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     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.155.181 |
Do you remember? And were you afraid? DEATH RATTLES http://www.grayfriarpress.com/catalogue/rattles.html Back in the mid-80s, a UK genre television show was aired on Channel 4 that pushed the boundaries of accepted broadcasting standards. As far as can be established, only six episodes were ever shown, but hardly anybody can remember seeing them. Official records offer scant information, and no recordings of the episodes seem to exist. Rumours abound about brief clips on Youtube and water-damaged master tapes found in a media vault, but nobody has stepped forward with anything more solid than hearsay. But six authors do remember watching the series, and their imperfect recollections form the basis of the stories in this book . . . You'll almost certainly never get to see the show in its original form, so this may be your only chance to experience . . . DEATH RATTLES http://www.grayfriarpress.com/catalogue/rattles.html . . . the notorious lost TV series. Contents Rattling Cages: an Introduction by Stephen Volk Episode 1: Scattered Ashes - John Llewellyn Probert Episode 2: Seen And Not Heard - Gary Fry Episode 3: Antlers - Thana Niveau Episode 4: The Children of Moloch - Simon Bestwick Episode 5: Cow Castle - Paul Finch Episode 6: His Father's Son - Gary McMahon UK £7.99 + £1.50 P&P / US $14 + $5 P&P ORDER NOW http://www.grayfriarpress.com/catalogue/rattles.html IN STOCK AND SHIPPING!!! www.grayfriarpress.com | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.155.181 |
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| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
What a sterling idea! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.25.85 |
Spiffing stuff. Ordered my copy as soon as I saw the email. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.155.181 |
Thanks guys! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.13.128 |
In the mid-80s I was living in a rat-infested Walsall tenement (or rather a people-infested concrete rat settlement) and we had only one TV in the whole building. I saw every episode of this series but was too stoned, or too busy doing what I did to raise drug money, to recall the details clearly. I look forward to having the gaps filled in, or at least replaced with more interesting gaps. Come to think of it, that was all I was hoping for back then. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.152.176.244 |
I think I only missed one episode, the one said to be directed by Escobada. I look forward to filling in that gap, well, all gaps, because my memory is fast losing its race with age. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 92.232.184.206 |
I think I remember this Channel 4 programme. Was it the one with the sofa that ate someone? And at the end it turned out that they were on a prison planet? | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 92.232.184.206 |
(Joking aside, if anyone does remember that programme, do let me know what it was called. I've spent ages trying to identify it.) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.155.181 |
It was called THE COUCH POTATOES, Stephen.  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Stephen you're not thinking about Dr Who & Terror of the Autons are you? That has a plastic armchair that eats someone. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.34.191 |
You can't help but have fond memories of a TV show you only ever saw through a fog of late-night drunkenness. I'm also ashamed to admit that I was a keen viewer, whenever the social whirl would permit, because this was another of those late-night 'pre-political correctness' TV shows which were guaranteed to contain explicit female nudity. Sorry, everyone. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 92.232.184.206 |
No, it definitely wasn't Who. I think it was a Canadian or Australian show, something like that. It was in suburbia, with lots of weird stuff happening. A bit like the bits of Time Bandits that happen in the present day. I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been an early Peter Jackson project, but I don't think it was. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.158.78.71 |
I wasn't sure I'd seen it at all until a conversation at Fantasycon convinced me I hadn't dreamt or hallucinated it. It was only one episode, a pirate transmission at that, but I never forgot it. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Caught a couple of episodes on an old home video recording a mate of mine picked up at a car boot sale. Sadly he lost it shortly after (the video, not his sanity or anything) so I never got to make a copy of it... it bloody stayed with me, though. |