Posted on 12/16/2018 2:40:38 PM PST by mairdie
One of my favorite old shows, Starsky & Hutch for Jug Mountain Boys' "Santa Drank the Moonshine." Mostly from the "Moonshine" episode.
And to keep the humor going, Tom Lehrer's "Masochism Tango" for Avon in Blakes 7.
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Blake’s 7 was fun sometimes.
Starsky and Hutch always disgusted me.
Starsky & Hutch was a favorite show.
I still watch the DVDS some.
If you can get past the lousy special effects (Bad even by 1970 standards!) and incredibly poorly choreographed fight scenes (So bad you have to ask, ‘ Did they even attempt to get a fight choreographer!’)
Blakes 7 had some very good episodes with good story lines. It’s a very unusual SciFi series or any type of dramatic adventure series. How often do you see a series lose it main character in the middle of the series then you don’t see him again until the last episode of the last season?
It also had some very bad episodes where you get the impression they lost every other page of the script. Plot holes you could poke planets through!
Still I think it’s a fun series from classic British SciFi days.
I was doing target shooting with a detective with whom we spent a Thanksgiving. I brought along S&H and showed it to him to analyze. He was horrified. Said the hair was too long and would make it easy to grab them. When they went to shoot, they stood in the middle of the corridor and made themselves into targets. It was absolutely fascinating.
Agree with all of that. Loved the show, in part for its underlying complexity. Because I make music videos, I watch extensively with the sound off. What I saw was that the characters ACT 180 degrees off the way they describe themselves. Yet none of the actors realized that. When you ask about the character they played, they all regurgitate the descriptions the characters said of themselves, and never saw the depth they brought themselves. For example, the only character who reaches out physically to people in trouble is Avon. ????? The character who physically turns away is Blake.
And they portrayed a pimp as this lovable semi-father figure for the local prostitutes. Just there so none of them get hurt...
If you paid attention the premise was pretty awful.
What it was was socially progressive for the time. BIG percentage of their episodes were socially conscious. Major boring. I still avoid those. On the other hand, they also had some really funny ones, like with the guy who thought he was a vampire. And traditional - one gets poisoned and they have to find the antidote in time. Or one gets poisoned but he thinks they’re still playing hide and seek and won’t let himself be found in time to save him.
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