Dead folk on TV

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I've always been a bit weird about watching people who are dead on TV. I used to watch Father Ted and found it hilarious, but once...Father Ted (the actor) died I couldn't watch it again.

Jackie has Agatha Christie's Miss Marple on the TV :rolleyes: and I've just seen Rik Mayall playing a psychiatrist. Weird.

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It would be worse if you woke up and seen yourself dead and not on t.v......
Just saying:D
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Stay away from TCM.
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LOL, strange, I can watch John Wayne all day :thinking:

archangel said:
It would be worse if you woke up and seen yourself dead and not on t.v......
Just saying:D
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Errrm, that'll help me spell tonight :)

cambsno said:
Most of what I watch had dead people in!
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Not a bad thing with all the naff reality TV these days.

LowIQ said:
That counts out Dad's Army then...
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Can't recall who said, "He’s dead … he’s dead … he died first …. that one who looked the oldest, he was actually the youngest – well, apart from ‘Stupid Boy’ Pike … he’s still alive".

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Great Escape. Can watch it over and over......... pretty sure most are worm fodder
 
It doesn't bother me in fact I'd never really given it any thought before now.

99.99999999999% of the actors / actresses I see on film and TV I've never known in person. They're a face on the screen and in some ways it's really nice that they will be that forever.

On that topic though.

20 years ago when we lost friends or family - all most of us had were a few photographs to remember them by.

We now live in an age where most of the people close to us are recorded somewhere whether it be a video clip on somebody's phone, camera or out there on social media. Watching that back can be strange after somebody has gone but again it's a lovely thing to have especially to show little ones when they grow up.
 
dinners said:
We now live in an age where most of the people close to us are recorded somewhere whether it be a video clip on somebody's phone, camera or out there on social media. Watching that back can be strange after somebody has gone but again it's a lovely thing to have especially to show little ones when they grow up.
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Although it sounds odd....That's why I have facebook.....I log almost everything on it that I do, places I travel to and many other great experiences....all so the grandkids will be able to look back on my life and see what I was up too.....:)
 
I often used to watch B&W films where many of the actors would have been dead, so never really thought about it. Usually, I'm more surprised now when I hear of a death, thinking that they'd already passed away.
 
posiview said:
LOL, strange, I can watch John Wayne all day :thinking:



Errrm, that'll help me spell tonight :)



Not a bad thing with all the naff reality TV these days.



Can't recall who said, "He’s dead … he’s dead … he died first …. that one who looked the oldest, he was actually the youngest – well, apart from ‘Stupid Boy’ Pike … he’s still alive".

Cheers.
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Frank Williams (the vicar) from Dad's Army is still alive too.
 
If I couldn't bear to watch dead folks, I'd miss alot of John Mills and Charles Laughton films. Unacceptable.
 
dinners said:
It doesn't bother me in fact I'd never really given it any thought before now.
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I'd not thought about it either TBH, and it still doesn't "bother me" :).
archangel said:
Although it sounds odd....That's why I have facebook.....I log almost everything on it that I do, places I travel to and many other great experiences....all so the grandkids will be able to look back on my life and see what I was up too.....:)
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That reminds me, a work colleague died last year, we weren't what you would call friends particularly,
But we did socialise very occasionally.
After a brief mourning period, his Mrs started posting using HIS FB account.
That I found weird, I un-friended "him" in the end.
 
"I see dead people..."
 
viv1969 said:
If I couldn't bear to watch dead folks, I'd miss alot of John Mills and Charles Laughton films. Unacceptable.
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"Ice cold in Alex" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" - thay don't make them like that any more. They used to put loads of top name stars in every good film.
 
Cobra said:
I'd not thought about it either TBH, and it still doesn't "bother me" :).

That reminds me, a work colleague died last year, we weren't what you would call friends particularly,
But we did socialise very occasionally.
After a brief mourning period, his Mrs started posting using HIS FB account.
That I found weird, I un-friended "him" in the end.
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If I ever experienced something like that, then I may have to have an exorcism carried out on my PC - and I'm not even religious.
 
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That'll teach me to not wear my reading glasses when looking at the time of the OP!!! ;)
 
Canned laughter is less common than it used to be but it is full of dead people. Used to make you laugh along with them.
 
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