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Dad’s Army: The Missing Episodes. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Kevin McNally, Robert Bathurst, Kevin Eldon, David Hayman, Mathew Horne, Timothy West, Tom Rosenthal, David Horovitch, William Andrews, Tracy Ann Oberman, Christopher Villiers, Simon Ludders, Sam Phillips, John Biggins, Julia Deakin, Jack Barry, Andrew Havill, Jerry-Jane Pears, Philip Pope, Gareth Ryan Benjamin, Tamzin Griffin, Lee Barnett, Thelma Ruby, Joann Condon.

The problem with nostalgia is that you have to judge perfectly whether it carries the same sense of perfection that Time has alluded to in your memory. There are few greater regrets than the one that is pushed forward by the emotion of fear, that the trepidation of losing something that has united a country in dark times can somehow lose its meaning when restored.

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(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Endeavour: Passenger. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Dakota Blue Richards, Lewis Peek, James Bradshaw, Abigail Thaw, Sara Vickers, Caroline O’ Neil,  Simon Scardifield, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Lydea Perkins, Judy Clifton, John Biggins, Edwin Thomas, Rosalie Craig, Simon Harrison, Thomas Coombes, Colin Mace, Hadley Fraser, Celeste Dodwell, Nicola Millbank, Justin Edwards, Jason Hall, Lizzy Watts, Mark Asante, Claire Ganaye, Leon Stewart.

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(514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Threlfall, Amanda Redman, Helen McCrory, Gregor Fisher, Jason Manford, Andy Rush, Charlotte Beaumont, John Biggins, James Carcaterra, Hayley Collett, Lucy Conley, Pamela Betsy Cooper, David Doyle, Bob Golding, Hamish Hamilton, Andrew Harrison, Kevin Hudson, Albie Marber, Jordan Metcalfe, Marene Miller, Jacinta Mulcahy, Michael Müller, Paul Ritter, Chris Ryman, David Sterne, Tilly Vosburgh, Phil Yarrow, Chris Cowlin.

For many, the night Tommy Cooper died at Her Majesty’s Theatre infront of a live television audience will always be remembered. The man who could make people laugh just by standing infront of them, had passed on at the end his act 30 years ago and for many the sound of laughter was never the same again.

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(565 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)