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The Terrornauts (1967)

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Doomwatch: The Plastic Eaters (1.1, BBC, 1970)

"As soon as there's any information it'll be passed to me here, direct!"

"I know, I've just arranged it."

"Doctor Quist. I'm afraid I intend to set up a most exhaustive enquiry into the activities of your department, and until the results are known I must tell you that I have decided that as director - you are suspended."

#Doomwatch #The Plastic Eaters #Bbc #1970 #Classic tv #gerry davis #Kit Pedler #Paul Ciappessoni #John Paul #Simon oates #robert powell #Joby blanshard #Wendy hall #John barron #Jennifer wilson #Kevin stoney #michael hawkins #John lee #Tony sibbald #Edward dentith #Gracie luck #So Doomwatch is entirely new to me. Oh i know it by reputation of course (not least thanks to some gentle persuasion from #@thisbluespirit that i should make it a priority to watch). But most of what i know about the series seems to be centred on the first two #Surviving episodes (for a long time the only ones readily available on home video I'm guessing) and I've never actually watched them so..#Here goes. This one is fun in a slightly gloopy and far fetched terror sort of way. But what a cast! Even the small roles have great actors #In them (always lovely to see Hawkins turn up as a grump and my Brothers mvp Wilson made me very happy). For all that the effects and the #Melting aeroplane are a bit silly the actual tone is surprisingly grim. I mean this begins with a plane crash. Oh and what a beginning too #The fade from the crash into the video static and ominous theme of the opening titles? An editing masterpiece #Our characters are still only briefly sketched in here but I'm sure i will come to love them all. Especially Robert Powell's Toby Wren.#Gosh i hope nothing happens to him..... (ok maybe i know one other thing about Doomwatch)

Doomwatch: The Human Time Bomb (2.10, BBC, 1971)

"Look, we don't intend to imprison a lot of people in little boxes like a lot of broiler chickens."

"I'd say that's exactly what you are doing."

"On the contrary! We want people to be happy."

"Of course, every farmer knows that unhappy chickens go off their feed."

#doomwatch #The human time bomb #Bbc #classic tv #1971 #John Paul #Jean trend #Simon oates #Patrick godfrey #philip bond #Roddy mcmillan #John quayle #Kevin brennan #Joan Phillips #Talfryn thomas #Ray Armstrong #Ursula hirst #Doreen andrews #Joan kemp welch #Louis marks #Oh louis marks you clod. This is an intensely frustrating experience because although the episode as a whole is a bit of a dud as #@thisbluespirit had warned it does contain the framework of something very very good. The horrors of high rise living was (and to a degree #Remains) a very timely and relatable concern. And again the show accurately comes down on the right side of things in predicting that #Anonymous grey blocks of living space have a detrimental effect on mental health and overall wellbeing. But marks spoils it by focusing so #Much of the episode on what a troubled lady dr Chantry is and how her feeble woman self can't stand up to the strains of investigation (the #Same dr chantry who quite capably coped with a deadly virus killing schoolchildren in her first episode) and by having Ridge and worse #Quist treat her like a hysterical little girl. It's horribly patronising and entirely out of character for them all (well certainly Chantry #And Quist). A strong but large guest cast means great actors like McMillan and Philip Bond are sidelined in very minor roles #A lot of potential here for a j. G. Ballard style critique of batteryfarm living but let down by Marks' mishandling of the leads #Kemp welch's direction however is urgent and effective so this is at leasy more compelling than the islanders

Doomwatch: Public Enemy (2.13, BBC, 1971)

"Raise production! Raise consumption! Raise wages. Advance the standard of living. But is anyone any happier? All that happens is that the debris that must inevitably accumulate in the process slowly builds up, until one day it's going to choke us. Now, don't think that I'm speaking as a government official-"

"Oh it's alright Quist, there's no-one here to quote you."

"-because the government doesn't want you to go to Leicester any more than you do."

#doomwatch #public enemy #1971 #Bbc #classic tv #John Paul #Simon oates #Jean trend #john nolan #Joby blanshard #Vivien sherrard #Trevor bannister #Glyn houston #Derek benfield #Roy purcell #Michael elwyn #Norman florence #Rhoda lewis #Barbara bolton #Patrick Alexander #Lennie mayne #For the most part this is a surprisingly lowkey way to end a series. A strong script and some great shouty showdowns but it just doesn't #Feel like a series finale. Well until those final minutes anyway when Quist gives the speech I've partly quoted above. It's a powerful #Moment and sadly just as relevant today if not moreso. A great guest cast which includes Houston as the most reasonable and sensible #Managing director of a company yet seen in Doomwatch and Derek Benfield as exactly the kind of money grabbing corporate type that good old #Bill Riley would have spat in the eye of. Lennie Mayne keeps the camera fluid and agile. It isn't exactly another cannibal rat episode but #It's good solid Doomwatch a strong way to bow out for the second series. Oh and at one point Ridge phones a contact in intelligence to get #Information on Bannister's overly passionate scientist and asks of he has a file and if so which colour it is. So I'm accepting that as #Canon that Doomwatch and Callan exist in the same universe and that that was probably Toby Meres he was phoning (they probably went to the #Same public school and anyway they seem like they'd get on in a terrible sort of way)

Doomwatch: Waiting For A Knighthood (3.4, BBC, 1972)

"What are the symptoms for less severe exposure?"

"Well, they're terribly varied. Vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea; headaches, depression, anxiety, lassitude..."

"Plenty of all that about, wouldn't you say?"

#doomwatch #Waiting for a knighthood #1973 #Bbc #classic tv #John Paul #Simon oates #Joby blanshard #Vivien sherrard #John barron #Frederick jaeger #Ann firbank #Elizabeth weaver #John bown #Anthony oliver #Margaret john #Noelle middleton #Don mckillop #Bruce purchase #Terence dudley #Pennant roberts #And we're back! After the movie's holiday jaunt to potato face island a lot has changed both onscreen and behind the scenes. Pedler and #Davis broke with the show before this third series and Nolan and Trend seem to have followed them. Ridge has gone bonkers and Quist is #Keeping an unusually low profile. And he's married! To lovely Dr. Tarrant from the Wrengate inquiry episode! What's more he seems to have #Held onto some of those technician extras from the film; they can be seen floating around the background of a few scenes the one of them #Is presumably dismissed after being outed as a spy. Oh yeah and we have a new face on the team but he's a spy for the ministry too. The #Episode itself is a strong investigative one with some very tense moments. The revelation that Ridge may have had lead poisoning when he #Went mad is a little...idk. Disappointing maybe. I prefer the idea that it was the pressure of his work that drove him to the edge. The #Alternative lead option seems just too pat. Oh and Barron is back! He survived that heart attack in series 2 and now he's glowering at #Anything in his field of vision. My there has been a lot going on. But this is a solid well written episode. If only more of s.3 existed

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