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The Saint: The House on Dragon's Rock (6.9, ITC, 1968)
"It's a monster from another planet. All them satellites tampering with nature."
"Don't talk so daft, man."
"Same again, Dylan."
"It's, um... it's lycanthropy."
"Duw, there's a lovely word. What's it mean, then?"
#the saint#the house on dragon's rock#1968#roger moore#leslie charteris#harry w. junkin#anthony bate#annette andre#mervyn johns#alex scott#glyn houston#richard owens#talfryn thomas#heather seymour#anthony blackshaw#david garfield#dafydd havard#peter lawrence#reg pritchard#welp I finally made it. 107 episodes and the whole time in the back of my mind I've been half waiting for this ep; the most infamous of#The Saint's adventures‚ perhaps the most infamous episode of any ITC property. SPOILERS incoming for a 55 yr old tv show: (you were warned)#yes it's a classic Giant Ant Episode. quite how a relatively straightforward series about a playboy adventurer got to this point is almost#beyond comprehension‚ but here we are. Simon's in Wales (depicted as a land of superstitious peasant farmers and rolling mists to nobody's#surprise‚ alas) and he's investigating mysterious goings on. the source? i mean i already said‚ it's a goddamn giant ant. pity poor Anthony#Bate‚ a genuinely brilliant actor‚ here somehow delivering monologues about the supremacy of the ant with a straight face. pity poor dear#Annette Andre‚ menaced unconvincingly by a single mandible and expected to cry tears of fear. don't pity Roger Moore who inexplicably took#on directing duties as well as starring for this ep; he does his best (lots of handheld camera and interesting transitions) but you just#can't get past the giant ant (sometimes a puppet‚ usually superimposed) and the sheer lunacy of the plot#network and some online sources place this at the start of s5 but in the uk it was definitely not shown until halfway through s6#perhaps someone had the good sense to sit on it until the crew were truly out of fucks to give...
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Seven of One - BBC Two - March 25, 1973 - May 6, 1973
Sitcom Anthology (7 Episodes)
Running Time: 30 minutes
Stars:
Ronnie Barker
Roy Castle
Bill Maynard
Talfryn Thomas
Prunella Scales
Glynn Edwards
Joan Sims
Keith Chegwin
Leslie Dwyer
Robin Parkinson
Sam Kelly
Christopher Biggins
Richard O'Callaghan
Yootha Joyce
David Jason
Avis Bunnage
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The Avengers with Tara King
I've got the complete set of Avengers DVDs, and I have to say I wasn't really looking forward to the Tara King episodes. I remember them being rather silly when I watched them on TV.
However, I'm being quite pleasantly surprised.
I'm up to the second disc of the Tara King era, and I found I have a vivid memory of Get-a-way - I had just completely forgotten it was an Avengers episode. The bad guys get away from a high security prison by becoming invisible. Even better, Peter Bowles is being properly villainous with a ridiculous moustache.
Then, for the vaudeville episode, they've got Jimmy Jewel as Merry Maxie Martin, Bernard Cribbins as his gag writer, John Cleese as the chap who looks after the eggs that clowns' faces are painted on (this is a real thing - every clown has distinctive make-up, which is recorded on an egg), and Talfryn Thomas (who played just about every Welshman on TV in the 1960s) as Fiery Frederick!
So the guest actors are top notch!
I'm certainly going to carry on watching (until it gets really silly, anyway).
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podcast characters who would apologize to inanimate objects
- juno steel
- jake coolice
- merle highchurch (plants are inanimate, by the way)
- cecil palmer
- michael (astonishing tales)
- frankie meeks
- ben bernard
- actually literally everyone in the college tapes. all of them.
