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Post by pulphack on Jul 25, 2011 15:57:51 GMT
The Avengers was THE series of the sixties, but to digress slightly on the subject of my role model Peter Wyngarde, there's an episode of The Baron where he plays a supercilious eastern Prince and the crappy bit part actor who is his doppleganger, which gives PW full reign of his great overacting. Like his Dept S gig where he and Anthony Hopkins argue over bacillus and the fate of mankind in a gents lavatory, out acting each other into hyperbole heaven.
Back on track, the episode you mention is superb, and also reminds you of how underrated and forgotten Kenneth J Warren is.
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Post by killercrab on Jul 25, 2011 17:03:24 GMT
Castle De'ath and Murdersville are both *brilliant* - in fact the Iron Maiden used in CD turns up in the village torture museum in Murdersville! I visited the village where this was filmed ( Amesbury I think it's called) and the duck-ing pond is still there , albeit covered in rushes! Tried to get something to eat whilst there but got told ' no food 'ere' - I guess only murder is on the menu?
KC
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Post by andydecker on Jul 25, 2011 18:47:37 GMT
These are both memorable eps. Castle De´ath with Gordon Jackson as the villian is so good. And Murderville has also so many memorable scenes.
I like the b/w episodes more. Always thought Mrs. Peel in her yellow jogging suit looking a bit ridiculous after the leather phase. Am not so keen on Epic though. This was a bit too campy for my taste, even if Peter Wyngarde was truly great in it.
On dungeons and stuff there is of course to mention Escape in time. I guess it is mainly memorable for its brilliant chase scene - the one with the green toy-crocodile - but if memory serves right it had Emma in a pillory (?)
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Post by dem bones on Jul 25, 2011 20:01:58 GMT
On dungeons and stuff there is of course to mention Escape in time. I guess it is mainly memorable for its brilliant chase scene - the one with the green toy-crocodile - but if memory serves right it had Emma in a pillory (?) And nobody thought to mention this before? ok, so Escape In Time has been added to the watch list and also something called The Man Eater Of Surrey Green which reputedly features some hardcore triffid activity. pulps, i think the episode of The Baron you refer to is Legions of Ammak though, as yet, i've not managed to snag a copy. meanwhile, is this The Perils Of Pauline moment merely a publicity shot or did something of this nature take place in one of the episodes?
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Post by andydecker on Jul 25, 2011 20:44:27 GMT
meanwhile, is this The Perils Of Pauline moment merely a publicity shot or did something of this nature take place in one of the episodes? This is from The Gravediggers, the end, quite a long scene where the villians want to run over Emma with a mini-train. It is a fun episode, with Emma in a nurse uniform and one of the first in a long line of eccentrics, this time a train-nut who has what we today call a virtual train Right, Man-Eater is indeed a Triffids hommage. And a lot of Quatermas in this. They did a lot of these things, right? I remember some Toy-Daleks in the department store episode.
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Post by killercrab on Jul 26, 2011 2:30:33 GMT
I like the b/w episodes more. Always thought Mrs. Peel in her yellow jogging suit looking a bit ridiculous after the leather phase >>
Not at all - I think the Emma Peeler came into it's own ( as did the character) with the advent of colour. In reality the leather look was always a hangover from Cathy Gale's era. I think the show really came into it's surreal best in the colour seasons , the best written stories for Tara King. Speaking of which Dem you must see FOG ( Ripper violence in smoggy London) and THINGUMAJIG ( death at an archeological dig in a church foundations) . Then there is BIZARRE...
KC
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Post by Thana Niveau on Jul 26, 2011 8:11:22 GMT
Inspired by the kinky pics Dem posted, we watched "Epic" and "Return of the Cybernauts" last night - what a delightfully campy romp! I don't think I'd ever seen a whole episode before (despite having watched Blake's 7, Man & Girl from UNCLE, The Prisoner, et al as a teenager), so I'm keen to see more!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 26, 2011 10:17:11 GMT
I'm sure it goes without saying that I've seen all the episodes mentioned below, including the one where Mrs Peel gets pilloried in period costume, but it's going to be a pleasure revisiting them all with Lady P. In fact come to think of it, Clevedon has a toy train and railway line - perhaps a reconstruction of the railway peril photo might be in order?
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Post by pulphack on Jul 26, 2011 18:28:13 GMT
Legions Of Ammak is the one! I have it lurking on an old VHS of ITC shows from the 60's (two volumes of this and one of the '70's which each have four shows represented and which I got back in late 80's/90's). The Baron is a bit ropey as a series (it has bugger all to do with John Creasey's books par the title, and as I'm a fan I might be a bit biased), but that one really is worth seeing.
The Avengers is odd in that although Emma Peel was a better character (and played by a better actress), the Tara King stories had the best whacko surreal quotient. I guess this might partly be because Brian Clemens had bigger budgets by then because of the success of the first colour seasons and so could let his imagination loose a little more... some of the early Peel B&W shows and the latter day Cathy Gale's have some odd moments but are foiled by the budget being stretched a little too tight. Low budget crap sets can be excused in poor work as they fit the bill, but they can jar more of the rest of the production (acting, direction, script etc) is a cut above.
