#soap 1977

[beckybloomwood]

telling it how it is over at twitter

#all my favorite classic shows have a more famous counteraprt #its my curse #soap 1977 #remington steele #three's company

[kissandships]

With SOAP, it was Jodie. With Hill Street Blues, it was Henry. With The Nanny, it shall be CC.

#soap 1977 #hill street blues #the nanny #Jodie Dallas #Henry Goldblume #CC Babcock #thirsting hours #thirsting for Jodie hours #thirsting for Henry hours #thirsting for CC hours

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

I think anyone who is a fan of the TV show 'Soap' or the band 'Weathers' will tell you how impossible it is going to be to google anything related to twitter 'X' going forward-

#where all my soap 1977 fans at #there aren't many of us #and it is. difficult to find stuff i will be honest cause all u get is pictures of soap #which is not what i want #twitter #elon musk #soap #soap 1977 #weathers #and whenever i wanna find stuff abt weathers online all i get is the weather report even when i type in band after it </3 #it's a hard life #and x is even fucking worse 💀💀

[nero-neptune]

“in the last episode of soap, jodie met a girl named alice on a bridge and found out they have a lot in common. they’re both depressed and gay”

#the original mlm/wlw solidarity duo #soap #my art #jodie dallas #alice #artists on tumblr #i feel iffy on how i feel about how well i got their likenesses down but i'm more or less happy with it! #anyway i love the hell outta these two characters #if anyone has anything negative to say about them i'm blowing this whole place up! #soap 1977 #70s style hair is very hard to draw btw. like it Flares and goes in all directions! what?? #billy crystal #randee heller

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

soap |1977| jimmy baio and olivia barash

#screen capture #soap #jimmy baio #billy tate #olivia barash #molly #1977 #television #1970s #fashion #young hollywood #a million years ago

[vintagesoaparchives]

Soap Opera Serials - March 1977 - The Edge of Night - The Saxons: Evil Runs In The Family

#soap opera serials #soap opera serials march 1977 #the edge of night #edge of night #Lou Criscuolo #francis fisher #denny albee #Louis Turenne #dave gale #Ann Flood #forrest compton

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

#tv shows #tv series #polls #soap abc #katherine helmond #rod roddy #richard mulligan #1970s series #us american series #have you seen this series poll

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

#mine #polls

[70s80sandbeyond]

Soap (ABC, 1977-1981)

[beckybloomwood]

fancam i tried to post a while ago on tiktok but got deleted for music copyrights infringement 😒

#soap 1977 #jodie dallas #king of controversy indeed

[kissandships]

“Plato was gay.”

“Plato?”

*nods*

“Mickey Mouse’s dog was gay?!”

#I’m wheezing #i cackled #I’m still laughing #man why don’t I remember the funniest jokes? #Jessica is a love #Jessica my beloved #Jessica Tate #Jodie Dallas #soap #soap live blogging #soap 1977

[pwlanier]

RASHID JOHNSON (B. 1977)

Untitled Anxious Men

black soap and wax on ceramic tile

Christie’s

[consanguinitatum]

David Tennant's Obscure TV Appearances: 1989's Biting The Hands

I'm back from my visit with my family and ready to dive straight into my latest find - I'm excited to share I've finally obtained access to David's 3rd earliest TV performance! His first two performances were in 1988: his anti-smoking ad, and in Dramarama: The Secret Of Croftmore. And in 1989 he did a Play On One called Biting The Hands. And I've FINALLY got it! Biting The Hands has been one of the most elusive pieces of work David did in his early years. First, it wasn't a sitcom or an ad but a one-off play, and it was broadcast in the late 1980s, limiting its exposure to those who might be recording on beta or VHS. It was part of the second series of the prime-time contemporary single TV play series, The Play On One (which was itself a re-tooling of an older series called The Play For Today.) Biting The Hands was directed by Carol Wilks and produced by Norman McCandlish. It was 75 mins in length, and was broadcast at 9:30 pm on 11 Apr 1989. Here's the play's synopsis: "Linda and Gail are Hell's Belles - an alternative comedy double act. When success begins to beckon, they must decide whether to change their act or keep doing what they believe in. Are their principles justified, or are they just 'biting the hand that feeds them'?"

The writer of Biting The Hands, Rona Munro, was born in Aberdeen in 1959 and is an award-winning Scottish playwright. She started writing professionally in 1981 and has written for film, television, stage and radio. Biting The Hands was Munro's first play for BBC-TV. Given today's excitement about the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trailer, it might interest Whovians to know Munro wrote the classic DW story Survival as well as the New Who story The Eaters of Light, making her the first (and only!) writer to do both Classic and New Who!

