30 Days of [Any Favourite] TV Show - 3

[thisbluespirit]

6. Best title sequence

Public Eye had a different title sequence each series (except for S3), and I quite like most of them. However, while the usual theme is my favourite, you've got to give them points for S4: they not only made a new credit sequence, they recorded a different, slower and more downbeat version of the theme, and then "Welcome to Brighton?" had a separate, shorter credits sequence used only on that episode, in which we flick through Frank's prison file, which doubles up as a way of reminding viewers where they left him at the end of S3. If anybody could have forgotten...

The main/original theme and the rearranged S4 theme. (Written by Robert Sharples under the pseudonym Robert Earley).


8. Missing episode you would like to see found.

All thirty-six of them, of course! Narrowing it down, I'm more keen to see anything from S2 or 3 than S1, but anything would be wonderful. Everything that survives suggests it was always of a pretty high quality, and any tiny piece of Frank Marker than could be restored to the world would be amazing. (Sadly, they were wiped rather than lost, so... it's not likely, to say the least). Especially, I'd like the 8 lost Roger Marshall episodes, the 6 lost Robert Holmes stories, the David Whittaker, and the one that had Jacqueline Pearce in it, and also Pauline Delany's first guest appearance, but if you pin me down and make me choose one, then there's only really one answer...

"Cross That Palm When We Come To It" (S3) by Roger Marshall, the episode in which Frank gets set up and arrested, and there is no escape or proving his innocence for him. Viewers at the time wrote in demanding Frank's release, so maybe it was too heart-breaking to survive, but still, it's a crime that it doesn't.


9. Favourite photo/screencap

I thought about this, and flicked through my epic collection, but honestly:



Frank/Helen/Mug/Tea = ♥

I quite like this one, too, which is Helen early on wondering what to make of a man who gets annoyed and offended just because she made him sandwiches to take to work:



And this has to be the weirdest out of context:



While this encapsulates rather a lot of the series into one image:





30 Days of [Public Eye]

1. Favourite Episode
2. What You Wish Happened
3. Favourite regular character
4. Favourite guest character
5. Least favourite episode
6. Best title sequence
7. Most romantic moment
8. Missing episode you would like to see found
9. Favourite photo/screencap
10. Favourite ship
11. Favourite writer
12. Favourite director
13. What show-related fanworks would you like to see?
14. Worst decision
15. Scene that made your heart break
16. Best scene involving eating/drinking
17. Something that made you happy
18. Something that made you sad
19. Something that made you think
20. Something that made you laugh
21. Best series opener
22. Best season finale
23. Crackiest moment
24. Best scene involving music/dancing
25. Crime against fashion
26. Favourite quotes
27. Favourite non-romantic OTP
28. Most surprising moment
29. Favourite location
30. Favourite costume/clothing/accessory

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

If only we had the TARDIS!! We could whisk back to the 60s and save EVERYTHING!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes! We would save ALL THE THINGS and then still have time for our epic theatre tour. (Which is getting longer by the day, because I need to go see Alfred Burke in Henry VI in 1956 as well now, is that okay? I suspect somehow that we also have a list of Judi dates to attend to...)

:-D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Yes - I want to see Judi in ALL THE PLAYS!!

[thisbluespirit]

We might need to split up on occasion to accommodate all our wishes!

Wouldn't it be awesome, though? :-D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It would be outstandingly awesome!!!!! I want this SO badly!!

[thisbluespirit]

:-D

I know! I just need to get better (at the moment, I couldn't sit through one theatre performance, let alone all the ones we've got planned) and then we need to get on with stealing that TARDIS.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well I imagine it'll take some time to work out how to steal the TARDIS - which'll hopefully give you time to feel better.

[thisbluespirit]

Indeed! It's a plan... :-)

[liadt]

I think I prefer the downbeat S4 one to the usual theme, it matches the opening sequence on the beach nicely too.

I'm quite fond of the Frank/Mug/Helen one as I've seen it so often:) Nice 70's wallpaper on the out of context one - a touch of green daring!

[thisbluespirit]

I'm prejudiced against the S4 one, because it reminds me of how unbearably bleak the first 3 episodes seem. The usual one has the right mix of both melancholy but being fundamentally upbeat. (I say the usual one, but I think it's slightly different between several of the series...)

Yes, sorry. I wanted to be interesting... but Frank/Helen/Mug/Tea. What can you do?

And I'm sure we used to have a sort of orange wallpaper like that in our kitchen when I was very small. 0_o

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

I think I'm immediately prejudiced in favour of the series four theme, because it comes with the Thames jingle. I appreciate that this isn't proper critical thinking, but it's the Thames jingle!

And that orange wallpaper! Yikes. Twinned with that lady's remarkable housecoat, there's no doubting which decade the screencap comes from, is there! Actually that wallpaper is a bit like my parents' old kitchen floor.

Can I come with you in the TARDIS, when you go looking for lost episodes?!

[thisbluespirit]

If you look further on YT, you can find the 1971 intro & I think S7, both with Thames jingle for non-prejudiced comparison? ;-p

(I used to hate the Thames jingle because it meant Rainbow to me. I used to find Rainbow deadly dull when I was small. I've forgiven Thames since, because they did make some good grown-up TV, it seems.)

I think it's a dressing gown, but it's still... yes! It must be the 1970s!

Can I come with you in the TARDIS, when you go looking for lost episodes?!

I don't see why not - after all, we're bound to need a hand with breaking into TV vaults and swiping all those videotapes they want to wipe over and darting into skips to retrieve things from the flames.

You just need to understand that we're combining it with an epic Shakespearean Theatre tour of the 1960s, 70s, 80s & 90s. :-)

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's fine. You go be Shakespearean, and I shall stalk Queen and the E Street Band through a succession of landmark concerts.

Heck yes, Thames and "Rainbow". I always used to associate the two as well. What was the appeal of "Rainbow" exactly? One of those shows that made me an ardent fan of Children's BBC.

[thisbluespirit]

I feel sure I did kind of like Rainbow once, but as I headed to school age, it induced a kind of sense of horror in me. I never thought about telling someone I didn't like it. I never realised you could stop things like that happening to you. :-)

Sounds like an arrangement! Mind, I think we also need to fit in a couple performances from the 50s as well now, but you can probably find a way to watch 50s TV and film it (and then try and fake it that you found old cine reel or something).

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I like the music... especially the second version :)

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

Everyone but me prefers the S4 version! I wonder if it's the difference between it in isolation and it as the sole source of incidental music in the show? (Intro, outro, and two ad-break stings). Or just that it reminds me how bleak the first half of S4 is. Or I lack taste... Hmm.

Anyway, everything's better than the time they startled me by finishing up with a version of "Ding Dong Merrily On High" for the outro instead.