wizard of oz
 

just flicking through the channels, and wizard of oz is on, had to check the calendar, thought id missed some kind of holiday,
got me thinking other films that remind you of holidays
start you of with
bond- any bank holiday
chitty chitty bang - as above

away you go

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Dirty Dozen and Kellys Heroes always seemed to be on Bank Holidays.

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Sound of Music, Great Escape...

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Willy wonka

Any James Bond seems to be bank holiday stuff

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James Bond is on every Saturday Afternoon Clayton40:D

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Well, Monday was a bank holiday, I managed to avoid wizard of oz that day and will continue to avoid it and many other bank holiday favourites, it's just lazy planning from the T.V. companies.

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He may not be aware of that, Jay, as he spends his Saturday afternoons at the same place as me and Cashy! ;)

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Well I don't watch it either Wyn, saturday afternoons is for football, but there is Sky +:D

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Zulu.

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TV of the 70's here....

Easter...good old chuck in 'the greatest story ever told', or Vic in 'Samson and Delilah'..but only on sunday and monday afternoons because the Beeb had standards and schedules they kept to, regardless of advertsing, political and corporate pressures.

Steve jumping over barbed wire in 'The Great Escape' or Ben (whatchamacallit) jumping the ravine in 'She wore a Yellow Ribbon'., on summer bank holidays, usually followed by a Parkinson at 10pm interviewing 'real stars' like Cagney, Ustinov or Stewart (instead of the instantly forgettable will.i.am/towie/big brother perstonalities of today)

Alastair Sim's definitive 'Scrooge' and morning episodes of Flash Gordon, 3 stooges, Laurel and Hardy, disneys Zorro, crappy subtitled 'flashing blade/white horses', and best of all..Tom and Jerry, and road runner cartoons.......Meep! Meep!

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These days there are no special days really - everything is shown at anytime really. Not like it was in the 70's and 80's.

Wizzard of Oz has been shown many Sunday Afternoons over the last few years.

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And I still haven't seen it - through choice!

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You are sooooooo......correct!

Sad as it sounds, I once booked my Xmas holidays in the 70's based on the TV/Radio times listings.

The days of watch it or miss it!!!

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oh the joys of the two week radio times (xmas treat in our house), penciling all of the stuff you want to watch, only never getting to being the youngest!

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Jason and the Argonauts, used to be on every Christmas holidays in the seventies.

Or seemed to be.

Sword fighting skeletons.

Fab.

Well, it entertained me.

At least for the first two or three years, that they showed it every Yuletide.

:xena_bana

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And the TV Times as well... you had to get them both in those days, they only printed their own programmes.

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all 3 channels then came the eighties and channel 4, how excited we all was

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Remember the Ghost stories that used to be shown on Boxing Day eve or New Years and they were always really scarey, even though they weren't all Hollywood effects - that was back in the 70's.

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i remember "armchair thriller" the silhouette hands on the chair and that music {shudders**

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Ya that was before the Sunday supplements in every newspaper who started publishing listings for free, wonder if anybody still gets Radio Times, or even if its still published:confused:

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When the ghost story finished it was often the last thing on TV before it went off! And you had to go to bed!

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Watched it loads of times too -always scared me that big statue thing they had to fight!

Anything with Kirk Douglas was pretty good too: I think he did someting like Ulisses. The Vikings was brill and of course Spartacus which was an Easter classic along with Ben Hur and The Robe!

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Delivered to my house every week, no one else does decent radio listings.

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth used to be a favourite at Christmas, staring James Mason.

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The Land that Time forgot too -there was also The Poseidon Adventure with good old Ernest Borgnine.

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Back in the 70's the streets would go quiet early, if there was a TV series every body wanted to watch, like the Bionic Man the Fugitive or something. :D As there were no video's things couldn't be recorded.

Born Free another one shown on special holidays.

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and we all talked about it at school/work cos it was the only thing anybody watched, either that or standing for hours in variety video on broadway (eighties), can still see the top hat now

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Have no wish what so ever to see the Top Hat ever again.:D

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indiana jones on bbc 3, on a weeknight,what is the world coming to

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I always watch Holiday Inn on Christmas Eve afternoon, usually with something fizzy and sausage rolls and mince pies (with my daughter and now other people are joining us) and It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day. Oh, and Elf and more recently Nativity in the week before. I also have a selection of Christmas soppy films to watch as well - none of them come out apart from at Christmas time.

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i got its a wondeful life, remasterd coulourizeded version, last year, thought it would be crap, the way it has been done is superb

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Has anyone mentioned "The Great Escape!":confused:

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Yep, my post 3 and so far I've escaped watching it!

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thats tantamount to treason, that is!

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Oh dear didn't know it was a criminal offence! Probably committed lots of others along the same lines!

Just got a portable DVD player, perhaps I shall have to stock up on old movies as my punishment - or do they have to be watched on TV at Christmas/Bank hols to count?

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holidays only for your crimes!!!!!!!!!