A brief note

There has been a friending meme, which I sort of took part in (I put myself on it and thought if anyone friended me despite/because of all my strange interests, they must be the best people, heh) and also there were a few people over the seasonal exchanges. Well, I have an introductory post I did last month for the other friending memes, and things are still pretty much the same. But welcome anyhow!

Other people are doing one of those asking questions/tell me things meme to get to know people. I'm not. (Because I can only think of one thing to say - like Evelyn in The Mummy: "I'm a librarian!" Which is only now true in the non-technical sense, anyway. And then my mind goes utterly blank about asking questions. It always happens. So I'm not doing that.)

Instead I'll either post yet another David Collings picspam (but I am nearly all out of source material, okay) or a belated fic year-in-review post. I haven't decided yet, but they are both all but ready in draft, so one of those should happen in the next hour.

I know. Gosh. Can it get more exciting round here? :loL:

But, anyway, welcome to the new new people! And to the still slightly-new people and the shiny old people. Life's too tough not to need more good people in it, so it's good to have you here. ♥

Gideon's Way picspam (1965)

Gideon's Way was a 1960s ITC show about Commander Gideon of Scotland Yard. I was watching it because one of its episodes features David Collings as an emotionally disturbed young man who goes round London in a mask stealing girls' hair.

It is amazing the things that you don't need to make up about his career, it really is.

This picspam has mainly Mr Collings, but that's not me being biased, the episode is nearly all him. Sadly, it also upset me for reasons, which is a shame because otherwise my main problem for this entry was how many close ups of the young David Collings does a person need in a picspam? it's not in colour, though.

(It was dealing with mental illness, but then remembered it was an ITC action thing shot on film and wound up with drama at knife-point and on roof-tops and I was already shaky from the weird camera angles. Aargh.) So, do note, if such things trouble you, there will be references here to mental illness and suicide.

For liadt, who put this picspam on her Fandom Snowflake wishlist, and who is curious about the ring David Collings wears in 60s things. Never say that I don't grant wishes from time to time. ;-)

There is a sinister figure lurking round 1960s London in the fog in a mask!


So, you know, I don't know what that was I just watched, but it did at least have a lot of David Collings.

Gideon's Way is now my least favourite of the old TV I've seen, but I do mean to watch some more of it at some point - there are episodes by Malcolm Hulke and Norman Hudis (who wrote the early Carry Ons) and an episode with Angela Douglas. But it meshes kitchen-sink type things (the whys and hows of people becoming mixed up in criminal activity) with the very packaged adventure style of ITC serials and it feels very weird, even in the other episodes I saw.