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The madness of King George, 1994

#biography #comedy #drama #history #the madness of king george #nicholas hytner #alan bennett #roger hammond #geoffrey palmer #cyril shaps

“That’s Extra Sensory Perception, you know.”

Planet of the Spiders - season 11 - 1974

#doctor who #classic doctor who #classic who #third doctor #jon pertwee #planet of the spiders #professor herbert clegg #cyril shaps #brigadier lethbridge stewart #nicholas courtney

Play for Today: Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976)

"At this moment, on their way, are a hundred and seventeen guests. Sitting on the train, in cars, queuing for buses - all on their way. At half past six, Victor, a hundred and seventeen people from Bournemouth, from Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow, from Birmingham, everywhere... are going to turn up at the Reuben Shulman Hall expecting a dinner dance. All dressed up. Your Uncle Zalman, my cousin Freda. Your brother we don't talk about from Cardiff."

"Don't upset yourself."

"A hundred and seventeen people. A hundred and seventeen portions of chopped liver. A hundred and seventeen mushroom vol-au-vents. A hundred and seventeen chicken with croquette potatoes and helzel, French beans and coleslaw. A hundred and seventeen lokshen kugels. A four-piece band. No bar mitzvah boy. No bar mitzvah. No nothing."

#play for today #Bar mitzvah boy #jack rosenthal #Single play #Modern drama #BBC #1976 #Michael Tuchner #Jeremy Steyn #Maria Charles #Bernard Spear #Adrienne Posta #Jonathan Lynn #Cyril Shaps #Jack Lynn #Pamela Manson #Harry Landis #Kim Clifford #Mark Herman #Harold Reese #absolutely one of Jack's warmest and wittiest scripts. having been frustrated by the casting of non jewish actors in his previous PfT The #Evacuees‚ Jack put his foot down on this play and it benefits from collecting some of the best jewish character actors then active in uk #stage and screen into one play. particularly wonderful are Spear and Maria Charles as the parents intent on making their son's bar mitzvah #a day to remember: her sporting a truly awe inspiring helmet of hair‚ he willing the day to have come and gone so that everything can #return to normal. there's a sharp satirical study of middle class aspirationism and the inadequacy of bar mitzvah as a standard of manhood #(all the adult male characters display various immaturities throughout the play) but it's all done with a very deep and very real affection #special mention to perennial fave Cyril Shaps (adorable as the doting if slightly air headed grandfather; actually Shaps was younger than #Spear‚ his onscreen son‚ but had always appeared older than his years) and Posta in a finely judged performance as the older sister whose #sharpness and short temper doesn't mask her love and sense of responsibility for a younger sibling who's quietly terrified about the #prospect of growing up. the dialogue is pin sharp and often laugh out loud funny‚ but there's some nice background stuff going on as well

“Planet of the Spiders” (1974)

#nicholas courtney #jon pertwee #cyril shaps #doctor who #planet of the spiders #brigadier alistair gordon lethbridge-stewart #third doctor #professor clegg #quotes #so funny #the first time we got to know the first name of the brigadier #the brig's hair is definitely too long

In the 12 episodes of the BBC's 1964 The Count of Monte Cristo, there are 26 actors who also appeared in Doctor Who.

Prominent among them are the actors playing the three main villains – Michael Gough as Villefort, Philip Madoc as Morcerf, and Morris Perry as Danglars – who all went on to play villains in Who as well.

On the other side, the Count's two assistants, Bertuccio and Ali, are played by Cyril Shaps and Roy Stewart, who both went on to play sympathetic supporting characters in Who, including playing colleagues again in "Tomb of the Cybermen". (There are apparently times when Stewart got to play something other than the strong silent type, but the BBC in the 1960s was not one of those times.)

And a fun detail from among the smaller roles: When Michael Gough as Villefort gains an audience with the King of France, the King is played by Peter Stephens, who appeared in Doctor Who a few years later as one of the minions of Michael Gough's Celestial Toymaker.

(Also pictured: Julian Sherrier, who went on to play one of the aliens conspiring with the Daleks in "The Daleks' Master Plan".)

#who not who #doctor who actors in other roles #doctor who #the count of monte cristo #michael gough #philip madoc #morris perry #cyril shaps #roy stewart #peter stephens #julian sherrier #photo #not a reblog

THE END OF THE AFFAIR (1999) Grade: C+

I didn’t find it as entrtaining as let’s say “The Crying Game” by the same director. Kinda felt like I knew what was going to happen, the great cast keeps the story interesting enough.