(a) on the strength of Mr. Palfrey my father may be preparing to throw himself on the surviving oeuvre of Michael Chapman;
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I wish him good luck! As I said, the two that feel the most similar in vibe to me are EatD and Mr Palfrey, but I don't know whether that's necessarily true. I've watched a few of his other things and even where he was just producer (rather than also/or script editor) and they were all interesting to some degree or other and my only regret is that more have not survived or been released yet. I haven't done the early series of The Bill, for which he won a BAFTA and which at least 2 of my flist also highly recommend, because I worry about getting sucked into something that then turned into a soap and I don't want to fall down that rabbit hole. (I probably wouldn't, though. I should do it some time, though.
If your father also ends up grieving over Haunted and other such things, I send my advance sympathies, heh.
I was saying I know nothing about Michael Chapman, but this isn't entirely true; I do also have some clipping where he gives press release type info about his shows, and usually sounds all right! This one here from a miscellany of snippets includes the bit about the customs examination Half Hour Story but also a TV TImes reporter doing a piece on how ACTUALLY Public Eye is worth the men watching it because it has "dollies" in it after all! (Michael Chapman: "They all fit in perfectly with the atmosphere of Public Eye. They bring realism, they all master the accent required, they are professional actresses doing a most proficient job." Reporter: And I say they're all dollies! /o\)
She thinks it most likely that she saw it in early 1968 when she stayed for six or eight weeks with a friend in London (specifically in his landlady's parlor; there was a bed, she and the landlady got on beautifully, they corresponded for years afterward), which if true means that most or all of the episodes she saw are now lost.
Aww! That sounds like almost the most perfect way to watch Public Eye. The only method that could be Frank-approved (if he would approve of people watching him anyway). ♥ And, yes, if it was 1968, there's only 1 surviving s3 episode.
and is now making thoughtful noises about finding and (re)watching it and I just feel some kind of event horizon has been crossed.
!! Indeed. (Btw, if it comes to it and you want any warnings, I can offer them - I mean, it's a very interesting, very clever show - and more Roger Marshall's baby than Michael Chapman's - I mean, there's no surprise Holocaust storyline or anything, but there are some varying degrees of Jewish-related things in three of the episodes, and also one other thing if you were starting with s4 that I found very off-putting coming in there. On the Philip Broadley score, I can say that nobody's life is improved by the second half of "Mrs Podmore's Cat!" and other than that the only other thing is the last ep of s5 which is - and I shudder to say it - like some normal passable episode of TV! How is such a thing in my Public Eye? Oh, and my initial reaction was: I don't know what I'm watching, but it's either the worst or the best thing I've ever seen and I'll let you know later. And I leant it to my parents and got the immediate response that I had leant them an unwatchable thing! And then a few weeks later, a demand for more because they had got addicted. Whether or not, of course, that just says things about me and my family, of course, who knows? But I think it does take a bit of getting used to, which is weird for something so theoretically mundane!)
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I wish him good luck! As I said, the two that feel the most similar in vibe to me are EatD and Mr Palfrey, but I don't know whether that's necessarily true. I've watched a few of his other things and even where he was just producer (rather than also/or script editor) and they were all interesting to some degree or other and my only regret is that more have not survived or been released yet. I haven't done the early series of The Bill, for which he won a BAFTA and which at least 2 of my flist also highly recommend, because I worry about getting sucked into something that then turned into a soap and I don't want to fall down that rabbit hole. (I probably wouldn't, though. I should do it some time, though.
If your father also ends up grieving over Haunted and other such things, I send my advance sympathies, heh.
I was saying I know nothing about Michael Chapman, but this isn't entirely true; I do also have some clipping where he gives press release type info about his shows, and usually sounds all right! This one here from a miscellany of snippets includes the bit about the customs examination Half Hour Story but also a TV TImes reporter doing a piece on how ACTUALLY Public Eye is worth the men watching it because it has "dollies" in it after all! (Michael Chapman: "They all fit in perfectly with the atmosphere of Public Eye. They bring realism, they all master the accent required, they are professional actresses doing a most proficient job." Reporter: And I say they're all dollies! /o\)
She thinks it most likely that she saw it in early 1968 when she stayed for six or eight weeks with a friend in London (specifically in his landlady's parlor; there was a bed, she and the landlady got on beautifully, they corresponded for years afterward), which if true means that most or all of the episodes she saw are now lost.
Aww! That sounds like almost the most perfect way to watch Public Eye. The only method that could be Frank-approved (if he would approve of people watching him anyway). ♥ And, yes, if it was 1968, there's only 1 surviving s3 episode.
and is now making thoughtful noises about finding and (re)watching it and I just feel some kind of event horizon has been crossed.
!! Indeed. (Btw, if it comes to it and you want any warnings, I can offer them - I mean, it's a very interesting, very clever show - and more Roger Marshall's baby than Michael Chapman's - I mean, there's no surprise Holocaust storyline or anything, but there are some varying degrees of Jewish-related things in three of the episodes, and also one other thing if you were starting with s4 that I found very off-putting coming in there. On the Philip Broadley score, I can say that nobody's life is improved by the second half of "Mrs Podmore's Cat!" and other than that the only other thing is the last ep of s5 which is - and I shudder to say it - like some normal passable episode of TV! How is such a thing in my Public Eye? Oh, and my initial reaction was: I don't know what I'm watching, but it's either the worst or the best thing I've ever seen and I'll let you know later. And I leant it to my parents and got the immediate response that I had leant them an unwatchable thing! And then a few weeks later, a demand for more because they had got addicted. Whether or not, of course, that just says things about me and my family, of course, who knows? But I think it does take a bit of getting used to, which is weird for something so theoretically mundane!)