View Full Version : Tales Of The Unexpected - nice vintage gear as part of the story
rigger67
25-03-2018, 13:17
So, I was watching a particularly hammy episode today, namely My Lady Love, My Dove from season 2 and the story focused on a sound engineer who wired up the guest bedroom of his house so he and his wife could listen in on the late night shenanigans of the couple they had staying for the weekend.
It was a pretty dreadful story and the lead actors were Elaine Stritch and Shane Rimmer, best known in the UK for Jackanory and Thunderbirds respectively. They both have very distinctive voices that led to steady careers, but in terms of actual physical acting they're a bit am-dram if you ask me :)
The fella had a 5-din socket in the bedroom skirting board that allowed him to run a mic to a position just by the bedside table while they listened in on some groovy closed-cup headphones using a tape deck in the bedroom, so they were presumably gonna record it all too :eyebrows:
The weird thing was, Stritch was a rich, older woman who'd married him for fun but he was against the idea, saying it was immoral. She promised if he did as she asked she'd wear "the apron you bought me in Hamburg" and the "Wellington boots" and she'd even retrieve "the feather duster" from where she'd hidden it :eek:
Telly gold, I'm telling you :lol:
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Cool stuff, Paul! I recognise the Koss headphones that the guy's using in particular, as I have a pair myself - and they're fab! :cool:
Marco.
Lawrence001
25-03-2018, 16:08
Was it still written by Roald Dahl at this point or just some second rate screenplay writers. Still, sounds right up my street, reminds me in some ways of a film I liked with Derek Jacobi playing a weak willed aristo with Oliver Reed as his dominant manservant who did what he wanted round the estate. Got a bit trippy at times.
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lol they must have been sponsored by sony!
What are the speakers? Wharfedale E70?
walpurgis
25-03-2018, 18:39
What are the speakers? Wharfedale E70?
Sony. As is the rest of the gear I think.
rigger67
26-03-2018, 08:38
Was it still written by Roald Dahl at this point or just some second rate screenplay writers. Still, sounds right up my street, reminds me in some ways of a film I liked with Derek Jacobi playing a weak willed aristo with Oliver Reed as his dominant manservant who did what he wanted round the estate. Got a bit trippy at times.
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Definitely him, this early in the run.
I'm going through them all having previously watched every episode of The Twilight Zone and all the Hitchcock Presents/Hour shows, a few of which were recycled for this show by Dahl as he wrote the originals - famously the one about the leg of lamb ;)
I've just seen a really weird one with John Alderton as a vicar and Joan Collins among several women lusting after him.
Really psycho-sexual and pretty risque for the time.
Never that much of a fan of La Collins but at one point she was mowing the vicarage lawn in a pair of skintight Gloria Vanderbilts and a vest and "accidentally" got splashed by another woman using a hose to water the plants ... she was rather fetching when she was younger and fair stirred the loins of the embarrassed young cleric :eyebrows:
rigger67
26-03-2018, 08:40
Cool stuff, Paul! I recognise the Koss headphones that the guy's using in particular, as I have a pair myself - and they're fab! :cool:
Marco.
A mate's got some similar from Wharfedale - big white cups, more like small speakers really. They do sound amazing, even now - must be pushing 50 years old I would imagine ..
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 08:50
A mate's got some similar from Wharfedale - big white cups, more like small speakers really. They do sound amazing, even now - must be pushing 50 years old I would imagine ..
I remember those. They were around before the rather good 'Isodynamic' headphones came along.
Anybody interested in vintage headphones could keep an eye out for the now rare Rogers headphones of the same era. The sound quality was excellent.
I think they would be Wharfedale DD1s, I had a pair and they went faulty so I returned them but never bothered to get them back as they were poor, and purchased Isodynamics.
rigger67
26-03-2018, 11:27
I think they would be Wharfedale DD1s, I had a pair and they went faulty so I returned them but never bothered to get them back as they were poor, and purchased Isodynamics.
Yep.
That's the badger !
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I always fancied Joan Collins. Remember when she was in Playboy? 50 years old but you still would. Well, I would.
rigger67
26-03-2018, 12:11
I always fancied Joan Collins. Remember when she was in Playboy? 50 years old but you still would. Well, I would.
Yeah, but how old are you now ?? ;)
As a 51 year old, I happily would too :D
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 12:50
I always fancied Joan Collins. Remember when she was in Playboy? 50 years old but you still would. Well, I would.
She's about eighty now mate. Never really my cup of tea anyway. :)
She was in Playboy when she was 50. I would have been 17.
She's 84 now.
rigger67
26-03-2018, 13:16
Yeah.
I didn't actually mean now ;)
Although if we're talking Felicity Kendall .. :eyebrows:
id pump her at 80 :eyebrows:
only joking.. im good now;)
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 13:34
id pump her
I'd pump her mobility scooter tyres up for her. :)
Kendall never did anything for me. Not even at the height of her powers.
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 13:48
Kendall never did anything for me
Nor me. She looks too much like the missus.
rigger67
26-03-2018, 13:58
Wow.
I've always loved cute, petite elfin women :)
Okay, you can have Collins and her MarioKart and I'll have Kendall and Wal's Mrs :D
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 14:00
Wal's Mrs :D
No charge mate. Scrap value only. No returns under any circumstances!! (definitely not!!! :eek:)
rigger67
26-03-2018, 14:03
No charge mate. Scrap value only. No returns under any circumstances!! (definitely not!!! :eek:)
:lol:
Kendall never did anything for me. Not even at the height of her powers.
felicity? she was a cracker in middle age... you would need the cleansing to get me off her:eek:
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 14:45
felicity? she was a cracker in middle age... you would the cleansing to get me off her:eek:
Thought Claudia Cardinale was your fav? :D
Thought Claudia Cardinale was your fav? :D
very much so, but, im open open offers from lesser lights
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 15:13
One of my favs.
http://i67.tinypic.com/11u838z.jpg
Kinski, yes, in my teenage years. Doesn't do much for me now.
These days I'm pretty much fixated on redheads with freckles. I've no idea why.
walpurgis
26-03-2018, 16:09
These days I'm pretty much fixated on redheads with freckles
I briefly had visions of Alfred E Neuman there. :eek:
claudia
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she didnt age so well tho
I briefly had visions of Alfred E Neuman there. :eek:
:eek:
claudia
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she didnt age so well tho
Well if we are talking Italian we're talking Ornella Muti as far as I'm concerned
https://i.imgur.com/9LWtHg3.jpg
A mate's got some similar from Wharfedale - big white cups, more like small speakers really. They do sound amazing, even now - must be pushing 50 years old I would imagine ..
A mate's got some similar from Wharfedale - big white cups, more like small speakers really. They do sound amazing, even now - must be pushing 50 years old I would imagine ..
The Koss ones sound great, but they're very bulky and heavy, and have the tendency to 'clamp' your head [the price to pay for them being virtually noise-proof], so can only be worn for a while before your head hurts!
Marco.
Well if we are talking Italian we're talking Ornella Muti as far as I'm concerned
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Not my type. Too 'boney' and hard-faced. Claudia (in the photo above) is much softer looking, and consequently prettier/more feminine with it.
Marco.
walpurgis
27-03-2018, 09:08
Nothing "boney and hard faced" here.
Yes, you've seen it before as one of my avatars.
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Yes, much more to my taste - you've generally got good taste in women, Geoff! ;)
Marco.
walpurgis
27-03-2018, 17:51
Yes, much more to my taste - you've generally got good taste in women, Geoff! ;)
Marco.
Same girl, very pretty. :)
http://i63.tinypic.com/2wdx91t.jpg
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