Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 November 8

= November 8 =

Running Up That Hill - Placebo video
In the official video for Placebo's cover of "Running Up That Hill", there's a woman with messy blond hair at about the 1:30 mark. She looks really familiar but I can't place who she is or what I know her from. (Though I suppose it's possible that she's just some unknown woman who looks like someone more famous) Does she look familiar to anyone else? Does anyone know who she is? I'd link to the video but I can't find an official version. You can find it on YouTube though by searching for "placebo running up that hill official". Thanks, Dismas |(talk) 07:30, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * After a very quick look at the video, it appears to be a production where fans of the band are featured, either by official production or user submitted clips. This seems to be a trendy thing to do, as many bands have done this in the last few years. As for the woman, she is probably a fan or friend of the band. 10draftsdeep (talk) 17:47, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Hrm... Maybe she just looks like someone I know...  Thanks, Dismas |(talk) 05:20, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

All in the Family
I'm trying to remember the episode where Mike and Archie have an extended and hilarious argument about getting dressed, and whether one should put on two socks and two shoes or a sock and a shoe and a sock and a shoe. Anyone recall which episode that was? Joefromrandb (talk) 16:34, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * List of All in the Family episodes might help, though there's nothing about socks in it. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 17:57, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * www.tv.com thinks it's season 4, episode 22, "Gloria Sings the Blues", and so does Wikiquote. --Antiquary (talk) 18:38, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * By coincidence, they showed that bit on a retrospective show I watched last night. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:33, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I didn't think that was the one, but I'll check it out. Thanks! Joefromrandb (talk) 20:47, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * That's the one! Thanks, guys. Joefromrandb (talk) 20:55, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I saw the same retrospective. You might be interested in how they said they came up with that scene.  Carroll O'Connnor, the actor who plays Archie Bunker, saw the actor Rob Reiner, who plays Mike Stivic, doing that in real life, and commented on how crazy it was, and a writer happened to be watching and wrote it all down for inclusion in an episode. StuRat (talk) 05:02, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Berkely Smith
Early career. Am I right in thinking that Berkely Smith was introducer/producer of ITVs forerunner to 'World of Sport' that ran briefly in the early 1960s - 'Let's Go'? I have found no reference to this in his life in Wikapedia. 'Let's Go' was transmitted to the then ITV network each Saturday afternoon and originated from the ABC/ATV jointly owned Alpha TV studios in Aston, Birmingham. The programme was produced by ABC Television (Midlands and the North). To jog your memory Berkely would be seen walking around the studio with televison monitors mounted into the scenery, with a control desk in the foreground (a mock up of the TV control room), appearing to produce the programme as well as acting as compere. Also there was a map of the UK on the wall displaying the then coverage of the ITV regions. I recall at the time that each region appeared to show less area of coverage than the BBC! A feature of the programme as I recall, was a demonstration of judo by personnel appropriately dressed on a mat in the studio! Not much attention was made to not showing the image orthicon tv cameras during the programme (like 'Ready Steady Go' some years later from Rediffusion), and he appeared to point out at intervals how the technical facilities operated. Interesting for me as a schoolboy of 14 years already interested in behind the scenes in TV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.172.89.182 (talk) 22:15, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure if this is any help, but Berkeley Smith (don't forget the last "e" in Berkeley) seems to have been with Southern TV in the late 1950s and early 1960s - there are a number of mentions of him on this page. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:48, 9 November 2011 (UTC)