- owen green
- damien second citadel
- talfryn second citadel (i’m 90% sure he has actively apologized to pencils for breaking them)
- ryan dalias (i can feel it)
- barry bluejeans
- benzaiten steel (man talks to inanimate objects regularly. cannot convince me otherwise)
- peri (the far meridian) (she does actually canonically talk to inanimate objects so she’s on the list) (ignore that i forgot her last name)
- thomas (passenger list) (LISTEN)
- lee sandoval (does percy count as an inanimate object)
- judith ford
- dan powell
#this is my favorite list so far#podcasts#tpp#the penumbra podcast#taz#the adventure zone#taz balance#taz amnesty#wtnv#welcome to night vale#astonishing tales of the highly improbable#the college tapes#the bright sessions#second citadel#eos 10#the far meridian#passenger list podcast#chaos and order#36 questions#archive 81
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Cult TV Essentials: King of the Castle
Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, King of the Castlewas a surreal fantasy drama which starred Philip Da Costa, Jamie Foreman, Talfryn Thomas, Fulton Mackay, Milton Johns and Angela Richards. The show ran for seven episodes in 1977 and followed the shy insecure bullying victim named Roland Wright (played by Da Costa) who lived in a tower block with his nagging parents. Unfortunately his school…
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#Angela Richards#Bob Baker#Dave Martin#Fulton Mackay#Jamie Foreman#King of the Castle#Milton Johns#Philip Da Costa#Talfryn Thomas
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SECOND CITADEL – THE HEAD OF THE JANUS BEAST (PART TWO)
SOUND: DOOR OPENS, BELL RINGS, RAIN.
MUSIC: STARTS.
CONCIERGE:
Ah, good evening, Traveler! Welcome to The Penumbra.
SOUND: KEYS JINGLING.
Sir Marc and Sir Talfryn have gotten a bit over their heads on this adventure. Well, not their heads, precisely. It’s the head of this Janus Beast causing all the trouble. They battled a monster and Sir Caroline to get it, and now everything should be quiet. And it was, for a while, until the middle of the night, when the head began to whisper to Sir Talfryn about an even greater treasure – its heart. When Caroline and Marc awaken, the head has disappeared, and so has Sir Talfryn.
SOUND: THREE KNOCKS. CREEPY LAUGHTER.
Come, Traveler. Come with me into room 316.
SOUND: DOOR SQUEAKING OPEN.
The Head of the Janus Beast.
ALL SOUNDS: FADE OUT.
***
MUSIC: STARTS.
SOUND: SNORING. HOOFBEATS, HORSE SNORT.
MARC:
(MUMBLING)
Leamme ‘lone.
SOUND: SNORT.
Dampierre, we’ve talked about this.
SOUND: SNORT.
Touch me again and you’re glue.
SOUND: SNORT.
Damn it, Dampierre—!
SOUND: SNORT.
Oof!
MUSIC: STOPS.
Alright, alright, what is it? What could possibly be so important that you—
CAROLINE:
(SNORING)
MARC:
…oh.
(WHISPERING)
Ha ha! I never should have doubted you, you beautiful beast! Now, grab that head and let’s go; Tal can catch up to us later… Tal? Talfryn?
CAROLINE:
(MUMBLING)
Keep it down over there!
SOUND: SNORT.
MARC:
(WHISPERING)
No, I did not know you were telling me about Talfryn!
SOUND: SNORT.
Oh, don’t get cranky with me just because you mumble.
CAROLINE:
I told you to keep it…!
(SNORTS AWAKE)
You.
MARC:
Yes, me. Dampierre, help me up.
CAROLINE:
Where’s the head? You thieves! Your brother made off with the head, didn’t he?
MARC:
I wish Talfryn were capable of something like that, but he doesn’t have the get-up-and-go, honestly.
CAROLINE:
Where is he?
MARC:
I don’t know. Dampierre seems to think Tal might not have “stolen away” so much as “been stolen.”
CAROLINE:
Kidnapped?
MARC:
That is what that means, yes.
CAROLINE:
You’re going to rescue him in just your underwear?
MARC:
No, no, that would be stupid. I’m putting on a helmet, too.
SOUND: DULL CLUNK.
Now ride, Dampierre, ride!
SOUND: GALLOPING.
CAROLINE:
Oh, you’re not getting away that easy!
MARC:
Here to help out? That’s sweet of you.
CAROLINE:
Nobody steals from me, alright? Nobody.
MARC:
Wouldn’t dream of it.
CAROLINE:
So, let’s hear your story. Where did your brother run off to?
MARC:
Oh, I don’t know; I’m letting Dampierre lead the way.
CAROLINE:
Oh, good. You really know how to inspire confidence.
MARC:
We could be in no safer hooves than these, Sir Caroline. Dampierre heard Sir Talfryn wake up in the night and leave camp with his horse and the head. Dampierre followed as best he could, but Sir Talfryn was overtaken by a giant with feet suspiciously similar to our Janus Beast. And then the noble steed ran back to find us.
CAROLINE:
The horse told you all that?
