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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.56.80 |
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| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.242.132.98 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
"...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 |
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 |
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 |
"..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 |
John... Day Of The Daleks was great wasn't it? Equally, I loved Planet Of The Daleks too...blimey...1973! gcw |