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Post by johnstewart on Aug 29, 2010 14:55:17 GMT
seeing as people seem remember alot about the uninvited and the yellow pill, does anyone remember anything about other season 4 episodes? I recall various about THE CHOPPER; THE LAST WITNESS and TASTE OF EVIL which I'll post when more time. The latter had a powerful ending. Robin Davies on Mausoleum recalled THE CHOPPER features a scene in a living room where a young Biker pulls a woman onto a sofa and tried to grope her breast. There was also an experiment with a Ouija board. Following this one of the Bikers points over to a crash helmet which appears to be oozing blood (it was paint). Only memories I have - a lasting impression the main Biker performances were comic strip like. A scene which is borderline chilling / comedic in which the lights on a motorbike turn on and it revs itself up with smoke from the exhaust. It was locked up at night in an old garage a bit like the ones with wooden doors and windows at the top I saw in the film 'VICTIM' with Dirk Bogarde. |
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Post by johnstewart on Aug 30, 2010 19:24:58 GMT
And the other scene which I forgot to post - have posted this before on Mausoleum. A man; possibly the Character played by Pat Troughton is in a room; possibly a garage; with plain walls. Suddenly he hears the sounds of a motorbike emitting in turn from every corner of the ceiling until its a cacophony. The shots of each corner and the sound were seen then his face bewildered. At the end his head is on its side and he's clamping hands over ears making to shout out.
This scene bears resemblence to one of the weaker Kneale entires to the BEASTS series (1976); 'Buddyboy'. In that disembodied sounds of a Dolphin were heard echoing round a swimming baths.
Around the time of the repeats an old Teacher remembered the first piece of artwork I did for her years later. It depicted a motorcyclist who had crashed. The headless body lay under the bike and elsewhere was his head in Crash helmet mouth open in scream with trickles of blood running down the face.
I was watching the OOTU repeats at that time and wondered if it had any link to images in the play?
BTW the Nigel Kneale makes this play sought after but I actually preferred the other three mentioned from series 4.
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Post by johnstewart on Aug 30, 2010 19:47:24 GMT
I recall various about THE CHOPPER; THE LAST WITNESS and TASTE OF EVIL which I'll post when more time. The latter had a powerful ending. One of the censored clips described prompted a memory from LAST WITNESS. The main Character played by Anthony Bate; in a Tweed jacket I thought sees a thought like a flashback in which he is strangling a woman suddenly, standing on a cliff. In the play he kept seeing these flashes of events before they happened. I recalled an earlier one where someone was getting out of a small car; possibly of French variety, in a side street and he rushed to warn them to run. He had just seen a vision of the wall of the house by the car collapsing on it. The Houses were white painted and along a promenade with cliffs like a seaside town in Wales. Someone said Bates Character had been released from prison and was a test bed for rehabilitating Criminals by repressing their aggressive thoughts. In the play Bates is shocked by these premonitions. Someone said it was actually his reformed self seeing regression to these type of acts as the process is faulty; and unable to acknowledge it's his own mind. |
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Post by johnstewart on Aug 30, 2010 19:56:16 GMT
TASTE OF EVIL. Set in a boarding school like the film UNMAN WITTERING AND ZIGO (1971).
I'm sure it was a mining type village set up in the hills like Aberliffenni; very secluded. The play started with the new Teacher played by Maurice Roeves ('Scobie in Septmember); driving into the front yard.
The boys were 'Posh' Grammar school types. During the course of the play; he uncovers their own secret society a 'Pyschic phenomena club'.
He finds boys have been sneaking out into the woods at night and investigating finds what he finds to be in a book in the School; a magic circle.
A new younger boy with blond hair has a strange metal circlet round his neck which has no join. In the book he finds this is the symbol intended to identify a victim for sacrifice to Gods of the elements.
This takes place at night. Searching he find the boy has gone missing. He rushes into the woods seeing a light at the centre to find a group of boys dressed in monk like sackcloth robes. The young boy is on a stone Altar in the opening. The boys flee and he runs to rescue the boy but taking him up in his arms realises he is too late. He throws his head up in a scream of anger and sadness, The camera panned upward from him into a restless stormy sky, and the play ends with a 'Prisoner' type flash of lightning and clap of Thunder. As if the elements were pleased at the outcome.
