Clive James's Postcard from...
Clive James's Postcard from... | |
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Genre | Travel documentary |
Written by | Clive James |
Starring | Clive James |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 9 |
No. of episodes | 18 |
Production | |
Running time | 50 minutes (BBC) |
Production companies | Watchmaker Productions (ITV) Carlton (ITV) |
Original release | |
Network | |
Release | 4 January 1989 19 September 1999 | –
Clive James' Postcard from... (sometimes shortened to Postcard(s) from...) was a TV travel
The first six series (1989-1995) were produced by the BBC, while the further 5 episodes (1996-1999) were produced by Watchmaker Productions (co-founded by James) for Carlton Television (ITV franchise). In the United States the show aired on PBS.[2]
In a 1992 interview James said that Postcards was his most personal work.[3] He had previously been a columnist for The Observer newspaper between 1976 and 1983, contributing travel diaries which were later compiled into the book Flying Visits.[4]
Following James' death in November 2019, all 13 episodes of Postcards produced by the BBC were rebroadcast on BBC Four between January and March 2020 (not in chronological order).[5]
Episodes
In the first series (1989), James visited
No. | Episode | First broadcast | Channel | |||||||||
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Series 1 | ||||||||||||
1 | "Postcard from Rio" | 4 January 1989 | BBC1 | |||||||||
2 | "Postcard from Chicago" | 11 January 1989 | BBC1 | |||||||||
3 | "Postcard from Paris" | 18 January 1989 | BBC1 | |||||||||
Series 2 | ||||||||||||
4 | "Postcard from Miami" | 17 May 1990 | BBC1 | |||||||||
5 | "Postcard from Rome" | 24 May 1990 | BBC1 | |||||||||
6 | "Postcard from Shanghai" | 31 May 1990 | BBC1 | |||||||||
7 | "Postcard from Los Angeles" | 27 September 1990 | BBC1 | |||||||||
Series 3 | ||||||||||||
8 | "Postcard from Sydney" | 30 May 1991 | BBC1 | |||||||||
9 | "Postcard from London" | 31 July 1991 | BBC1 | |||||||||
Series 4 | ||||||||||||
10 | "Postcard from Cairo" | 21 November 1993 | BBC1 | |||||||||
Series 5 | ||||||||||||
11 | "Postcard from New York" | 19 January 1994 | BBC1 | |||||||||
Series 6 | ||||||||||||
12 | "Postcard from Bombay" | 21 February 1995 | BBC1 | |||||||||
13 | "Postcard from Berlin" | 7 March 1995 | BBC1 | |||||||||
Series 7 | ||||||||||||
14 | "Postcard from Hong Kong" | 27 August 1996 | ITV | |||||||||
15 | "Postcard from the Melbourne Cup" | 4 November 1996 | ITV | |||||||||
16 | "Postcard from Mexico City" | 2 December 1996 | ITV | |||||||||
Series 8 | ||||||||||||
17 | "Postcard from Las Vegas" | 5 May 1998 | ITV | |||||||||
Series 9 | ||||||||||||
18 | "Postcard from Havana" | 19 September 1999 | ITV |
Clive James in...
Not to be confused with the Postcard from… series, James had previously made three city-based documentaries under the Clive James in… title for London Weekend Television.[1] A fourth was made in 1995 by Watchmaker Productions, his first travelogue since moving back to ITV from the BBC.
No. | Title | Original air date | Channel |
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1 | "Clive James Live in Las Vegas" | 25 July 1982 | ITV |
2 | "Clive James in Dallas" | 27 December 1985 | ITV |
3 | "Clive James in Japan" | 26 December 1987 | ITV |
4 | "Clive James in Buenos Aires" | 4 December 1995 | ITV |
References
- ^ a b "Clive James – Filmography". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ O’Connor, John J. (24 July 1995). "Postcards With Quite An Edge". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ van Panhuis, Bert (5 June 1992). "Negen persoonlijke prentbriefkaarten van Clive James". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ISBN 0224022121.
- ^ "Clive James". BBC. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Clive James' Postcards – All Seasons". TVDB. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ James, Clive (30 May 1991). "Postcard from Sydney". Clive James. Series 3. Episode 1. BBC One. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ James, Clive (31 July 1991). "Postcard from London". Clive James. Series 3. Episode 2. BBC One. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ Jeffries, Stuart (27 November 2019). "Clive James obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "BBC Two - Clive James, Postcard from Cairo".
- ^ "Clive James – Postcard from Bombay (1995)". BFI. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ "Sunday Documentary: Clive James – Postcard from Berlin". BerlinLove. 19 October 2014. Archived from the original on 8 June 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ "Island of dreams turns sour; Clive James: Postcard From Havana ITV, 11.15pm". Daily Record. Glasgow. 18 September 1999. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2020.