MARC:
Of course not. I don’t speak Horse. It isn’t even a language.
CAROLINE:
You’re infuriating.
MARC:
Dampierre and I find ways to communicate without words. Feelings. Gestures. Meaningful glances over candlelight. And some days, Dampierre even communicates by leading me to a series of clear footprints belonging to himself, my brother, my brother’s horse, and a giant with feet suspiciously similar to our Janus Beast.
CAROLINE:
I don’t buy it. Why else would your brother leave the camp in the middle of the night? He knew the forest was dangerous. He said so himself. Besides, we slaughtered that monster once already. What’s it going to do? Get back up, hunt its head down, and snap it back on? Not likely.
SOUND: GALLOP SLOWS TO A TROT.
MARC:
He’s slowing down. We must be close.
SOUND: TROTTING STOPS. HEAVY FOOTSTEPS.
MUSIC: STARTS.
JANUS BEAST:
We caught it, we caught it! A snack, a snack!
JANUS 1:
We’ll peel its face!
JANUS 2:
We’ll fry its tongue!
JANUS BEAST:
We’ll grind and chomp and spit and slurp the stupid snack! It’s breakfast time at last!
(CREEPY LAUGHTER)
TALFRYN:
(MUFFLED YELLING)
MARC:
Well, you were right about one thing.
CAROLINE:
Shut up.
MARC:
It didn’t have to snap its head back on. It looks like it’s having too much fun juggling it.
JANUS BEAST:
(LAUGHS)
Spin and spin and spin and spin!
JANUS 1:
First we’ll tear it limb from limb!
JANUS 2:
And when the knights arrive at last…
JANUS BEAST:
We’ll tear them limb from limb from limb!
(LAUGHS)
Spin and spin and spin and spin and spin and— oooh, whooooooah.
JANUS 1:
Maybe we spin too much.
JANUS 2:
Maybe we take a break.
JANUS BEAST:
Spin and spin and spin and spin and spin!
(LAUGHING)
MARC:
Wow, I really hate that thing.
CAROLINE:
I thought you might relate to it. Any plans?
MARC:
Just the one.
SOUND: SWORD UNSHEATHING.
JANUS BEAST:
Hmm? What do we hear? Who goes there?!
CAROLINE:
Great plan.
MARC:
Shhh!
TALFRYN:
(MUFFLED YELL)
JANUS BEAST:
Does the little snack hear that? Something’s coming for it now.
JANUS 1:
It will watch us squeeze its brother’s eyes to jam.
JANUS 2:
It will watch us pick its brother’s toes like grapes.
JANUS BEAST:
And it will do nothing! Useless, useless! Best eaten, eaten, swallowed whole!
(CACKLING)
MARC:
That’s the last straw. Dampierre—
CAROLINE:
Stop. I have a plan.
MARC:
That’s a big bow.
CAROLINE:
Shh.
JANUS BEAST:
(LAUGHS)
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone—
SOUND: STRETCHING.
—gone, gone, gone, go—
SOUND: TWANG, SWISH, THUNK.
—ahhhhh!
SOUND: THUD.
MARC:
Very nice shot!
CAROLINE:
Yes.
JANUS BEAST:
Our head! It’s struck our head! Useless body, this way, now!
SOUND: GALLOPING.
MARC:
You hold back the body and I’ll grab the head!
CAROLINE:
You think I’d trust you with it?
MARC:
You’d better, because Dampierre is moving too fast for me to turn around!
CAROLINE:
(GROANS)
JANUS BEAST:
No!!
MARC:
Got it!
CAROLINE:
Marc, look out! I can’t stop it!
SOUND: HEAVY FOOTSTEPS.
JANUS BEAST:
Let us go, let us go! Bite it, bite it, bite— oof!
SOUND: HEAVY THUD.
CAROLINE:
Marc, when you hit the head, the body stumbles!
MARC:
I can see that! Finish it off while I free Talfryn!
SOUND: BLADE SLASH. THUD.
JANUS BEAST:
(LAUGHING)
CAROLINE:
Almost there… the heart has to be somewhere around here…
SOUND: SQUISHING.
JANUS BEAST:
A heart! It still thinks we have a heart!
JANUS 1:
Two faces, yes.
JANUS 2:
Two arms, two legs…
JANUS BEAST:
But no heart, no heart!
SOUND: SWORDS CLANG.
