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Anthony Vs Anthony (aka Valentine Vs Bate)

#anthony valentine #raffles #anthony bate #wilde alliance #1977 #1978 #yorkshire television #yorkshire televisions costume dept #the doyen of the dressing gown #the hero of the housecoat #the rascal of the robe #screencaps #screengrabs #my edits.

Wilde Alliance: A Question Of Research (1.1, Yorkshire Television, 1978)

"There ought to be a law which allows literary agents to murder authors. Very slowly."

#Wilde alliance #classic tv #1978 #John stride #Julia Foster #John Lee #patrick newell #Jerome Willis #Donald Burton #Raymond Adamson #Judy Buxton #William humbert #Robert blythe #Sebastian abineri #Robin parkinson #Paul Williamson #Derek Bennett #ian mackintosh #I've been meaning to get hold of this for a while; as the series that Stride made for Yorkshire after The Main Chance finished and as a #Brainchild of Ian Mackintosh it seemed like an irresistible show. I'm only one episode in of course so I don't want to call it prematurely #But I may have rather over excited myself for this. A curiously atypical Mackintosh product it seems to be eschewing the hard drama and #Intricate plots with a dash of humour of his earlier Warship and subsequent masterpiece Sandbaggers in favour of something..#Well humour is much more to the fore (and rather more obvious) whilst those strong plots have melted into the background. Again I'm only #On the first one so I should chill out I guess. Mackintosh had worked with Lee and Burton on Warship and would go on to work with Willis in #Sandbaggers; as in all his work the casting is excellent throughout. The late Stride is irascible but mischievous and makes his thriller #Writer adventurer strangely likeable (strangely because he unfortunately demonstrates a very 1970s attitude to domesticity and sharing the #Work load in a marriage: i hope further episodes will ease back on this because its pretty off putting tbh). Foster is much more #Straight forwardly loveable and will be a big boon to this series I think. The rest of the cast is rounded out with some decidedly oddball #Characters (huggable old Pat Newell playing of all things an amateur pornographer... Smh). We will see where this goes....

John Castle in 1978, as David in Wilde Alliance episode three "Too Much Too Often"

#john castle #wilde alliance #1978 #yorkshire television #. . . and he would smile

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