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Post by ChasWeazle on Oct 25, 2022 9:03:25 GMT
A thread for any trivia or oddities that you may have / have noticed in the 26 episodes of the two series of Catweazle |
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Post by ChasWeazle on Oct 25, 2022 9:06:57 GMT
I noticed in watching series 1, episode 4, The Witching Hour... When the receptionist in the hairdressers replies to a call, for an appointment for a hair cut, she says "4:30, Shampoo and set, Mrs Carpenter"
Maybe this could be a reference to Annie Carpenter (Kips Wife)!
A nice touch, if true.
(Kips' wife went by the stage name Annabel Lee)
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Post by ChasWeazle on Oct 25, 2022 9:10:12 GMT
The incidental music that is playing on the radio in the hair salon, where Catweazle distracts the women while Carrot grabs some hair from the floor, in the 4th episode of the first series, 'The witching hour', is the same music that is played when Catweazle and Cedric are walking across the fields to The Bull at Bodford, in the 2nd episode of the Second series 'Duck Halt'!
It is also heard in the episode 'The Black Wheels'.
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Post by ChasWeazle on Oct 25, 2022 9:18:01 GMT
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Post by Alan Hayes on Oct 25, 2022 12:11:36 GMT
I couldn't find a self-publishing site called Catweazle or Carrot. Best I could do.  |
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Post by ChasWeazle on Oct 25, 2022 20:48:10 GMT
 In the 3rd episode of the first series 'The Curse of Rapkyn', Carrot is seen reading a book at the breakfast table. It's title is.. The Witch Cult in Western Europe. by Margaret A. Murray. Oxford paperbacks 1967. |
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Post by ChasWeazle on Oct 27, 2022 10:42:36 GMT
We can forgive for this one... and is, as I admit, a petty observation, but if you notice, like I have, Catweazle has dental fillings!
Surely not, in the 11th century!!
I did say it was petty 😂
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Post by ChasWeazle on Oct 27, 2022 11:08:44 GMT
In the very first episode of the 1st series 'The Sun in a Bottle' (and what a great line that is), you'll notice when Mr Bennett comes into the barn, there's a dog with him..
... never to be seen again!
I wonder what happened to the dog 😂
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Post by ChasWeazle on Nov 2, 2022 8:30:14 GMT
The music that is played at the end of the episode 'The Black Wheels' is called 'Tishomingo Blues'. It was written by Spencer Williams and many Jazz bands have played it..including Duke Ellington.
The version you hear in the episode is by Terry Lightfoot and his Jazzmen.
Terence Lightfoot (21 May 1935 – 15 March 2013) was a British jazz clarinettist and bandleader, and together with Chris Barber, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball was one of the leading members of the trad jazz generation of British jazzmen.
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Post by southernspirits on Apr 14, 2024 0:45:25 GMT
I can't help wondering what '800 pounds' in 1969 would (approximately) be worth now: George Bennett's shock at the size of his over draught suggests that inflation has been very significant since: anyone up for a reasonable est/guest/imate?  |
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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 14, 2024 10:37:47 GMT
Who better to ask but the Bank of England? They say:
£11,129.23
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Post by southernspirits on Apr 14, 2024 10:52:23 GMT
Seriously Alan? (!) Around 140% higher! I guess that represents a significant amount of money now. Would be over 25% of the average annual wage in Australia |
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Post by southernspirits on Apr 14, 2024 11:22:41 GMT
Sorry, make that 1400% higher obviously!
Now, was '10 Bob' equal to was then (soon to be) 100 pence?
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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 14, 2024 11:49:25 GMT
Ten bob was what became 50 pence with decimalisation. Bob was a slang term used for shilling (which became 5p).
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Post by southernspirits on Apr 15, 2024 0:16:09 GMT
Thanks again Alan I guess 7 pounds and a telescope (which would be likely to cost considerably more I'd have thought) for a toad might still be clearly excessive  |
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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 15, 2024 8:54:45 GMT
As a comparative, the average weekly wage in the UK in 1969 was about £24.
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Post by southernspirits on Apr 15, 2024 10:30:12 GMT
Thanks Alan!
Gosh, so £800 is something like 33 weeks of the average salary of the time!
Out of interest, do you have any idea of what the average salary is now?
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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 15, 2024 14:43:23 GMT
It's reputedly around £35,000, but of course is massively skewed with large numbers on the national minimum wage (which equates to about £21,000 for a 35 hour week / 52 weeks a year).
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Post by southernspirits on Apr 15, 2024 23:55:02 GMT
Thanks Alan,
Not dissimilar from our situation, although the Australian minimum wage equates to around £23,800, but that's for a 38-hour week, so that Australian workers are only very marginally better off per hour (if at all). Average full-time salaries are £51,000 (going with the current exchange rate) - but I'm not sure if you were quoting the average full-time salary, or just the average, full stop.
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Post by southernspirits on Apr 19, 2024 8:27:37 GMT
I wanted to ask something completely unrelated: does anyone know what degree of artistic licence was allowed of the Annual publishers for the original 1970 and 1971 Annuals? There are some stated back story 'facts' contained in a couple of the short stories that aren't attested elsewhere to my knowledge, including: i) That Catweazle came from the year 1086 specifically, which would be a full 20 years after the start of William I's reign - and the year of Doomsday; and ii) that Carrot's mother had died only a year previous.
My supposition is that the Annual writers had a degree of actual, authorised licence, put just perhaps these items have a basis in notes that Kip had written?
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