MARC:
Sir Caroline, look out!
SOUND: METAL CLANKING.
CAROLINE:
Would you hit that damn head already?
JANUS BEAST:
Oof!
JANUS 1:
It can hit us as much as it likes…
JANUS 2:
But never will we stop!
SOUND: HEAVY FOOTSTEPS.
CAROLINE:
Marc, it’s getting up!
TALFRYN:
(MUFFLED YELLING)
MARC:
Yes, yes, you owe me your life, your brother is brilliant, I’ve heard it all before. Shhhh.
CAROLINE:
Marc! Hit that damn head!
MARC:
I’m trying to have a moment, Sir Caroline!
CAROLINE:
Again! It’s still coming!
MARC:
Well, hold it back, then! I’m a little busy over here! I can’t free Talfryn with one hand and keep beating this stupid head with the other!
CAROLINE:
Well, it’s too fast to take on alone!
JANUS BEAST:
Always alone, always alone, always—
(GROANS)
CAROLINE:
It’s coming right for you!
MARC:
Sir Caroline, circle around, quickly! I’m throwing you the head!
JANUS BEAST:
(SCREAMING)
CAROLINE:
Boy, I can’t wait to beat the pus out of this thing.
JANUS BEAST:
Uh-oh.
(GROANS)
SOUND: PUNCHES.
MARC:
Now that that’s settled…
TALFRYN:
Marc! Behind you!
SOUND: SWORD CLANG.
MARC:
Aren’t you supposed to be on head duty, Sir Caroline?
CAROLINE:
I’m trying, but it’s getting better at taking the punishment!
MARC:
Hit it harder, then!
CAROLINE:
(GRUNTS)
JANUS 1:
A boot! It kicks us in the mouth!
JANUS 2:
(GROANS)
SOUND: ROPE SNAPPING.
TALFRYN:
Free! Where’s Thomas?
MARC:
I didn’t see him. Come up onto Dampierre, quickly!
SOUND: WHINNY.
Don’t complain, you could use the exercise. All those apples have gone straight to your thighs. So, Tal? Any ideas?
TALFRYN:
Me?
MARC:
No, the Talfryn behind you. It’s a very common name.
Yes, you. The forest is your specialty.
JANUS BEAST:
Specialty! It has no specialty! It’s useless, useless, useless— oof!
SOUND: PUNCH.
MARC:
Don’t listen to that thing! It’s all nonsense, Tal. It might sound right, if that’s the kind of nonsense you torture yourself with, but still, it’s nonsense. We need you out here.
SOUND: HOOFBEATS. HEAVY FOOTSTEPS.
Within the next few seconds, if you can manage it.
TALFRYN:
Right, right.
CAROLINE:
(GRUNTS)
Its wounds keep closing up! This is useless!
JANUS BEAST:
It’s useless, useless!
MARC:
Would you tell that thing to knock it off?
TALFRYN:
Knock it off!
MARC:
Yeah, I just said that.
TALFRYN:
No, no, the cliffs! Knock it off the cliffs!
SOUND: SWORD CLANGS.
MARC:
(GRUNTS)
Go on.
TALFRYN:
Remember? We couldn’t wander around last night because of all the cliffs! We’ll just push it off one!
JANUS BEAST:
No, no; that won’t work!
JANUS 1:
We love cliffs!
JANUS 2:
Cliffs are our favorite!
MARC:
Tal, that’s it! Stay here and pummel that head, Sir Caroline. We’re taking the body out for a walk.
Take out your spear, Talfryn. Even blind and deaf, I’m sure this body will listen to a good poke!
JANUS BEAST:
Ow! Ow ow ow!
TALFRYN:
Ha ha, yes!
(GRUNTS)
JANUS BEAST:
Ow ow ow ow ow ow—
MARC:
Ride, Dampierre! Let’s chase this thing off!
JANUS BEAST:
Nooooooooooooo! Ow, ow, ow!
MARC:
Keep pushing it, Talfryn! It’s working!
TALFRYN:
If I remember right, there should be a cliff right around… Look out!
SOUND: TREE TRUNK CRACKING, FALLING.
MARC:
It looks like it’s had enough of our abuse.
TALFRYN:
Be careful, Marc; a cornered beast is always more dangerous.
MARC:
I’ll- I’ll keep that in mind.
SOUND: WIND HOWLING.
