> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, John Rowland wrote:
>

>> Most of the programmes on BBC4 on Saturday night are about the London cab
>> and cabbie, but one of them may have wider interest: "The Flipside Of
>> Dominick Hyde" is a 1980 play about "a time traveller from 2130 studying
>> the London Transport system".

>
> Saw that on videotape a few years ago. It's quite a sweet little film,
> really. Not actually about the London Transport system in any way, i
> should warn you, although there is a scene on the 2130 version of the
> tube, which still has the same signage, which is amusing if you're amused
> by that kind of thing (which i am).
>
> The two other things i remember from it are (a) the reference to Gilbey's
> gin, which is now all but extinct, and (b) the phrase "beardy jungler",
> which has passed into legend amongst the friends i watched it with.
>
> The bloke in it looks like the guy who played the Doctor Who with big
> hair, but it isn't him. I think.
>