But Munro has yet ANOTHER connection with our dear DT! For their production of Scotland Matters in 1992, the 7:84 Scottish People's Theatre asked established Scottish writers to consider aspects of life in Scotland and write playlets about them. Munro was one of these writers! She wrote a playlet called 'The Fence' for Scotland Matters which concerned the interrogation of a Gulf War peace protester. In a turn around of questioning technique, we are told the story through the security police and not via the protester. David played the protester Keith!

But back to Biting The Hands - which was produced three years before Scotland Matters and filmed when David was still in drama school. Let's take a look at what the play was about, and go more in depth about its stars: Judith Sweeney (Linda) and Louise Beattie (Gail).

Judith Sweeney (Linda McKay) attended David's alma mater - the RSAMD, now the Royal Conservatoire - and graduated in 1977. She played the role of Sally Shaw on the Scottish soap opera Take The High Road. Louise Beattie (Gail Graham) later went on to star in Emmerdale.

Here are a few more articles on "Biting The Hands" from the time of its broadcast:

Beattie's older sister Maureen has ALSO starred with DT many times! Among these are For One Night Only (an evening of theatrical prose, poetry, and gossip at the Swan Theatre for the 1998 RSC Fringe Festival) and a 2001 staged reading of Medea at the Cottesloe Theatre. More recently, Maureen has played David’s mother in Deadwater Fell, and Kelly MacDonald's mother in The Decoy Bride!

Now we've been introduced to the stars of the play, and we know what it's about, let's get to David's part! His part begins about 47 minutes into the play, and it's a role which makes up a total of about 20 whole seconds. He plays one of three squaddies (low-ranking military) and is in a group of soldiers who travel on the train the main characters Linda and Gail board in Edinburgh to go to London - but he's not seen in this particular scene. After the ladies board the return train back home to Edinburgh, by coincidence these same squaddies happen to be traveling on their train. David's character is the only one of the squaddies to speak, and his words entail wolf-whistles at the two women and calling them "Pet"! Here are some screenshots:

In a later scene, Linda and Gail happen to bump into another friend on the train, and the three open a bottle of liquor and sing and drink. David's character sings and drinks with them. Here are a few screenshots of that short scene:

You may notice in the first set of screenshots David is clean shaven & in the second, he sports a mustache. These scenes all supposedly occur on the same train from London to Edinburgh so it seems there's a continuity error here. Perhaps these scenes were shot at different times?

These short scenes are the only times David appears in the play. He's given credit in the end titles. Of significance, though, is he is NOT credited as the "Third Squaddie" (a designation I've seen all over the Internet for close to a decade). He's just the third squaddie listed.

The BFI (British Film Institute) holds a VHS video recording of Biting The Hands. The copy is in "pending" status, which means it's unlikely the copy can be viewed.

Before I close this post on Biting The Hands, two more little benefits: here are its opening sequence, and its title frame!

#DavidTennant #ObscureDavidTennantPerformances #BitingTheHands

[thunderstruck9]

Rashid Johnson (American, 1977), Untitled Anxious Audience, 2016. Black soap and wax on ceramic tiles, 73 x 94 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.

#rashid johnson #american art

[morbidology]

Ted Bundy was quite the escape artist, having successfully escaped from prison twice. The first escape took place on 7 June, 1977, when Bundy had access to the courthouse law library - he was serving as his own attorney. When in the library, Bundy jumped from a second story window and fled into the Aspen Mountain. He was a fugitive for six days. His second escape occurred on 30 December, 1977. Over the course of a few months, Bundy lost 35lbs so that he could fit through a hole in the ceiling of his cell. He fled to Florida where he resumed his murder spree, killing three more.

Bundy had attempted one final escape before his execution. In July of 1984, prison officials discovered that a bar in his Florida State Prison cell had been cut and was being held together with soap. He and another inmate, Manuelle Vale, had planned to escape together. Death Row inmates at Florida State Prison each have their own cell; the bar in his cell had also been cut in the same place. Inside Bundy’s cell, they also discovered hacksaw blades and gloves. He was sent to solitary confinement. Who knows how many more women Bundy could have killed had he successfully escaped once more.

#ted bundy #serial killer #true crime

[waugh-bao]

I think anyone (mainly women though to be honest) who came into contact with Charlie when Shirley was around mentions how he adored her. It must have been so obvious and touching like ‘I was with Charlie and Shirley for one minute in an elevator and it was clear he adored her.’ Like even if he wanted to hide it he couldn’t. They were both so lucky to have each other. 🥺🥰❤️

Even people who met him when Shirley was on another continent came to know pretty quickly how much he loved her!

I always think of the Canadian journalist E. Kaye Fulton’s recollection of the night she spent in his hotel room in 1977 when she was supposed to be chasing after the rest of the band and Margaret Trudeau. Instead she spent it sitting with him on his bed, watching soaps and talking about life:

#thank you for the unrealistic relationship expectations Charlie #as always #the rolling stones #charlie watts #quote #ask response #anonymous #shirley watts