Aug 28, 2019
Doomwatch: In The Dark (2.9, BBC, 1971)
"He should be dead!"
"Exactly! As you can see, he's not."
"That depends on how you define living, doesn't it."
#doomwatch#in the dark#Bbc#1971#classic tv#John Paul#Simon oates#Jean trend#Vivien sherrard#Joby blanshard#john nolan#patrick troughton#Alethea charlton#Simon lack#Joseph greig#Jane dore#Michael ellison#David Purcell#Lennie mayne#john gould#Patty trouts! In my Doomwatch? It's more likely than i thought! I didn't know he'd appeared in this so this was a very pleasant surprise#A rather dense and heavy episode but that's not exactly a criticism. It asks a lot of big questions about the nature of life and death and#What price we could conceivably pay for existing. The relevance of the title isn't clear until fairly late on and then it takes on an#Awfully morbid meaning. And another good Ridge episode too; his showdown with Quist is the highlight of the episode and for once it's#Because he actually has Quist's best interests at heart but he expresses himself in such an aggressively Ridgean way that of course they#End up sort of arguing instead of hugging it out like they should do. Dr. Chantry gets some good moments too and Charlton is very#Excellent and sad as Troughton's conflicted daughter. Nolan on the other hand continues to have very little to do so that i keep#Forgetting he's even on the show until his face pops up for five minutes and he scurries off to do some unseen legwork
