Tracey probably thinks you're crackers

[lost_spook]

Okay, I tried posting about this last night, but while I watched it, and the giggling made me incoherent. More incoherent than usual. Maybe.

Out of curiosity I went looking for some Look & Read/Words & Pictures stuff on YouTube and found the whole of Dark Towers here! It was v v funny. Even if you didn't have to watch this at primary school,

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[persiflage_1]

Did you delete the post from last night then? I didn't read it at the time because I was in the midst of listening to a Big Finish audio.

[lost_spook]

Yes. I haven't done that for a bit, have I? :-)

I just realised it was waffly, so hid it & then reworked it this morning. I thought the whole thing was too priceless not to share! Gary Russell going "I feel cold and strange, Father." LOL

I think I'm a little tired from the laughing this morning now. But at least my sense of humour was/is working. At about its normal rate of strangeness, anyway! Hee.

[persiflage_1]

No, you haven't. At least I saw the replacement post *before* tried to read the deleted one, or I'd have been more terminally confused than usual!

I shall go and look at it on YT now I've watched last night's rather brilliant 'Law & Order: UK'.

[lost_spook]

Heh. And talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous...! :loL:

[lost_spook]

Yes, and because Edward and Tracey both hate everyone else, they are born to be good friends! Er.... :lol: I still haven't recovered from my giggles over watching all 10 parts yesterday, sorry. Dark Towers is in DANGER! (From two second hand furniture blokes, and a bibliomaniac. I am making none of this up at all.)

Lord Dark is David Collings, who you will better know as Mawdryn from Mawdryn Undead - that is what he looks like when he hasn't got spaghetti on his head. And you're right; he so could have been a Weasley with that hair. :-)

[lost_spook]

Awww. That's lovely!! Not, I mean, that your son was scared, of course, but that despite the age and shakiness and educational bits, that it still comes across as quite good and creepy if you are more the right age for it. When I was small me and the rest of my class loved it. Aww. Glad he was cheered up by the ending, though!

Yes, tho' there was an awkward moment in the middle when Christopher Biggins framed her as a thief by sticking a small portrait in her back jeans pocket and Lord Dark threw her out, but they all worked their way round it, with the help of the Tall Knight and the Friendly Ghost and a lost treasure. Just your every day tale... :lol:

I know - I like how it's rather shaky, but he still takes it seriously and gives a good performance. Aw, again. :-)

[dbskyler]

Just so you know, this post made me nostalgic for the educational shows that I used to watch as a kid: Sesame Street, Electric Company and Schoolhouse Rock.

That Wordy character is a little scary. But wow, you guys would get actual plots in between your lessons!

And yes, that background music does sound like Doctor Who.

[lost_spook]

Aw, ITV or C4 bought Sesame St, so I'm familiar with things being brought to us by various letters, hehe. I don't know the other two...

But wow, you guys would get actual plots in between your lessons!Yes! I don't mean to be annoying, but I think it has to be said, the BBC are pretty marvellous quite a lot of the time. :-) This was from their schools strand - both the BBC and ITV did pre-school stuff, normal children's TV but then BBC2 also had this separate schools strand that would be shown on a weekday morning (and teachers would record it and show them to their classes for the next ten years or so, heh

[john_amend_all]

O...kay :-)

Also, after Pt1 they have thankfully edited out Wordy and all the songs about vowels and the repetitions.

I remember my mother (a teacher) opining that Through The Dragon's Eye was superior to the earlier stories because it lacked constant interruptions from Wordy. Which, I suppose, makes Wordy the L&R equivalent of the Valeyard.

[lost_spook]

I was a bit old for Through the Dragon's Eye, but I watched it when home, ill and bored, as a teenager, and my impression from that is that it was probably better than the rest, generally. (I mainly remember that Charn was properly Evil... and, look, played by David Collings again. Was he in everything ever? Heh.) I think the absence of Wordy would improve most things. :-D Your Mum has my admiration if she could sit through Dark Towers as an adult without laughing.

[john_amend_all]

When I wrote my first comment, I hadn't watched all the parts. Now I have (feel free to consider yourself an evil oppressor, if you want). Though I'm sure I never saw it before, enough plot points rang enough bells that I think I must have seen a novelisation at some point.

I see what you mean about the music, too; the cliffhanger to Episode 8 really wants the last shot replaced by a crash zoom on Tracey's face, and an electronic scream leading into the credits.

And... whoever wrote those rhymes needs to do some serious work on their scansion.

[lost_spook]

I assume it was Andrew Davies... who I am pretty sure wrote some more respective Children's drama as well, oh dear. Mind you, with everyone reading so slowly, they were never going to come out well anyway. :-)

[curuchamion]

Peter Mayhew is indeed Chewbacca from Star Wars. *fangirl* I keep forgetting he's English. ;-)

[lost_spook]

:-) Yes, and in this you can see, well, even less of him than you can as Chewbacca! Star Wars always amuses me in that way - it's a proper Hollywood film but has all these British actors who used to turn up on TV, as well as more obvious people like Peter Cushing and Alec Guiness.