thejacquelinehillblog: tumblr edition

Links to new material at the Jacqueline Hill blog over on WordPress: clips, reviews, and things found in archives relating to Jacqueline Hill's career.

Review of The Comedy Man from The Times (November 1964)

There’s nothing specifically about Jackie in this one - I’m posting it for completeness and general interest. A surprising number of people seem to be interested in The Comedy Man; at least, my earlier post about it gets a decent amount of search traffic. Not sure why this is, but hopefully some of the people searching for it will find the review useful.

2 months ago - 1
Posted this 1961 Daily Mirror clipping last week on the main blog, but forgot to link it here. :)
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Posted this 1961 Daily Mirror clipping last week on the main blog, but forgot to link it here. :)

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Verity Lambert and Jacqueline Hill

Quick new post (which was prompted by a post about Verity Lambert over at Doctor Her).

3 months ago - 3
I’ve scanned this from a copy of Doctor Who Weekly found on eBay recently.  The text seems to be full of errors/inventions, so is probably best  ignored, but despite that it’s a sweet little page and worthy of record  here. [More]

I’ve scanned this from a copy of Doctor Who Weekly found on eBay recently. The text seems to be full of errors/inventions, so is probably best ignored, but despite that it’s a sweet little page and worthy of record here. [More]

This episode of Tales of the Unexpected, “Accidental Death”, is from 1984 - a year later than Jacqueline Hill’s other TOTU appearance, which I blogged about here. It’s a smaller part for her by far, really just a minute or so long. If you watch the first five minutes, you’ve seen it all.

Her character, Mrs Milvain, is (as another character later explains) not a good target for burglary, because she rarely leaves the house except to buy more sherry. She’s looking quite polished for an alcoholic, though.

Disclaimer: I didn’t upload this, it’s from someone else; and I don’t know how long it’ll be up, because it’s probably a violation of copyright and apparently YouTube are quite hot on that sort of thing now.

“Waistcoat Club, aka Waistcoats for Women” (1955)

The video linked above doesn’t feature Jacqueline Hill, but I am virtuously posting it for you anyway because it brings together Jon Pertwee, Jean Marsh and Peter Cushing at an event celebrating waistcoats. I tweeted it earlier, and people seemed to like it.
There are many more good things to be found at the British Pathe archive, which promises to be a dangerous time-stealer.

4 months ago - 11
A screencap I took for yesterday’s post and didn’t use, but still quite like for its dynamic qualities.

A screencap I took for yesterday’s post and didn’t use, but still quite like for its dynamic qualities.

First new post in a while: Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke on The Edge of Destruction.
Apologies for the lack of updates recently. There are interesting  archive bits in the pipeline, but time is awfully tight just now, as  I’ve lots of work on. The silver lining, blog-wise, is that I should be  able to afford a bit of proper research (involving train journeys.  Trains = adventure!) come the spring, and hopefully some interesting  things will turn up.
Meanwhile, last week I bought Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke’s fabulous book Running Through Corridors: Volume 1, which … [read more]

First new post in a while: Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke on The Edge of Destruction.

Apologies for the lack of updates recently. There are interesting archive bits in the pipeline, but time is awfully tight just now, as I’ve lots of work on. The silver lining, blog-wise, is that I should be able to afford a bit of proper research (involving train journeys. Trains = adventure!) come the spring, and hopefully some interesting things will turn up.

Meanwhile, last week I bought Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke’s fabulous book Running Through Corridors: Volume 1, which … [read more]