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Doctor Who and the Daleks - 1965, Aaru

#doctor who and the daleks #dr who #aaru #dalek movie #big gif #ian chesterton #roy castle #barbara #jennie linden #alydon #barrie ingham #antodus #john bown #elyon #mark petersen #movie dalek

Doomwatch: Waiting For A Knighthood (3.4, BBC, 1972)

"What are the symptoms for less severe exposure?"

"Well, they're terribly varied. Vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea; headaches, depression, anxiety, lassitude..."

"Plenty of all that about, wouldn't you say?"

#doomwatch #Waiting for a knighthood #1973 #Bbc #classic tv #John Paul #Simon oates #Joby blanshard #Vivien sherrard #John barron #Frederick jaeger #Ann firbank #Elizabeth weaver #John bown #Anthony oliver #Margaret john #Noelle middleton #Don mckillop #Bruce purchase #Terence dudley #Pennant roberts #And we're back! After the movie's holiday jaunt to potato face island a lot has changed both onscreen and behind the scenes. Pedler and #Davis broke with the show before this third series and Nolan and Trend seem to have followed them. Ridge has gone bonkers and Quist is #Keeping an unusually low profile. And he's married! To lovely Dr. Tarrant from the Wrengate inquiry episode! What's more he seems to have #Held onto some of those technician extras from the film; they can be seen floating around the background of a few scenes the one of them #Is presumably dismissed after being outed as a spy. Oh yeah and we have a new face on the team but he's a spy for the ministry too. The #Episode itself is a strong investigative one with some very tense moments. The revelation that Ridge may have had lead poisoning when he #Went mad is a little...idk. Disappointing maybe. I prefer the idea that it was the pressure of his work that drove him to the edge. The #Alternative lead option seems just too pat. Oh and Barron is back! He survived that heart attack in series 2 and now he's glowering at #Anything in his field of vision. My there has been a lot going on. But this is a solid well written episode. If only more of s.3 existed

Doomwatch: Sex And Violence (3.12, BBC, untransmitted)

"People are continually saying to me: 'Arthur Ballantyne, you're a cultured, educated man. You love horses and dogs, you have an appreciation of the arts, you're a man of great sensitivity - and yet you espouse philosophies of racial hatred, sexual inhibition, violence upon the streets. We can't understand you, Arthur Ballantyne!' To which I reply: I did not invent racial hatred. I had nothing to do with the repression of generations of children. The anger in people is what makes them strike out, and that's there whether you or I like it or not."

"But you use it in a vain and comical attempt to get a dictator's power!"

"And why not, Doctor Quist? Why would you deprive me of the freedom to do that which is being done already every day - by politicians and journalists, and advertisers and businessmen? They make money out of it, they subjugate nations! They suppress minorities! And they do it under the mask of a so-called democratic society. It's their freedom to do it that we vote for! Well, someone else is getting into the act now. If... you have created a society in which a naked couple cavorting on a public stage is more shocking than a million on the dole; a hundred-thousand homeless; a half a million dead in Pakistan... don't blame me for taking advantage of it!"

#doomwatch #sex and violence #classic tv #Bbc #John Paul #Elizabeth weaver #Joby blanshard #Vivien sherrard #John bown #John barron #Nicholas selby #June brown #bernard horsfall #Donald eccles #Noel dyson #Llewellyn rees #Brian wilde #Angela crow #Christopher chittell #Darrol blake #Stuart douglass #Ah the infamous never broadcast episode. Presumably because of the use of real footage of executions which is as disturbing as it sounds #But possibly also because it is so clearly satirising Mary Whitehouse and her clean up television campaign. For all that slightly #Ott aspects of the episode it's a very intelligent and thoughtful meditation on the potential ills of censorship and the responsibility (or #Not) of a governing body to safeguard moral wellbeing. It's a shame Ridge isn't around as he would have been great fun in this one #And Bown is of course a conservative dullard. Once again Doomwatch are on the periphery of the action and Quist himself asks why they are #Involved more than once. A great guest cast that includes old faves Horsfall (wash your mouth out Bernard!) and Wilde but it's #Nick Selby as the fringe politician funding the protests that steals the episode. Particularly his final scene with Quist in which he quite #Openly discusses his political motivations and the sheer hollow self interest which has led to him championing hate and intolerance in the #Masses. It's as chilling a bit of dialogue Doomwatch ever made and horrifyingly realistic and recognisable in today's political climate

Vampire Circus - Robert Young 1972

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Vampire Circus - Robert Young 1972

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Vampire Circus - Robert Young 1972

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