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Post by oge on Aug 3, 2013 17:14:43 GMT
Did anyone else notice 2 guys playing barbilliards in the film Hotel Reserve on bbc 2 this afternoon about 40 - 45 minutes in?
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Post by barbelman on Aug 4, 2014 13:45:37 GMT
Bar Billiards is one of the subjects on "Perfection' BBC1 now (2.30 Monday)
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Post by Mark James on Dec 10, 2014 20:16:11 GMT
I've just been watching the 1981 TV adaptation of "The Day of the Triffids", recently broadcast on BBC4. Halfway through episode 5, while the principal characters are holed up in a country pub, a bar billiards table features full-screen for several seconds. Thought I'd bring this to the attention of the forum, as I'm sure some of you will find this of interest, as I did.
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Post by NigelS on Apr 15, 2015 23:59:49 GMT
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Post by barbelman on Apr 16, 2015 3:20:06 GMT
That Russell Watson's smart.....not!  and Phil Neville went up in my estimation! |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Apr 16, 2015 7:31:42 GMT
Cribbage! Shows what a lack of knowledge there is about our game!
And Milko can play snooker!
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Post by Mark James on Oct 13, 2015 19:47:40 GMT
Whilst watching "Rhymes, Rock and Revolution", a BBC4 programme about performance poetry first broadcast on 12th October, I spotted a (blink and you'll miss it) clip of bar billiards being played, sometime in the 60s I think, by some Liverpool poets. For anyone sufficiently interested to check this out, it's at approximately 18 minutes in, during an interview with Lemn Sissay.
Coincidentally, one of the contributors to this documentary is John Baine, a.k.a. Attila the Stockbroker, who himself played a handful of games in the Brighton League almost 30 years ago.
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Post by Chris_Sav on Jul 19, 2016 13:58:43 GMT
Guns at Batasi just been on this afternoon with a host of the classic British actors from the sixties and bar billiards!  Not very good with the pegs though and taking shots from all over the pace. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 14:57:16 GMT
A fleeting mention of bar billiards by Victoria Coren Mitchell on Only Connect last night.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 16:05:16 GMT
........and today, a question (seven white balls and one of which other colour ?) on Bradley Walsh's The Chase !
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Post by barbelman on Jul 19, 2016 16:06:26 GMT
A fleeting mention of bar billiards by Victoria Coren Mitchell on Only Connect last night. I saw that - slightly in the wrong context but hey.... Great programme though! |
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Post by oge on Jul 22, 2016 7:21:12 GMT
Film 4 this week I saw the "Guns of Batasi"
BB table in the corner with a machine gun placed on top
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 15:00:57 GMT
Margo just called me in from Test Match Special in the garden: she was watching an old episode of Bruce Forsyth's The Price Is Right, where a contestant (Kimberley from Essex) correctly guessed the price of three items, one being a Supreme Bar Billiards Table (£1175). The episode was filmed in 1999.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 17:52:17 GMT
I've just been watching the 1981 TV adaptation of "The Day of the Triffids", recently broadcast on BBC4. Halfway through episode 5, while the principal characters are holed up in a country pub, a bar billiards table features full-screen for several seconds. Thought I'd bring this to the attention of the forum, as I'm sure some of you will find this of interest, as I did. Same era - 1978 I believe - the post-apocalyptic series Survivors vhistory.wordpress.com/2016/10/13/survivors-the-net-tape-1768/"Charles asks Jenny if she would ‘chat up’ Alec to get him to take a look at it, all over a quiet game of Bar Billiards." |
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Nov 23, 2017 18:32:33 GMT
Bar Billiards on TV
anyone with catch up see ITV 4 The Avengers Episode "wish you were here " about 22 mins in
Tara King needs a lesson or two, I could give her one!
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Post by jelly on Dec 13, 2018 22:25:21 GMT
Just watched Ronnie O'Sullivans American Hustle episode 1 on YouTube, at 24:15 you can see two bar billiards tables stacked on top of each other in a big warehouse full of pool tables
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Post by Chris_Sav on Apr 25, 2019 15:30:49 GMT
Guns at Batasi is on shortly this afternoon
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Post by daveuk1 on Apr 26, 2019 17:36:58 GMT
Guns at Batasi is on shortly this afternoon Always looks like a table set up for original proper bar billiards with four mushrooms |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2020 23:09:40 GMT
Bar Billiards on TV anyone with catch up see ITV 4 The Avengers Episode "wish you were here " about 22 mins in Tara King needs a lesson or two, I could give her one!
Have had a look and will now have to add the lovely Linda Thorson to my Famous Names webpage.
She has an "epic fail" at 29:16
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Post by gandalf the untidy on Nov 25, 2020 19:09:54 GMT
The peg was camouflaged, totally unfair
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Post by Chris_Sav on Nov 26, 2020 12:45:48 GMT
Guns at Batasi on Sony Action at 1700hrs
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and Phil Neville went up in my estimation!
