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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 2, 2010 13:17:41 GMT
That is good news. And Jenny Agutter ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Nov 2, 2010 15:19:19 GMT
Splendid news indeed and thanks for the heads up - I'll definitely be ordering this!
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Post by colin1975 on Nov 2, 2010 18:26:56 GMT
Make that two! This has been a release I've been waiting for for a good long while. However something tells me I'm going to have to wait a tad longer for a dvd release of the 'Night Voices' anthology series.
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Post by marillionboy on Nov 3, 2010 3:03:50 GMT
Am eagerly looking forward to their forthcoming release of ITVs Scorpion Tales from 1978 too, another creepy anthology of sting in the tail stories!
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Post by killercrab on Nov 3, 2010 3:07:40 GMT
Network have been steadily releasing great titles and these two are absolute musts. I hope to have the strange series SKY here any day and can recommend RAVEN . Always good to see more spooky tv fans here!
KC
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Post by lemming13 on Nov 3, 2010 13:51:11 GMT
I've been a fan of Network since they gave me the chance to own Death Line after all these years, but this makes me doubly happy. Definitely another happy customer!
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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2020 10:22:19 GMT
Anon [Pamela Lonsdale?] [ed.] - The Best of Shadows (Carousel, 1979) Les Matthews Joan Aiken - The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green Josephine Poole - The Inheritance Ewart Alexander - Eleven O'Clock P. J. Hammond & Peter Eldin - And For My Next Trick Joan Aiken - The Rose of Puddle Fratrum Ewart Alexander - The Eye Brian Patten & Peter Eldin - The Man Who Hated Children Blurb: Shifting and swirling through these pages are SHADOWS, strange tales of the weird and wonderful, the magic and the supernatural to thrill your imagination.
Lurking among the SHADOWS are mysteries such as the ancient omen of a skull-headed Horn Dance: the ghostly echoes of a death caught in the webs of time; the sad curse of a crippled dancer. . .
LOOK DEEPLY INTO THE SHADOWS — WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU MAY FIND.
The SHADOWS Series is produced by Pamela Lonsdale and the plays included in this anthology were directed by Joe Boyer. Michael Custance, Neville Green, Audrey Starrett and Stan Woodward.Joan Aiken - The Rose of Puddle Fratrum: ( A Harp of Fishbones and Other Stories, 1972). Rodney Cushing of Wessex TV is researching a documentary on ballerina Rose Collard, whose career came to an abrupt end, when she slipped on a banana skin discarded by a Covent Garden stagehand, broke, and ultimately lost a leg. A devastated Miss Collard duly cursed the company, warning that disaster should befall them should they ever revive The Nightingale and the Rose. Thirty years on, Cushing, whose fiancee, Tessa Porutska, has been cast as Rose, urges the crippled star to lift the hex before someone is killed. She sets terms. Brian Patten & Peter Eldin - The Man Who Hated Children: The child-hater in question is Councillor Higgs, aspiring Borough chairman, who coerces old croney Mr. Sliggs to help him abduct young Tom and Willie, vandalise Kensington Gardens, plant their bus passes among the devastated rose bushes and send an anonymous tip off to the police. The perfect fit up! It would've worked too, had it not been for pesky Peter Pan, Wendy, and a sprinkling of fairy magic. I've a fondness for supernatural stories set in parks, just a shame this one lacks any haunted bench action. Even so, creepier than you might expect from above synopsis.
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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2020 16:53:33 GMT
Joan Aiken - The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green: (Kaye Webb [ed.], The Friday Miracle and Other Stories, 1969: A Harp of Fishbones and Other Stories, 1972). Little orphan Emmaline - "she's a mopey kid, always reading" - faces down the dual threat of negligent guardian, Mrs. Bella Vaughan, and her bullying hooligan son with the able assistance of a stray cat, a derelict musician, and King Cunabel of the ancient Britons.
P. J. Hammond & Peter Eldin - And For My Next Trick: After a particularly disillusioning afternoon before a child audience, the Great Devine decides it's time to retire his "spectacular magic act." Back in his room that night, three elaborately decorated eggs materialise before him on the table. A new conjuring feat is born, but it comes at extortionate price.
Reading through Lord Probert's plot summaries, I'd have preferred the editor had concentrated on the stories from season one.
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 29, 2020 12:20:19 GMT
Joan Aiken - The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green: (Kaye Webb [ed.], The Friday Miracle and Other Stories, 1969: A Harp of Fishbones and Other Stories, 1972). Little orphan Emmaline - "she's a mopey kid, always reading" - faces down the dual threat of negligent guardian, Mrs. Bella Vaughan, and her bullying hooligan son with the able assistance of a stray cat, a derelict musician, and King Cunabel of the ancient Britons. P. J. Hammond & Peter Eldin - And For My Next Trick: After a particularly disillusioning afternoon before a child audience, the Great Devine decides it's time to retire his "spectacular magic act." Back in his room that night, three elaborately decorated eggs materialise before him on the table. A new conjuring feat is born, but it comes at extortionate price. Reading through Lord Probert's plot summaries, I'd have preferred the editor had concentrated on the stories from season one. I know the later seasons have their fans (when there was a deliberate move away from the Jamesian and more towards the 'contemporary weird' but season one will always be my favourite.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 1, 2020 19:56:05 GMT
Ewart Alexander - Eleven O'Clock: Linda and family are holidaying in France at Madam Paget's farmhouse. During the Great War, the attic window served as look out post for Manfred, a young German sniper, possibly the luckless final casualty of the conflict. Manfred and local beauty, Michelle, conducted a love affair via messages exchanged by carrier pigeon. He never got to read her final message.
Josephine Poole - The Inheritance: On his death, Eli the gamekeeper gains his rightful place among the antler-headed horn dancers.
Ewart Alexander - The Eye: A housing estate in Cardigan Bay. Mum and Dad are gifted a garden urn by the Greek family next door. Both find it ugly, but eldest boy, George, is obsessed with the imagery depicting Stratos, son of the cloud gatherer, who lost his sight by staring at the Sun. George creates a mosaic on the garage wall, summoning Stratos, who returns, seeking eyes.
There's nothing remotely 'bad' in this collection, but, have to say, I found it underwhelming. Am sure the shows themselves were better.
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