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1. I think I actually do feel better! I am back to my usual level of rubbish, at least for now. I hate to jinx it by typing something like that, which is generally asking for trouble, but here's hoping...
2. I think my Yuletide letter is almost done. \o/ (I just have to check it again first.)
3. Not unrelatedly, I have discovered that someone has a lot of Department S episodes up on Dailymotion, starting with episode 1 Six Days! This is still my favourite ITC offering! I promised last summer to make a post all about it, but I still haven't, whoops, although I did post some trailers and things here.
Basically it is about an international team who investigate extremely weird scenarios - like how can a plane be six days late when its pilot thinks it's thirty minutes early? Why did an astronaut die of oxygen starvation in the middle of London? Why is there a fake room with a dead body in a warehouse and what's with all these plastic dummies driving cars?
These things are investigated by Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani), whose talents are generally being drugged and tied up a lot, I think; Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nicols), computer expert, and Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) who just uses authorly imagination, flirting, and probably his terrifying moustache. Their boss is diplomat Sir Curtis Seretse (Dennis Alaba Peters) who likes giving Stewart cases in far-flung locations and gets kidnapped every so often. Episodes vary, of course, but I found it v engaging & on film, unlike a lot of the old telly things I watch, and Jason being a writer gives it a fun meta commentary at times, Annabelle gets a better deal than any other ITC female lead I've yet seen, while Sir Curtis makes it refreshingly a lot less racist than most 60s things. Also whole villages just vanish overnight, and a lot of familiar faces are responsible.
Anyway, if anyone should want to watch it & can't get the DVDs, there is a way - for the moment!And then you can write me Yule-fic. *looks innocent*
2. I think my Yuletide letter is almost done. \o/ (I just have to check it again first.)
3. Not unrelatedly, I have discovered that someone has a lot of Department S episodes up on Dailymotion, starting with episode 1 Six Days! This is still my favourite ITC offering! I promised last summer to make a post all about it, but I still haven't, whoops, although I did post some trailers and things here.
Basically it is about an international team who investigate extremely weird scenarios - like how can a plane be six days late when its pilot thinks it's thirty minutes early? Why did an astronaut die of oxygen starvation in the middle of London? Why is there a fake room with a dead body in a warehouse and what's with all these plastic dummies driving cars?
These things are investigated by Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani), whose talents are generally being drugged and tied up a lot, I think; Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nicols), computer expert, and Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) who just uses authorly imagination, flirting, and probably his terrifying moustache. Their boss is diplomat Sir Curtis Seretse (Dennis Alaba Peters) who likes giving Stewart cases in far-flung locations and gets kidnapped every so often. Episodes vary, of course, but I found it v engaging & on film, unlike a lot of the old telly things I watch, and Jason being a writer gives it a fun meta commentary at times, Annabelle gets a better deal than any other ITC female lead I've yet seen, while Sir Curtis makes it refreshingly a lot less racist than most 60s things. Also whole villages just vanish overnight, and a lot of familiar faces are responsible.
Anyway, if anyone should want to watch it & can't get the DVDs, there is a way - for the moment!