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blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 246
Today's Topics:
Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash...
[B7L] Re:Murdersville
[B7L] Re: The answer to life...
RE: [B7L] Teddy bear
[B7L] The Crucible (this msg becomes waffling OT as it goes on)
RE: [B7L] Teddy bear
Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash...
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:20:20 +0100
From: Julia Jones <Julia.lysator@jajones.demon.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash...
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In message <3.0.2.32.19980925201516.00696fa4@clara.net>, JMR
<jager@clara.net> writes
>A SECOND B7 RADIO PLAY - THE SYNDETON EXPERIMENT: The second of the BBC's
>Blake's Seven Radio plays will be broadcast at 3pm on BBC Radio 4, on
>Saturday 19th December 98. It runs for 60 minutes and is again produced at
>BBC Pebble Mill by Brian Lighthill, and written by Barry Letts.
Noooo!!!!
<bangs head against keyboard>
Look, I want the Doctor back just as much as anyone else does, but in
his own show, not in a script making a very bad attempt at pretending to
be B7.
Why the hell can't we have a script written by someone who has some
vague concept of what the show is about? Even Ben Stud displayed some
evidence of having taken in an episode or two. Chris Boucher is still
alive and kicking, even if Robert Holmes and Terry Nation are no longer
available for script-writing, and I'd really quite like to have Blake in
Blake's 7.
The only saving grace is that the cast did such a wonderful job of
making the plot semi-believable last time round, with any luck they can
pull off the same trick twice.
--
Julia Jones
"Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!"
The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon.
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:15:39 +0100
From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson@MCR1.poptel.org.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Re:Murdersville
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Dangermouse said: "Better still is the black and white episode A Sense
Of History - which has a rather larger role for a young Jackie Pearce."
which is on tape 5 of the M Appeal collection due out in the UK on 12
October.
--
cheers
Steve Rogerson
Redemption 99: The Blakes 7 and Babylon 5 convention
26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Ashford, Kent
http://www.smof.com/redemption/
"Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell"
Star Wars
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:16:10 +0100
From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson@MCR1.poptel.org.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se, Space City <space-city@world.std.com>,
Richard Norman <richard.norman@rbi.co.uk>,
Anna Bowles <en701acb@scorpio.gold.ac.uk>,
Chloe Smith <humcsmit@livjm.ac.uk>, Gavin Rymill <rymill@zetnet.co.uk>,
Redemption <redemption@smof.demon.co.uk>
Subject: [B7L] Re: The answer to life...
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I said re my birthday bash at Pages on Oct 11: "So, if any of you plan
on coming, email me by Saturday October 3 (cos I'll email them the list
on Oct 4)."
Typical, the day after I post this, they email me and say they are
making it a ticket only event. However, they will reserve me tickets if
I let them know asap. So, if any of you are planning on coming, can you
get back to me very quickly.
--
cheers
Steve Rogerson
Redemption 99: The Blakes 7 and Babylon 5 convention
26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Ashford, Kent
http://www.smof.com/redemption/
"Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell"
Star Wars
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 18:16:19 +0100
From: Anne Lane <aplane@tesco.net>
To: "'B7'" <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: RE: [B7L] Teddy bear
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On Friday, September 25, 1998 10:10 PM, Judith wrote:
>
>> For those of us have never been to a B7 convention in our lives, could
>> someone explain what the Avon's teddy bear joke is?
>
> They get to the line
>
> 'Be careful Avon, your sentiment is showing'
>
> Gareth slowly brings the teddy up into view and Paul collapses laughing.
>
> It's the best thing on the whole blooper tape and has given rise to a number
> of
> fan stories involving teddies.
>
Just saw the B5 episode that ends brilliantly with the Sheridan teddy floating
in space - does anyone know whether JMS has heard the Avon's teddy story?
Anne
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:19:46 +0100
From: Anne Lane <aplane@tesco.net>
To: "'B7'" <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] The Crucible (this msg becomes waffling OT as it goes on)
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A belated thank you to Judith for organising the trip to see The Crucible - it
was a wonderful evening - lots of time talking with Gareth and an excellent
production.
Judith said:
>I mentally awarded Anne a gold star for her serendipitous choice of pub and
was
>so deep in conversation with Gareth that I didn't notice her arrival until I
>turned round and realised that Anne had joined us.
No...strangely, words like 'hello' and 'drink?' and the noisy acquisition of a
bar stool had no effect whatsoever! :-)
Judith kindly got me a ticket for the pre-performance chat with members of the
cast. I went along on Wednesday after work. The audience of about 30 people
were mainly going to that evening's performance and very few people (including
the cast members) had seen any other production or the film, so the
'discussion' was a little one sided. Gareth was not one of the participants,
although there was one empty chair and I half expected to see him come on,
convention-style, pint in hand, but, alas, no. The cast members were Bryan
Robson (Giles Corey), Michael Stroud (Francis Nurse) and Alexandra Mathie
(Elizabeth Proctor). The chair was the Assistant Director (Neale Birch). I was
a little disappointed that the Director, Kenny Ireland, wasn't there.
There was more discussion on the historical aspects than on the play itself.
The cast members were very knowledgeable about the period - apparently all the
cast have read the Frances Hill book that is quoted in the programme. There was
some mention of McCarthy and of the Clinton saga; it was stated that the
director, in line with Miller's thinking, had decided to concentrate on the
Salem story and let the audience draw their own parallels.
The man that plays Corey complained that he had researched the part and found
that Corey was a Lincolnshire farmer, but was not allowed to play him with a
Lincolnshire accent. This was because a decision had been taken to use a
dialect that was a mixture of West Country and Irish as the most authentic for
the mix of settlers and the origins of American accents. Even though at the
time (about 70 years after the Mayflower) settlers were still arriving from all
over Britain, it was felt that the audience would not perceive it as one
community if there was a variety of accents. There was also some complaint the
Miller required actors to remain on stage for long periods without giving them
anything to do or say (especially in the Court scene).
The Assistant director said that Miller had said that there were no villains in
the play. Interestingly, though, the cast, when pushed, plumped for Danforth as
the villain (the Starr of his day, as was said!). I would have thought Putnam
was the villain, as he was quite clearly motivated by self interest. We were
told that in real life Danforth was much more cruel and brutal than in the
play, and Miller had said that if he had re-written it he would have made him
nastier (doesn't sound like Gareth at all!). I certainly agree more with
Gareth's view of Danforth, but maybe I'm biased.
All in all, an interesting accompaniment to the play.
Anne
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:33:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tegan <tegan@goddess.coe.missouri.edu>
To: "'B7'" <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: RE: [B7L] Teddy bear
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> Just saw the B5 episode that ends brilliantly with the Sheridan teddy floating
> in space - does anyone know whether JMS has heard the Avon's teddy story?
sounds like a question to ask jms at a con... so far as I know, he hasn't
mentioned anything about it, since that teddy bear is based on one that he
received from Peter David... throwing the bear out was jms' little
addition to that story...
tegan (*)
tegan@goddess.coe.missouri.edu
http://goddess.coe.missouri.edu/~tegan
But if you've tread in primal soup, please wipe it from your shoes
-Phish, Cavern
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:54:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: "G. Robbins" <robbins@graceland.edu>
To: JMR <jager@clara.net>
cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash...
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>It also looks hopeful that there will be
>another BBC Internet phone in - we'll give you the date when we hear.
>(It
>will probably be with Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce - but that's not
>confirmed.)
Great! I was wondering about that, and now I don't even have to ask!!
--Grace
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