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This doesn't make any sense, now does it?
It all starts with an alternative application for Youtube on Android: Newpipe! It's great because you can listen to music while the phone is locked, there's no ads and you can get rid of the recommendation system.
It also let's you download videos, audio and captions.
So, when I am on my phone and find something on Youtube that shouldn't be there because of copyright, I immediately download it, and later put it on my PC or on an external drive. One of those things, was a certain episode from a soap called Angels.
I don't care much for soaps, unless they feature William Russell in extravagant frilly purple shirts and his ex-wife going through some shenanigans (I do want to see the rest of it, release it ITV!).
But this one specific episode of Angels was important because
Oh my Yetaxa, it's her! (Screencap by![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
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As is with everything I have seen of Jacqueline Hill, she was wonderful. Her character, not so much. She's playing an estranged, selfish biological mother, but she does her well. She also chainsmokes through the eleven minutes she is on screen, which is both impressive and concerning (in 1978 she was diagnosed with cancer, not sure if by 1982 she was safe from it. Smoking is bad, kids).
This leads to Ms Hill's career of mostly television and television plays and how much of it is unavailable. Either because it was done live and therefore never recorded, or it was recorded and then taped over, or it's stuck in archive hell, where only the lucky few who are interested in these sorts of things and live nearby can access.
For a long time, all I had was Doctor Who and The Blue Parrot (her very first movie, she was my age on that one... oh no). I could only dream of seeing her in Paradise Postponed, or in Crown Court, let alone 1950s TV plays like The Chopping Block and Requiem for a Heavyweight (I did write an article for the Lost Media Wiki on this last one, as it is lost, and it got featured. Wow).
But over the years, her episode of Crown Court was made available in certains ways, same for those two eps from Tales of the Unexpected (she was hilarious by the way). I found Romeo and Juliet at my local library. Paradise Postponed was uploaded to Youtube and all five of us fans were screaming about it on Tumblr. And then it got deleted, a kind soul shared their DVDrip with me. The Comedy Man, I torrented when I learnt to do so.
Angels was always elusive. So when the lovelies Katie and Claire posted that picspam, I yelled and snatched it with Newpipe. And had it on my phone for months.
Then Network decided to release the legendary Maigret TV series with Rupert Davies on DVD amd Bluray. Awesome! Jackie was in an ep there too, and the show seems right up my alley. But the price was too much for me.
A few weeks ago, The Trap gets posted on Youtube. I do the same as I did with the Angels ep: snatched it immediately. Her performance is fan-tas-tic! Jacqueline Hill is a master of subtlety, and I loved looking at all the little gestures she made. Pretty good ep too, a bit dated maybe, but it threw me off the loop.
Oh Newpipe, my little friend. If only your user interface did not suck. Because as I was trying to clean up my downloaded videos history, you delete all the videos I downloaded.
All of them.
The good news is that I got almost them all back. It was a pain, but I managed it. The bad news is that it was almost all of them. Bye bye Angels.
Why is deleting all video files even an option? I'm assuming it's a techbro thing, but it's stupid. Even more stupid is the lack of "Are you sure?" prompts. And even more stupid is that the prompt is like
"Would you like to delete your downloaded video history or your downloaded video files?"
And they reverse the options, so the first option is to delete the video files. I'm not a UI expert, but I don't think that's how you do it.
So now I'mpraying to Yetaxa hoping that the episode gets uploaded somewhere again that isn't a scam site.
This doesn't make any sense, now does it?
It all starts with an alternative application for Youtube on Android: Newpipe! It's great because you can listen to music while the phone is locked, there's no ads and you can get rid of the recommendation system.
It also let's you download videos, audio and captions.
So, when I am on my phone and find something on Youtube that shouldn't be there because of copyright, I immediately download it, and later put it on my PC or on an external drive. One of those things, was a certain episode from a soap called Angels.
I don't care much for soaps, unless they feature William Russell in extravagant frilly purple shirts and his ex-wife going through some shenanigans (I do want to see the rest of it, release it ITV!).
But this one specific episode of Angels was important because
Oh my Yetaxa, it's her! (Screencap by
As is with everything I have seen of Jacqueline Hill, she was wonderful. Her character, not so much. She's playing an estranged, selfish biological mother, but she does her well. She also chainsmokes through the eleven minutes she is on screen, which is both impressive and concerning (in 1978 she was diagnosed with cancer, not sure if by 1982 she was safe from it. Smoking is bad, kids).
This leads to Ms Hill's career of mostly television and television plays and how much of it is unavailable. Either because it was done live and therefore never recorded, or it was recorded and then taped over, or it's stuck in archive hell, where only the lucky few who are interested in these sorts of things and live nearby can access.
For a long time, all I had was Doctor Who and The Blue Parrot (her very first movie, she was my age on that one... oh no). I could only dream of seeing her in Paradise Postponed, or in Crown Court, let alone 1950s TV plays like The Chopping Block and Requiem for a Heavyweight (I did write an article for the Lost Media Wiki on this last one, as it is lost, and it got featured. Wow).
But over the years, her episode of Crown Court was made available in certains ways, same for those two eps from Tales of the Unexpected (she was hilarious by the way). I found Romeo and Juliet at my local library. Paradise Postponed was uploaded to Youtube and all five of us fans were screaming about it on Tumblr. And then it got deleted, a kind soul shared their DVDrip with me. The Comedy Man, I torrented when I learnt to do so.
Angels was always elusive. So when the lovelies Katie and Claire posted that picspam, I yelled and snatched it with Newpipe. And had it on my phone for months.
Then Network decided to release the legendary Maigret TV series with Rupert Davies on DVD amd Bluray. Awesome! Jackie was in an ep there too, and the show seems right up my alley. But the price was too much for me.
A few weeks ago, The Trap gets posted on Youtube. I do the same as I did with the Angels ep: snatched it immediately. Her performance is fan-tas-tic! Jacqueline Hill is a master of subtlety, and I loved looking at all the little gestures she made. Pretty good ep too, a bit dated maybe, but it threw me off the loop.
Oh Newpipe, my little friend. If only your user interface did not suck. Because as I was trying to clean up my downloaded videos history, you delete all the videos I downloaded.
All of them.
The good news is that I got almost them all back. It was a pain, but I managed it. The bad news is that it was almost all of them. Bye bye Angels.
Why is deleting all video files even an option? I'm assuming it's a techbro thing, but it's stupid. Even more stupid is the lack of "Are you sure?" prompts. And even more stupid is that the prompt is like
"Would you like to delete your downloaded video history or your downloaded video files?"
And they reverse the options, so the first option is to delete the video files. I'm not a UI expert, but I don't think that's how you do it.
So now I'm
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Date: 19 Apr 2023 19:26 (UTC)Network are gems! I only wish the BBC worked as well with a similar comapny as the various ITV ones do with Network.
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Date: 20 Apr 2023 07:02 (UTC)And oh I wish that as well. They have some TV plays in archive hell, they could make a nice DVD collection out of it.