Complete incomplete JM gifology
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thisbluespiritConcluding my Incomplete Gifology of the career of James Maxwell with the 1970s, because I'm sure you were all thinking that your flists had been devoid of random grainy JM gifs lately. Luckily I can fix that!
Being upset at the stress of helping the Nazis in Manhunt (1970). (Peter Barkworth being rightly unsympathetic in the background.)
Being upset because his computer has been killing people because he forgot to tell it not to in Doomwatch (1971). (I have never told my computer not to kill people. Perhaps that's what it's doing when it's too busy to bother with what I might want to do on it.)
As Henry VII for the second time in The Shadow of the Tower (1972). Not upset for once; he just won the Battle of Bosworth in a blond wig.
Being Scottish in Man at the Top (1972). (Because some directors are clearly of the opinion that someone with a name like that has to be Scottish. It happens.)
In Hadleigh (1973) as a conman who is pretending to be Gerald Harper (aka Adam Adamant himself). Clearly, as you can see, a 100% convincing effort, almost as good as that time Patrick McGoohan decided he was going to pretend to be David Collings.)
Being upset because his wife has just been murdered in a crime of passion and the whole rest of Paris is, like, "Ah, a crime of passion? Must be Tuesday. Don't cry, baby." The Prison (1974).
Justice (1974), where he and Gareth Thomas have been rightly defeated by Margaret Lockwood and Carolyn Seymour.
Being upset because someone is threatening to kill him in a dodgy Father Brown episode (1974). Also the only time on the list where he's being American and not English, Scottish or German, because generally directors found it easier to believe he might be Scottish than he might actually be an American.)
Being directed by his friend Casper Wrede in Ransom (1974).
Being head of the secret police in Ray Smith's totalitarian state in Eastern Europe in The Hanged Man (1975)
That feeling when you just want to stay in and watch the latest BBC Shakespeare adaptation and your housemate (who has the manners of a pig but looks good in chunky sweaters) is insisting that you have to do murder again tonight. Life is so unfair in Thriller (1975).
Being somehow too gay for Raffles in Raffles (1975).
[Here the Royal Exchange opened and took up a lot of his time; a good thing for the world generally, a bad thing for me and my old telly watching.]
Looking exactly as a person would be expected to look having found themselves in Doctor Who's "Underworld" (1978).
Plotting to kill Hitler while being distressed in Enemy at the Door (1978).
As Charles Roland in The Racing Game (1979), Yorkshire TV's adaptation of Dick Francis's Odds Against. Not distressed. Working out how to un-distress Sid by devious means.
Apologies for the giant post! I did it in three parts in tumblr.
Being upset at the stress of helping the Nazis in Manhunt (1970). (Peter Barkworth being rightly unsympathetic in the background.)
Being upset because his computer has been killing people because he forgot to tell it not to in Doomwatch (1971). (I have never told my computer not to kill people. Perhaps that's what it's doing when it's too busy to bother with what I might want to do on it.)
As Henry VII for the second time in The Shadow of the Tower (1972). Not upset for once; he just won the Battle of Bosworth in a blond wig.
Being Scottish in Man at the Top (1972). (Because some directors are clearly of the opinion that someone with a name like that has to be Scottish. It happens.)
In Hadleigh (1973) as a conman who is pretending to be Gerald Harper (aka Adam Adamant himself). Clearly, as you can see, a 100% convincing effort, almost as good as that time Patrick McGoohan decided he was going to pretend to be David Collings.)
Being upset because his wife has just been murdered in a crime of passion and the whole rest of Paris is, like, "Ah, a crime of passion? Must be Tuesday. Don't cry, baby." The Prison (1974).
Justice (1974), where he and Gareth Thomas have been rightly defeated by Margaret Lockwood and Carolyn Seymour.
Being upset because someone is threatening to kill him in a dodgy Father Brown episode (1974). Also the only time on the list where he's being American and not English, Scottish or German, because generally directors found it easier to believe he might be Scottish than he might actually be an American.)
Being directed by his friend Casper Wrede in Ransom (1974).
Being head of the secret police in Ray Smith's totalitarian state in Eastern Europe in The Hanged Man (1975)
That feeling when you just want to stay in and watch the latest BBC Shakespeare adaptation and your housemate (who has the manners of a pig but looks good in chunky sweaters) is insisting that you have to do murder again tonight. Life is so unfair in Thriller (1975).
Being somehow too gay for Raffles in Raffles (1975).
[Here the Royal Exchange opened and took up a lot of his time; a good thing for the world generally, a bad thing for me and my old telly watching.]
Looking exactly as a person would be expected to look having found themselves in Doctor Who's "Underworld" (1978).
Plotting to kill Hitler while being distressed in Enemy at the Door (1978).
As Charles Roland in The Racing Game (1979), Yorkshire TV's adaptation of Dick Francis's Odds Against. Not distressed. Working out how to un-distress Sid by devious means.
Apologies for the giant post! I did it in three parts in tumblr.
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Date: 24 Jul 2020 09:48 pm (UTC)I never forgave Doomwatch for replacing Counterstrike. I had such a crush on Jon Finch when I was 13!
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Date: 25 Jul 2020 08:44 am (UTC)And, aw, but Doomwatch is great! So much that can go wrong and does! *pets*
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Date: 24 Jul 2020 09:58 pm (UTC)Haha, this caption truly made me laugh! Beautifully captured.
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Date: 25 Jul 2020 05:45 am (UTC)Somehow the fact of this casting had escaped my attention.
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Date: 25 Jul 2020 08:48 am (UTC)Not through any fault of mine! ;-p
And, yes! It's more than that, too - as Dick Francis loved The Racing Game, it inspired him to write Whip Hand and he seems to have adopted the series casting for not only Sid, but also Charles and Chico, so the rest of the series is also JM pro fanfic, which is not a thing that happens every day and I appreciate it muchly.
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Date: 25 Jul 2020 01:09 pm (UTC)Good widescreen work for the modern age!
You can never be too gay for Raffles:D
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Date: 26 Jul 2020 08:04 am (UTC)You can never be too gay for Raffles:D
According to Raffles fandom that one time, James Maxwell can!!
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Date: 25 Jul 2020 09:00 pm (UTC)Looking exactly as a person would be expected to look having found themselves in Doctor Who's "Underworld"
At least he doesn't look exactly as Avon would expect. ;)
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Date: 29 Jul 2020 03:54 pm (UTC)LOL! Poor JM!
Too gay for Raffles? How does that even happen?
This is an awesome post. What a lovely lot of gifs, despite the lack of facial hair.
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Date: 30 Jul 2020 09:03 am (UTC)Too gay for Raffles? How does that even happen?
If you stalk Bunny while not being Raffles, apparently.
And thank you! ♥