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Peter Potter hosts Jane Russell, Beryl Davis, and Connie Haines on KLAC

(Allan Grant. 1957?)

#Life #Peter Potter #Jane Russell #KLAC #Hollywood

Out of the Unknown

1.01 No Place Like Earth

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Original Air Date: 4 October 1965

Direction: Peter Potter

Production Design: Peter Seddon

Visual Effects: Bernard Wilkie

#1960s #1965 #Out of the Unknown #classic television #television #science fiction #scifi #Peter Potter #Peter Seddon #British television #Irene Shubik #speculative fiction #my gifs

1954.

Cornball television personality Peter Potter said R&B music was obscene and lewd and nobody would ever re-issue Sh Boom.

#rock music hater #peter potter #doo wop

Out of the Unknown: Thirteen to Centaurus (1.11, BBC, 1965)

"Humane... I suppose so. In a way. So long as they don't find out. So long as no one in there knows. It sounds a horrible prospect: clinical, inhuman. But as you say, Francis, it may be the only way."

#Out of the Unknown #Thirteen to Centaurus #j. g. ballard #Single play #BBC #1965 #Stanley Miller #Peter Potter #Donald Houston #James Hunter #John Abineri #Noel Johnson #Robert James #John Line #Robert Russell #Lionel Stevens #Wendy Johnson #Carla Challoner #Karl Lanchbury #John Moore #Joyce Donaldson #Peter Bennett #Oh Out of the Unknown‚ you're spoiling me! Last episode we had Welsh movie star Ronald Lewis‚ this ep we get Welsh movie star Donald #Houston! The future is clear‚ and it speaks Cymraeg. Actually this has more in common with the last ep than just a Welsh star; it's another #Disturbing one. But where the last ep was a very tangible‚ visceral kind of horror‚ this is a much sadder‚ more quietly bleak kind of upset #In some ways it's an unusual Ballard piece in that it doesn't concern itself with the pleasures (and horrors) of the flesh; less perversion #Than I'm used to.. But then this is relatively early (in fact this is of special note as being the very first screen adaptation of Ballards #Work!). In other ways it is more recognisably his work: ideas of the inate dignity of life and the cruelty of subverting that dignity in #Some way. Here it is an experiment‚ one that feels cruel and wrong and yet does not make villains of its instigators. There aren't really #Any villains here; just waste‚ and the forlorn knowledge that such waste (of potential‚ of ideas‚ of life) brings with it. A glum ride.

In case you weren’t aware of who Peter Potamus’ namesake was--

Need we remind you that it was onetime Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter (nee William Moore; 1905-1983), who was originally from Henryetta, Oklahoma himself and had quite the broadcasting career in the Los Angeles market, encompassing both radio and television.

And to give you some idea of what Peter Potter sounded like on radio, consider this five minute or so excerpt from an aircheck disk of a 1948 broadcast of Peter Potter's Platter Parade over KFWB ("Keep Filming Warner Brothers"), then owned by Warner Brothers studios and explaining the plug for the movie Under Capricorn heard towards the end, just before a plug for Big Ten Laundry Detergent and a time check:

(N.B. If you don't see the player for yourself, click here to listen.)

@warnerarchive @hanna-barbera-land @warnerbrosentertainment @themineralyoucrave @dinobirdy @hanna-barbera-blog @joey-gatorman @hanna-barberians @fini-mun @screamingtoosoftly

#hanna barbera #namesakes #peter potamus #peter potter #peter potter's platter parade #kfwb radio #radio airchecks #los angeles radio #hannabarberaforever

Marilyn Monroe at Grauman’s Chinese Theater with Peter Potter and Danny Thomas, 1953.

#marilyn monroe #monroedit #rare #grauman's chinese theatre #danny thomas #peter potter #my edit #50's #vintage #1953

Out of the Unknown: No Place Like Earth (1.1, BBC, 1965)

"You could belong here, if you would. Life is not something that can be stopped just because you do not like it. You are not apart from life - you are a part of it."

"That may have been true, once."

"And it is still true. You are merely existing now, and it is not enough. One exists by barter, but one lives by giving - and taking, when it is offered."

#Out of the Unknown #No Place Like Earth #john wyndham #Single play #BBC #Stanley Miller #Peter Potter #Terence Morgan #Jessica Dunning #Hannah Gordon #Joseph O'Conor #Alan Tilvern #George Pastell #Jerry Stovin #Vernon Joyner #Bill Treacher #Geoffrey Palmer #Roy Stewart #Classic TV #Happy days: for many many years I have wanted to see this series. I was unreasonably excited when the BFI finally announced a release for #The surviving episodes; then unreasonably upset by the price (which hasn't wavered much in the 6 or 7 years since release). But my shitty #Job gave me a paltry bonus for not dying of covid and I decided it was high time I invested. Oh what a joy; the beeb must have raised an #Eyebrow when Irene Shubik (lately poached from ITV and Armchair Theatre) suggested this spiritual successor to Out of this World; the work #Involved in simply finding stories suitable for adaptation was mountainous and Sci fi is a notoriously costly production for TV and film.#Still they must have had faith: the alien landscape which opens this first episode is quite astonishing and suggests a budget somewhat #Above that of contemporaries like DW; as does the casting of a fairly big star like Morgan. This is wistful Sci fi by way of Jack London #Style romantic tales of wilderness and exploration; but there's a cynical and sharply political layer hidden at the centre of this tale.#A fairly modest first episode in terms of impact but a pretty impressive demonstration of what the fx department were capable of #That bodes well for the future of the series. John Wyndham was still alive at this point too: I wonder if he watched?#Or even if he was approached to adapt his own story? Eh probably not. He wasn't a TV writer and AFAIK the series didn't really do that

Peter Potter’s Juke Box Jury - popular regional Los Angeles television program of the 1950s.

#Jukebox Jury #Peter Potter #Regional Television #KNXT

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