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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26538
    #46
    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
    Excellent episode
    From the date, I assume you were referring to the third episode, 'Rocket', with skullduggery at the armaments factory.

    Just caught up and I agree, a very good 90 minutes.

    I was very struck with the performance of an actor I'd never been aware of before, Craig Parkinson, playing the splendidly-named shopsteward Reg Tracepurcel - faultless, underplayed stuff, really 'of the period' (helped by the v good work by the makeup and costume people).
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • salymap
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5969
      #47
      The 'Endeavour' stories are one box set I may buy when they become available as I loved 'Morse', have them all but somehow have missed 'Endeavour'.

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      • Richard Tarleton
        #48
        (No spoilers here ) - Good final episode also. This seems to be the first time Keble College has been used as a backdrop. No birdsong this time - a darker, more indoor sort of episode. I didn't notice any opera either....

        It is supposedly set in 1965, but somehow has an earlier feel about it. The Oxford of the late '60s that I remember, post-Beatles, Vietnam War protests in full swing, etc., seems far in the future.

        PS agree about Craig Parkinson - a note-perfect part. He seems to have been in all sorts of things before, but nothing I've seen either!
        Last edited by Guest; 07-05-13, 07:18. Reason: afterthought

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163
          #49
          Originally posted by Richard Tarleton;290290It is supposedly set in [B
          1965[/B], but somehow has an earlier feel about it. The Oxford of the late '60s that I remember, post-Beatles, Vietnam War protests in full swing, etc., seems far in the future.
          As supported by reference to this Prom:

          Prom 42
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/archive/search/1960s/1965/september-03/7687
          The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Northender
            #50
            That's a very generous programme! I've just watched the last episode on the ITV Player, and wasn't quite sure what to make of the 'OK Corral meets High Noon' sequence in the nightclub. But overall, as others have said, a series well worth watching and better than 'Lewis'.

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            • Pabmusic
              Full Member
              • May 2011
              • 5537
              #51
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              As supported by reference to this Prom:

              http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/archive/s...tember-03/7687
              Nostalgia!

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              • amateur51
                #52
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                As supported by reference to this Prom:

                http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/archive/s...tember-03/7687
                Would that such a programme, with those musicians, were possible today

                We still have wonderful musicians

                Getting keen for the Proms to start

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                • Richard Tarleton
                  #53
                  Originally posted by Northender View Post
                  better than 'Lewis'.
                  Probably a heretical view, but I warmed to Lewis (the series) not least because of the dynamic between the two leads. Morse and Lewis made for two rather turgid characters, IMV. I always felt Jack Reagan in The Sweeney was closer to Thaw's acting comfort zone.

                  Anyway - here's hoping there is another series of Endeavour!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26538
                    #54
                    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                    Anyway - here's hoping there is another series of Endeavour!
                    Your hopes are fulfilled, Richard

                    Endeavour gets second series on ITV
                    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22780400
                    ITV commissions a second series of Endeavour, the prequel to Inspector Morse starring Shaun Evans and Roger Allam.


                    Great news for us fans of Roger Allam
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Richard Tarleton
                      #55
                      Excellent - here's to another dose of 60s Oxford nostalgia!

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                      • Pegleg
                        Full Member
                        • Apr 2012
                        • 389
                        #56
                        I've had enough of Nordic Noir C&R, let's have Endeavour forever. This my comfort zone, being Tardised back to 60s I remember so well, decent scripts and convincing lead roles. I enjoyed every minute of the last four programmes.

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                        • Cheapskater
                          #57
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Your hopes are fulfilled, Richard

                          Endeavour gets second series on ITV
                          http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22780400
                          ITV commissions a second series of Endeavour, the prequel to Inspector Morse starring Shaun Evans and Roger Allam.


                          Great news for us fans of Roger Allam
                          This is most welcome & thanks for the update. I confidently expect Endeavour to run for seven or eight series.

                          Cheaps.

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                          • VodkaDilc
                            #58
                            Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                            Anyway - here's hoping there is another series of Endeavour!
                            Good news for all Endeavour enthusiasts. I stumbled across filming for the next series in Oxford this morning. It was obvious that something was afoot, judging from the film unit's vans taking over most of the outdoor part of the Westgate Carpark (again!!). The actual filming this morning was in Brasenose Lane, a tiny road, but, as usual in these programmes, elevated to a major thoroughfare for the purposes of the programme. Endeavour was there, solemn as ever and surprisingly minuscule - and PC (later Chief Super) Strange was inches away from me. As usual, the stars of the scene appeared to be the period vehicles: a lovely cream-coloured ambulance, a light blue Austin 1100 police car and another car with a body on the roof (my guess is a leap from a nearby window.)

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                            • Richard Tarleton
                              #59
                              Excellent! I'm sure Lewis and Hathaway must have worn a furrow in Brasenose Lane.

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                              • VodkaDilc
                                #60
                                Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                                Excellent! I'm sure Lewis and Hathaway must have worn a furrow in Brasenose Lane.
                                The tourists were obediently flashing their iPhones, oblivious of what was happening.

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