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Bat Out of Hell: Part 2 (1.2, BBC, 1966)

"Are you suggesting that the dead man isn't Mr. Stewart?"

"What do you think?"

"But Mrs. Stewart identified the body!"

"Yes, she did. So did you too, if it comes to that."

"It must have been Mr. Stewart."

"Why? His face was disfigured, badly disfigured; you certainly didn't recognise him by his face."

"Well no, but he was dressed the same, he had Mr. Stewart's clothes on. He was wearing his signet ring."

"On the wrong finger."

#bat out of hell #francis durbridge #francis durbridge presents #1966 #classic tv #bbc #alan bromly #sylvia syms #john thaw #dudley foster #june ellis #emrys jones #stanley meadows #patsy smart #clive graham #david quilter #ann windsor #june bland #margaret frost #things are really kicking into gear (tho to be fair this is pretty breakneck from the opening ep); a classic Durbridge feint as he presents #us with a plausible impossibility: we have seen a man murdered and yet the body has disappeared and now the dead man is making #phone calls... investigating we have the wonderful Dudley Foster‚ who even against Thaw (already something of a pin up by this point) and #Syms (a first lady of brit cinema) manages to steal his every scene as the perfect Durbridgean detective; he's softly spoken and quiet #moves slowly and appears utterly undisturbed by every strange turn in the case and yet you can quite see the gears turning and his mind #ticking away like clockwork. it's a wonderful little performance and almost makes me wish this could have spun off into a recurring series #for his diligent sleuth...

The Hidden Truth: 1.2 The Shape (23rd July 1964). Written by Roger East; dir. Stuart Burge. Featuring regulars Alexander Knox, James Maxwell, Zia Mohyeddin, Elizabeth Weaver & George Moon; guest starring Glyn Houston & Dudley Foster.

A charred body is found in the remains of a burnt-out warehouse, and Lazard and his team are given the macabre task of proving whether the man [was] murdered or simply the victim of unfortunate circumstance. [IMDb]

In looking into this unusual case, Dr da Silva (Zia Mohyeddin) uses a new scientific method and gets an unexpected result. And the vital clue to the mystery lies in the shape of a boiler-suit.

Glyn Houston guested as Harry Kingsley, Paula Byrne as Jane Kingsley, Dudley Foster as Ernest Malet, & Pauline Stroud as Liz Mason.

[For some reason IMDb lists this as “The Boiler Suite Shape” [sic] but all the newspaper schedules refer to it as “The Shape.” ]

Written by Roger East (aka Roger Burford), who had recently adapted a dozen Maigret stories for the BBC series (1960-63) (hi @mariocki old telly really always is incestuous, isn’t it?), he had been screen-writing since the 1920s and his credits include the scenario for the Carol Reed film Bank Holiday that brought Margaret Lockwood to national attention (just in case I wanted things to get any more incestuous, hi, me)

This was the first episode to feature Zia Mohyeddin’s character, Dr Hamavid da Silva, said to be “a post graduate from Ceylon [Sri Lanka]”.

#the hidden truth #alexander knox #james maxwell #zia mohyeddin #elizabeth weaver #george moon #glyn houston #roger east #hamavid da silva #paula byrne #pauline stroud #dudley foster #i'm afraid most of my other episode summaries are like this #or less #one or two had some amusing anecdote/publicity lead ins happily #but generally this is a lot

Bat Out of Hell: Part 1 (1.1, BBC, 1966)

"Diana, if we fall out we've had it. Whatever happens now, we've got to stick together - we've got to stick together and play it cool. Now for god's sake let's remember that."

#bat out of hell #francis durbridge #francis durbridge presents #classic tv #bbc #1966 #alan bromly #sylvia syms #john thaw #dudley foster #noel johnson #june ellis #stanley meadows #clive graham #ann windsor #june bland #david quilter #oh Francis; easily one of the most crime writers of all time. this is classic Durbridge with all the familiar tropes he was so fond of #inc. marital strife‚ murder and blackmail (also telephones; I'm not sure what it is but Francis loves using telephones to deliver crucial #information or plot twists). i watched this a few years ago and something made me want to revisit; this is an undeniably good looking piece #of tv‚ with heavy use of location work on good quality film stock. it also has quite the cast; John Thaw had just finished starring in #Redcap and probably seized the chance to swap the upright‚ fiercely moral Sgt Mann for philandering‚ murderous Mark Paxton here #one particularly jarring moment has the discovery of a corpse set to (presumably) a random piece of library music; quite by chance that #piece is This Man Alone (aka Girl in the Dark) which‚ about a year from broadcast‚ would find immortality as the Callan theme tune.. it's #quite a weird moment and strangely unsettling.

Bat Out of Hell: Part 5 (1.5, BBC, 1966)

"Look, I probably oughtn't to ask you this, but did you know about Mrs. Stewart and Mark Paxton?"

"Well, I suspected they were more than just friends if that's what you mean, sir."

"Do you know, it never even crossed my mind, not for a minute. Yet now you come to think about it, he was a good looking chap and they were always together. I'm beginning to think I'm a bit of a dimwit!"

"Oh, I wouldn't say that, sir, you just haven't got a suspicious nature."

"But that's just it, I have - as a rule, I'd suspect my own grandmother."

#bat out of hell #francis durbridge #francis durbridge presents #classic tv #bbc #1966 #alan bromly #sylvia syms #john thaw #dudley foster #june ellis #emrys jones #stanley meadows #paddy glynn #clive graham #june bland #patrick ellis #john caesar #terence donovan #ali hassan #annnnd i ran out of pictures. thus these two screen grabs from the (rather stylish) opening titles #events come to a head unexpectedly early in this episode‚ with one major strand of the plot over and done with well before the finale #that final revelation is teased out almost beyond the point of sanity; it's a clever writer i suppose that can keep you guessing well #beyond all reasonable time to have sorted the mess out. but finish we do and so bid farewell to Dudley Foster's strangely loveable #taciturn policeman (and his very welsh sergeant; quite unusual to hear so blatant a welsh accent in 60s tv). by the by all previous #mentions of June Bland and her role in this series should have read June Ellis (the perils of two Junes in one series); happily Ellis even #gets to be a sort of hero in the end. a delightful little murder mystery well worth the time of any old tv fan

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In looking into this unusual case, Dr da Silva (Zia Mohyeddin) uses a new scientific method and gets an unexpected result. And the vital clue to the mystery lies in the shape of a boiler-suit.

Glyn Houston guested as Harry Kingsley, Paula Byrne as Jane Kingsley, Dudley Foster as Ernest Malet, & Pauline Stroud as Liz Mason.

[For some reason IMDb lists this as “The Boiler Suite Shape” [sic] but all the newspaper schedules refer to it as “The Shape.” ]

This was the first episode to feature Zia Mohyeddin’s character, Dr Hamavid da Silva, said to be “a post graduate from Ceylon [Sri Lanka]”.

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