The "Radio on TV Shows" thread

[Lenny]

Just racking my brain here!

Does anyone remember an old tv drama thing on BBC called somthing "Asylum".

It was about a hospital radio station? Your help would be greatly appreciated. The lead actor I think was Ken Stott. Is it available to buy on video?

Cheers

Lenny

[vinylpusher]

It was called Takin' Over The Asylum.
Ken Stott played a double glazing salesman who worked nights on a hospital radio station.

[vinylpusher]

Actually it wasn't a hospital, but a mental institution in Scotland.

[Arnold]

Other honourable screen mentions.

Bill Paterson plays Glasgow radio DJ whose on-air name is Dickey (tweet tweet) Bird in Bill Forsythes film Comfort and Joy. (Also features wee Claire Grogan, be still my beating heart)

Personal favourite has to be satellite pirate DJ Rick (ping sound effect) O Shea from Thunderbirds episode 'Ricochet'

[vinylpusher]

Anyone else remember phoneshow presenter and crimebuster Jack Killian in Midnight Caller?

[Anorak]

Frasier.

Despite radio's popularity there are surprisingly few programmes situated around a radio station.

Anyone remember anymore?

[Lenny]

Thanks VP - that programme name was wrecking my head!

Cheers - nice to get someone to help someone else out as oppose to the usual "your a muppet cause I think you are" type of thread.

Lenny

[RadioFreak]

Originally posted by vinylpusher
Anyone else remember phoneshow presenter and crimebuster Jack Killian in Midnight Caller?


Yeah, I do. I wish they re-run it here on Dutch TV, great show !! Someone has a few on tape ??

[Mike]

Despite radio's popularity there are surprisingly few programmes situated around a radio station.

Kitt Curran ?
That programme with lenny henry
Showstring

[3cx1500A7]

There are a few films based around radio or radio DJs.Here are 2 off the top of my head;Times Square starring Tim Curry & Good Morning Vietnam (Robin Williams).Also,Clint Eastwood played a DJ but I can't recall the title of the movie.

[021]

What about WKRP in Cincinatti??
also

remember Ballykissangel
not something I would usually watch but the one day I did watch there was an episode with some guy running a pirate radio station. It had the Garda out on the streets using a settop TV aerial to track it down!
Anyway the station was tracked down and shutdown and the operator had to make do presenting shows on a hospital radio station!

[Billy Dane]

Didn't Bob Gallico appear on that?

[RadioFreak]

Private Parts of Howard Stern
Pump up the Volume, about US pirate radio with Christian Slater
Talk Radio
The Ladies Man, about a Chicago talkshow host who gets fired because of sexual comments on the air (pretty bad movie though)

And there's also a german pirate radio movie, dont recall the name though....

[021]

Also the 1980 horror movie called 'THE FOG'
The town's local radio station which broadcasts from a lighthouse has a central part to play....

http://dvdmg.com/fog.shtml

[3cx1500A7]

The Clint Eastwood flick was Play Misty For Me.Anyone remember the McDonalds twins in Corry St with a converted CB radio?Hollyoaks had a pirate station too.I hope the writers of Fair City don't read this.

[021]

"I hope the writers of Fair City don't read this."

In fact there WAS a pirate community radio station in Fair City.
It was closed down with a Garda car pulling up outside and entering!
This was on a year or 2 ago
(I'm not familiar with the characters as I do not usually watch Fair City)

[Arnold]

WKRP mmm yes I remember the improbable Loni Anderson!

What about Twinks Radio Rialto on the Mike Murphy show or the very wonderful Ballymagash TV Radio and Filling Station from Halls Pictorial Weekly

In film I remember some post apocolyptic low budget job where everyone in a city has been wiped out but for a few lucky ones who decide to head for the local radio station which is still on air, when they get there they are greeted by the sight of a filthy great reel to reel whirring away merrily to itself. Oh the irony.

[Mark Hunter]

The wonderfully crap movie you're thinking of is Night Of The Comet! Talk Radio and Play Misty For Me are the best of the genre but I quite liked Pump Up The Volume myself :-) How about the foxiest movie DJ ever? Minnie Driver in Grosse Point Blank?

[Liamo]

"This is your host, Jack Killian, on KJCM 98.3FM and goodnight America, wherever you are...."

Gary Cole at his best!

Saw a rerun on UTV a couple of years ago and it didn't have the same appeal - maybe some elements of nostalgia are left in the past.

Still, a great show for its time.