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“I’m helping him because he’s helping me.”

The Mind of Evil - season 08 - 1971

#doctor who #classic doctor who #classic who #third doctor #jon pertwee #the mind of evil #jo grant #katy manning #mailer #william marlowe

A Place to Go | Basil Dearden | 1963

#Basil Dearden #A Place to Go #1963 #Michael Sarne #Rita Tushingham #William Marlowe #Bernard Lee

Villains: Billy Boy (1.13, LWT, 1972)

"Your father talked about you occasionally. I had the feeling he would like to have seen you."

"He did. I was handcuffed to a screw at the time. Can you imagine? Being led through a ward of geriatrics? Christ, how they stared. Even those on their last legs, eyes like organ stops. Hardly recognised him at first. 'Hello, Dad', I said, 'It's Billy Boy'. He stared straight through me. 'Who?', he said, 'I don't know any Billy Boy'."

"You broke his heart."

"Had to keep telling myself that that was my father lying there, could have been any old man. I remember, he had some grapes alongside the bed, I picked one off and ate it - that's when the screw turned on me. 'Don't you touch those', he said, 'They belong to your father, I didn't bring you here to stuff yourself'. Oh, that really got through to the old man. He thought that very amusing: laughed like a drain. Even while he's laughing, he starts to choke, he coughs up blood and all sorts. Anyway, that's... that's when a nurse rushed in, and I was dragged out and taken away. Nobody bothered to inform me when he died; was Eric worried I might have been let out for the funeral?"

#Villains #Billy Boy #classic tv #andrew brown #Robert Tronson #William Marlowe #David Daker #Alex Marshall #David Burke #Vanessa Payne #Herbert Ramskill #George Baizley #A.J. Brown #Peter Whitaker #Andy Devine #And so this brilliant‚ strange‚ completely unique series draw to its close. How like Brown to end the series in such an unexpected manner:#How like this series to open its final episode with the only major player still at large‚ William Marlowe's Bill‚ already in prison. What #Might reasonably have been expected to be a suspenseful tale of how Bill evades capture instead becomes a sharp character study explaining #Why he never could. Brown's script is one of the simpler in plot (although still featuring the multiple time lines characteristic of this #Series) but his dialogue is beautiful (not least the speech I've quoted above‚ which is much more affecting in performance)#Marlowe is incredible here; his story has in many ways been the one most central to this series and this episode perfectly strings together #The various glimpses of his life and personality that have been established so far‚ and simultaneously bringing the series to a logical #But deeply upsetting conclusion. Split between the present and prison‚ and the past and Bill's final day of freedom with his estranged #Family. These home scenes are a straight four hander which are played beautifully by all concerned (always fun to see a young David Burke #Rock up‚ even if he never did look that young) and shout out to Payne who's an excellent child actor. And then just as suddenly as it began #It's over. A mystifying‚ unpredictable‚ unique series. There are other shows that examined a single event and used individual episodes to #Study single characters (The Gold Robbers is a good example‚ and quite similar in set up) but none were so experimental and none blended #Genres and pushed the boundaries of the medium in the way this series did in some episodes (still not over some of them). At the same time #It isn't perfect‚ there are misses as well as hits‚ and for me Knocker is an awkward odd one out that fits badly with the rest of the serie #But that's old TV! It's never perfect‚ even the very best of it! And in a way it makes the rest so much better! What a series! What a world

Villains: Move In, Move On (1.8, LWT, 1972)

"You're a studious fellow, aren't you?"

"D'you know, my old man wanted me to go into accountancy. Either that, or civil engineering."

"So why didn't you?"

"Well I have. I've sort of combined both, haven't I."

