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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.56.80
| Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 12:11 am: | |
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Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.242.132.98
| Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 01:33 am: | |
Fanatastic! I haven't seen this for years, I will never forget how it scared the crap out of me. gcw |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 07:42 pm: | |
I have the vaguest of memories about it. Mainly that it was barking mad, some bloke kept talking trhough it, and it was kind of creepy. Garner was a real genius. It's interesting looking at the Harry Potter phenomenon and realising that the Potter books feel as though they came froma time before Garner. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.142.188
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 12:51 am: | |
That's an interesting point, Mark - the Potter books somehow feel like a step backwards compared to Garner's stuff. I can recall reading Brisingamen in the 'sixties as a lad and being terrified by - and also loving - the fact that this was nominally a kid's book but that main characters die in it! |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.203
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 04:23 pm: | |
The radio version a couple of years back was even better. Eerie, atmospheric and everything. And it kept the feel of Garner's style. Yeah, I like Potter, but it does feel like a novelty ornament sometimes. Sad the last book was the worst. |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.24
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 05:54 pm: | |
I've ordered it. Network are doing a fine job. Hope we get stuff like Bob Baker & Dave Martin's SKY and that weird KING OF THE CASTLE |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.144.40.190
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 07:58 pm: | |
"...Bob Baker & Dave Martin.." I am the only person on Earth who loves Doctor Who's "The Invisible Enemy"! gcw |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 08:58 pm: | |
that the one witht eh Daleks and Jon Pertwee? I never saw it but, like so many others, read the Target novelisation as a kid and enjoyed it. |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.24
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 11:34 pm: | |
The Invisible Enemy is that barking one with the nucleus of the swarm living in Tom Baker's head isn't it? I loved that! I don't think Baker & Martin did a dalek one did they? But they did do The Claws of Axos! The dalek stories with Jon Pertwee were 'Day of the Daleks' by Louis Marks (brilliant - let's have daleks running around an English country house) and Planet of the Daleks (fungus - not so good) |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 84.43.109.20
| Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 12:41 am: | |
"..The Invisible Enemy is that barking one with the nucleus of the swarm living in Tom Baker's head isn't it? I loved that!" Thats the one! Often maligned...But I love it. gcw |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 84.43.109.20
| Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 01:00 am: | |
John... Day Of The Daleks was great wasn't it? Equally, I loved Planet Of The Daleks too...blimey...1973! gcw |