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Strange Dreams!

Patrick Mcgoohan gets a phone call from Iron Maiden's manager who asks permission for the use of a Prisoner sound clip-

Rod Smallwood, the band manager, was very nervous about calling Patrick McGoohan to get permission to use the quote. After bolstering up the courage to call McGoohan, he explained the proposition uncomfortably. McGoohan thought for a moment, than asked, "What was the band's name again?" Rod, who was downright scared at this point, told him again. "A rock band, you say?" McGoohan continued thoughtfully. Suddenly, he commanded "Do it!" sharply before hanging up. The band cracked up at this afterwards.
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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2355
 
We were watching Columbo today and I spotted a Sopranos actor. He was good at blowing up into a temper and shouting aggressively, which was how he got the Mafia part. Today he was a rather dominant restaurant head chef, I instantly recognised his voice. It was great to see him.
 
escargot said:
We'll need full details, please. :cool2:

I am a HUGE Columbo fan.
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In the episode Identity Crisis, McGoohan wears Prisoner-style clothes, says "Be seeing you" a few times, and I seem to remember some doors slide open and closed like Number 6's house. It's a while since I've seen it though. I also think the very last line of his last Columbo (Ashes to Ashes?) ends with the words, "It's your funeral."
 
Hah,
escargot said:
We were watching Columbo today and I spotted a Sopranos actor. He was good at blowing up into a temper and shouting aggressively, which was how he got the Mafia part. Today he was a rather dominant restaurant head chef, I instantly recognised his voice. It was great to see him.
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Haha! had my old box set out last week and recall that very episode! My fave is the one with Ruth Gordon as a murdeous writer avenging the death of her niece. I also like ‘the great santini’ episode (my box set dvd’s came without titles for some odd reason).
 
merricat said:
I also like ‘the great santini’ episode (my box set dvd’s came without titles for some odd reason).
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'Now You See Him', where Columbo and his assistant flourishingly produce copies of an incriminating letter at the end after Santini sets the first one on fire! Saw that one recently. It's the one with the chef. He later played Feech in The Sopranos.
 
There appear to be a lot of 'dreams' threads, and I couldn't find one that was totally appropriate for this one, so I am putting it in here.

Last night I had a very vivid dream that was more like I was watching a sci-fi film.
Maybe a film like this actually exists but I'm unaware of it if it does, but it goes like this;

The human race is visited by a (apparently) benign and helpful alien species that seem very human-like themselves (don't they always?).
The aliens warn the occupants of planet earth that some kind of globally destructive, natural disaster from space is going to destroy the earth in a matter of months, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The aliens do have the technology and ability to evacuate all the people on the planet though, and this is agreed upon by all governments, worldwide, and the evacuation begins.
However, (in the dream) I am a suspicious journalist type of person who thinks there is some kind of subterfuge at work.
My investigations lead me to a remote area where I see the aliens carrying out a massive mining operation.
I subsequently find out that the globally destructive, natural disaster from space, was all just made up so that the aliens could move the humans off the planet and take it over as it contains a whole load of minerals etc that they deem to be incredibly rare, and their plan is to mine absolutely every last square foot of it, rendering it uninhabitable.
This has been kept from the worldwide governments who do not believe me......
 
Trevp666 said:
There appear to be a lot of 'dreams' threads, and I couldn't find one that was totally appropriate for this one, so I am putting it in here.

Last night I had a very vivid dream that was more like I was watching a sci-fi film.
Maybe a film like this actually exists but I'm unaware of it if it does, but it goes like this;

The human race is visited by a (apparently) benign and helpful alien species that seem very human-like themselves (don't they always?).
The aliens warn the occupants of planet earth that some kind of globally destructive, natural disaster from space is going to destroy the earth in a matter of months, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The aliens do have the technology and ability to evacuate all the people on the planet though, and this is agreed upon by all governments, worldwide, and the evacuation begins.
However, (in the dream) I am a suspicious journalist type of person who thinks there is some kind of subterfuge at work.
My investigations lead me to a remote area where I see the aliens carrying out a massive mining operation.
I subsequently find out that the globally destructive, natural disaster from space, was all just made up so that the aliens could move the humans off the planet and take it over as it contains a whole load of minerals etc that they deem to be incredibly rare, and their plan is to mine absolutely every last square foot of it, rendering it uninhabitable.
This has been kept from the worldwide governments who do not believe me......
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Write a book
 
Trevp666 said:
There appear to be a lot of 'dreams' threads, and I couldn't find one that was totally appropriate for this one, so I am putting it in here.

