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Post by flashchris on Sept 8, 2023 22:25:07 GMT
Very sad to hear, he was slightly before my time but I remember his Christmas shows and his impression of Harold Wilson. I only wish we had impersonators of his calibre now. This genre hasn't been very well represented in the modern era.
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Post by flashchris on Sept 8, 2023 22:21:15 GMT
Very sad to hear this as only recently saw those episodes of Return of the Saint and her appearance in a Tales of the Unexpected.
I only came across her in the last few years and really thought she had a huge screen presence and such a naturally beautiful smile. The most attractive women of her era have so much more panache.
There is a recent photo of her on Twitter - the ageing process can be quite sad but as with all actors, her beauty will live on through her many previous appearances.
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Post by flashchris on Dec 17, 2022 17:52:25 GMT
I was very sad to see that Mylene Demongeot passed away on 1st December. I was watching the film 'The Singer Not the Song' from 1953 in which she appeared with John Mills and realised it was the actress who took a shine to 'Captain Daley' in 'Another Case of Van Blank.' I recall she worked with George Cole in 'Its a Wonderful World' some 38 years before her appearance in Minder and did a quick Google and very sadly saw she passed recently. She was in a film with Gerard Depardieu this year. It's quite unusual for an actress cast in glamorous roles in her 20s to have had such a long career, right into her late 80s. www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221201-france-s-mylene-demongeot-dies-after-70-years-of-screen-stardomI thought she gave a very natural performance in Minder and certainly added to that episode set in France. She had an 'interesting' experience with an 11 year old Charles too! I'm sure she thought the French had the right idea about royal families! news.trenddetail.com/news/266256.html
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Post by flashchris on May 14, 2022 13:31:59 GMT
It's great that are ITV4 are screening 4 Minders and 3 Sweeneys as a tribute to Dennis but I must admit 'Dead Men Do Tell Tales' wouldn't have been my first choice due to the nature of this one with the main theme of the coffin and the last scene at a crematorium! Being reminded of death is the last thing you need at such a sad time. You have to wonder just how much thought ITV4 put into their choice of episodes!
I think if I had to choose four, Goodbye Sailor, Senior Citizen Caine, The Last Video Show and It's a Sorry Lorry, Morrie would have been my favourites.
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Post by flashchris on May 9, 2022 23:20:12 GMT
I totally echo how everyone feels - it is tremendous how much coverage Dennis has received in the media and on social media. Dennis and Minder clearly touched the hearts of a lot of people, in the UK and overseas. I always dreaded the day George Cole would pass away once he turned 80 but I hoped that Dennis would see many more years - I know he lived life to the full but 74 is relatively young by today's standards. Even though his last Minder appearances were shown 33 years ago, Terry McCann still feels current today and will do for many decades to come. I've read a vast amount of tweets and obituaries - I was a little surprised that Mark Lawson (who did a wonderful long interview with George Cole around 2008) described George Carter as a "corruptible copper" in the Guardian - this was inaccurate and was soon picked up in the comments section. The obituary I personally found the best was by Richard Littlejohn who is clearly a genuine Minder fan, even down to having a Minder on the Orient Express original poster on his office wall - I loved the comment about how looking at the poster always cheers him up. www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/littlejohn/179714/farewell-to-Dennis-waterman-he-was-one-of-our-ownI completely agree that ITV or even the BBC, given New Tricks, should produce a tribute programme to Dennis. "The Unforgettable" series on ITV around 10 years ago was pretty good and featured Gordon Jackson among others. A programme in this vein is the very least ITV or the BBC should make. I don't think Dennis was mentioned on The One Show or This Morning although I stand to be corrected on this. Dennis was mentioned very briefly at last night's BAFTA television awards before the regular section profiling those that have passed during the last year.
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Post by flashchris on May 8, 2022 15:43:31 GMT
Absolutely gutted too - the last time I felt this way about someone I've never met was back on 5th August 2015.
Very sad news indeed, for me it feels as though the last of the iconic actors from the series I've loved since I was very young has passed, the end of an era.
