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I looked up that Mystery Movie thing run by Open Air (via the British Newspaper Archive), and according to The Daily Mirror it was actually on Thursday 10th. The Mirror's TV film critic - one Trevor Chesters - gives rundowns and ratings of all three of them in that Thursday's edition. According to his system (and you've got to have one), Berlin Express was "Good", and both Hotel Reserve and The Seige Of Sydney Street were merely "Average" - so that's them told.

Also across BBC1 and 2 there was a "full hour of comedy" at 9, as they used to say - starting strong with first series Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and then on BBC1, everyone's favourite ever sketch show... erm... Thompson. Which the Mirror illustrate with a photo of Emma in that sketch where she's got a pot on her head, i.e. the only clip I've ever seen of it, and the most likely the only clip of it I will ever bother to see.

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