Apology in Advance: I know by mentioning the videos I have I run the risk of getting e-mail from folks asking if I can make copies. I'll have to disappoint you; I can't.

I got back to the dubbing business tonight by transferring the six episodes of My World and Welcome to It I managed to get off WGN many years ago. Don't know about this series? Check here.

Following I started transferring off a quirky British series from the late 1980s/early 1990s, The Secret Life of Machines. This was done in three series of six each for Channel 4 starting in 1988. Host Tim Hunkin and his faithful assistant Rex Garrod showed us how different machines worked, using cutaway units and funny hand-drawn illustrations. Hadn't watched this one in years and was still enthralled by it. Tonight did the "Washing Machine," "Refrigerator," and "Television Set." I am missing one episode of the third series and now I realize I don't know which. I thought I missed an episode on the typewriter (third series is all about the office) but discover from an episode guide that there is no ep about a typewriter. I'm thinking I'm missing the electric light one instead, but I won't know until I watch. I'm pretty sure I did get the one about the word processor; now that would be ironic if I didn't!

Here's a nice Secret Life of Machines website. Check out the links page, which connects to other Secret Life pages and also to Tim Hunkin's web site.

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Comments:

Oh I definitely know My World And Welcome To It a marvelous series starring William Windom - probably best known today for playing opposite Angela Landsbury in Murder She Wrote as a cartoonist loosely based on James Thurber. A gentle show that ran for a season or less because (apparently and unfortunately) people thought it was too high-brow. Punctuated with the Windom character's fantasies, rendered as Thurber-style drawings. An unfortunatley forgotten classic.

# posted by  Brent McKee : 1:28:00 PM

 

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