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38 minutes ago, themaninblack said:

Seen it of course!

 

By Chris Boucher but not a patch on 'The Robots of Death' IMO, although better than 'The Face of Evil', which I've never warmed to...

I honestly didn't remember Face of Evil growing up (I might have been on holiday or something)...but I had a Whomarathon about three years ago when I watched everything I could find in order (including the audio stuff from the lost episodes) and I actually really enjoyed it.

 

Almost the entire cast of Fendahl could get a qo...I hope someone picks up on Fredericks, his performance is outstanding.

 

 

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It has Louise Jameson in it, thus it is great.

 

:D

 

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5 hours ago, msc said:

It has Louise Jameson in it, thus it is great.

 

:D

 

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I can certainly agree with that.Just watched Talons of Weng Chiang again recently and the scenes in it where Leela's  in the sewer in her underwear and it becomes wet and see through is definitely not for kids!

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10 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Scott Fredericks, who appeared as Boaz in Day of the Daleks and Stael in Image of the Fendahl, has died aged 74. http://irishequity.ie/scott-fredericks/

 

Quintessential baddie. Also was in Blakes 7 and Triangle.

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fredericks

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292868/

 

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Damn  he was brilliant in Blake's 7. Chris Boucher reused his character in his Doctor Who novels.

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9 hours ago, msc said:

It has Louise Jameson in it, thus it is great.

 

:D

 

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Yes and it is not at all gratuitous when she falls in the floor with Tom Baker on top of her with most of her cleavage on display.

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7 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Yes and it is not at all gratuitous when she falls in the floor with Tom Baker on top of her with most of her cleavage on display.

 

Oh yes, I mean, those Victorian underwear scenes were all integral to the plot.

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On ‎5‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 15:15, msc said:

A clean up of that list from November 2015 then, given the number of folk on it who have decided to snuff it in the last 18 months.


UPDATED: A few lists of living actors from cult British SF. Tried for the twenty living actors who appeared in most episodes. Credited cast members only. There's a lot of actors out there with no dates who stopped acting decades ago, so stuck with those known to be alive.

 

*snip*

 

 

Blake’s 7 (top 20 in order of most episodes)

 

 

  1.     Michael Keating b. 1947
  2.     Paul Darrow b. 1941
  3.     Jan Chappell b. 1949
  4.     Jacqueline Pearce b. 1943
  5.     Sally Knyvette b. 1951
  6.     Steven Pacey b. 1957
  7.     Josette Simon b. 1960
  8.     Glynis Barber b. 1955
  9.     Stuart Fell c 1950
  10.     Brian Croucher b. 1942
  11.     Stephen Greif b. 1944
  12.     Deep Roy b. 1957
  13.     John Savident b. 1938
  14.     Peter Craze b. 1946
  15.     Peter Miles c. 1937
  16.     Michael Halsey c. 1952
  17.     John Leeson b. 1943
  18.     Leslie Schofield b. 1938
  19.     Tony Caunter b. 1937
  20.     Sue Bishop b. 1948

 

 

*snip*

 

 

Sorry, YW, still no Tomorrow People - though some of the above were in it!

 

Apologies if this has been covered, but according to IMDB, Michael Halsey died in September 2017. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357036/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

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8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Apologies if this has been covered, but according to IMDB, Michael Halsey died in September 2017. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357036/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

 

On the Blake 7 forum, and tweeted by his nephew, apparently.

 

Seen there Suzan Farmer has died too but a search shows Thatcher picked up on that one at the time.

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4 minutes ago, RolandDeschain said:

Always liked that story - suitably grim and very early to mid 1980s vibe.

Hasn't got like a bigger death count than 'The Terminator' or something?

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1 minute ago, themaninblack said:

Hasn't got like a bigger death count than 'The Terminator' or something?

 

Yep, I believe so.  I once went to count it to test this out, and lost count after 40 or 50 onscreen deaths.

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My opinion on that story changes like the wind. Same with Earthshock, another Saward dead bod fest.

 

Revelation of the Daleks however, is a classic...

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My opinion of Resurrection remains fairly constant: it's shite.

 

I do like Earthshock (Beryl Reid is great in it), and Revelation of the Daleks though. Think Saward needed a sympathetic director to stop his world view completely contrasting with the show.

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The Saward/Holmes/Harper axis came together brilliantly for 'Caves of Androzani', but that trick could only be played once...

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Aye. Case in point. Graham Harper directed Androzani and Revelation, not been out of work since, trained up a lot of the new directors on TV, and is massively respected as one of the best in his business.

 

Matthew Robinson (Resurrection director) carried on directing for a bit, but wound up as a casting producer (for Eastenders and Byker Grove), introducing the world to Ant and Dec.

 

Hmm, perhaps that Dalek story wasn't his biggest crime after all.

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1 hour ago, msc said:

My opinion of Resurrection remains fairly constant: it's shite.

 

I do like Earthshock (Beryl Reid is great in it), and Revelation of the Daleks though. Think Saward needed a sympathetic director to stop his world view completely contrasting with the show.

There is something truly wrong with a story when Rula Lenska is not the worst thing about it.

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On the flipside, something truly wrong with a story when actors like Bewes and the late Maurice Colborne, who could usually be relied on to be decent at least, seem so disinterested and one note.

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When interviewed on the DVD special feature (someone gave it to me) Matthew Robinson wished he had not gone over the top on the violence.

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2 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

When interviewed on the DVD special feature (someone gave it to me) Matthew Robinson wished he had not gone over the top on the violence.

 

:D

 

He also directed Attack of the Cybermen. I'm not convinced.

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Any story that writes out the dreadful Tegan is fine by me...

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5 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Any story that writes out the dreadful Tegan is fine by me...

 

It stopped being fun, Doctor...

 

Yes, because Adric dying, her aunt dying, possession by snake, and watching a galaxy explode earlier were just a bundle of laughs.

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