The cliff’s right there… We just need one last push… Sir Caroline! Hit that head with everything you’ve got!
CAROLINE:
(DISTANT)
On it!
MARC:
Tal, charge!
MARC & TALFRYN:
(YELLING)
SOUND: DISTANT THUD.
TALFRYN:
(PANTING)
We did it, Marc! Look, it’s not getting up!
MARC:
(PANTING)
It’s almost cute, when it’s not chattering so much. Sir Caroline! How’s the head?
Sir Car… Sir Caroline!
MUSIC: ENDS.
TALFRYN:
You don’t think…
MARC:
Yeah… yeah. Well, let’s go check, anyway.
SOUND: GALLOPING.
TALFRYN:
Sir Caroline! Sir Caroline! Sir… she’s gone.
MARC:
The head, too.
TALFRYN:
After all that, she betrayed us! I can’t believe it.
MARC:
I can.
TALFRYN:
You don’t sound very bothered.
MARC:
I guess I’m not. Maybe I would be, if I thought that was our last chance. But honestly, Tal? By the time we’re through I think we’ll be taking on Janus Beasts by the dozen.
TALFRYN:
I hope not. I don’t think my eardrums could take it.
MARC:
Well, I plan to train those, too. Tal… about what that monster said…
TALFRYN:
It’s nothing.
MARC:
You aren’t worried that—
TALFRYN:
Worry? I never worry. What would I be worried about?
MARC:
Tal, I just wan—
TALFRYN:
I mean, it’s true that we’ve been questing for a year and we’re almost out of money and we haven’t been to a doctor in a while and I really want to be a knight but sometimes I think that—
MARC:
Shh, Tal. Now you’re making me worried.
TALFRYN:
I didn’t know you could be.
MARC:
Listen, this is all I’ll say: if I don’t worry, it’s because I’ve got the greatest would-be knight and the smartest tracker in the world to quest with.
TALFRYN:
You’re just saying that to cheer me up.
MARC:
I won’t deny that’s a nice side effect. Now come on, Tal.
SOUND: TROTTING.
MUSIC: STARTS.
Get us out of this forest and hot on the trail of another beastie. Apparently there’s more than one two-faced monster in these woods anyway.
TALFRYN:
Another Janus Beast? Are you sure?
MARC:
Who said anything about a Janus Beast?
TALFRYN:
You did. Just a minute ago.
MARC:
I meant Sir Caroline, Tal.
TALFRYN:
Sir Caroline’s a Janus Beast?!
MARC:
(LAUGHING)
TALFRYN:
What? What??
MUSIC: ENDS.
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SOUND: RAIN & MUSIC.
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This tale, The Head of the Janus Beast, was told by the following people:
Stefano Perti as Sir Marc,
Jason Mellin as Sir Talfryn,
Leslie Drescher as Sir Caroline,
and Kate Jones and Noah Simes as the Janus Beast.
On staff at The Penumbra:
Kevin Vibert is our lead writer and recording engineer.
Sophie Kaner is our director and sound designer.
Grahame Turner is our lead editor.
Original music by Ryan Vibert.
The Penumbra is created and produced by Sophie Kaner and Kevin Vibert.
I’m so sorry you’ve been called away, dear Traveler. We eagerly await your return.
ALL SOUNDS: FADE OUT.
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A Snake, A Cheetah, A Corpse, and Much More: Introducing the Multifarious Masters
A Snake, A Cheetah, A Corpse, and Much More: Introducing the Multifarious Masters
After the shock and awe ending to World Enough and Time, once our mandibular ramuses had been reattached to our temporal bones, some of us thought to ponder… why did the Time Lord’s ‘most infamous child’, the ‘lover of chaos’ whose ‘villainy is without end’ – The Master – spend a good few years sporting a ‘Gigi Hadid doing Melania Trump’ accent, an unconvincing conical conk, and Talfryn Thomas’…
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#Anthony Ainley#Castrovalva#Daleks#Eric Roberts#Geoffrey Beevers#John Simm#Michelle Gomez#Missy#Nicola Bryant#Peri Brown#Peter Pratt#Planet of Fire#Roger Delgado#Survival#Terror of the Autons#The Deadly Assassin#The Doctor Falls#The Keeper of Traken#The Master#The Mind of Evil#Time-Flight#World Enough and Time
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Treasure Island: Part Two (1.2, BBC, 1977)
"Tell me, Captain, does what you've said mean you fear a mutiny?"
