And another picspam...

[lost_spook]

From The Strange Report (ATV, 1968) this time. More colour 1960s TV, with David Collings - and Anneke Wills. (There will be much more Anneke Wills once I watch the rest - she's one of the three main characters - and her clothes have their own credit

Comments

[john_amend_all]

Well, he didn't survive the opening credits. That's a record.

The way you put it reminds me of Police Squad!, where the opening sequence of every episode has a "Special Guest Star" who gets killed off as their credit appears.

[lost_spook]

:-)

It wasn't like that, though. It was short but very significant, I think would be the way to put it - they clearly needed someone who could make enough impact in five minutes for the rest of the episode to work. And in the 1960s, thanks to being Raskolnikov in Crime & Punishment, using David Collings worked as a shortcut for brilliant but weird/doomed/messed up young man.

[persiflage_1]

Good grief! That was a short lived guest starring role!

Mind, are we sure he wasn't killed for wearing that dressing gown? *giggles*

[lost_spook]

It was short, but very significant. I can live with David Collings getting killed so quickly, if everyone spends the rest of the episode talking about him and who he was and why he died.

Mind, are we sure he wasn't killed for wearing that dressing gown?

LOL! But it was 1968 - if you wanted to kill people who had dressing gowns like that, you'd have had to kill most of the men in Britain. Also, no, definitely not. It all turned out to be terribly sad and tragic.

[persiflage_1]

Sounds like a good enough reason for murder to me! (The dire dressing gowns, I mean!)

Of course, I'll have to take your word on how sad and tragic it is...

[lost_spook]

:lol: I really don't think dire dressing-gowns are a good excuse for murder! I'm pretty sure my Dad and Grandad both had ones like that years ago. And I once had the worst dressing-gown ever as a hand-me-down. It was a hideous orange thing, made out of thick material, and bits kept falling out of it. ;-p

Well, it really is a complicated plot - I had a go at typing it out for belantana, below, but basically it was all a tragic accident and nobody intended to murder anyone. He was already suffering from stress (or depression) and someone swapped his x-ray results around so that he thought he had a brain tumour and he got his fiancee to help him commit suicide. And the person who'd swapped the results around was so distraught at what she'd done, that she tried to jump off the hospital roof. It was all jolly cheerful, really. Poor unnecessarily deaded David Collings!

[belantana]

Hmm, now I'm intrigued by this storyline I will most likely never see. I'm glad it was better than you expected, in any case :)

[lost_spook]

I will try to type it out, because, actually, it was much more interesting than I expected, and a sort of exploration of the ethics of euthanasia, 1968-style

[belantana]

Oh yes, that is... terribly depressing! But also interesting & certainly not the standard Moral Dilemma fare. (I can't believe you wrote that all out for me - thanks! *g*)

but it would have been more fun for me if we could have seen him and Peggy together, instead of him just dying.

And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the question - can lost_spook write fic about a five-minute character? Her friends await developments with interest.

[lost_spook]

I wanted to try and type it out before, but I couldn't get it straight-forward enough! That was my best attempt at it. ;-)

And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the question - can lost_spook write fic about a five-minute character? Her friends await developments with interest.

LOL. You know me too well! Of course I could! I'll just try to resist the temptation and write things where people know what I'm on about. But he doesn't get many romances, and while this definitely can't count as one, what we hear about it in retrospect makes it the one I'd ship most given a chance. (Aside from S&S of course.)

[scifi_mel]

Yay for Anneke! She looks lovely! She was so sweet in January when I met her I totally need to see more things with her in. :)

[lost_spook]

It's so great to see her in colour. I haven't watched the rest of it yet, but going by the two episodes I've seen, it should be quite interesting - and if you want lots of Anneke, it's probably a good one to go for.

[scifi_mel]

Excellent :)

[lost_spook]

:-)

I will get back to you on that - with pleasure!!!

Things With David Collings In

[lost_spook]

I don't know how easy these are to get hold of for you, but a list, anyway. (Some of them are also on YouTube - easily findable, but I have links somewhere if you have any trouble - and I've starred those.)

Julius Caesar* (1979, Cassius, part of the BBC Shakespeare) It is awesome and like Blake's 7, really. (BBC does Shakespearean tragedy with not enough time or money.)
Scrooge* (1970, film/musical, Bob Cratchit - he has amazing hair, and sings with children and is allowed to be happy. But very poor. Also he hugs a turkey. There were some other people in the film like Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Kenneth More and Edith Evans, but I didn't pay them much attention.)

Two things that are only on YouTUbe:
Level 7 (1967, his surviving Out Of The Unknown episode, a nuclear apocalypse/dystopian thing. His character works out what is going on and then has a mental breakdown because he can't cope with the knowledge - it's interesting to watch after RoD; I really liked it. It was missing for 35 years, but the collector who owns it