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Heh, well TV stays theatrical enough for a while yet, you get many of the actors going on about it on who commentaries. It's interesting how in the early 1980s bbc camera work became so static: a backward step. They made an effort with Age of Kings in 1960, static camera but they tried different shots, frequent close ups (cos it's on a small screen) n live special(oh yes!) effects while being v.v.v theatrical being Shakespeare. There is fun 50s TV like The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (William Russell) and The Buccaneers but they were kids tea time shows with action. Robin Hood isn't as fun which I put down to being too well written! Quatermass is also good can't remember how theatrical it was. A for Andromeda and sequel (1960/1) have a lot of talking even for then which I don't mind but shows it was written by someone who mostly did non fiction.