88 Shadow of the Tower Icons

[thisbluespirit]

So I decided it would be better to make icons for the BBC's old 1972 serial about Henry VII, Shadow of the Tower than to babble about it. And then I had too much fun, as you can see, with eps 1-5 (& hopefully I'll do the rest in a second post).


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Episode 1: Crown in Jeopardy
“There’s nothing secret about the Plantagenets, they know what they want and they try to get it. But the Tudors... there is always something in their hearts which is a mystery to themselves and to everyone else.”

James Maxwell (Henry VII), Norma West (Elizabeth of York), Marigold Sharman (Margaret Beaufort), James Laurenson (Lincoln), Brian Badcoe (Jasper Tudor), Maurice Roeves (Humphrey Stafford), Michael Johnson (Francis Lovell).
1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20



Episode 2: Power in the Land
"Everyone on the earth is engaged in a struggle for power, even if it's only the power to remain alive..."

James Maxwell, Norma West, Michael Johnson, Maurice Roeves, James Laurenson, John Hamill (Thomas Stafford), Julian Holloway (Surrey).
21-25

26-30

31-32



Episode 3: The Schooling of Apes
"It must be very hard for a man to lose his whole future as well as his past at the outcome of one day's warring..."

James Maxwell, James Laurenson, David Collings (Richard Simmons), Morris Perry (Abbot Sante), Rachel Kempson (Margaret of Burgundy), Jake Robson (Warwick)
33-37

38-42

42-46

46-49



Episode 4: The Crowning of Apes
"It's as though Tudor were in my very heart - he knows every hour what I do."

James Maxwell, James Laurenson, Michael Lovell, David Collings, Brian Badcoe, Jake Robson, Gary Warren (Lambert Simnel), Barrie Cookson (Fox, Bishop of Exeter), Denis Carey (Cardinal Morton), Reginald Barratt (Bishop of Meath)
50-54

55-59

60-64

65-69

70-73



Episode 5: The Serpent and the Comforter
"What more unanswerable question is there than death?"

James Maxwell (The King), Peter Jeffrey (The Prisoner), David Ashton (The Soldier).
74-78

79-83

84-88


"So, now, my friend, you know the answer..."

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The usual rules apply: want, take, have, credit. Comments = &hearts & hotlinkers will be sent to the Tower, and nobody wants that. (Some textures by imemime_art, tiger_tyger and silk_roads.)

Comments

[mab_browne]

Very well-done icons, and it's nice having a look at both David Collings and James Laurenson (I used to have a little crush on him when he played Boney in the adaptation of the Aussie crime series. I was a kid, which justifies all things....). Icons like this remind me of how differently UK and US shows cast in regard to physical appearance. It's uncanny, almost.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Lovely icons! They look really nice :)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous icons, lovie!

*HUGS*

[liadt]

Excellent! I like the ye olde font you've chosen and there's some nicely composed shots. And you managed to get an icon of David Collings not looking worried! #71 made me laugh (wicked me!).