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Post by johnstewart on Sept 3, 2010 18:40:26 GMT
Also seem to recall the chosen sacrifice being a boy about 11 resembling Robin davies (CATWEAZLE). The older boys were around 5th form age and someone told me one of them was the one who starred in the film DEEP END (1970).
SHATTERED EYE - This I'm sure used the stock piece of mysterious flute music heard in LOST HEARTS (BBC). This accompanied all the scenes on the beach. The story concerned a young student Artist who was living by the coast; a setting again not unlike LAST WITNESS.
The scenes I recall - one in which the Artist wakes in cold sweat and steps out of his window to walk along the beach at night. He was haunted by an encounter with a vagrant played by Freddie Jones.
Jones' Character was unshaven and dressed in a long coat with 'Steptoe' type gloves. I recall he met the Student on the beach by day and said something strange about fate to him. there's a scene where the Artist is working in his studio set up in a small shed like affair. There was a mirror to help with a self portrait and he suddenly saw an image of the tramp looking at him refected in it. I recall the mirror shattered in a bullet hole type pattern where one of Jones' eyes were reflected. It may have been that the Student saw his own refection replaced by the tramp who I think died.
At the end of the play an exhibition was held and friends commented at the disturbing way in which the Artists work had changed. This exhibition space seemed to false panels with real walls behind like the series 2 ACE OF WANDS flat.
The pictures all depicted flame like figures like demons in Charcoal. After this a Character comments to someone in another scene 'Hadn't you heard? He was killed in a fire along with all his work a couple of days ago'.
I didn't understand it but would guess Jones' Character was symbolic of the Devil possessing the Artists soul.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Sept 4, 2010 10:54:33 GMT
These recollections are pretty amazing, John. Your memory for detail is very useful in looking at missing TV!
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Post by felixdembinski on Sept 4, 2010 13:14:46 GMT
Does anyone know if any photos from the chopper exist? It is the only series 4 episode that there is no visual material for at all.
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Post by felixdembinski on Sept 4, 2010 15:40:05 GMT
What happens in the audio extracts from the fastest draw? The clips guide does not include them.
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Post by felixdembinski on Sept 5, 2010 11:43:55 GMT
out of interest were all the audio extracts recorded by the same person (im not talking about the yellow pill and the uninvited) or several different fans of the programme?
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Post by johnstewart on Sept 6, 2010 20:42:52 GMT
Sorry to run off that point - I had no idea the audios existed at all but someone over on MAUSOLEUM might be able to help.
Another part of that SHATTERED EYE scene forgot to mention. The painter 'in possession' draws a flat brush across the canvas with red paint 'like a scar of blood'. Think there was reference to this in the dialogue.
Of course there is no clue either way as to whether the master tape exists somewhere abroad. It does seem they kept the actual tapes late due to Countries like Dubai purchasing them in a colour form. Can't work out though why these were only selected ones by then.
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Post by felixdembinski on Sept 7, 2010 10:50:05 GMT
I have been researching the episode LIAR! for a reconstruction I am making and I came across a publicity photo of RB34 (Herbie). I have not seen this photo before, it isn't in Mark Ward's book and it's not on the clip guide site. If anyone knows where there are any other photos from LIAR! please tell me. Attachments:
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Post by Frederick Thompson on Sept 7, 2010 19:46:50 GMT
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Post by felixdembinski on Sept 8, 2010 6:50:51 GMT
I have seen them myself, they are screen grabs from the existing clips from the episode, but thanks anyway.
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Post by felixdembinski on Sept 15, 2010 15:57:21 GMT
does anyone know what countries out of the unknown was sold to.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Sept 15, 2010 19:36:16 GMT
does anyone know what countries out of the unknown was sold to. New Zealand screened some but not all episodes from series one (in 1967), two (1970) and three (1973). We didn't get season 4. There were 6 eps from series 1 and 2 we didn't get; but we did get some of the Azimov ones - it's been stated that these were not sold overseas, but we did see some of them. After airing, all the episodes were sent to different overseas broadcasters: Series 1 was divided up and sent to Finland (3 eps), and Hungary (8 eps); series 2 and 3 was scattered to Finland (1 ep), Sierra Leone (6 eps), Sweden (1 ep), and Yugoslavia (3 eps) - these were the last ones, sent out in June 1973. The remaining 10 eps have no fate recorded. Most eps were given an A or Y rating, and some had censor cuts made to them. Jon |
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