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February 1

Hindi song in this clip beginning

[clip] In this clip, what was the name of the song used in the beginning of the girl's act?

Futuristic Doll House

Been trying to find the name of a movie, where this family is trapped in their house by a wall & suffering from increasing heat. It turns out their house, is actually a futuristic doll house (and themselves dolls), put inside of a stove by their owner's old brother. GoodDay (talk) 00:03, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is it Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense - Child's Play old chap? Though it wasn't an oven it was a heating duct. Quintessential British Gentleman (talk) 02:39, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's on youtube.[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:28, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Holy smokers, that's it. Thanks gentlemen. GoodDay (talk) 05:14, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

At the end, I was wondering if it would turn out that the futuristic mother and child discovered themselves to likewise be trapped, and to be someone else's dolls, etc. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:43, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It was a rip off from 2 Twilight Zone episodes - Stopover in a Quiet Town and Five Characters in Search of an Exit - but was enjoyable. GoodDay (talk) 16:03, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's set in 2090. You've got to love the metallic clothing stereotype, at the end. Makes me think of Lost in Space. StuRat (talk) 19:25, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Is England '88

In the final episode of This Is England '88 Combo, who is in prison for manslaughter is shown having his Christmas dinner. However, he is shown to be alone in his cell. So would someone serving time for manslaughter in England eat alone in their cell? CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 11:10, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found this report from 1992, which says 'In many prisons, prisoners eat their meals in their cells. Prisoners told us that it is unappetizing, to say the least, to be forced to eat all of their meals near the slopping pots.' (This was in the days of slopping out.) I think it depended on local conditions: some prisons had canteens where the inmates ate, but perhaps some didn't, or didn't have enough staff to manage them safely. In addition, some prisoners may have had to eat in their cells if they were considered a danger to others, or at risk of attack, but I don't suppose either of these would apply to an "ordinary" prisoner who was in for manslaughter. The 1970s TV comedy series Porridge (TV series), considered by many to be a reasonably accurate portrayal of prison life, shows the prisoners eating in a canteen, e.g. here. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 12:13, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It was other shows like Porridge that had me wondering. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 11:40, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A possibly more interesting point is the verisimilitude of a prisoner being alone in his cell. I thought that due to chronic overcrowding in British prisons, two or even three inmates to a cell was the norm. --Viennese Waltz 13:02, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good point - the report I linked to mentions overcrowding, which it says was at a peak in 1988-89. Apparently cell-sharing is still common. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 13:53, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So possibly done that way for effect but more likely to same money, a single cell and not a lot of actors. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 10:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They should try mitosis or, at the very least, meiosis. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 18:27, 3 February 2015 (UTC) [reply]

Can anyone tell me if there's a way to buy personalized New Zealand actors' Michael Hurst autograph online?

And is there ever a Spartacus convention in California? Venustar84 (talk) 21:01, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As with any celebrity, you can always write to their agent to request an autograph. These are usually free. Nanonic (talk) 22:42, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Free and cheap, according to the Alec Baldwin of February 2014. "the first thing that cell phones did was to kill the autograph business. Nobody cares about your autograph." Not sure I agree with his grammar, but he's got a point.

What you'd need to trump the captured essence of a soul isn't ink you buy online. You need to meet the person to get a personalized autograph. If there are no conventions in California, there sure are a lot of investors in nostalgia-related entertainment. Convince one of them to arrange something and fly him over, then tell him you're the one who convinced someone that his physical presence was worth it. He'll be impressed enough to remember you.

Plus, fans in the area can have a Spartacus convention. They'd like that, too. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:06, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Timeslip (1982)?

Following some links from the "Furturistic Doll House" question above has led me to Timeslip (disambiguation), which refers to a 1982 "science fiction film starring Susan George and Cherie Lunghi", and a reference to the film appears on both actress' pages. However, IMDb knows nothing of this film - there's a Timeslip (1985), starring Brian Fairman who he? (ed), Virginia Hey, and John Taylor, but that's not it. Any help would be appreciated, either in providing a citation for the articles or confirming that the film doesn't exist and the references to it can be deleted. Tevildo (talk) 20:33, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you end up deleting all references to this supposed film (and I think you will) then don't forget Michael Elphick's filmography. Kenneth Cranham was also in this film apparently, but someone has removed it from his filmography. The same IP is responsible for all mentions of the 1982 Timeslip, and for nothing else on Wikipedia. Sounds like rather a good film to judge by the cast, I must look out for it. --Antiquary (talk) 21:51, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(After edit conflict)

It's not listed in the final edition of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide.
It's not listed in the second (1993) edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
The same anonymous contributor added it to the disambiguation page and the pages for four actors/actresses, all in a period of 25 minutes in 2011, and no other edits to Wikipedia have ever been made from that IP address. The entry on Kenneth Cranham's page was later deleted from his filmography by another anonymous contributor.

The entry on Susan George's page shows her playing "WPC Laura Roberts". I wondered if that character name could be traced to something else, so I searched for it in the IMDB character-name search. This shows only one Laura Roberts, who was a character in a time-travel movie, but it was Somewhere in Time and she was played by Teresa Wright.
The entry on Michael Elphick's page shows him playing "Osri". This character name is unknown to the IMDB.

It looks to me as though this is neither a real film nor a plausible error for something else. I'm deleting the entries. --65.94.50.4 (talk) 22:13, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cypriot Olympians, pre-1980

Did any Cypriots compete at the Olympics before 1980? Cyprus at the Olympics doesn't address anything for 1976 or prior years, and Cyprus doesn't appear in Greece at the Olympics or Turkey at the Olympics. Nyttend (talk) 21:27, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The COC was formed in 1974, recognised in 1978 but it wasn't formally admitted into the IOC until 10th April, 1979. The 1980 games would have been the first they could compete in as Cyprus and Cypriots. Nanonic (talk) 22:49, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But I mean, did any Cypriots previously compete under other countries, or as independent Olympians? Nyttend (talk) 23:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A WP:CATSCAN (depth 7, that might have been my mistake) using the categories Olympic competitors, Category:Cypriot people adding the negative category Olympic competitors for Cyprus gave me Anastasios Andreou, Ioannis Frangoudis, Stylianos Kyriakides, Kyriakos Onisiforou, and possibly quite a bit more, but there are so many misfits in that scan ... (Bulgarians, Nigerians, people born after 1980 ...) I went by the Greek names, but still lost patience :-( ... ---Sluzzelin talk 23:41, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

According to 35years: Cyprus Olympic Committee, the big stumbling block was that "To set up an Olympic Committee, sports needs to be developed at a national level and at least five associations of the committee must be recognised by their relevant international associations. In Cyprus and with the exception of the Cyprus Football Association, the island didn't have any other associations registered with their relevant international associations" (p. 22). As far as I can tell, all the athletes linked by Sluzzelin above competed for Greece at the Olympics. Although Cyprus has had no political ties with Greece in recent centuries (the British leased and then annexed it from Turkey in 1914 and it became independent from the UK in 1960), it obviously has strong cultural ties for Greek Cypriots although it is physically closer to Turkey. By the way, Cyprus doesn't seem to have competed in the Commonwealth Games before 1978, despite being entitled to.[2] Alansplodge (talk) 17:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]