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Post by David A. Riley on Oct 24, 2010 10:45:21 GMT
Yes, that's Avon out of Blakes Seven - who was always my favourite character in that series.
I like the look of this. Shall have to order those DVDs.
Oddly enough, yesterday I rewatched the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's DVD of The Call of Cthulhu - great stuff, if done as a silent movie.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 24, 2010 13:05:42 GMT
yesterday I rewatched the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's DVD of The Call of Cthulhu - great stuff, if done as a silent movie. This is quite remarkable if you consider the origin. I liked it a lot. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 24, 2010 14:36:31 GMT
Yes, that's Avon out of Blakes Seven - who was always my favourite character in that series. I like the look of this. Shall have to order those DVDs. Oddly enough, yesterday I rewatched the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's DVD of The Call of Cthulhu - great stuff, if done as a silent movie. Avon, can't remember the fellows name but a great character and he plays a good sinister. |
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Post by killercrab on Oct 24, 2010 15:03:03 GMT
Paul Darrow!
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Post by lemming13 on Oct 25, 2010 12:41:28 GMT
Tragically, they only made the one episode (but I do recommend the HP Lovecraft film festival dvd collection, I have them all and they are excellent low-budget entertainment). The premise of the series was that an organisation called the Night Scholars had been battling against the cult of Cthulhu for many years; in the 1970s under Major henry Armitage, they formed an alliance with the British government, but were disbanded under accusations of financial mismanagement and treason. Now the cult has resurfaced and the Home Office liaison for the Night Scholars, Mr Moon (played magnificently by Paul Darrow) is trying to deal with it. Here’s the story as listed in the booklet accompanying the dvd.
1: Deep Water. Mr Moon recruits brilliant code-breaker Geoff Shepherd, summons the Containment Squad and re-opens the Institute (HQ of the Night Scholars in London) to pursue wealthy and powerful Dreamers (cultists) in London today.
2: An Age Of Wonders (released as the pilot episode). Mr Moon interrogates Kenneth Reece Warren about his Falklands experience and the origin of the Sigil (Warren in the pilot was traumatised while making psychological evaluations of British forces in the field, but came back with the Sigil, most effective defence against the Dreamers).
3: The Soft Dog. Mr Moon sends Kenneth Reece Warren and Winston driver, the man with the magic hands, to investigate a spectral manifestation at a detention camp on the South Coast.
4: She Prays Like a Roman. Mr Moon confronts a bitter Diana Armitage (daughter of the original founder of the Night Scholars, who had her dad sectioned) while her father remembers his first exposure to the cult of the Sleeping God in a house of ill-repute.
5: Blue. A back street chemist is peddling a designer drug that has a sinister side effect - Blue triggers a positive response to the call of the Sleeping God. The Night Scholars must penetrate the mysteries of rave culture to smash a drug ring.
6: The Tide Wood Flower. When a suicide is found clutching a sculpture of the Sleeping God, the Night Scholars follow a trail that leads to a sacred flower kept in a hidden chamber on a country estate. Kenneth Reece Warren and Winston Driver discover its true purpose.
7: Doncaster Poison. Major Armitage falls under the influence of a powerful female Dreamer whose past is connected to his daughter, Diana, and the early days of the Night Scholars.
8: The Institute. An intruder unwittingly activates a rare device from Major Armitage’s collection. A dark menace is unleashed inside the walls of the Institute and only the wheelchair bound Major can defeat it.
9: The Sleeping God. Kenneth Reece Warren and Diana Armitage visit the Larchdale facility where many Dreamers are held. The fragments of information gleaned from the deranged prisoners are connected into a terrifying message from beyond.
10: Black Grail. When a wealthy and ruthless American collector becomes involved with the cult of the Sleeping God, he turns to the Night Scholars for help.
11: Skin. Alistair Morton is introduced, a powerful Dreamer who will become a recurring villain. A teenage girl uncovers his terrible secret and seeks shelter at the Institute. Kenneth Reece Warren kills Morton to save mr Moon’s life.
12: Agents of Midnight. Geoff Shepherd discovers that Morton had lived for hundreds of years and set in motion an elaborate scheme to create a special child.
13: The Stars Are Right. The ‘child’ is trapped inside the walls of a decaying mansion in Dulwich. The Night Scholars, driven on by an obsessed Diana Armitage, destroy the entity.
14: Alistair Morton returns from the dead to take his revenge.
An arc was planned to run behind the stories as follows;
Episodes 1 - 4 follow Mr Moon as he attempts to reunite the Night Scholars at the Institute. By episode 5 all the protagonists are in place and the various tensions between these flawed individuals begin to surface.
6 - 9; the battle against the Dreamers intensifies, and all of the heroes are showing signs of strain (the game here is to guess which of them will crack first).
10 - 13; new members will be recruited and a number of red-herring clues for the audience will clearly indicate that the unthinkable is about to happen - one of the heroes will become a Dreamer.
14; Mr Moon will identify the enemy within and pay a terrible price.
The writer was Stephen Parsons. Funnily enough, Paul Darrow also appeared in Hammer House of Horror.
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