#Villains #classic tv #LWT #1972 #Robert Tronson #Andrew Brown #Robin Chapman #William Marlowe #David Daker #Martin Shaw #Tom Adams #Alun Armstrong #Patrick Durkin #Michael Culver #Jim Norton #Bob Hoskins #Gwyneth Powell #Marion Mathie #Johnny Shannon #Geoffrey Lumsden #Joan Peart #Beryl Cooke #Eight episodes! Eight episodes in and we finally get a look at the robbery which has been at the heart of this series. Our lead is Bill #Marlowe who's been perhaps the most visible of the gang so far. We flit between him in his foreign hideaway after the escape (presumably #Mexico) and back to the planning and execution of the robbery. We get to see more of the gang together (altho Bob Hoskins scenes are still #Filmed in such an awkward way that I can only assume he wasn't available at the time and was spliced in later) whilst in the present we get #To see Marlowe suffer at an expat dinner party full of awful snobs. Classic Chapman fare as he invites us to wonder who is the moral #Villain in this story; the bank robber who worked hard for a small payout or the awful privileged types who condemn him as a leach when #They have contributed nothing to society themselves. A solid episode and its a treat to see the various stars act against one another #For once (as much as I have enjoyed the format so far its just nice to get actors like Marlowe Daker and Shaw all in a room together)

“These buckles can’t be opened...”

Revenge of the Cybermen - season 12 - 1975

#Four in Order - 05/42 A Fourth Doctor-era GIFset each day, in story order.

#doctor who #classic doctor who #classic who #fourth doctor #tom baker #revenge of the cybermen #harry sullivan #ian marter #lester #william marlowe #four in order

Villains: George (1.1, LWT, 1972)

"A man travelled down from Jerusalem to Leytonstone, and fell among thieves. Not gangsters. I never run a razor up and down an open artery just for laughs. No, thieves, us lot. I'm a thief."

#Villains #lwt #classic tv #andrew brown #Ray Jenkins #Tony Wharmby #david daker #hilary dwyer #Bryan Marshall #Jim Norton #John Kane #Tom Adams #William Marlowe #Martin Shaw #Michael Culver #Bob Hoskins #Alun Armstrong #Patrick Durkin #Paul Eddington #Mary Healey #Dennis Blanch #The brain child of erstwhile script editor and producer Andrew Brown the idea with Villain is that the series would follow each member of a #Criminal gang after their escape from prison. A little strange then that Brown would farm this first episode out to Ray Jenkins to write.#Perhaps he realised that it would take the first episode to establish all the background and relationships before the fun could be had of #Exploring different but related characters (a sort of natural extension of the kind of ensemble series Brown had previously been associated #With; The Guardians and Manhunt). So it goes and yes much of ep 1 is heavy exposition and character building. But there are flashes of #Greatness too particularly in the way Jenkins writes gang boss George; a deceptively complex man who appears utterly simple. There are just #Hints at the whirling depths below a stony impenetrable surface but those brief hints are electric. The cast is an embarrassment of riches #Altho some are clearly not present during the escape (there's all of one shot of Bob Hoskins i think which must have been filmed separately #And awkwardly spliced in). Eddington shines in a brief appearance as a bent brief who may or may not have the cash from the gang's bank job

A Place to Go | Basil Dearden | 1963

William Marlowe, Michael Sarne, Rita Tushingham, Michael Wynne, et al.

#William Marlowe #Michael Sarne #Rita Tushingham #Michael Wynne #Basil Dearden #A Place to Go #1963

Special Branch: Entente Cordiale (4.8, Thames, 1974)

"You've made a lot of waves over this shooting - and you'll have to do a great deal better than this if you want to come out of the inquest unscathed, let alone an A10 inquiry."

"I can only write what happened, Sir."

"Then think about it, Mr. Haggerty. Think hard!"

#special branch #Special branch rewatch #entente cordiale #1974 #classic tv #george sewell #patrick mower #paul eddington #Richard beale #Dora reisser #George murcell #Al mancini #Peter halliday #June brown #Gillian rhind #Shusha assar #Neil hallett #Paul antrim #Alec linstead #William marlowe #jonathan adams #John kershaw #William brayne #This fourth series has mainly steered clear of the cops private lives. I guess it was overdue then: here Craven's much mentioned French ex #Wife (much mentioned in s3 anyway) rocks up and gets involved in a murky bit of OAS terrorism (or at least a hangover from the OAS; the #Organisation had only existed briefly in the mid 60s). Craven has moved from his s3 flat to what looks like a house (tho he still calls it #His flat). And there's a nice bit of inter episode continuity as Bill Marlowe's regular police Detective reappears #A final twist to the identity of a man shot in the pre credits scene should really have been explored a lot more and certainly it should #Not have been played off almost as a joke like it is here.#Oh also cuddly Fred Jaeger seems to have moved on :( his replacement is Richard Beale and he is... Much less cuddly

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