STEVE GETS RANDOM

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 29th 2023

This week it’s STEVE HATCHER’s turn to sit in the chair and face up to some of the questions designed to prompt one of our random chats, and, as ever, this prompts a fascinating telly-related conversation that heads off in all sorts of unexpected directions.

So, by taking the recent untimely passing of PETER VAUGHAN CLARKE as our starting point, we discuss THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, in which he played STEPHEN for several years, at some length, as well as giving some thought to the feelings of our own mortality that the losses of the TV icons of our youth can bring along with them, especially if they are more or less the same age as we are.

Moving on from THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, we give some thought to the performances of child actors, consider the merits of other series of that era like ACE OF WANDS and TIMESLIP, and we briefly call in at GRANGE HILL, before mentioning the whole notion of YOOF TV before moving on to debate the world of the television remake, touch upon the tricky topic of conspiracy theories, meander briefly amongst the many iterations of STAR TREK, and ponder upon the knotty issue of fan fiction.

All-in-all, it makes for a fascinating journey around the world of television, which I hope you’ll enjoy sharing with us.

And because we are both getting on a bit, we manage to completely forget the names of several actors that we were hoping to mention along the way, so I’m going to name-check LENNY RUSH, MISAKO KOBA, KRISTIAN SCHMID, DEBRA MESSING and MORENA BACCARIN if you want to get your checklists ready for when they pop up later.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show