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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 7, 2019 7:19:03 GMT
Yes it was quite tragic and a twist of fate how he died, IIRC wasn't Oliver Reed in this Musketeers film too? RIP Roy.
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 10, 2019 11:05:23 GMT
TV Times listing TV Times listing of a repeat screening of 'Supersnout' in Dec 1977 Love that the advert to join the police says that promotion can come fast for the right man but invites applications for men and women who presumably get promoted slowly! "Well, they're only in it until some banker comes along" - wasn't that a line in Drag Act?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 10, 2019 19:03:48 GMT
I saw an interview recently on yt with the actress Judy Matheson ( 'Selected Target' ) & she mentioned the stripper Brandy Di Frank, they both appeared in an episode of Z Cars. She described how she was sent to Di Frank's studio where she was taught how to striptease for the part.
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 10, 2019 19:14:05 GMT
I saw an interview recently on yt with the actress Judy Matheson ( 'Selected Target' ) & she mentioned the stripper Brandy Di Frank, they both appeared in an episode of Z Cars. She described how she was sent to Di Frank's studio where she was taught how to striptease for the part. Blimey! Didn't know that Z Cars was that racy!
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 19, 2019 19:29:50 GMT
I just rewatched Supersnout
Certainly plenty to recommend it
I enjoyed the comedic ending but, overall, I felt it undermined the tone of the episode
And Quirk, played by Bill Maynard, was too much of an oddball to really convince but, again, he was quite amusing too
Worth watching but doesn't really hang together
3/5
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 20, 2019 20:01:35 GMT
Hadn't noticed this before but part of one of Maynard's fingers is missing, according to his website he got it caught in a mangle as a child. You can see his second finger has a bit missing in the smudge below.
Maynard mentions on the dvd intro to the episode that he used the business with the polo mint previously when he played Inspector Truscott in a 1971 stage version of Joe Orton's play 'Loot', he would crack the mint between his teeth. I've definitely seen other actors do this as a way of giving a sinister or eccentric edge to their character but i can't recall in which film/tv. Not sure this was the right approach for The Sweeney, particularly as the episode already had a fairly ott character in Joey Stickley.
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 20, 2019 20:49:07 GMT
I quite like this episode, not least when Jack sticks up for his odd boss by sticking one on Stickley!
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Dec 21, 2019 17:31:10 GMT
I like this ep too, and remember seeing it as a one off repeat in 1992, the first time. I like the different incidental music whilst Carter is driving the taxi about with Stickley
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