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1. Here's an offer!! (It's very exciting...) Since I now have my very own copy of Enemy at the Door, this means I have the TV-recorded set that Liadt gave me going spare! I am willing to post anywhere, if you think you can watch them. (I'm not sure how these things work with recorded DVDs, but at least they shouldn't be region-coded...)
It was made 1978-80 by ITV, so dull, slow-paced TV of the time (though with more location filming than was average). It focuses on small, mundane incidents, mostly and there is much angst/death/people committing suicide/having their lives ruined every episode, so you don't want to ask for it lightly.
However, it is also very well-written, thought-provoking and covers the German Occupation of the Channel and has a really good cast (Bernard Horsfall, Simon Cadell, Alfred Burke & John Malcolm are some of the leads). With an equally starry (for 1978-80 UK, obv.) guest cast each week. There is a young Anthony Head (in eps 4&5, in his first TV appearance), John Nettles*, Peter Woodward, John Normington, Martin Jarvis, Gary Waldhorn, Joss Ackland, James Maxwell and more. And there are many, many more women in it than I just made that sound. (The world is sexist and they are less famous to me, that's all. Also there are a lot of soldiers.) I would be very happy to post it to the first person on this post who would like to have it. (It also has an awesome and brave Librarian in episode 2, though I realise that's a thing that probably impresses me more than other people.)
It is very good, though. Honest.
* John Nettles is a Channel Island policeman from Hampshire called Sergeant Lewis. You can have fun working out what relation he must be to Bergerac or Barnaby. Or maybe he's a Time Lord who's got into the habit of being in the British police force, or some other Immortal Police being.)
2. I went to leave a comment on the proper Yuletide post about why Blake's 7 was eligible, went back to the Hermit Library and confirmed to myself that it was in fact ineligible. I have now fired myself from the task. (The theoretical overlap from looking at authors on both sites was 200-400 fics, but I managed to find the alphabetical title list on it this time and in practice, while they're many of the same authors, the fics are different, so we're over on two counts and the age of the fandom isn't relevant any more.) So, no Blake's 7 in Yuletide! Tragic. I can't decide whether to wistfully leave my nomination in just in case or change it. I might go change it now. Or possibly blow up the Hermit Library, of course... The moral of this being, don't ever ask me to argue in favour of anything.
It was made 1978-80 by ITV, so dull, slow-paced TV of the time (though with more location filming than was average). It focuses on small, mundane incidents, mostly and there is much angst/death/people committing suicide/having their lives ruined every episode, so you don't want to ask for it lightly.
However, it is also very well-written, thought-provoking and covers the German Occupation of the Channel and has a really good cast (Bernard Horsfall, Simon Cadell, Alfred Burke & John Malcolm are some of the leads). With an equally starry (for 1978-80 UK, obv.) guest cast each week. There is a young Anthony Head (in eps 4&5, in his first TV appearance), John Nettles*, Peter Woodward, John Normington, Martin Jarvis, Gary Waldhorn, Joss Ackland, James Maxwell and more. And there are many, many more women in it than I just made that sound. (The world is sexist and they are less famous to me, that's all. Also there are a lot of soldiers.) I would be very happy to post it to the first person on this post who would like to have it. (It also has an awesome and brave Librarian in episode 2, though I realise that's a thing that probably impresses me more than other people.)
It is very good, though. Honest.
* John Nettles is a Channel Island policeman from Hampshire called Sergeant Lewis. You can have fun working out what relation he must be to Bergerac or Barnaby. Or maybe he's a Time Lord who's got into the habit of being in the British police force, or some other Immortal Police being.)
2. I went to leave a comment on the proper Yuletide post about why Blake's 7 was eligible, went back to the Hermit Library and confirmed to myself that it was in fact ineligible. I have now fired myself from the task. (The theoretical overlap from looking at authors on both sites was 200-400 fics, but I managed to find the alphabetical title list on it this time and in practice, while they're many of the same authors, the fics are different, so we're over on two counts and the age of the fandom isn't relevant any more.) So, no Blake's 7 in Yuletide! Tragic. I can't decide whether to wistfully leave my nomination in just in case or change it. I might go change it now. Or possibly blow up the Hermit Library, of course... The moral of this being, don't ever ask me to argue in favour of anything.