But hell, they're all good, really. Just that some are better in some ways than others are better in other ways. Sort of.
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Post by Thana Niveau on Jul 28, 2011 10:23:46 GMT
I want to see whichever episode this is from!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 28, 2011 10:29:42 GMT
Then we'll watch it tonight my love - I've never got round to watching it myself but I understand it also has the magnificent Peter Wyngarde in it!
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Post by dem bones on Aug 2, 2011 20:44:20 GMT
Inspired by the kinky pics Dem posted, ..... Ha! they'll be far from the last, I'll wager. Something I'm fast coming to love about the Emma Peel years is how the series morphed into one big fancy dress party with at least as many damsel-in-distress moments as your average shudder pulp. Have only managed to watch two episodes since last I posted, a return match with the legendary A Touch Of Brimstone (see several posts on this thread including the very first. Peter Wyngarde excellent again as leader of modern day Hellfire Club and Emma temping as his Queen of Sin), plus Honey For The Prince, a relatively normal episode which sees Emma perform the dance of the six veils to such devastating effect the prince in question offers Steed a herd of goats for her. Fog and Escape In time are up next!
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Post by dem bones on Aug 4, 2011 17:16:25 GMT
Castle De'ath and Murdersville are both *brilliant* - in fact the Iron Maiden used in CD turns up in the village torture museum in Murdersville! I visited the village where this was filmed ( Amesbury I think it's called) and the duck-ing pond is still there , albeit covered in rushes! Tried to get something to eat whilst there but got told ' no food 'ere' - I guess only murder is on the menu? KC i'll give the scriptwriters their due, they really did come up with some decidedly fruity scrapes for Mrs Peel! Escape In Time is very ... odd, and the Emma in the pillory scenes are fun, but my favourite has to be Murdersville. KC, 'Little Storping in the Swuff' is aka Aldbury near Tring, and i know it pretty well too, having fallen in love with the place when i went there on a geology field trip at school! used to return every few years when i needed to clear my head which doesn't seem such a good idea after watching this! To think i took the bride inside The Greyhound and never realised we were at the mercy of a bunch of rustic contract killers who might frog-march us at rifle-point to the torture chamber! Aldbury is also the setting for Midsomer Murders episode Written In Blood and much-missed commedian (and horror anthologist) Dave Allen often used to film there. Anyway, Murdersville really has plenty for GLOBESWATCH to get worked up about. Emma in a chastity belt. Emma on the ducking stool. Emma getting her head stuck up a knights helmet after a ferocious custard pie fight in the library. But at least she gets off lighter than poor Hilary the mini skirt girl whose outraged protests are rendered unintelligible by a scolds bridle. i think i might take a break from The Avengers though as it's too crushingly disappointing to know Steed is going to show up at the last and ruin everybody's fun.
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Post by killercrab on Aug 4, 2011 18:37:37 GMT
Aldbury - nearly got it right ! Yeah Murdersvile is a real keeper - could of only worked in this country and a great example of the THE AVENGERS if you want to introduce somebody to it's most English charms. Okay now I can't wait until you watch FOG starring the Gaslight Ghoul ! ;D
KC
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Post by dem bones on Aug 5, 2011 18:19:02 GMT
Okay now I can't wait until you watch FOG starring the Gaslight Ghoul ! ;D KC Great set, very much the groovy Whitechapel of A Study In Scarlet, Dr. Jekyl & Sister Hyde & Co. (as opposed to the Whitechapel of Whitechapel which is 90% the real thing ). Organ-grinder outside the pub, old biddy barking "'oo will buy? Lucky white heather, sir? Gordblessyer!", a guy in top hat and swirling black cloak stalking Gunthorpe Street - marvelous stuff, all of it, and yet somehow i didn't enjoy Fog nearly as much as i'd hoped. not really sure why. It's not me pining for Emma Peel - Tara King is divine - but i just couldn't get into it. i guess having a solitary Gaslight Ghoul on the loose in the East End was considered too tasteless for TV viewers so they dragged in his fan club to tone it down some. Having plenty of suspects is kind of the point of a whodunit but when they're all dressed the bloody same my lazyitis kicks in. What might have worked as a straight thriller with plenty a swipe at the Ripper industry goes a bit too prototype The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town for my liking and the only time i got excited was the showdown in the Black Museum (old friend the Iron Maiden from Castle De'ath and Murdersville guest stars yet again). you know what it is though, don't you. i've been spoiled rotten recently. still have Castle Death, The Gravediggers, Thingumajig and Man Eater Of Surrey Green to go, but i'm consigning 'em to the subs bench for now because, from having nothing to watch, i've somehow wound up with two episodes apiece of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Jason King (including Nadine featuring Ingrid Pitt!), The Persuaders and The Saint, plus a Dennis Wheatley double-bill of The Devil Rides Out and the A Letter To Posterity documentary. Welcome to whitechapel pulp city where every day is the 'seventies (until tomorrow when the football season kicks off).
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