Ian's Newsround - 16/01/04
Hey, it's a month today that the Series IV DVD is released in Region 2! We should honour the occasion somehow... come back later. In the meantime, have a goosey at the Region 4 covers. The main difference is the lack of lovely logo on the spines, as per Region 1. How silly. Plus, the classification stuff is written in the lower black bar, instead of "The Original/Entire Series". Note also that Series III is rated higher than Series IV. Ho! Course, the most interesting thing about the article is that Ellard refers to "future film-based visits" to Australia. Things are still happening, folks.
Elsewhere on TOS this week, everyone's favourite penguin chats to Jack Klaff, who played Abe Lincoln in Meltdown, which is one of the best episodes ever, and anyone who disagrees can fuck off immediately. Go on. Jack reveals that he can't actually remember who got him the job, and that he thinks Pauline Bailey (Marilyn Monroe in the episode) is FAT. Also, his son loves Red Dwarf, so we applaud his parenting efforts.
Finally, another reminder that Series Three of The Brittas Empire is released on Monday. Play inform me that my copy is in the post, so hopefully there'll be a review up by the end of the weekend. Excellently, the article promises that Series Four and Five will be out by the end of the year. Let joy be unconfined! These two are widely regarded to be the peak of the series (before Fegen, Norris and Julia St John fucked off), as well as being rather long - presuming the first Christmas special will be on the series five disc, it will have nine episodes!
Oh, and have a close look at the cover shot of the Brittas DVD - the thumbnail on the spine shows the Series Two cover. Ho! I cannot believe I just spotted that.
Comments
Brittas 4 & 5? Eeeeeeeeexcellent. Using that after any Brittas news NEVER grows old.
They'd better put the Fegen/Norris swansong on the series 5 DVD though, it'll be very messy indeed otherwise. I don't care if it's �24.99, it's worth it. Series 5 is the bollocks.
Posted by Darrell Jones at January 16, 2004 08:52 PM
Jack Klaff was in a fucking great 1967 Doctor Who story, 'The Tomb of the Cybermen'.
I may be wrong.
Posted by Darrell Jones at January 16, 2004 08:56 PM
'The Last Day' (the Brittas ep, obviously) - I've only seen it once, when I was quite young - and I still remember certain sections of it vividly. An amazing episode in so many different ways.
Posted by John Hoare at January 16, 2004 09:05 PM
Series 5 has so many arcing plots throughout, it's fabulous.
Now - although I do hope they release series 6 and 7, I won't be too upset if they don't. Series 6 is probably worth it for 'Body Language', actually, though 'Back With a Bang' is the worst episode of anything EVER.
Posted by Darrell Jones at January 16, 2004 09:09 PM
Well, I don't have much memory of the last couple of series, so I'd be keen to see them released, for reasons of curiousity and completeness. I remember being completely baffled by the ending, though. Looking back, it was just pointless.
Posted by Ian Symes at January 16, 2004 09:11 PM
I remember nothing of the arcing plots. Oooh, I can't wait.
Now I actually have some money, I shall buy the first three DVDs and have a day of bliss. All the eps I've seen recently are the first three of Series 1 - they were pretty amazing, and as I remember it gets HUGELY better.
Posted by John Hoare at January 16, 2004 09:13 PM
The ending I also remember well. It's nice that they at least tried to do something that encapsulated the series's strangeness, rather than have a bog standard ending; and it's not *awful* (the staff being the people on the train being a nice touch).
On the other hand, it's such a CHEAT.
Posted by John Hoare at January 16, 2004 09:15 PM
I felt disillusioned for days and actually 'fell out' with the series as a result, choosing not to buy the video of it that was in WH Smith with my pocket money but Byte Two of Red Dwarf series 1 instead, as I had seen RD for the very first time with 'Tikka to Ride' and liked it.
Posted by Darrell Jones at January 16, 2004 09:21 PM
Right, Jack Klaff *isn't* in that Doctor Who serial I mentioned.
He is, however, in that great black and white episode of Coogan's Run (the Ernest Moss one).
Posted by Darrell Jones at January 16, 2004 09:23 PM
ROB GRANT HATES YOU.
Posted by John Hoare at January 16, 2004 09:24 PM
Stop it! You're all making me want Brittas on DVD and my list of DVDs that I want is already far too long, you buggers!
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I couldn't disagree more.
Posted by John Hoare at April 5, 2004 07:27 PM
Hold on a minute. What's this casino business got to do with the Region 4 covers? It's not even got anything to do with Brittas or Jack Klaff. And this fellow hasn't introduced himself or acknowledged the previous discussion. No, this doesn't add up at all.
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Posted by jesley carrion at April 6, 2004 03:55 PM
I have just come across this site and am amazed by it. I am Jack Klaff. It is absolutely true that I was not in that Doctor Who episode. I was too young to be an actor at all at that time.
More importantly and far more seriously I did not
and would not ever say that the actress playing Marilyn Monroe was fat. She was in fact very thin. What is more that kind of personal comment would never ever come from me and I would be grateful if you corrected that text immediately if not sooner
Posted by Jack Klaff at May 7, 2004 04:03 PM
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