Espionage Picspam (Covenant With Death, The Final Question & Light of a Friendly Star)
I've been watching a very old TV series called Espionage (ITC 1963/4) (as I've mentioned a few times lately). It is an anthology series about spies, so each episode is a different story. I'm not sure what to make of it, to be honest, but I am enjoying watching it. It's an odd mix - ITC pretty and stellar casting, coupled with dollops of
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...(but it was a bit random while watching when everyone was running about and he suddenly threw off his jumper). This gets him arrested and dragged off...
Blimey, arrested for taking off his jumper. I knew the Nazis were totalitarian, but I didn't know they had a dress code... The accent muddle made me smile. It reminded me of one of my favourite shows from the nineties, "Poltergeist: The Legacy". It's an American show, but the hero is played by a Dutchman. I'm never entirely sure if we're supposed to notice. His mother's English, his father's Canadian, he apparently went to school in San Francisco. When his sister turned up, they got her to fake a bad German accent, possibly in the hope that this would somehow help explain something. I'm not sure quite what. Accents always add to the fun.
That's the little girl from "Hand In Hand". Rather a sweet little film. I think you'd like it.
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It looked like him, but you never know. ;-) I haven't ever seen him strangling people. He's usually just being so posh he could probably be arrested for it.
You're very mean. Bits in brackets in a paragraph are separate from other bits not in brackets. But then again, I don't know why the Nazis arrested him. It might as well have been for having his shirt undone as for anything else.
That's the little girl from "Hand In Hand". Rather a sweet little film. I think you'd like it.
I'll investigate. :-)
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See, I keep pointing this out to people, but they never believe me.
But then again, I don't know why the Nazis arrested him.
Well, by definition, they are evil. They don't tend to have Nazis on TV now, do they? (I don't know why I'm asking that of someone who watches as little modern TV as I do, if not less!) Up until roughly the end of the sixties, if you wanted a properly sinister bad guy, they were a Nazi. A quick shorthand for evil. ITC was very fond of using them. Played directly into the experiences of the audience of the time, I suppose.
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I do watch some modern TV!!
Except, of course, yesterday I watched more Espionage - Julian Glover and Mark Eden were two thirds of a WWII crack team of saboteurs comprised of a Russian, a Brit and an American. (The American was Donald Madden.) It didn't end well, let's say. It was terrible for Julian Glover. He was definitely stuffed by the end and he felt so badly about having to kill the other two, poor thing. :lol:
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Boo to Mr Smith ruining a perfectly good hurt/comfort picspam and dumping Carey once he got what he wanted. I had to take my glasses off and wipe my eyes after viewing the magic paper pic:D Ah well, it was the psychedelic era.
Ha, ha Leo is the worst spy ever. How did he pass the interview? Kit to rule the future world. Oh noes George Pravda was mean? He was such a sweetheart in 'Strangers', Bulman will be gutted.
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I don't think Leo had an interview; he just nicked info for whoever would pay him this time. I'm going to be kind and assume it was a bad day and he was slightly distracted by having to tow a cute ten year old around with him. George Pravda often is mean; it's the penalty of having a *gasp* actual foreign accent, poor thing.
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also that she wanted a really exciting thing to tell her schoolfriends, so she's reasonably okay with being kidnapped. It's better than boarding school and her Aunt Margaret.
Now there's a girl who's up for adventure! No wonder you've had to write fic. :oD
Poor Alfred Burke. It was inevitable that his ruse would fail, but his jumper looked rather nice. It's a shame you didn't include the woolly hat.
And talking of Mr. Burke, your screencaps of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) are done. There are um...56 pages of them. AB is in the episode a lot, though it's a shame he plays a bad guy.
The first page is here, it's public, but you have to make sure to view the pics by file name order. The first 5 pictures are from the episode gallery, but after that it's screencaps all the way.
Do you know the episode at all? If you don't, I'll do a picspam of the ep to give you an idea of how it goes. Let me know if you want me to.
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And thank you for the screencaps! I'd forgotten, so that was an unexpectedly nice thing! I've been flicking through them (they're very nice indeed! \o/) but if you wanted to do a picspam of the episode, that would be wonderful, because, yes, I'm baffled. Why is he making people's tables float? Why does he seem to be dressing as an Edwardian in the 60s? Yrs, completely puzzled of LJ. I'm sure the reason is probably just because 1960s TV, so why not have evil devices to float people's tables?
But thank you!! ♥ They are rather lovely pics.
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