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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2024 10:42:04 GMT
DIXON IS THE ETERNAL.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 9, 2024 11:20:46 GMT
I think there ought to be a Sergeant Flint appreciation society. With a badge.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2024 12:28:11 GMT
I hate to break this to you, but he vanishes during one of the time jumps.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 9, 2024 12:55:15 GMT
I'm bracing myself for that. I was intrigued as to what else I might have seen Arthur Rigby in so looking at his filmography I discovered he bows out soon.
I hope he lasts longer than handlebar moustache man. His references to women seem dated even for 1960.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2024 14:31:59 GMT
Well...
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 11, 2024 14:26:50 GMT
Season 9 and 1962. It's fascinating watching the evolution of this series. I see now we have much more seamless integration of location and studio filming. No longer overdubbed silent outdoor film like the wedding and the Paris stuff, now it's proper location recording. And the studio segments have been Vidfired. The longer episodes give the story time to breathe too, this feels much more modern. You can tell this is primetime drama, Doctor Who is a year away yet and didn't get the production standards this has now until stories like The War Machines.
Wait a minute! Has handlebar moustache man been promoted to be Andy's sidekick? Without the tash? How did he manage that?! I do wish there was a good guide book to this series. I need cast lists and character guides.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 11, 2024 15:10:49 GMT
Just you wait until you get to THE TEAM.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 11, 2024 19:13:32 GMT
Time Jump!
Dixon now explodes into COLOUR in the most gripping episode yet! 'Waste Land' is a sensational slice of telly (very much ahead of its time) and feels like it was made in 2024, not 1970.
More of this show needs to be found!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 14, 2024 14:34:56 GMT
The Green Wedding. I love the slow build in this. The inevitability of the confrontation. You know there's trouble coming and then when you find the wedding reception is shot out of the studio, you know it's going to kick off. But there's George, 66 years old at this point, right in the thick of it.
There's a heck of a cast in this too. Not just the wedding guests but there are loads of police with speaking parts. I clocked Phyllida Law straight away, she looks so like Emma Thompson at that age. Major family resemblance.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 14, 2024 14:42:44 GMT
No! Robert Holmes wrote an episode of this but it's one of the lost ones! Same for David Fisher.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2024 15:11:45 GMT
It's a shame there weren't fans recording the audio off their telly as we could have had recons! Makes you appreciate more how lucky Doctor Who fans are.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2024 15:14:23 GMT
No! Robert Holmes wrote an episode of this but it's one of the lost ones! Same for David Fisher. Most of what Robert Holmes wrote for telly not only doesn't exist, but there's a lack of documentation such as scripts. It's partly why he isn't that well known as a great UK telly writer, outwith of Doctor Who fandom. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 14, 2024 19:02:13 GMT
It's a shame there weren't fans recording the audio off their telly as we could have had recons! Makes you appreciate more how lucky Doctor Who fans are. -Ralph 99k post! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2024 21:47:59 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 15, 2024 21:55:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 15:56:43 GMT
AAAARRRRGGHH
Glyn Owen and Prentis Hancock were in the same scene in a Missing Dixon!!!!
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2024 20:35:40 GMT
Colour behind the scenes action! VAMtastic! |
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2024 20:41:47 GMT
I've come to the conclusion that the fact Arthur Rigby looks down all the time while delivering his lines isn't an affectation of his character, it's because he's reading his lines off the clipboard he keeps shuffling on his desk.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2024 20:59:31 GMT
Now he's walking about holding the clipboard! I think it's glued to his hand.
JESUS ANDY'S BEEN SHOT!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 21:00:07 GMT
And the conclusion to the cliffhanger is a Missing Episode!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2024 21:01:28 GMT
FUCKING CLIFFHANGER! SLOW ZOOM ON ANDY'S PHOTO!
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2024 21:03:07 GMT
This is why there needs to be a guide to this series. How did that story end? I mean I know he isn't dead because he's in pretty much every episode of the series, but did the thieves get their comeuppance? We need to know!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2024 21:49:15 GMT
WE MUST KNOW.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2024 22:04:07 GMT
I found the Radio Times listing for the next episode on the BBC genome site, but it doesn't have an episode synopsis.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 16, 2024 22:11:19 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2024 7:44:55 GMT
THE CROOKS WERE CAUGHT.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 17, 2024 20:55:12 GMT
It makes me wonder how much British TV from the 50s still exists. Or I suppose pre-Doctor Who is how I'd see it. Quatermass, Pathfinders, these Dixons. What else is there to watch?
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2024 21:17:10 GMT
We'll never know!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 24, 2024 20:37:52 GMT
The time jumps are getting shorter now.
Overseas location filming in Holland!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 30, 2024 20:57:17 GMT
Time jump!
The guy in Geneva from The Tenth Planet and Travis 1 from Blake's 7 as villains!!!
-Ralph
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