Tag Archives: television
RIP Marvin J. Chomsky (1929 – 2022)
Marvin J. Chomsky was an American director and producer.
He is known for products such as Roots (1977) and Holocaust (1978).
RIP Denise Coffey (1936 – 2022)
Denise Coffey (1936 – 2022) was an English actress, director and playwright known, among other things, for the satirical television program Do Not Adjust Your Set.
RIP Diana ‘Emma Peel’ Rigg (1938 – 2020)
Diana Rigg (1938 – 2020) was an English actress perhaps best-known for playing Emma Peel in the British TV series The Avengers (1965–1968).
Here, Emma Peel, the rather amusing final scene from the “Something Nasty in the Nursery” (1967) episode of The Avengers.
What do you see Madame Peel?
I see you and I on the scene.
Something lurking in the background?
Yes, I see you attacked by two large…
What?
Things.
I dispose of them?
I do dispose of them?
No. I do.
RIP Bryan Magee (1930–2019)
Bryan Magee was a British philosopher noted for bringing philosophy to television in the programs Men of Ideas (1978) and The Great Philosophers (1987).
A quick check found some really boring television (I love boring television if it’s extremely boring, regular television is just plain boring).
In the beginning of this bit two men in suits are sitting on a sofa facing each other as well as the camera. They are John Passmore and Bryan Magee and they discuss David Hume in 1987:
And then there is this bit of 1977 when Magee interviews Herbert Marcuse: