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70s Cool: And two Screwdrivers ...

Classic British Sit-Com 'Fawlty Towers' - the famous episode - "Waldorf Salad". (Series 2. Ep. 3) 1979.

John Cleese as the irascible hotel manager Basil Fawlty, and guests Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton (Bruce Boa and Claire Nielson).

The beautiful and classy Claire Nielson, has recently passed away at the age of 89. (29th April, 2026). (FTP).

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Colonel: Marine, what is that button on your body armor?

Joker: A peace symbol, sir.

Colonel: Where’d you get it?

Joker: I don’t remember, sir.

Colonel: What is that you’ve got written on your helmet?

Joker: “Born to Kill”, sir.

Colonel: You write “born to kill” on your helmet, and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?

Joker: No, sir.

Colonel: What is it supposed to mean?

Joker: I don’t know, sir.

Colonel: You don’t know very much, do you?

Joker: No, sir.

Colonel: You better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will make life hard for you!

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Now answer my question or you’ll be standing tall before the man!

Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.

Colonel: The what?

Joker: The duality of man; The Jungian thing, sir.

Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?

Joker: Our side, sir.

Colonel: Don’t you love your country?

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Then how ‘bout getting with the program? Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

Joker: Yes, sir.

Colonel: Son, all I’ve ever asked of my Marines is for them to obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every man here there is an American trying to get out. It’s a hard-ball world, son. We’ve gotta try to keep our heads until this peace craze blows over!

Joker: Aye-aye, sir.

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Man in a Suitcase: The Revolutionaries (1.26, ITC, 1968)

"Well... all your clients cause this much trouble?"

"No, do yours?"

"Yeah. Usually."

#man in a suitcase #the revolutionaries #1968 #classic tv #peter duffell #jan read #kevin laffan #richard bradford #hugh burden #ferdy mayne #sonia fox #david sumner #barry shawzin #marga roche #bruce boa #louis negin #david cargill #nik zaran #hal hamilton #mark peterson #the final episode to go into production‚ and even as the series was drawing to a close there were behind the scenes issues causing #problems; this episode was delivered by Laffan‚ who had got on well with previous script editor Stanley Greenberg‚ and who produced a #script inspired by the exile and assassination of Leon Trotsky. producer Sidney Cole was in fact very pro Soviet in his politics and #objected to the script‚ demanding rewrites to instead establish the characters as belonging to a fictional country. Laffan refused to work #on this with Greenberg's replacement Read‚ so Read and director Duffell did the rewrites themselves. despite all that this ends up being a #very solid action entry in the series; a tough‚ violent adventure but with an intelligent script. McGill is notably bad at the job he's #hired for and spends the episode trying to put it right (presumably for free?). he also gets some great threats in against some heavy #handed henchmen. guest Burden‚ playing the Trotsky figure‚ plays piano throughout: Burden was a trained musician and studied at the Royal #College of Music before he was an actor. Duffell had to fight to get Shawzin (at this point ill with cancer) cast in the episode; sadly #this was one of his final roles and he died just two weeks after broadcast

Who’s the American jerk giving Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) grief about wanting a Waldorf salad? That’s no American. That’s the late, great Canadian actor Bruce Boa. What does this have to do with Old School Science Fiction? Bruce Boa played the stern Rebel Alliance officer General Carlist Rieekan in command of Echo Base on Hoth in “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” (1980).

The character actor from the Great White North was born on this day in 1930.

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We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.

Pogue Colonel - Full Metal Jacket (1987)