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Post by ltd on Dec 13, 2015 22:41:17 GMT
Difficult decision to be made, but Animal made it along with Waldorf and Statler, who IMO were the best characters from the Muppets. Likewise Daz, I used to quite like Sam the Eagle as well because he was so uptight, but in the end it has to be the original grumpy old men Waldorf and Statler because of their merciless mockery of the other muppets' artistic pretensions, plus they never took any s*** off anyone.
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Post by ltd on Dec 13, 2015 22:35:45 GMT
Saviour's Day - a diabolical piece of mock piousness by Cliff with video to match. Another candidate for burying in a landfill and then carpet bombing just to be on the safe side.
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Post by ltd on Dec 3, 2015 7:39:03 GMT
I'd agree with all the above. Also I'd mention his performance in The Fear as a wily old school villain running rings around the new yuppie generation as yet another career highlight. Like Vicboy I'd love to have seen him pop up in Minder a few more times.
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Post by ltd on Nov 22, 2015 20:53:06 GMT
Kate Jackson - bookish girls are underrated.
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Post by ltd on Nov 14, 2015 17:03:48 GMT
One of our greatest ever character actors. Never gave a bad performance, could turn his hand to anything. A true British legend IMO. Definitely. His Sweeney appearance has already been mentioned but it's worth mentioning again - a real tragi-comic tour de force.
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Post by ltd on Nov 12, 2015 20:07:00 GMT
Only thing is in this ep...personally I really don't like the coppers on Arthurs tail in this one. They're not really in the same league as Morley, but I think the script does a good job of working them into the story as new plod on the manor. Arthur's bemusement at the one with the pony tail is classic.
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Post by ltd on Nov 6, 2015 19:16:28 GMT
I remember him best as loud-mouthed robber Tober (remember him yelling "Sweeney!!!!!!!") in Faces. Unforgettable scene -Tober baying for blood. Sergeant Carter got lucky that day finding those public toilets to hide in. And yet thanks to Welland's performance he wasn't just a one dimensional thug. Loved his one liners about the bunker and talking to the IRA sympathiser through a medium. Sorry to hear he suffered with Alzheimer's Disease in later life. Seems particularly cruel for a man who who earned his living from his imagination i.e. his plays, film scripts and his acting as well I suppose. P.S. I remember Cowboys. There's a scene that always sticks in my mind where someone (probably Roy Kinnears) wants Colin Welland's character to look in the loft of a house they're working on and he says "Who do you think's up there? Martin Borman?" Something like that. Made me laugh anyway. RIP Mr Welland.
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Post by ltd on Nov 1, 2015 16:16:51 GMT
Got a Lidl in town where I live, a bit of a faff to get to and the car park's always jammed these days but I still make the effort to go there. By and large I think they have a better range of stuff than Aldi. I like the beer they do from Rhymney brewery. There's an Aldi round the corner where I work but I rarely do a full week's shopping there, just pop in at lunchtime if I'm short on something. I am rather partial to their Highland Earl cheap blended scotch, great for a hot toddy if you've got a cold.
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Post by ltd on Oct 22, 2015 17:49:54 GMT
Bob Holness
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Post by ltd on Sept 27, 2015 19:41:16 GMT
Ernie let the side down for me. I dunno about that, I love his speech in Hearts and Minds about coppers always being on the earhole for a free drink or a benefit gig.
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Post by ltd on Sept 18, 2015 8:21:13 GMT
Morecambe and Wise for me, if only for Eric's "He's not going to sell many ice creams going at that speed" as an ambulance went past had me in stitches the first time I heard it.
That said I shall always be grateful to the Two Ronnies for jump starting me into puberty with their infamous mini-serial The Worm That Turned.
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Post by ltd on Sept 4, 2015 20:05:36 GMT
Amongst the famous faces on show in this episode, it's good to see Sue Holderness, soon to be cast as Marlene, the often talked about wife of Boycie in OFAH and Gary Holton between the two Auf Pet series he appeared in. Also interesting to see Michael Attwell in a small role as the ex who turns up at the wedding. He played Eddie in Turtle's Progress, so it's sort of a clash of the Minders when him and Terry get into it. Sadly inconclusive though.
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Post by ltd on Aug 31, 2015 4:15:58 GMT
That said, for me the ending is a disappointment and it all ends on a poor bit of dialogue in the Winchester Club and I just think it could have been done a bit better. The ending is really strange, almost as if they suddenly ran out of film. Spoils a really good episode. Caroline Langrishe
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Post by ltd on Aug 29, 2015 7:55:33 GMT
Like this one - Arthur getting into corporate hospitality summed up the era! I totally agree. Whenever I watch this one it reminds me so much of the period, which was still a time when people made an effort to dress smartly, particularly when they hit the town. I like the night filming which gives it a real vibe. It is reminiscent of the night filming in 'The Dessert Song' and 'Minder On The Orient Express' for me - when they're in a smoky bar or club you can almost feel like you're there with them.I seem to remember a fair bit of night filming in the later Ray episodes which gave the series a slightly noirish feel. The Natasha McElhone character has a touch of the noirish femme fatale about her too. This is a really good episode, funny and dark at the same time - very much in the vein of the earliest Minders but also bang up to date (when it was made). Derrick Branche deserves a mention in dispatches for his perfomance as the barking mad Kenton. Who'd have thought this was the same actor who played Gupta in Only When I Laugh? The man's a chameleon!
