{"id":22361,"date":"2015-04-18T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22361"},"modified":"2015-04-18T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T10:09:40","slug":"herts-observer-top-films-being-shown-on-tv-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/herts-observer-top-films-being-shown-on-tv-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Herts Observer: Top Films Being Shown On TV This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3546 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"quad12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/quad12a.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"170\" \/>Quadrophenia (ITV4, Thu 23 April: 10.30pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s It About? Fishtail parkas, shiny scooters and The Who, among other things. More specifically, it&#8217;s about the Mod movement of the late 1960s.\u00a0Quadrophenia focuses on the experiences of Jimmy, played by the always-excellent Phil Daniels, as he prepares for a weekend jaunt to Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Love interest is provided by a very young Lesley Ash, and the climax comes in the shape of an almighty stand-off between Jimmy&#8217;s Mods and their arch-enemies the Rockers at the seaside resort.<\/p>\n<p>Is It Any Good? Yes. Even after 36 years, this cult drama has lost a little of its edge, but these days, it&#8217;s not so much as showcase for The Who&#8217;s music as it is a Who&#8217;s Who of the British entertainment scene.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out for an appearance by a fresh-faced Sting as main man Ace Face. Other surprise performances are provided by Mark Wingett of The Bill, Toyah Willcox, Phil Davis and Ray Winstone<\/p>\n<p>Anything Else? John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, was originally slated for the lead role, but the distributors refused to insure him, forcing him to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Starring: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Sting, Ray Winstone, Toyah Willcox, Michael Elphick |\u00a0Star Rating: **** (1979)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Article Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk\/films-shown-TV-week-including\/story-26331162-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Herts &amp; Essex Observer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quadrophenia (ITV4, Thu 23 April: 10.30pm) What&#8217;s It About? Fishtail parkas, shiny scooters and The Who, among other things. More specifically, it&#8217;s about the Mod movement of the late 1960s.\u00a0Quadrophenia focuses on the experiences of Jimmy, played by the always-excellent Phil Daniels, as he prepares for a weekend jaunt to Brighton. Love interest is provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27,25],"tags":[1291,535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22371,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions\/22371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}