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Post by flashchris on Jun 30, 2021 15:56:37 GMT
Amused that the repeat of this one on ITV4 today was preceded by the Professionals' episode 'Kickback', where Norman Eshley played a former colleague of Bodie's gone bad. A shame this isn't followed by 'Taste of Fear'. That would soon show who hasn't been paying attention! I thought exactly the same!! I hadn't seen an ep of The Pros on ITV4 in ages and I wondered which Minder would follow. I had to smile when I saw it was Daley Bread! I can of course understand how some people think it's a bit silly (and it is a long way from Series 1's grittiness) but personally I love it. There are so many stand out lines - waste of tax payer's money....not costing you anything then!! 😅 I've always thought Norman Eshley is an excellent actor, always highly watchable and always seeming like a different person in each role he plays which to me is what acting should be about. I seem to remember he criticised Lewis Collins for changing his lines and not strictly following the script in the Pros which I found very harsh as this was in the Pros 'bible' as I call it a few years after Lewis's passing but nonetheless Norman is one of my favourite actors from that era and it's great he's still going strong!
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Post by flashchris on Feb 28, 2021 11:54:18 GMT
Very sad news, Mike Baldwin was by far my favourite character from Coronation Street when I used to watch it in the 80s and 90s.
He played the cocky, charismatic small businessman so well and he was my second favourite TV character to drive a Jaguar XJ. His cars suited the character so well. A great, very watchable actor who took part in some of TV's most watched storylines.
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Post by flashchris on Jul 15, 2020 18:23:25 GMT
Very sad news, was only watching Rumpole of the Bailey on Talking Pictures last week (which featured Maurice) and I mentioned what a massive range of shows and films he had been in - pretty much everything from The New Statesman to Big Deal to Who Dares Wins
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Post by flashchris on Feb 19, 2020 18:58:23 GMT
Very sad and unexpected news, I was only watching her amusing performance in Smokescreen the other day.
Apart from an interesting article in the Henley Standard local paper, there doesn't seem to be any coverage of this very sad news online.
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Post by flashchris on Nov 15, 2017 13:49:25 GMT
Very sad news, I was only thinking of him yesterday as I saw Senior Citizen Caine. I walked past him in Helston, Cornwall in the early 1980s when I believe he had a restaurant there. He had a great career, appearing in a lot of popular shows including the first broadcast ep of The Professionals. I absolutely loved watching Duty Free when I was very young. "David, the Germans!" was a bit of a catchphrase for me at the time (said by Neil Stacy who played the Rolls Royce salesman in the Bounty Hunter).
Totally agree with jno re: Take Me Home, this stuck in the mind the first time I saw it when I was 12 and I re-watched it about 3 or 4 years ago and it was equally good then. Certainly his best acting role in my opinion, although he was very good in everything I've seen him, he was always very watchable. He certainly kept up his a career into his 80s. I didn't watch it but I believe he played DCI Banks's father as recently as this year.
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Post by flashchris on May 23, 2017 14:54:02 GMT
Very sad indeed, one of the very rare actors I knew I'd be upset about when they passed on. I was only watching The Man With The Golden Gun on ITV the other day. Truly the last of the old school greats and I've heard so many stories from different sources about how nice he was to everyone. One of our era's icons, one of my favourite actors and my favourite Bond by far, I've recently enjoyed watching The Saint and The Persuaders too.
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Post by flashchris on Feb 27, 2016 14:08:43 GMT
Had to smile at the comments about wearing those red jackets! I also bought one in 1991 and vividly remember wearing it out and about on a family holiday to France and thinking it was super cool and smart at the time! There was a time when they seemed really fashionable and many times I used to think of the Gary Webster years Minder theme music when wearing it! I wasn't quite brave enough to wear those shirts Gary wore though! I tried to wear that red jacket as long as possible and was wearing it at uni as late as 1998, no doubt a few years after they were fashionable! The funny thing is though, none of my mates were aware of why I wore that jacket as they didn't watch Minder!
It came as a big disappointment a few years ago when my mum told me both of my red jackets (yes, I even bought another one in about 1995 as I was got taller) got chucked out in about 2000 as she always thought they made me look like a bus driver who'd had just lost his badge!!
