Timothy (TV film)
Timothy is an Australian television comedy which first screened on ABC1 in 2014, as part of "Mental As...", to support Mental Health Week.
This single camera comedy was written by Tristram Baumber and directed by Erin White. It follows the story of 35-year-old high-flyer Timothy Garrett, who has returned home to Wollongong following bankruptcy and a mental breakdown during his corporate career in Hong Kong. His mother Melinda becomes his carer, with a little help from her husband, Colin. His therapist, insists the slightest nudge in the wrong direction could tip him over the edge.
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Timothy (name)
Timothy is a masculine name. It comes from the Greek name Τιμόθεος (Timotheos) meaning "honouring God", "in God's honour", or "honored by God". It is a common name in several countries, including non-English speaking ones.
In the United States, the name was most popular in the 1960s, ranking 13th among all boy's names. Popularity for the name has since declined with its latest rating of 110th in 2009.
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Timothy (tortoise)
Timothy (c. 1839 – 3 April 2004) was a Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise who was thought to be approximately 165 years old at the time of her death. This made her the UK's oldest known resident. In spite of her name, Timothy was female; it was not properly known how to sex tortoises in the 19th century.
Timothy was found aboard a Portuguese privateer in 1854 by Captain John Courtenay Everard, of the Royal Navy. The tortoise served as a mascot on a series of Navy vessels until 1892. She was ship's mascot of HMS Queen during the first bombardment of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (she was the last survivor of this war), then moved to HMS Princess Charlotte followed by HMS Nankin. After her navy service she retired to live out her life on dry land, taken in by the Earl of Devon at his home, Powderham Castle. On her underside was etched the family motto, "Where have I fallen? What have I done?"
In 1926, Timothy's owners decided that he should mate and it was then discovered that "he" was female. Despite this useful information, mating attempts were unsuccessful.
Television film
A television film (also known as a TV film; television movie; TV movie; telefilm; telemovie; made-for-television film; direct-to-TV film; movie of the week (MOTW or MOW); feature-length drama; single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.
Origins and history
Though not exactly labelled as such, there were early precedents for "television movies", such as Talk Faster, Mister, which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, or the 1957 The Pied Piper of Hamelin, based on the poem by Robert Browning, and starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. That film was made in Technicolor, a first for television, which ordinarily used color processes originated by specific networks (most "family musicals" of the time, such as Peter Pan, were not filmed but broadcast live and preserved on kinescope, a recording of a television program made by filming the picture from a video monitor – and the only method of recording a television program until the invention of videotape).
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