"That's putting words into my mouth. If I believed that, I'd not be justified in putting to sea."
"Ah."
"I think things are not going right and I'm asking you to take precautions or let me resign. That's all."
"I'll stake my wig you meant to say more than that when you came in."
"You're smart, Doctor, I meant to be discharged. I never thought Mr. Trelawney would hear a word."
"Nor would I! I would've seen you to the deuce had Livesey not been here - but I have heard you, and I will do what you want, but I think the worse of you for it!"
"That's as you please, sir. You'll find I do my duty."
#Treasure Island#Robert Louis Stevenson#classic tv#1977#John Lucarotti#Michael E. Briant#Ashley Knight#Jo Kendall#Alfred Burke#Anthony Bate#Patrick Troughton#Jack Watson#David Collings#Christopher Burgess#Thorley Walters#Talfryn Thomas#Stephen Greif#Roy Boyd#Ena Cabayo#Roy Evans#Alec Wallis#And we're on our way! Boats! And sailing! And pirates (undercover!)! And Alfred Burke's luxurious hair...#In ep.1 I gushed about the peerless cast of Brit TV legends in this series. That's still true of course‚ but I'd be remiss not to mention#The equally impressive group on the other side of the camera; not least the great John Lucarotti as writer. I've long loved his work (I'd#Argue he was the best author Target had working for him‚ I loved his DW books as a kid). He does a wonderful job here‚ capturing so much of#The essence of the book. I've seen other adaptations and remembered little‚ but this brought up very specific memories of 8yr old me hiding#In corners and reading‚ with great excitement‚ of Long John Silver‚ and the Squire‚ Dr Livesey‚ Israel Hands... The toing and froing back#And forth between boat and island; the apple barrel and the strange‚ snake like charisma of Silver.. Lucarotti somehow translates it all#Onto the screen. He's a master of dialogue too‚ pitching the sailor talk just right so that it sounds authentic of time and place and style#But is neither incompressible nor ridiculous. A great treatment‚ with a great cast to do it justice. Next time.. Land ahoy mateys...
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Treasure Island: Part One (1.1, BBC, 1977)
"You know what this is, Jim?"
"Yes, Captain, a four penny piece."
"It's yours, Jim, and more like it - if you do a small service for me."
"Yes Captain?"
"All you've got to do is to keep a weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg, d'you hear?"
"A sailor with one leg?"
"That's right, Jim. And should you see him or any other rogues that don't belong these shores, you press your sails to tell me, no matter where I am."
#Treasure island#Robert Louis Stevenson#classic tv#1977#John Lucarotti#Michael E. Briant#alfred burke#Jack Watson#Anthony Bate#patrick troughton#David Collings#Ashley Knight#Jo Kendall#Terry Scully#Christopher Burgess#Stephen Greif#Talfryn Thomas#Roy Boyd#Ena Cabayo#John Baskcomb#William Abney#Max Faulkner#Linal Haft#Clive Wood#Q: what is the definition of an embarrassment of riches? A: the cast of Treasure Island (1977). You know you've got a hell of a cast when#Patrick Troughton himself is reduced to background work (although I'm confident he'll come into it more‚ he's playing Israel Hands)#Alfred Burke was‚ naturally‚ my main reason for getting hold of this. It's been delight upon delight however to see so many iconic faces#From classic TV; the Beeb really weren't messing around with this one. It's hard to pick an mvp from such a cast but I gotta say David#Collings absolutely smashes it as a terrifyingly otherworldly Blind Pew. Im sure I'd have been quite terrified if I'd seen this as a nipper#A leisurely start to the story (I always forget how long it takes them to actually get on a boat) but I've high hopes indeed for the rest
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Treasure Island: Part Three (1.3, BBC, 1977)
"You give us the chart and we'll offer you a choice. You can come aboard with us, once the treasure's shipped, and we'll clap you somewhere safe ashore. My word of honour on it. My affidavy!"
"And what's our other choice?"
"We'll divide straws with you, man for man. But I'll give you my affidavy, as before, to speak to the first ship we sight and send 'em here to pick you up. Now, you'll own that's talkin', handsomer than that you couldn't look to get! And I hope that all hands here will overhaul my words - for what is spoke to one is spoke to all."
"Is that all?"
