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Granada Holmes gif series - The Speckled Band - Misc. gif #1

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Treasure Island: Part Three (1.3, BBC, 1977)

"You give us the chart and we'll offer you a choice. You can come aboard with us, once the treasure's shipped, and we'll clap you somewhere safe ashore. My word of honour on it. My affidavy!"

"And what's our other choice?"

"We'll divide straws with you, man for man. But I'll give you my affidavy, as before, to speak to the first ship we sight and send 'em here to pick you up. Now, you'll own that's talkin', handsomer than that you couldn't look to get! And I hope that all hands here will overhaul my words - for what is spoke to one is spoke to all."

"Is that all?"

"Every last word, by thunder. Refuse that and you've heard the last of me but musket balls."

#Treasure Island #classic tv #Robert Louis Stevenson #1977 #John Lucarotti #Michael E. Briant #Ashley Knight #alfred burke #patrick troughton #Anthony Bate #Richard Beale #Thorley Walters #Stephen Greif #Talfryn Thomas #Roy Boyd #Roy Evans #Brian Croucher #Tim Condren #Paul Copley #Edward Peel #Yarghhh Jim lad! Shiver me timbers and hoist the main sale‚ ahar yar har! Anyway. Episode 3! We be on dry land at last‚ yargh #It's a credit to Lucarotti's skills as a scriptwriter that this episode flows as smoothly and as naturally as it does; because of the shape #Of the novel and the decision to make this in 4 parts‚ a hell of a lot happens in this episode: landing parties‚ attacks‚ counter attacks #A great deal of action and a great deal of development all squeezed into an impressively tight 50 minutes. Credit to director Briant too #He stages the major battle scene perfectly‚ emphasising the confined and claustrophobic nature of close quarters conflict even in a #Spacious island setting; cumbersome single shot pistols and unwieldy reloading making sword fighting a necessity. And what thrilling fights #They are... The real highlight tho is the verbal showdowns between Silver and‚ well‚ everyone; with both the enemy and his own men ready to #Give him what for‚ it's his wits and his words he must rely on‚ something Burke plays for all its worth. Particularly strong is the scene #In which he calls on someone to assist him in standing (his single leg making it difficult) and nobody will: Silver may be the ostensible #Villain of the piece but the refusal of all the 'heroes' to hold out a hand feels truly shocking and flies in the face of all good humanity

Granada Holmes gif series - The Speckled Band - Stoke Moran

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Treasure Island: Part Four (1.4, BBC, 1977)

"I've seen too many die since I fell in with you. There's a thing or two I have to tell you, and the first is this: you're in a bad way. Your ship's lost, your treasure's lost, your men's lost, your whole business has gone to wreck and if you want to know who did it, it was I. I was in the apple barrel the night you spoke to Israel Hands - and he's now at the bottom of the sea. I told every word you said before an hour was out."

"Hands is dead?"

"Yes. I shot him. After I'd cut the cable and taken the ship where you'll never see her again. The laugh's on my side! I've had the top of this business from the start, I no more fear you than I fear a fly!"

#Treasure Island #Robert Louis Stevenson #John Lucarotti #Michael E. Briant #classic tv #BBC #Ashley Knight #Alfred Burke #Anthony Bate #Patrick Troughton #Richard Beale #Paul Copley #Edward Peel #Roy Evans #Brian Croucher #Talfryn Thomas #Stephen Greif #Roy Boyd #Tim Condren #Stephen Boswell #And so farewell to Treasure Island. We bow out on another incredibly tight 50 minutes which somehow manages to pack a whole mess of #Dialogue and tidying up and cleverly wrapped up loose ends. Everyone is‚ as they have been throughout‚ on absolute top form but special #Mentions to Pat Troughton‚ who finally gets his meaty scenes as Israel Hands‚ and of course to Alf himself. Silver comes into his own in #This last episode as he flip flops between sides depending on who looks like winning‚ variously sinister‚ threatening‚ conniving‚ pleading‚#Bargaining‚ posturing... Burke sells it completely‚ with a mix of twinkle and iron in his eye. His scenes with young Ashley Knight sparkle #And so bon voyage to Silver‚ young Jim‚ the Squire and more. I've seen a few adaptations of Treasure Island in my time but this is easily #My favourite. It's the version that most conjures to me the memories of 8yr old me curled in a sunspot‚ reading the book and picturing #These pirates in thrilling swordplay and verbal sparring. Bits of it have stuck with me forever more; the scene (included in this episode)#In which the pirates realise one of their number has torn a page from a Bible to use for a black spot‚ sparking horror among them‚ has #For whatever reason lived in my head all these years since. A thorough and deeply satisfying adaptation: shall we ever see its like again

Out of the Unknown: Sucker Bait (1.7, BBC, 1965)

"What are you thinking about?"

"That I might die. I've never been conscious of my own death before. Now I am. And I'm thinking, if I do die, there's so many things... so many things in the universe that I'll never learn. Never know."

#Out of the Unknown #Sucker bait #isaac asimov #Single play #Meade Roberts #Naomi Capon #Clive Endersby #John Meillon #Bill Nagy #David Knight #Burt Kwouk #Roger Croucher #Tenniel Evans #David Sumner #Peter Diamond #John McArdle #Keith Peacock #Tim Condren #Billy Dean #Adrian Drotsky #Fred Haggerty #We're back in space! And back in the hands of one of the grand old men of Sci fi Mr Isaac Asimov. As with the previous Asimov story there's #A theme here on the dangers of over specialised fields within academia: all the scientists on an exploratory mission are too honed in on #Their own narrow field to work out why a previous colony died out. All except young mnemonic agent Mark; a human computer who remembers #Everything and thus has vast stores of knowledge to draw upon. The central mystery and solution are actually p straight forward; the #Problem is that they're buried under layers and layers of awkward exposition and meaningless techno babble. This is the most dialogue heavy #Play yet and it's to the detriment of p much everything else unfortunately. Much too wordy and inactive and full of ponderous conversations #About technology and physics. Too much science fact not enough science fiction. Endersby is brittle and difficult as Mark but then that's #Kind of the point. A more modern adaptation would probably play on some idea of comparing the mnemonic to a developmental disorder (whether #That could be done tactfully idk). Nice to see old fave Tenniel Evans pop up as a grumpy science type. Not the strongest ep tbh

The Plague of the Zombies - John Gilling 1966

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The Plague of the Zombies - John Gilling 1966

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The Plague of the Zombies - John Gilling 1966

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