, Stephen Lewis as his fatalistic Inspector, Michael Robbins as his brother-in-law and Anna Karen (still appearing semi-regularly in EastEnders as the wheelchair bound Aunt Sal) as his sister Olive. The success of the show lead quickly to three feature films being made.
There are two infamous pieces of trivia about the 'On The Buses' movies - well-known to movie buffs but sure to raise an eyebrow from those with only a passing interest in the medium.
1. The first 'On The Buses' movie was the biggest box office earner in the UK in 1971. It beat Get Carter and Diamonds Are Forever - both also released the same year (though the latter was only released in December. OTB was released in the summer).
2. They were made by Hammer Films - a UK studio more synonomous with the production of stylish horror films. As if to differentiate the films from their horror counterparts, each of the On The Buses films opens with a large caption "A Hammer Comedy Special Presentation" - just so's you know.
Here's a selection of cinema posters based on 70s sitcoms that are more suited to Hammer's traditional output.
A further selection can be found by clicking here.
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I make no apologies for my love of EastEnders... Here's a selection of recent efforts featuring unseen escapades that do not feature Sapphire & Steel this time.
Doctor Who makes an issue of explaining why its lead character gets re-cast every so often. Something it calls a"regeneration". EastEnders on the other hand just gets on with it. A new Johnny Carter will debut shortly with little or no mention of his new face. Well, here's the untold story of why he'll look different the next time we see him... and also - more importantly - why no one notices the doppelganger in their midst...
Dame Barbara Windsor will also be bowing out again.
This time for good.
Or is she...??
So I did this cinema poster in the vein of those Hammer comedy ones I did a year ago... 
