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Post by helrunar on Jul 20, 2020 12:41:18 GMT
Great photos there. I don't think Arthur of the Britons ever ran in the US--I would certainly have watched it had it appeared in the schedule. It was on y.t. I believe a few years ago but was probably pulled due to copyright patrol.
H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 20, 2020 12:41:34 GMT
Arthur was kind of lame, I was a fan of his pal Kai, the blonde saxon  |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 20, 2020 13:58:55 GMT
Arthur was kind of lame, I was a fan of his pal Kai, the blonde saxon I've only one thing to say about The Partridge Family. Susan Dey proved that I was normal.  |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 20, 2020 19:11:08 GMT
Thanks for the links, Swampi. I always thought myself to be pretty well knowledgeable about American cartoons, but both of these were new to me. Unbelievable stuff.
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 20, 2020 19:58:05 GMT
Ooooohhh, Richard you said a Robin of Sherwood strip... I must see that. For Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten. Blessed be! The Robin of Sherwood strip ran for some two and a half years, which was pretty good going by Look-In's standards. Magnum by contrast lasted a measley six months. But I don't know if it ran continuously because strips would sometimes take breaks when series were in hiatus between seasons. RoS was a great show. My own preference is for the Connery series. Horowitz brought some fresh and effective fantasy elements into proceedings such as the bog monster Crom Cruach, which I like for obvious reasons. |
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 20, 2020 20:06:21 GMT
I apologize for derailing this thread! But I have found the Arthur novelization. For once this was no translation but written for hire. With lots of stills included. It is typically YA from 1974, broad strokes, no big descriptive scenes, a quick look suggests that they shrunk diverse episodes to ten pages of text. Included to my surprise is even a historical overview about Arthur, the Celts and the mythical Arthur. Not a bad package. Here are the cover and a few pages. Really appreciate you posting this Andy. Never seen any of these photos before. The UK paperback tie in was a pretty facile little thing in contrast written by Terence Feely which briefly adapted some of the episodes. More impressive was the HTV annual which whilst only reprinting five of Feely's adaptations supplemented them with a lot of good stills. |
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Post by Swampirella on Jul 20, 2020 20:38:04 GMT
Thanks for the links, Swampi. I always thought myself to be pretty well knowledgeable about American cartoons, but both of these were new to me. Unbelievable stuff. You're welcome, Andy; glad you found them interesting. Hercules was a Canadian/American production while Rocket Robin Hood was entirely Canadian although they were apparently shown in at least some parts of the US and RRH in S. Korea, Japan & Hong Kong. But still rather obscure, I'd say.
FREE BONUS - French version ("Robin Fusee")
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Post by helrunar on Jul 21, 2020 1:28:23 GMT
It turns out that an outfit called Chinbeard Books is contemplating compiling a book of the RoS comics: downthetubes.net/?p=114032As a bonus, in the article linked here, there's a page from a comic devoted to some Lee Majors series, The Fall Guy, which I vaguely recall hearing about but never saw. Look-In seems like a lot of fun. cheers, Steve |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 21, 2020 7:43:14 GMT
Here are a few more scans from Arthur of the Britons. Two page spreads and a smaller insert. The copyright of the novel is by a movie production, presumably the firm which made the German version.
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 21, 2020 9:02:49 GMT
It turns out that an outfit called Chinbeard Books is contemplating compiling a book of the RoS comics: downthetubes.net/?p=114032As a bonus, in the article linked here, there's a page from a comic devoted to some Lee Majors series, The Fall Guy, which I vaguely recall hearing about but never saw. Look-In seems like a lot of fun. cheers, Steve Interesting discovery you've made there, Steve. Was news to me. Yes, Look-In was a decent and under-rated mag [and apologies to all if my fascination for the thing is boring them to tears by now]. I think a case could be made for collecting any of the adventure strips. As I have said once or twice, they made use of the best artistic talent available at the time. John Burns worked on How the West Was Won for instance, as well as Bionic Woman which John Bolton also drew. There was Mike Noble on a variety of strips including Timeslip and Martin Ashbury on Kung Fu. But as the piece indicates the rights issues for all these things are tied up in gordian knots. But I think the effort would find a reward particularly Stateside. I believe the recent collections of the British Star Trek strips from TV21 and Valiant sold well. The Fall Guy was a fun innocuous show. Not my favourite US import of that period by any means [that was Tales of the Gold Monkey and Matt Houston] but entertaining enough. Majors was a Hollywood stuntman who moonlighted as a bounty hunter. He had a gormless cousin called Howie who was well played by Doug Barr. He had just been in a rustic horror movie I remember enjoying called Deadly Blessing. Plenty of Vaulters will be far more conversant with it than I am. You probably are yourself with your interest in folk horror. But I remember an entertaining scenery chewing turn from Borgnine and a before-she-was-famous appearance from Sharon Stone. There was some sort of controversy surrounding the ending of the film, I seem to remember. |
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 21, 2020 9:13:36 GMT
Thanks for posting the additional Arthur of the Britons scans, Andy. Great to see.
You can see the effort that went into constructing the set, which was built down in the Forest of Dean I seem to remember.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 21, 2020 13:00:23 GMT
If you are in the UK and close to a TV, it's on ITV4 right now. |
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 21, 2020 13:37:11 GMT
If you are in the UK and close to a TV, it's on ITV4 right now. Appreciate the thought Doc. But a while ago I was lucky enough to find the dvd boxed set really cheap in a charity shop. Seems almost like a different life now. |
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Post by dem on Nov 27, 2020 12:34:52 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Apr 1, 2022 1:24:40 GMT
I'll append to this thread a brief note that I just finished yet another TV tie-in authored by that magisterial storyteller, Paul W. Fairman. What's that noise--folks fleeing for the fire exits? Aaaanywayyy...
That Girl was published by Popular Library in 1971, the final year of this US sitcom starring Marlo Thomas, daughter of Danny Thomas (I doubt either of them are known in the UK or Europe). The series did set a new precedent as its heroine was an independent, vivacious young actress seeking to make a life for herself whilst endlessly exasperating patient, supportive boyfriend Donald (Ted Bessell, who went on to become a director--Marlo Thomas pretty much went on to continue being Marlo Thomas).
Like Fairman's entries in the Partridge Family series, That Girl (which was a one-off) crossed over into classic paperback Gothic mystery terrain. Ann Marie, the Marlo Thomas character (yes, Marie is her surname, and hence her Dad is known as Mr Marie) travels by bus to a remote, isolated, spooky area of darkest Maine, deep in the harsh terrain of Olde New England. There she discovers a madman obsessed with Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, determined to create his very own version of dysfunctional 1800 Yorkshire "just like colonial Williamsburg."
Lots of fleeing through the massed heather over the moors, clambering over the Crags, distorted faces at the window, endless cups of drugged tea, hypnosis, a secret cave concealing a hideous secret, a completely deserted model Yorkshire village, and occasional exasperated exclamations of such unhelpful phrases as "You're all bonkers!"
Still, it was pleasant to read on the commute so I'm not complaining.
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