Blott On The Landscape
Posted by: J.N. on 29 March 2005
Short notice; but Tom Sharpe's gem of yesteryear is being repeated on Beeb 4 TV, starting at 9.50pm Wednesday 30th March.
I hope it's a funny as I remember it.
John.
Posted on: 29 March 2005 by Martin D
John
Cheers, read all the books
Martin
Posted on: 29 March 2005 by Julian H
quote:
I hope it's a funny as I remember it.
So do I
Thanks for the heads up John
Julian
Posted on: 29 March 2005 by Aiken Drum
Well spotted John
Thank you
Brad
Posted on: 29 March 2005 by Berlin Fritz
I heard that good old Auntie Beeb will soon be showing 24/7 repeats of the test card, and the little girl with her ballo0ns (If PC naturally) ?
Fritz Von Cannie Wait says Our Nena
Posted on: 29 March 2005 by J.N.
Posted on: 29 March 2005 by Berlin Fritz
Ta, though old hat in this house, I've got hours of it on wideo, love watching the time change !
Fritz Von I didn't know Barclay's bank used computers ?
Posted on: 31 March 2005 by Bubblechild
What a great cast, what a great show. I was about 10 first time round, and thought it was hysterical. I've just had the worrying thought that Julia McKenzie as Nanny Whip and Nurse Catheter might have irreversibly shaped my outlook on sex...
Watching it back, it strikes me that it was rather badly directed - all those gaps between cues - though perhaps this is the effect of the subsequent MTV revolution on my attention span.
And the music: truly wonderful or truly terrible?
Posted on: 31 March 2005 by domfjbrown
I was 10 when this was re-ran in 1987(?) - seem to remember it was good!
Unfortunately, didn't see this thread; last night when it was on, I was STILL trying to crack "Cannon Fodder" on Grand Theft Auto Vice City - that level's ReALLY po-ing me off, and it's VERY rare I get into computer games...
Posted on: 31 March 2005 by HTK
One thing you can say about Sharpe (if you like him) is that the humour doesn't wear out with age, and the TV adaptation (Bradbury wasn't it?) was a highly professional job. Of course, our recorder (which has performed faultlessly for 8 months)glitched at 10.45 last night so that's all down the toilet - unless they repeat it. So much for the brave new world on DVD recording technology.
Pah!