Last night I had a very vivid dream that was more like I was watching a sci-fi film.
Maybe a film like this actually exists but I'm unaware of it if it does, but it goes like this;

The human race is visited by a (apparently) benign and helpful alien species that seem very human-like themselves (don't they always?).
The aliens warn the occupants of planet earth that some kind of globally destructive, natural disaster from space is going to destroy the earth in a matter of months, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The aliens do have the technology and ability to evacuate all the people on the planet though, and this is agreed upon by all governments, worldwide, and the evacuation begins.
However, (in the dream) I am a suspicious journalist type of person who thinks there is some kind of subterfuge at work.
My investigations lead me to a remote area where I see the aliens carrying out a massive mining operation.
I subsequently find out that the globally destructive, natural disaster from space, was all just made up so that the aliens could move the humans off the planet and take it over as it contains a whole load of minerals etc that they deem to be incredibly rare, and their plan is to mine absolutely every last square foot of it, rendering it uninhabitable.
This has been kept from the worldwide governments who do not believe me......
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Some similarities with Avatar?
 
The general premise strongly resembles the Gene Rodenberry inspired TV serial from the nineties and early noughties (and my favourite TV SF show, as it happens)...EARTH FINAL CONFLICT.

(I wish I had dreams like yours! Mine seem to be all about being late, getting lost or having to fill in complex forms!)
 
Many years ago, many years pre-Avatar, I had a dream that I was on a spaceship that had crashed on another planet. I don't remember much now, but it made a great impression on me, a swamp-forest world with massive trees growing straight up out of fairly shallow standing water, with tall thin aliens with spears and blowguns. The Avatar film sort of reminded me of my dream.
 
SimonBurchell said:
Many years ago, many years pre-Avatar, I had a dream that I was on a spaceship that had crashed on another planet. I don't remember much now, but it made a great impression on me, a swamp-forest world with massive trees growing straight up out of fairly shallow standing water, with tall thin aliens with spears and blowguns. The Avatar film sort of reminded me of my dream.
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We are entering collective unconscious territory here.
 
Trevp666 said:
Last night I had a very vivid dream that was more like I was watching a sci-fi film.
Maybe a film like this actually exists but I'm unaware of it if it does, but it goes like this;
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Sounds a bit like V! From the eighties. (and Robert Englund in a bit part!)
The aliens show up in the guise of helping humanity, but are harvesting both people and resources for their own good. There is a journalist who features prominently. No mining that I remember, though, and it's definitely not quite the same. (for instance if you'd been thinking about this I'd expect the the-aliens-are-basically-nazis element to be stronger).
 
Never seen Earth Final Conflict and am only vaguely aware of it's existence even....I have absolutely no idea of it's storyline or plot.
And 'V'....aaah I used to like that, but it really was of it's time, with shonky special effects and dodgy props. I was always entirely unconvinced by the 'reptile-like species posing as human' kind of thing.
And my dream was nothing like that.
 
From Twitter (not me, not mine):
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* A giant Stimpy boat from Ren and Stimpy
* Shaking hands with James Brown
*Holding eloquent discussions with Alexei Sayle
*Having adventures with Disney characters (can't even remember last time I watched them)
*Travelling around Germany.
 
I dreamed that I was going into a shop/museum with my daughter and a friend. I handed over a tenner and got back £1 in change and said that I had been going to pay for all of us, but my daughter had already paid for herself. Privately I was thinking that £9 for entry into what was basically a cluttered little shop was a bit steep! It was small rooms in a warren and much of the stuff was for sale, I was hoping to pick up some pictures for Christmas presents. Then we were walked past a little room, where two naked men were washing at a sink and a window looked out over a cityscape, one of the men was a big, overweight chap, wearing a leather harness.

