Re: TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC

Date: 4 Nov 2024 09:12 pm (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (shadow of the tower)
Anyway, he's probably stellar in the Rattigan I can't see.

The review suggests so!

I've never seen the show and will avoid it forthwith! Anything that can damp Nathaniel Parker must be beyond repair.

Tbf to it, for aforementioned Reasons, I watched parts of a lot of detective shows over one week, and it is possible I just watched a particularly duff segment or was in a resentful mood re. watching random detective shows. I mean, both leads are good actors (even if I was, ahem, mistaken on the one front for a while there) and I know other people who enjoyed it. I don't think me taking it in aversion after 20 random minutes is necessarily a reliable guide! XD

Since I am reading Rattigan's Ross, what business did this installment of Play for Today have disappearing? Apparently the entire internet wants to see it, too.

!!!! Gosh. You'd have thought Canada could have salvaged it at the least, too. (That era of Lost BBC stories seems to generally be salvaged by Canadian film copies, where they survive, if sometimes only in b&w, so you should also have words with the relevant Canadian TV services for slacking and hanging onto Jon Pertwee and Doomwatch instead.)

That was dead in the middle of Martin Jarvis's young officer phase, too, so lol. Hi.

Right, I meant to ask you about A Village Affair! It hadn't been on my '90's queer media radar at all until you mentioned it.

I think I'd vaguely heard of it before, but then it was of a vintage that it would have been written up in the papers when I was of an age to read the TV pages. It's one of the other JN things I've seen, along with random other things, that I should talk about some time, but I don't because I have nothing to say, and not in a bad way re. the thing, just that's how I am. (JN was only in the middle of it, although he turned up and dramatically Ruined Everything, being that kind of character, and my attention went up and down entirely relative to his being onscreen or not, so I was probably not having a good few days.) And I was too woolly to take in enough of the rest of figure out how I felt about anything.

It seemed good and interesting and well done, though! Peter Jeffrey was in it, and wasn't entirely evil (he's the most villain of the week of the whole villain of the week brigade of Old Brit TV), he was a vicar, and it was directed by Moira Armstrong, who once burnt him at the stake for the BBC in 1972 as well as doing some of the best Adam Adamant eps back in the 60s. I'm not sure she should be allowed to also be in the 90s, heh.

(What IS weird about is that there is a BBC Radio version that has identical credits and idk if it is somehow the soundtrack edited to work that way, or they actually did a radio adaptation of it at the same time?? V. odd. It wasn't even a BBC thing. I don't really want to listen to it if it is the former because that would be silly, but obv am curious if the latter.)
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