In business, no such animal exists as a gentleman...
Some odd pics and even a clip or two from The Power Game.
I went to screencap an episode because it had Roger Delgado and found that it also had Pamela Wilder's silliest hat. Two of them, in fact:
I also picked up this one from S3, but none of her S3 hats reached the heights of silliness as her S2 hats, much to my relief:
Roger Delgado in "The Front Men", S2 (1967):
He is obviously just the Master in disguise as a dodgy Middle Eastern business man. He tries to con John Wilder, but it's a big mistake. (Never try to con Sir John Wilder if you want to be a viable business prospect still at the end of the episode.)
It turned out that I could also rip this disc (\o/) so have a clip from the next episode (A Matter For Speculation" in which Wilder's planned Italian road building consortium hits some landbuying scams. It might be the best episode just because of who buys what and why and how it all comes together. One of the people involved in the scheme turns out to be... Pamela! Cue a big scene between Patrick Wymark and Barbara Murray:
(I also uploaded a clip of the ending which does explain some of what was going on & that Pamela comes out on top here.)
Anyway, guess who turned up for one episode in S3 as a secretary?
♥ Liz!
And talking of S3 and secretaries, John Wilder's secretary in that series is Deborah Grant, who keeps turning up in things (and was later Bergerac's ex-wife):
(She's chatting up Richard Hurndall here. Honest!)
And still talking of S3 and pretty secretaries, here's Wilder's Private Secretary in the Civil Service:
A young Michael Jayston as Lincoln Dowling, an ambitious civil servant who decides he wants to be just like Wilder if he can & have everything he has.
And that totally includes his wife. (He and Pamela take one look at each other in the first episode and mutually acknowledge that they are the prettiest and the flirting goes on from there.)
When people call him Dowling, it sounds like Darling. Which they then made into a plot point. Ha.
If there'd been a series 4, I dread to think what'd have happened to him. It couldn't have ended well... could it?
Naturally, John's long-standing assistant, Don Henderson (Jack Watling) whose job it is to flirt safely with Pamela, therefore doesn't like Lincoln much. It means he doesn't get to do things like this, like he did in S2:
Have some more quotes, and then I'll leave you in peace:
Caswell: "Straker'll chew his ear off for it."
Don: "Well, he's got two."
Wilder: "What's the going rate? Or is it still thirty pieces of silver?"
Dowling: "That was for God. Are you really that ambitious?"
Wilder (to the MI5 officer): "I think you people are colour blind. All you see is a big red blur."
Caswell (on his coronet): "It's one of the few ways to hoard gold without breaking the law."
Fowler: "We have no one by the name of James Bond in this office."
Prf. Mobbs: "Oh, my dear chap, he wouldn't be at all the kind of person we were interested in. That ghastly virility. Can't imagine what Ian was thinking of."
Pamela: "Darling, fifty per cent of the guests are likely to be fools. She'll merge quite happily."
Dowling (on what's wrong with one of the ministerial candidates): "Megalomania."
Don: "Isn't that an asset in a minister?"
Wilder: "Accept gracefully and we'll talk figures. Otherwise you're just beating your head against a stone wall."
Panton: "I'm not a graceful man, Wilder, I never have been. This isn't a graceful business."
Wilder: "Well, it's your head. I just provide the wall."
Susan: "I don't know how you get any work done at Bligh's. You're all so busy trying to manipulate one another!"
Pamela: "The thing to remember about John is that he really doesn't mean well."
Justine Bligh: "If you can't win, you'll destroy. Where will it end?"
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there:
I went to screencap an episode because it had Roger Delgado and found that it also had Pamela Wilder's silliest hat. Two of them, in fact:
I also picked up this one from S3, but none of her S3 hats reached the heights of silliness as her S2 hats, much to my relief:
Roger Delgado in "The Front Men", S2 (1967):
He is obviously just the Master in disguise as a dodgy Middle Eastern business man. He tries to con John Wilder, but it's a big mistake. (Never try to con Sir John Wilder if you want to be a viable business prospect still at the end of the episode.)
It turned out that I could also rip this disc (\o/) so have a clip from the next episode (A Matter For Speculation" in which Wilder's planned Italian road building consortium hits some landbuying scams. It might be the best episode just because of who buys what and why and how it all comes together. One of the people involved in the scheme turns out to be... Pamela! Cue a big scene between Patrick Wymark and Barbara Murray:
Click to view(I also uploaded a clip of the ending which does explain some of what was going on & that Pamela comes out on top here.)
Anyway, guess who turned up for one episode in S3 as a secretary?
♥ Liz!
And talking of S3 and secretaries, John Wilder's secretary in that series is Deborah Grant, who keeps turning up in things (and was later Bergerac's ex-wife):
(She's chatting up Richard Hurndall here. Honest!)
And still talking of S3 and pretty secretaries, here's Wilder's Private Secretary in the Civil Service:
A young Michael Jayston as Lincoln Dowling, an ambitious civil servant who decides he wants to be just like Wilder if he can & have everything he has.
And that totally includes his wife. (He and Pamela take one look at each other in the first episode and mutually acknowledge that they are the prettiest and the flirting goes on from there.)
When people call him Dowling, it sounds like Darling. Which they then made into a plot point. Ha.
If there'd been a series 4, I dread to think what'd have happened to him. It couldn't have ended well... could it?
Naturally, John's long-standing assistant, Don Henderson (Jack Watling) whose job it is to flirt safely with Pamela, therefore doesn't like Lincoln much. It means he doesn't get to do things like this, like he did in S2:
Have some more quotes, and then I'll leave you in peace:
Caswell: "Straker'll chew his ear off for it."
Don: "Well, he's got two."
Wilder: "What's the going rate? Or is it still thirty pieces of silver?"
Dowling: "That was for God. Are you really that ambitious?"
Wilder (to the MI5 officer): "I think you people are colour blind. All you see is a big red blur."
Caswell (on his coronet): "It's one of the few ways to hoard gold without breaking the law."
Fowler: "We have no one by the name of James Bond in this office."
Prf. Mobbs: "Oh, my dear chap, he wouldn't be at all the kind of person we were interested in. That ghastly virility. Can't imagine what Ian was thinking of."
Pamela: "Darling, fifty per cent of the guests are likely to be fools. She'll merge quite happily."
Dowling (on what's wrong with one of the ministerial candidates): "Megalomania."
Don: "Isn't that an asset in a minister?"
Wilder: "Accept gracefully and we'll talk figures. Otherwise you're just beating your head against a stone wall."
Panton: "I'm not a graceful man, Wilder, I never have been. This isn't a graceful business."
Wilder: "Well, it's your head. I just provide the wall."
Susan: "I don't know how you get any work done at Bligh's. You're all so busy trying to manipulate one another!"
Pamela: "The thing to remember about John is that he really doesn't mean well."
Justine Bligh: "If you can't win, you'll destroy. Where will it end?"
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there: