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I enjoyed the Rupert Davies Maigrets when first shown(early 1960s) and we're enjoying them again on TPTV (Channel 82) . Unlike vinteuil I do like the acting, e.g. Ewen Solon as Lucas, and recently Andre Melly as a very streetwise whore. But for devotees of the books , they're not very faithful. They chopped and combined the plots rather to make 50-minute complete stories, as did the Granada series with Michael Gambon,which I also liked very much.
It seems this is a featureof TV drama adaprytations of novels. I'm glad I saw the 'Pallisers' before I read Trollope's original novels or I'd have been disgusted at the way they carved up the plots and telescoped some of the characters.
The best thing about A Family At War was the quality of the script, so often a weak point in TV drama, in my view. It was very true to life: the young mother refusing to send her children away to Wales because she cannot believe the Luftwaffe will drop bombs on Children, the young wife who can scarcely remember her missing husband and is deep in a new relationship, when he suddenly reappears. Wonderfully convincing
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Originally posted by smittims View PostI enjoyed the Rupert Davies Maigrets when first shown(early 1960s) and we're enjoying them again on TPTV (Channel 82) . Unlike vinteuil I do like the acting, e.g. Ewen Solon as Lucas, and recently Andre Melly as a very streetwise whore. But for devotees of the books , they're not very faithful. They chopped and combined the plots rather to make 50-minute complete stories, as did the Granada series with Michael Gambon,which I also liked very much.
It seems this is a featureof TV drama adaprytations of novels. I'm glad I saw the 'Pallisers' before I read Trollope's original novels or I'd have been disgusted at the way they carved up the plots and telescoped some of the characters.
The best thing about A Family At War was the quality of the script, so often a weak point in TV drama, in my view. It was very true to life: the young mother refusing to send her children away to Wales because she cannot believe the Luftwaffe will drop bombs on Children, the young wife who can scarcely remember her missing husband and is deep in a new relationship, when he suddenly reappears. Wonderfully convincing
Every time I listen to the first movement of RVW's 6th I can picture that Union Jack fluttering bravely on top of that sandcastle.
Even though it doesn't feature Barbara Flynn .I'm really enjoying 'Budgie' on TPTV - the chemistry between Adam Faith and Iain Cuthbertson is IMHO on a par with that between George Cole and Dennis Waterman in 'Minder'' although Arthur Daley is basically shifty at worst and lacks Charlie Endell's vicious streak..Last edited by LMcD; 02-06-24, 00:01.
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
With the greatest respect, the best thing about A Family At War was Barbara Flynn - mind you, that goes for just about everything else she's been in - The Beiderbecke Affair, A Very Peculiar Practice, Open All Hours, Cracker .....
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
A Very Peculiar Practice was one of the greats. I'd happily watch that again if it came round.
* Or possibly 'Changed'
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
A Very Peculiar Practice was one of the greats. I'd happily watch that again if it came round.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
Barbara Flynn popped up in Beyond Paradise, had a few good lines, and even hooked up with her former co-star Peter Davison, but I didn't spot any nuns!
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A production from 1976, which put a tear in my eye on a Sunday afternoon when I was feeling a bit low....The Dame of Sark : (Anglia TV) Celia Johnson , Tony Britten (2 really lovely portrayals)....4 years of WW2 in 50 minutes so be on your toes....Marvellous (Celia makes the most of every close up)bong ching
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostA production from 1976, which put a tear in my eye on a Sunday afternoon when I was feeling a bit low....The Dame of Sark : (Anglia TV) Celia Johnson , Tony Britten (2 really lovely portrayals)....4 years of WW2 in 50 minutes so be on your toes....Marvellous (Celia makes the most of every close up)
On BBC 4 tonight - 'Blue Remembered Hills', prefaced by Helen Mirren.
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Currently showing on TP TV - 'Crime Story'. These 2 series of dramas from the first half of the 1990s were based on actual cases and produced by several different ITV companies. This week's episode stars ((well, starred) Bernard Hill, and was bookended by a tribute to 'Yosser', whose antics are currently available on iPlayer.
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D Day The Unheard Tapes BBC 2
Audio taped interviews with survivors of D Day - German soldiers, French citizens and Resistance fighters as well as allied soldiers - made after the war are lip-synced by present day actors dressed as though of the 1940s, intercut with live contemporaneous cine footage and some reenactments. It seemed to me an unpromising idea but turns out to be magnificent.Last edited by kernelbogey; 03-06-24, 17:55.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostD Day The Unheard Tapes BBC
Audio taped interviews with survivors of D Day - German soldiers, French citizens and Resistance fighters as well as allied soldiers - made after the war are lip-synced by present day actors dressed as though of the 1940s, intercut with live contemporaneous cine footage and some reenactments. It seemed to me an unpromising idea but turns out to be magnificent.
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I quite agree. I think, when I hear people bleating about their 'rights' and the 'wrongs' done to them (when really they mean 'give us money') of all those young men conscripted and sent to suffer and die in the trenches in the first war, and all those whose lives and health were ruined by bombing. There's been no 'reparations ' for them . .
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