Sam Kydd News Today

Christmas Special Episode: Mike Read and Noel Cronin are joined by Sam Kydd's son. The Footage Detectives airs on Talking Pictures TV at 6:00 PM, Monday 25 December. Mike Read and Noel Cronin are joined by Sam Kydd's son

It’s been 50 years since Sam Kydd’s For You the War is Over was released. The Belfast-born actor, who appeared in more films than any other British thespian (290), had been a prisoner of war in Poland and Germany, publishing his account in 1973.

Thought I’d share this photo of the staff at HMC Wheels which was located a short walk after the bridge at the top of Turnpike Lane, on Hornsey High Street.…

If you can’t see the annual historic car extravaganza at the roadside, settle back and enjoy the comedy that best encapsulates its appeal

Hi All I sometimes come up with product ideas in my spare time and one I had recently was for an automotive product, which motorists are crying out for...

Share with: In this British crime series from the late 1950s, Canadian actor Robert Beatty is Detective Inspector Mike Maguire - a ‘Mountie’ assigned to London’s Scotland Yard in order to learn native crime fighting methods. Together with his English colleagues he takes on all sorts of cases ranging from blackmail, robberies, kidnapping and of course bloody murder. Produced by the one and only Harry Alan Towers, the 39 episodes were directed by Bernard Knowles, Robert Lynn, Alvin Rakoff,...

Share with: In this British crime series from the late 1950s, Canadian actor Robert Beatty is Detective Inspector Mike Maguire - a ‘Mountie’ assigned to London’s Scotland Yard in order to learn native crime fighting methods. Together with his English colleagues he takes on all sorts of cases ranging from blackmail, robberies, kidnapping and of course bloody murder. Produced by the one and only Harry Alan Towers, the 39 episodes were directed by Bernard Knowles, Robert Lynn, Alvin Rakoff,...

London’s original minicab wars, 60 years on In these days of Uber ride-hailing, it’s difficult to imagine the excitement of a cheap rival to the capital’s traditional black taxis 5 March 2021 • 4:30pm The vibrant West End of London in 1961 was the battleground between the new minicabs and black taxis Credit: Bettmann Sixty years ago precisely, London experienced a minor revolution thanks to the Wimbledon firm of Carline. Its fleet of  Ford Anglia 105Es became the capital’s first mini...

Share with: Peter Cushing and a host of other much-loved British talent star in this Cold War thriller from 1960, here playing researchers who unexpectedly find themselves ‘silenced’ by government officials who conclude that a newly discovered cure for both typhus and the bubonic plague could be used for biological warfare by enemy states. At London’s Haughton Research Laboratory a hard working team of scientists, led by Professor Sewell (the always dependable Peter Cushing), come very c...