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Post by ltd on Aug 24, 2015 19:54:01 GMT
O/T, but that was a good book by Shaun Ryder. He could relate his life story quite well. A lot of such autobiographies are scant on detail and the chronology is here and there. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Some interesting social history in the account of his early years and working as a post man.
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Post by ltd on Aug 23, 2015 14:14:17 GMT
No, this would be a while back. Let's just say there are rumours to suggest that if Ms Mills were to watch the Sweeney! film she might find it depicts a world she's not entirely unfamiliar with.
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Post by ltd on Aug 23, 2015 8:49:13 GMT
I think you're all being very unfair, and not giving nearly enough recognition to her work in improving Anglo-Arab relations (allegedly).
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Post by ltd on Aug 22, 2015 20:11:02 GMT
I like this one too. Heart Attack played by Geoffrey Hutchings is a classic Minder character. The scene where Arthur asks him if he's gone mental made me laugh out loud the first time I saw it.
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Post by ltd on Aug 22, 2015 20:01:07 GMT
Has to be Yoko for me. Living proof that avant garde invariably means avant talent.
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Post by ltd on Aug 21, 2015 4:58:11 GMT
Shaun Ryder was in that as well. He might have been better....? He mentions it in his book Twisting My Melon. Claims that his role was heavily cut due to him not being sufficiently respectful to the "stars" of the show. He doesn't seem unduly bothered.
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Post by ltd on Aug 15, 2015 18:09:33 GMT
Never watched the film. To be honest if I don't fancy something I won't watch it just for the sake of it. You just know when something is going to be dud so why waste your time!! True Gary, true, but I actually made the mistake of going to see this at the cinema. I thought the reviews were perhaps being a tad unkind on what might be an enjoyably quirky piece of pop art. More fool me. It was a stinker. Even now all these years later it's still the worst film I've ever paid to see.
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Post by ltd on Aug 15, 2015 5:20:57 GMT
I think she could have been, if they'd made a decent job of the film. She was one of the brighter spots in an otherwise incoherent shambles. As has been said elsewhere remakes usually don't work because the originals are so much of their time. The Avengers was particularly bad though.
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Post by ltd on Aug 12, 2015 17:38:04 GMT
Diana Rigg for me, although I suspect Linda Thorson is much underrated.
Arch, I thought Scarlet Johannson was great in Under The Skin as well - an extraordinary performance and she looked amazing in that black wig.
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Post by ltd on Jul 22, 2015 19:54:39 GMT
Has to be Metal Mickey - unfunny robot b*st*rd. K9 wasn't up to much either but Mickey is in a league of his own. Series Writer Colin Bostock-Smith is the perpetrator of numerous crimes against comedy but this is certainly the most heinous. The Federation security robot from Blake's 7 should replace Twiki. Can't believe they had the gall to feature this faintly camp motorised dustbin, not once but twice . Every bit as useless as it looks.
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Post by ltd on Jul 11, 2015 16:58:55 GMT
If we're talking front men has to be Rotten. Thought Clash were the better band though.
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Post by ltd on Jun 24, 2015 7:38:40 GMT
Even a guest cameo from respected stage actor Robert Stephens can't lift this one. He's not given much of a role and he looks quite ill which only adds to the general despondency. Rather a sad contrast to his sly and witty intelligence chief in Gangsters. Think he died about a year later?
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Post by ltd on Jun 1, 2015 19:20:25 GMT
Thought the northern cops were very sinister, you can imagine them being successors to the ones in Red Riding. Been nice if the script had made more out of them. Susie's deal with the local law seemed just a bit too pat at the end. I don't know if you'd ever really be safe from people like that. Still a good episode though.
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Post by ltd on Jun 1, 2015 19:08:28 GMT
Just watched this on ITV4.Trying to work out where I'd seen the Scottish blokes sister.She played the nurse and his lady friend in Frost. I'm pretty sure she played the nurse in A Very Peculiar Practice as well. She was Irish and rode a motorbike if I remember right. Been a while since I've seen it.
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Post by ltd on May 29, 2015 22:02:25 GMT
I agree, Big Dai is a great addition to this one. Interestingly (perhaps) - Dai played by Anthony O'Donnell also plays a character called Dai (Davies) in Sky 1's "Stella" ( link: click here for pic )
I remember him playing a put upon snout in The Sweeney, being bullied into wishing George Carter happy birthday. More recently he's turned up in Doc Martin and I think he's had a prominent role as a Sontaran in modern day Doctor Who. Good actor and nice to see he's still working.
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Post by ltd on May 24, 2015 4:53:21 GMT
You can't help but like Patrick Mower as Confident Clive in this one. One of my favourite episodes and Mower is brilliant in it. He was born to play Confident Clive.
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