"Every last word, by thunder. Refuse that and you've heard the last of me but musket balls."
#Treasure Island#classic tv#Robert Louis Stevenson#1977#John Lucarotti#Michael E. Briant#Ashley Knight#alfred burke#patrick troughton#Anthony Bate#Richard Beale#Thorley Walters#Stephen Greif#Talfryn Thomas#Roy Boyd#Roy Evans#Brian Croucher#Tim Condren#Paul Copley#Edward Peel#Yarghhh Jim lad! Shiver me timbers and hoist the main sale‚ ahar yar har! Anyway. Episode 3! We be on dry land at last‚ yargh#It's a credit to Lucarotti's skills as a scriptwriter that this episode flows as smoothly and as naturally as it does; because of the shape#Of the novel and the decision to make this in 4 parts‚ a hell of a lot happens in this episode: landing parties‚ attacks‚ counter attacks#A great deal of action and a great deal of development all squeezed into an impressively tight 50 minutes. Credit to director Briant too#He stages the major battle scene perfectly‚ emphasising the confined and claustrophobic nature of close quarters conflict even in a#Spacious island setting; cumbersome single shot pistols and unwieldy reloading making sword fighting a necessity. And what thrilling fights#They are... The real highlight tho is the verbal showdowns between Silver and‚ well‚ everyone; with both the enemy and his own men ready to#Give him what for‚ it's his wits and his words he must rely on‚ something Burke plays for all its worth. Particularly strong is the scene#In which he calls on someone to assist him in standing (his single leg making it difficult) and nobody will: Silver may be the ostensible#Villain of the piece but the refusal of all the 'heroes' to hold out a hand feels truly shocking and flies in the face of all good humanity
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Treasure Island: Part Four (1.4, BBC, 1977)
"I've seen too many die since I fell in with you. There's a thing or two I have to tell you, and the first is this: you're in a bad way. Your ship's lost, your treasure's lost, your men's lost, your whole business has gone to wreck and if you want to know who did it, it was I. I was in the apple barrel the night you spoke to Israel Hands - and he's now at the bottom of the sea. I told every word you said before an hour was out."
"Hands is dead?"
"Yes. I shot him. After I'd cut the cable and taken the ship where you'll never see her again. The laugh's on my side! I've had the top of this business from the start, I no more fear you than I fear a fly!"
#Treasure Island#Robert Louis Stevenson#John Lucarotti#Michael E. Briant#classic tv#BBC#Ashley Knight#Alfred Burke#Anthony Bate#Patrick Troughton#Richard Beale#Paul Copley#Edward Peel#Roy Evans#Brian Croucher#Talfryn Thomas#Stephen Greif#Roy Boyd#Tim Condren#Stephen Boswell#And so farewell to Treasure Island. We bow out on another incredibly tight 50 minutes which somehow manages to pack a whole mess of#Dialogue and tidying up and cleverly wrapped up loose ends. Everyone is‚ as they have been throughout‚ on absolute top form but special#Mentions to Pat Troughton‚ who finally gets his meaty scenes as Israel Hands‚ and of course to Alf himself. Silver comes into his own in#This last episode as he flip flops between sides depending on who looks like winning‚ variously sinister‚ threatening‚ conniving‚ pleading‚#Bargaining‚ posturing... Burke sells it completely‚ with a mix of twinkle and iron in his eye. His scenes with young Ashley Knight sparkle#And so bon voyage to Silver‚ young Jim‚ the Squire and more. I've seen a few adaptations of Treasure Island in my time but this is easily#My favourite. It's the version that most conjures to me the memories of 8yr old me curled in a sunspot‚ reading the book and picturing#These pirates in thrilling swordplay and verbal sparring. Bits of it have stuck with me forever more; the scene (included in this episode)#In which the pirates realise one of their number has torn a page from a Bible to use for a black spot‚ sparking horror among them‚ has#For whatever reason lived in my head all these years since. A thorough and deeply satisfying adaptation: shall we ever see its like again
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Horace (BBC, 1972)
"I have injections, I do, for diabetes."
"Eh?"
"That's what I've got, diabetes."
"Is it catching?"
"No. I don't think so."
