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Which TV or Movie Engineer is your favourite and why?

Lisa Miles
A bit of Friday Fun for you all this Friday afternoon. smiley


I'm not sure if you'd agree with me but I think over recent years there's been an increase in the number of engineering related characters in TV programmes and movies. Probably with the intention of giving children positive role models for a career in Engineering perhaps? 


So who is your favourite (or least favourite!) TV or movie Engineer and why?


There's no prizes for guessing who mine is.... wink

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    Hmmm...yes, I had also been wondering whether to mention him, but decided against...but then although I remember watching it I can't remember what he actually did (other than drive the train).


    I'm pretty sure White Horses was shown on weekdays daytime during school holidays? Alternating with (sort of back to the subject) "The Aeronauts", another* French series, about Mirage fighter pilots, that no-one else seems to remember. And, according to my wife, Robinson Crusoe was in the same slot - I didn't remember that at all until I got her a DVD of it which vaguely brought it back. (A year or two back she and I complied and arranged a suite of music from that series of Robinson Crusoe which she performed at the National Harmonica Festival - we do get involved in some very obscure things.)


    I think you're right that the Banana Splits show (including Arabian Nights) was on Saturday mornings. Maybe the others were also shown then too?


    I've now got the Banana Splits song going round my head - I'll try replacing it with White Horses! (Obscure pub quiz fact of the day: Jacky Lee sang the theme of both "White Horses" and "Rupert the Bear" - and also sang backing vocals on Hendrix's "Hey Joe")


    Better stop or I'll add to the impression that the IET is full of UK people of a certain age who live in the past...


    Cheers,


    Andy


    * Edit: Sorry: White Horses was of course a Yugoslavian / German (my old friends SudWestFunk) co-production. We do like information presented on the IET website to be accurate smiley
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    Hmmm...yes, I had also been wondering whether to mention him, but decided against...but then although I remember watching it I can't remember what he actually did (other than drive the train).


    I'm pretty sure White Horses was shown on weekdays daytime during school holidays? Alternating with (sort of back to the subject) "The Aeronauts", another* French series, about Mirage fighter pilots, that no-one else seems to remember. And, according to my wife, Robinson Crusoe was in the same slot - I didn't remember that at all until I got her a DVD of it which vaguely brought it back. (A year or two back she and I complied and arranged a suite of music from that series of Robinson Crusoe which she performed at the National Harmonica Festival - we do get involved in some very obscure things.)


    I think you're right that the Banana Splits show (including Arabian Nights) was on Saturday mornings. Maybe the others were also shown then too?


    I've now got the Banana Splits song going round my head - I'll try replacing it with White Horses! (Obscure pub quiz fact of the day: Jacky Lee sang the theme of both "White Horses" and "Rupert the Bear" - and also sang backing vocals on Hendrix's "Hey Joe")


    Better stop or I'll add to the impression that the IET is full of UK people of a certain age who live in the past...


    Cheers,


    Andy


    * Edit: Sorry: White Horses was of course a Yugoslavian / German (my old friends SudWestFunk) co-production. We do like information presented on the IET website to be accurate smiley
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