Ah, yes...

[rose_of_pollux]

Today would have been Simon Oakland's 98th birthday. To commemorate, there is a post that I made on the tribute blogFor those of you who don't know who Simon Oakland is, he is a character actor, just like Patrick Troughton. And I adore him just as much as I adore Patrick. And as I was putting together my post for today, I noticed some intriguing

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[karstcrystal]

It's a good thing I wasn't drinking when I saw these. The 500% DONE picture of Patrick would have sent liquids all over my keyboard. Priceless!

And yes, cute. Cute as a baby fur seal.

And the Web of Fear scene...

One Word.

Absquatulate.

That is all.

P.S. saw you noticed Troughton's bow tie was safety-pinned on. He used that instead of a collar button! And today I was drawing a picture of him from one of those old photos from POWER OF THE DALEKS, and suddenly noticed something was odd about his ankles...yep. I'll say it was odd. His shoelaces were for knee-high boots! He has them wrapped and tied around his ankles just like kids at school do with their overlong laces today! Ask him why and he'd probably tell you long laces are more practical than short ones...you never know if you have to rig up a trebuchet or an Ogron snare...

[rose_of_pollux]

Definitely a priceless expression (pity it's from his trial during The War Games--and knowing what happens after that, well...)

Aww, that's adorable about the laces! Heh, sorry Matt Smith, but I think Patrick still owns the title of Raggedy Doctor! XD

[insaneladybug]

This is very interesting, how you've thought of these parallels (and chosen the priceless pictures). LOL, the WTH and I'm Done expressions.

I don't think Simon and Darren worked on Mike Hammer, though, unless some new information has come to light. I thought it was Darren's other private eye show, from the late sixties.... (Mike Hammer actually aired before The Problem Child, too....)

Your blog post is lovely, by the way! It's very interesting how your interest in the other series has actually supported Simon love. I feel the same about my own ventures.

[rose_of_pollux]

LOL, yep. Always priceless....

Ah, oops. *fixes that* I knew it was some show with Darren...

Thank you! Yours was wonderful, too!

[marie1964]

They do have very nice expressions. :)

[rose_of_pollux]

Yesss, they do! X3