I have absolutely NO IDEA what all that was about!
 
catseye said:
I dreamed that I was going into a shop/museum with my daughter and a friend. I handed over a tenner and got back £1 in change and said that I had been going to pay for all of us, but my daughter had already paid for herself. Privately I was thinking that £9 for entry into what was basically a cluttered little shop was a bit steep! It was small rooms in a warren and much of the stuff was for sale, I was hoping to pick up some pictures for Christmas presents. Then we were walked past a little room, where two naked men were washing at a sink and a window looked out over a cityscape, one of the men was a big, overweight chap, wearing a leather harness.

I have absolutely NO IDEA what all that was about!
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You really must stop watching gay S & M porn.
 
Friday afternoon I sat down with a coffee and channel surfed to find William Shatner emoting about possible alien contact. Good for a quick break I thought after all that painting.

I nodded off, had an intense dream about being talked to about my life experiences, what went wrong and what I should have done better, how I could have been kinder, more patient, loving etc. It was all very calm and understanding and I just felt miserable as if I had wasted precious gift because I was to slow to understand the value of it. But there was hope, this was my chance to change it all and start again with a clean sheet- it sounded wonderful, a chance to get everything right, but I had to decide now as it was a one time offer. This was really tempting, a chance to rest the the clock and get it right.

I was so happy, it seems ideal everything would be sorted and wonderful. Then realised if I did this, my children would not exist, I would not know my partner or my friends. People I had helped might be affected-I explained to the kindly voices that I could not do this, and they told me I had lost the chance to put things right and left.

Woke up with a jerk to find Dog staring at me wide eyed with ears down and William still banging on, coffee still hot. So this long, complex and very unsettling dream only took a few minutes.

It gets stranger- that night I apparently had the mother of all nightmares, I don't remember much other than I was being pursued by amorphous blobs things trying to engulf they were sticky and covered in sugary substance. I was yelling, punching and kicking so much I woke my partner who had to hold me down. The dog barking finally woke me up.

I rarely have violent nightmares, or even scary ones.
 
That sounds very much like the life review and aspects of post mortem decision making in many reports of near death experiences....albeit with a cinematic overlay of A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful life.
 
I've not seen its a wonderful life so I'll take your word for it. However the life review thing sounds right apart from the emphasis on failure and dissapointment.

The tone was very much "you're only letting yourself down" sort of conversation you may have had at school.
 
Eyespy said:
I've not seen its a wonderful life so I'll take your word for it. However the life review thing sounds right apart from the emphasis on failure and dissapointment.

The tone was very much "you're only letting yourself down" sort of conversation you may have had at school.
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Great film have a watch ...nice to watch before Christmas :)
 
Trevp666 said:
There appear to be a lot of 'dreams' threads, and I couldn't find one that was totally appropriate for this one, so I am putting it in here.

Last night I had a very vivid dream that was more like I was watching a sci-fi film.
Maybe a film like this actually exists but I'm unaware of it if it does, but it goes like this;

The human race is visited by a (apparently) benign and helpful alien species that seem very human-like themselves (don't they always?).
The aliens warn the occupants of planet earth that some kind of globally destructive, natural disaster from space is going to destroy the earth in a matter of months, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The aliens do have the technology and ability to evacuate all the people on the planet though, and this is agreed upon by all governments, worldwide, and the evacuation begins.
However, (in the dream) I am a suspicious journalist type of person who thinks there is some kind of subterfuge at work.
My investigations lead me to a remote area where I see the aliens carrying out a massive mining operation.
I subsequently find out that the globally destructive, natural disaster from space, was all just made up so that the aliens could move the humans off the planet and take it over as it contains a whole load of minerals etc that they deem to be incredibly rare, and their plan is to mine absolutely every last square foot of it, rendering it uninhabitable.
This has been kept from the worldwide governments who do not believe me......
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A little bit V!
 
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