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Disraeli: The Great Game (1.3, ATV, 1978)

"Mary Anne, do not distress yourself; you know that whatever happens, you need never worry."

"I am not thinking about myself, don't you understand? I shall not always be here, my money dies with me. What will you do when I'm gone?"

"I cannot imagine such an empty world."

#disraeli #disraeli: portrait of a romantic #atv #classic tv #claude whatham #david butler #ian mcshane #mary peach #rosemary leach #brewster mason #david de keyser #david wood #john carlisle #jeremy clyde #brett usher #barrie cookson #jeremy longhurst #penelope lee #jane lowe #wendy gifford #patrick drury #peter miles #my chief issue with this series continues to be that it presents an almost unreasonably sanitised picture of the people and the events it #is involved with; if anything it's only going further in that direction (the transition of rule in India to the crown is dealt with in two #minutes as a great idea by Dizzy) but what I can't fault are the scripts. each episode has dazzled with sparkling dialogue and this is no #different‚ and if it were a complete fiction about non existent persons I'd have much less to criticise. in particular the treatment of the #central romance between Dis and Mary‚ foregrounded in this ep as they grow older‚ is genuinely very touching and quite emotional #Rosemary Leach's Victoria hasn't quite the sharpness or insight of other portrayals and we see a different element of Disraeli in his overt #fawning and flattery of the royals (particularly Albert) in the early scenes of the episode. if this series has a villain then it's here he #comes into his own: Gladstone doesn't feature onscreen a whole lot but his vexxing difficulty is felt throughout the play by Dis and co

Special Branch: Stand And Deliver (4.4, Thames, 1974)

"My brother and Ron Murray have had enough of poverty and squalor, enough of so-called democracy's lies, deceits, dishonesty. They've taken a stand, they've put themselves at risk - it's called courage, Mister, courage to buck the system, and you just can't understand that can you?"

"Oh yes I can, Miss Gosling, I understand it very well: it means violence and bloodshed. It means bereaved families, orphaned children, it means violence met with violence - it means a long leap on that road to hell, Miss Gosling, the hell that is all law and no order. The police state, I believe you call it Miss Gosling."

#special branch #Special branch rewatch #stand and deliver #1974 #classic tv #george sewell #patrick mower #paul eddington #Frederick jaeger #dennis waterman #Ronald radd #Ray mort #Stephanie Turner #christopher benjamin #Edwin apps #Barrie Cookson #Lynn Dalby #Jonathan Elsom #Eric Mason #charles farrell #Michael J. Bird #Tom clegg #Special branch is often described as (accused of?) being a Sweeney blueprint. Here we get George Carter himself Den Waterman and his #Screen wife from that later show Stephanie Turner (who would herself star in Juliet Bravo the following decade). The story is a pretty #Unlikely one as two hapless labourers wander off with a high tech missile launcher and Craven and Co must convince them not to blow up #London. It all ends on a credulity stretching high note of tweeness too (SBv1 would probably have killed everyone off. Well maybe not but #Callan definitely would have). Still it's a nice character heavy ep with Eddington finally getting to do something other than lurk in the #Shadows (his explosive reaction quoted above is a highlight; not that he's right or that the audience necessarily agrees but Eddington #Absolutely sells that he believes himself to be right). Christopher Benjamin floats around as a dotty scientist and Radd grumbles about the #Youth of today in what is undoubtedly a minor but quite satisfying outing for the gang

Doomwatch: Invasion (2.2, BBC, 1970)

"I made a couple of minor suggestions for tightening things up, but generally speaking their safeguards are as sound as they can be. There's only one thing wrong with that place - that it exists."

#doomwatch #1970 #classic tv #Bbc #invasion #John Paul #Simon oates #john nolan #geoffrey palmer #Anthony sagar #Victor platt #Peter welch #Sheila raynor #Arthur brough #Barrie cookson #Michael elwyn #Leslie meadows #David lincoln #Bill straiton #Simon cain #Joyce Windsor #Kim butcher #Martin worth #Jonathan alwyn #So Nolan has apparently joined the team and Ridge completely got away with breaking that guy's jaw in the last episode?? Ok. Ok.#This is a good strong episode tho. Although i had never seen the series before beginning this watch i have seen the (almost unrelated) film #Before. This feels like it was probably the major influence on the film with it's story of a rural community torn apart by science gone #Awry. The scenes of soldiers clearing the streets are genuinely eerie and the central idea realistic and worrying. Most of all there is the #Unspoken concern left at the end of the episode: if containing the virus in a country house was hard then now having an entire village to #Guard is surely only going to make things that much more difficult...

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