This week we watched our way through The Lavender Hill Mob, in 10-minute chunks on Youtube. Wonderful filming, superb script, all in glorious black-and-white. Took me back to the old days, back when our family bought its first television, for the express purpose of allowing me and my sister to watch Dr Who. The very first episode we watched was one in which the Daleks appeared, and we found it so scary that we wouldn't come out from behind the sofa. We stuck to Stingray for a long time after that. Have a look for yourselves
(but you won't entirely re-create our original monochrome experience - this introduction and indeed the whole series was filmed in colour from the start).
I love the bit when Marineville starts to descend into its protective underground configuration, and Commander Sam Shore warns "Anything can happen in the next half-hour!". Some people want church services to be like that. Can be a challenging prospect for wardens, though.
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