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[dem]

Ken's pulp Westerns. Boon opening credits series 1, 1986.

Fred Ramsden (Windsor Davies), randy butcher, dreams of getting his end away with the two cracking dolly birds in neighbouring tent. (Carry On Behind, 1975)

Chilling confessions of a MAD SCIENTIST (Young Frankenstein, 1974)

[Michael Connolly]

Jan 29, 2017 11:42:27 GMT dem said:

Lulu and Lucia returns with a vengeance in Father Brown series 5, episode 5. Suddenly, everybody's reading the new paperback edition, the Honourable Penelope "Bunty" Windermere, the erstwhile Lady Felicia's wildchild of a niece, being a particular fan. Soon even Mrs McCarthy can quote chapter and verse. How did it come to this? From the Gloucester News (undated, c. 1952).

MORELL MOVES TO KEMBLEFORD

KEMBLEFORD has just become the new home of the Erotic Fiction Author Lucia Morell.
Lucia Morell, the erotic novelist behind the book Lulu and Lucia, has splashed out on a townhouse on the edge of the village.
The writer would not reveal how much she paid for her bolthole but said she was already looking for another more central property in the village. The two-storey property comes with modest grounds but the master bedroom will command the top floor, complete with a four poster bed.
More than a decade ago, Morell lived in a magnificent modern property in Cheltenham that was badly damaged in a catastrophic fire which saw three people die. Her last residence in Evesham was repossessed.
The saucy tale of Lulu and Lucia, thought to be based on Morell's own life has caused outrage among some of the community while many readers have been trying to guess the true identity of the author's secret lover.
Miss Morell, 57, said she will finally reveal who Lulu is based on in her next novel. "I know people want to know and soon they shall."
She added. "Most people are aware that Lulu could be any one of twenty women."
Lucia had previously given her list of the 20 possible women in a hope to end the speculation but ....

It seems that Lulu has no wish to be outed and the latest attempt on Miss Morell's life succeeds where project 'glass vase dropped on head from great height' failed.

Madonna has a lot to answer for.

On the strength of the above, I watched the repeat yesterday.  Lesbianism, sadism, an axe murder, impotence and obesity at lunchtime? Mary Whitehouse and G.K. Chesterton must be whizzing in their respective graves.

[helrunar]

Thank you for commenting on this, Michael. It is, as always, sheer delight to see the delectable infamies of Lulu and Lucia swim again into view.

cheers, H.

[Michael Connolly]

Jan 19, 2018 15:41:09 GMT helrunar said:

Thank you for commenting on this, Michael. It is, as always, sheer delight to see the delectable infamies of Lulu and Lucia swim again into view.

cheers, H.

I laughed with it.

[cromagnonman]

Not an avid viewer of Father Brown by any means, but I did catch today's episode - with its plot brazenly lifted from Conan Doyle's "The Problem of Thor Bridge" - and it left me wondering whether there is anyone among the regular cast that has yet to be arrested for murder by the blundering Kembleford plod: a local nick so incompetent that I'm willing to bet a young Mr Chisholm learnt all he never knew there.

[andydecker]

Jan 19, 2018 14:00:56 GMT Michael Connolly said:

Jan 29, 2017 11:42:27 GMT dem said:

  I watched the repeat yesterday.  Lesbianism, sadism, an axe murder, impotence and obesity at lunchtime? Mary Whitehouse and G.K. Chesterton must be whizzing in their respective graves. 

I quite liked season 5. Even if the current copper is a bit over the top.

[cromagnonman]

And today even the buffoonish inspector was thrown in the clink for murder. The only surprise here being that he didn't make the arrest himself. With his track record I certainly wouldn't have put it past him.

[dem]

Quincey, M.E., the pathologically irascible pathologist, loses rag at publishers of irresponsible "head" magazines. Quincey: No Way To Treat A Flower (broadcast Sept. 1979)

Sex-starved butcher Fred Ramsden (Windsor Davies) plots a romantic carvan site orgy in Carry On Behind, 1975) ...

[dem]

Stanley Baxter bones up on hardcore S&M in 1962's delightful Crooks Anonymous. He'll later progress to something called Chinese Tortures.

The elusive July 1965 issue of Bikini Girl, The Night Caller, 1965.

[helrunar]

Very cute photos. The old dear with the flogging title looks as if he may be headed to a coronary. 

cheers, H.

[dem]

Dec 12, 2018 15:56:04 GMT helrunar said:

Very cute photos. The old dear with the flogging title looks as if he may be headed to a coronary. 

cheers, H.

Would be tempted to break my strict 'no selfies under any circumstances' rule to appear in a dramatic reconstruction of that bench still.

[cromagnonman]

A word to the wise. Tomorrow's new Midsomer Murders is apparantly set at a comic book festival. Wonder what props will have been knocked up for the occasion?

[andydecker]

Nice one. I am impressed that they still have the same assistant this year. In Midsomer they change not as fast as in Vera, but still. The last time comics were a topic Troy sold his collection of an Eagle stand-in for a big sum. The usual wish fulfilment of writers

After seeing the last episodes of series 19? Ep 116 The Curse of the Ninth recently  I seriously contemplated skipping it in the future. I don't know if I am being too critical or if this has really has become so dull.

[johnnymains]

Pan 6 from the Bollywood horror JAANI DUSHMAN (1979)

[helrunar]

Apparently each episode of this recovered series starring the much-beatified Arthur Askey (totally unknown over here--still really haven't a clue who he was) begins with daughter Anthea Askey in Daddy's library pulling a book off the shelf and starting to read. And of course Dad plays the lead role in each tale.

www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5577/arthur_askey_series_recovered/

cheers, H.