#horace#alan clarke#Single play#Roy Minton#1972#barry jackson#Stephen Tantum#Talfryn Thomas#Christine Hargreaves#James Mellor#Hazel Coppen#Patricia Lawrence#Howard Goorney#Robert Hartley#Ken Parry#Caleigh Simmons#Daphne Heard#Pamela Miles#Eric Francis#Minton was one of Clarke's most frequent collaborators‚ the two having worked together from their first days in TV (and ultimately#Resulting in their joint opus‚ Scum). Both were also well known for their work in social realism and downbeat‚ distressing fare (again‚ see#Scum); this comes as something of an oddity then. I'm not sure there's anything in their combined careers with as light a touch or so#Clearly intended as comedy (in fact a decade later Minton would reunite with star Jackson for a sitcom follow up of Horace's adventures‚#Only this time on ITV and without Clarke). Sure there are touches of the real world and backgrounds of poverty and abuse peaking through#The cracks here‚ but the tone is unmistakably one of simpler‚ more irreverent mishaps and asides. Clarke uses warm earthy tones and natural#Light to bathe the whole play in a gentle warmth to match the script (also unusually he uses non diegetic music which is a real rarity in#Clarke's work). And yet despite all this... This has probably been one of my least favourite plays from the BFI Clarke set. Mostly that is#Down to a matter of taste (or perhaps lack of): Forrest Gump style narratives about characters with learning disabilities played by actors#Without them tend to leave me cold. They're usually either patronising and ill judged or misery porn; this isn't quite either but it's stil#A misjudged project which lowered the respect I had for Jackson as an actor (god knows what the sitcom version was like)
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Doomwatch: The Human Time Bomb (2.10, BBC, 1971)
"Look, we don't intend to imprison a lot of people in little boxes like a lot of broiler chickens."
"I'd say that's exactly what you are doing."
"On the contrary! We want people to be happy."
"Of course, every farmer knows that unhappy chickens go off their feed."
#doomwatch#The human time bomb#Bbc#classic tv#1971#John Paul#Jean trend#Simon oates#Patrick godfrey#philip bond#Roddy mcmillan#John quayle#Kevin brennan#Joan Phillips#Talfryn thomas#Ray Armstrong#Ursula hirst#Doreen andrews#Joan kemp welch#Louis marks#Oh louis marks you clod. This is an intensely frustrating experience because although the episode as a whole is a bit of a dud as#@thisbluespirit had warned it does contain the framework of something very very good. The horrors of high rise living was (and to a degree#Remains) a very timely and relatable concern. And again the show accurately comes down on the right side of things in predicting that#Anonymous grey blocks of living space have a detrimental effect on mental health and overall wellbeing. But marks spoils it by focusing so#Much of the episode on what a troubled lady dr Chantry is and how her feeble woman self can't stand up to the strains of investigation (the#Same dr chantry who quite capably coped with a deadly virus killing schoolchildren in her first episode) and by having Ridge and worse#Quist treat her like a hysterical little girl. It's horribly patronising and entirely out of character for them all (well certainly Chantry#And Quist). A strong but large guest cast means great actors like McMillan and Philip Bond are sidelined in very minor roles#A lot of potential here for a j. G. Ballard style critique of batteryfarm living but let down by Marks' mishandling of the leads#Kemp welch's direction however is urgent and effective so this is at leasy more compelling than the islanders
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autistic podcast characters (because i’m tired and also autistic)
- oliver ritz (basically canon i mean. come on.)
- adam hayes
- jonathan sims
- tim stoker
- lloyd allen
- all the posties in astonishing tales, actually. including raven <3
- juno steel
- rita redacted
- fitzroy maplecourt
- kravitz mcbone boy
- indrid cold
- sir angelo
- sir talfryn
- all the knights in the second citadel actually. and ale.
- cecil palmer
- carlos as well :)
- owen green
- thomas passenger list :))
- paul wayward guide can’t spell his last name but he’s autistic
- so is artemis
- and that one guy. the bank dude. him.
- georgie crusoe
- doug eiffel
- isabel lovelace please tell me i spelled it right
- feston pyxis
- everyone in archive 81 no im not kidding
#yes this is literally just characters i like and relate to#and what of it#podcasts#tbs#the bright sessions#tma#the magnus archives#astonishing tales of the highly improbable#tpp#the penumbra podcast#taz#taz g#taz b#taz amnesty#second citadel#wtnv#welcome to night vale#passenger list podcast#wayward guide for the untrained eye#wooden overcoats#wolf 359#startripper#archive 81
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