Because I promised...

[thisbluespirit]

I got to the end of Fall of Eagles the other day, so here (finally) are screencaps of Colin Baker as Crown Prince Willie. (1974)

He turned up in the last episode (End Game), which was set in 1918, so there was absolutely no dashing about with plumed helmets, or any of that. He did, however, get time to make a (definitely kinky) phonecall to his mistress.



(With Barry Foster as the Kaiser.)




"Yes, I love you better than my wife..."


He knows the Berlin joke: "It's no use demanding the Kaiser's resignation - you might get the Crown Prince in his place..." (Or something like that.)



(I'm sorry. I'm tired, and I seem to have failed to resize two of them. :-/)


I am making a bigger picspam of the whole thing, which hopefully I'll finish soon, now that I've watched it all.

Comments

[pitry.livejournal.com]

.... It's not Colin Baker without the technicolour jacket. It can't be.

HOW CAN THIS BE COLIN BAKER?!

[scifi-mel.livejournal.com]

So when Jacqueline Pearce went on about what a sexy hearthrob he was I thought it might just have been her imagination but he looks SOOO much better here! I can almost see it.

[eve11]

Aw, he's so cute! :D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Teehee! Colin Baker as a German again!

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: I hear he has had a whole life before and after wearing the multi-coloured jacket. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. Only almost? Poor Colin! (Yeah, he so very... Colin no matter what else he is.)

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

I thought some people would like to see 1974 Colin!!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes. :-D And, again? What was the other time, then?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Actually, thinking about it, I've a feeling it was a Russian he played in a Big Finish audio, not a German.

[thisbluespirit]

Ahh. Big Finish. :-) And presumably one I haven't heard yet, then?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

This one!


(I had to go looking 'cos I couldn't remember - I just remembered that he'd sounded VERY Russian!)

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

I met him briefly in 1986, and y'know... surprisingly sexy. *grin* (I must admit I don't think he's aged well, but that's my opinion, and it doesn't negate that he was really quite attractive for a while.)

[thisbluespirit]

:-) Thanks!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Welcome!

[thisbluespirit]

:-D

And it would be a sad thing if aging badly negated your period of being attractive. Doubly unfair, really. He's oddly like Peter Firth at times (when they were both younger, less so now they're both older) and he was definitely a sex symbol back in the day. Even if I have problems with that because, you know, Spooks! Harry! It is not right! *hides* Heh.

[scifi-mel.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid the blonde curls from then frighten me! But I've heard he is a total sweetheart and very funny. I was actually at a con with him last year but didn't get to see him as his panels clashed with the meet and greets I had.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Some very Six-like expressions in some of those pictures (although I guess he can't entirely help that - what with it being the same face and everything...) - the Kaiser looks genuinely dismayed in the one with the "joke". ;D

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, he is very recognisable! :-)

And, well, the Kaiser would look dismayed. It is 1918, he's losing, everyone wants him to abdicate. I am not sure now whether that cap is actually from that bit, or the last bit where the Crown Prince goes back to his troops and the Kaiser to escape to Holland. I think it's the bit where he's talking about not succeeding his father if he abdicates, though.

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I think I stated that weirdly, but there you go; I was posting quickly during a break at work.

Peter Firth... I'm stunned by the curly mass of blond hair he had back in the day! I didn't really know about him until Spooks, so had no idea that's what he looked like then. I've never had the nerve to watch him in Equus, because that's such a creepy story, but recently acquired the DVD; I just don't generally need anyone's full-frontal nudity to make my life complete. ;-) And I've seen photos where he's reminded me of Colin Baker; there's one I saw on Tumblr that I'm trying to track down again so I can reblog it.

I found Firth oddly attractive in Spooks, maybe because, though he stands about 5'8", he has a towering sense of presence. Hell of an actor. I like how the production people admitted that Harry was in the background at first, but when they realized what a good thing they had in Firth, they increased his role. As it should be.

So, I've watched all of Spooks now. I didn't want it to end. :-/ The ending... yeah, of course Harry had to lose the one person who brought out his gentler side. This show was an evil show. *wibble*

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, I suppose so (I did for a moment entertain the notion that it was because Baker, C was looking particularly menacing in that picture ;D) - although maybe he should look on the bright side - he could have ended up like his Russian counterpart...

Who's the chap in the navy uniform? He hasn't got a grand enough beard to be Tirpitz (Tirpitz had facial hair like Thorin Oakenshield). ;D

[pitry.livejournal.com]

It's a lie, I say! A lie!

[clocketpatch]

My brain is having a hard time computing this - I see the face and then immediately brace for the technocolour. Poor guy. He really was a looker in the day, and it must be awful having your entire career suddenly disregarded in favour of the description "man under eye-burning coat"

[thisbluespirit]

So, I've watched all of Spooks now. I didn't want it to end. :-/ The ending... yeah, of course Harry had to lose the one person who brought out his gentler side. This show was an evil show. *wibble*

*hugs* It is an evil show, yes! And that is why we love it! And, yes, I was glad they took their ending in their own hands, as it were, and didn't just wait to be cancelled, but even so... I'd been watching it on TV all ten years! I can't quite think of anything else I've done that with. It still feels weird to think that it's gone.

As for Harry/Peter Firth, I've heard people describe him in his younger days as a "damaged cherub". If they are possible to get hold of easily (and you've not already done so), I'd recommend Roman Polanski's Tess (he managed not to annoy me as Angel Clare, back when I was a teenager, which is saying a huge amount, as I wanted to throw things at him in the book) and the rather wonderful The Flipside of Dominick Hyde (which someone recommended to me just recently.) He's also in the 1986 BBC version of Northanger Abbey, which is where I first realised how like Colin Baker he could be! It's a weird adaptation of it; he's very arch!!! (There's a nice kiss at the end, though... Catherine is played by katherine Schlesinger, from Ghostlight.)

But SPOOKS, yes. I do not know a cure for S10 and it finishing, but here is the cure for the WHAT THE...? ending of S9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfn2DUyJb0

:-)

[thisbluespirit]

No, he was v supportive of his father and wouldn't hear of taking the throne from him via abdication.

I... don't know. There were a lot of characters! I'd have to go and look, but he's someone who acts as a personal manservant to the Kaiser - pours him his tea, and so on, not one of the people having the council of war.

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Yes, poor Colin!