That's a great article above, I've never heard of Dennis's quote about "Arthur being a nice part for him, as he's getting on now" before!
Going back to the topic though, overall I thought that the transition to the Ray episodes was very well written. I still remember very well a very short trailer for the first Ray episode (I think filmed at Arthur's car lot) which went out exactly a week before at 9pm the first Ray ep and I remember how excited I was about a new season of Minder. I remember many years ago writing a fairly long post on here about my 'varying perceptions' of the Ray eps but overall I thought they were great and anyone who doesn't watch them is missing out. In a nutshell though, when they first came out I guess I tended to think they weren't as good as the Terry years. Then, when I watched them again on DVD about 12 years later I was pleasantly surprised at how good they are. Hence perceptions of these years tend to very but in the cold light of day, some Ray eps are better than others and to be fair some Terry eps are better than others too. For many years up until a few years ago, I used to think that every DW ep was absolutely brilliant but in reality, some eps are better than others, which is true of The Professionals and The Sweeney too.
The overwhelming impression I have of the Ray years though is how modern they feel as I was 14 when they came out first and it feels more like 15 years ago than 25 years to me! Whereas I was only 2 when the DW eps came out so even the very last DW eps first shown in 1989 seem a very, very long time ago!
Interestingly, I honestly can't remember at the time wishing that Terry appeared in the first Ray ep. Maybe it was because I was just keen to see Arthur again or because I knew from press interviews that Dennis wouldn't be appearing in the new series. Looking back though, it would have been great to have had Ray and Terry both appearing, even if Terry was only in it for a couple of minutes. All in all though, a top ep and the whole plot of importing a car was very topical at the time.
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Post by flashchris on Nov 15, 2015 0:20:27 GMT
Very sad news indeed. I have fond memories of watching Alf in the late 80s and early 90s and recently rediscovered many of his series on You Tube. They are still very funny and Warren Mitchell is a superb actor who dominates the screen in every performance. I always enjoyed his performances and was very amused by his appearance in The Sweeney.
It has been an awful year for losing icons with Patrick Macnee and George Cole, to be honest I still can't quite believe the great GC is no longer with us.
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Post by flashchris on Aug 14, 2015 20:05:02 GMT
I've always enjoyed this episode a great deal although admittedly how Arthur gets around the Railway manager and the IR inspector can seem a bit unbelievable! Still extremely entertaining though and it always cracks me up when Arthur says his Jaguar is "his Uncle Sid's" and that it's "an old man's folly!!"
I agree about the ending and it seems a bit of a strange way to end when Terry says JJ is a con man, what's your excuse to Arthur?
I'll have to watch that ep again and look out for George laughing. I must have seen this ep about 100 times in the last 20 years so I'm amazed I haven't noticed it.
Talking of George laughing, for some reason when he laughs at Terry on The Orient Express telling Chisholm that Interpol are the ones that deliver the flowers, it always seems to me that it is George laughing off the cuff as George does rather than Arthur laughing as per the script. I've often wondered if Terry saying they are the ones that send the flowers was an ad lib as George's reaction is such a natural laugh.
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Post by flashchris on Aug 12, 2015 13:30:03 GMT
I've always loved this episode, it's definitely one of my favourites. I had a very strange feeling today though when I caught a moment of it on ITV4 at lunchtime when Arthur says to Terry:
"You can take the smile off your face too, you're going to a funeral tomorrow!"
Bearing in mind tomorrow's sad event, it's uncanny that Senior Citizen Caine was screened today as part of ITV4's run.
It feels far more poignant watching Minder now GC is no longer with us but I am hoping it won't stop me watching them as they bring so much joy, even after 100+ viewings.
I still vividly remember the first time I saw this episode on it's first UK Gold airing back in 1995 and it's one of my favourites. GC's performance is amazing as ever with so many great lines and I liked the motor trade backdrop (nice to see the car showroom is still a car showroom too in the Locations section of the site) and Lionel Jefferies was great too.
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