Post by jjpor on Dec 10, 2009 20:27:48 GMT
So, we all know why Shada never happened - or do we? Turns out it may not have been a mere innocent casualty of turbulent 70s industrial relations but a positive victim of the bourgeois establishment's efforts to crush the aspirations of the working classes!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8400078.stm
I blame Margaret Thatcher...
If the BBC brass had wanted to go making political points, they should have done it with the Morcambe and Wise Xmas special instead...
Oh, and if you scroll down the article, you'll be able to see the Professionals, who I have burbled about on here before. Perms! Shoulder holsters! Testosterone!
The third show mentioned, Secret Army, is chiefly remembered as being the thing that 'Allo 'Allo was originally intended as a very close spoof of (I mean, look at the photo, it's obvious). Clifford Rose, Rorvik out of Warriors' Gate, played the nasty Gestapo officer in it. It's never-seen finale episode sounds like all sorts of political wrongheadedness, though...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8400078.stm
I blame Margaret Thatcher...
If the BBC brass had wanted to go making political points, they should have done it with the Morcambe and Wise Xmas special instead...
Oh, and if you scroll down the article, you'll be able to see the Professionals, who I have burbled about on here before. Perms! Shoulder holsters! Testosterone!
The third show mentioned, Secret Army, is chiefly remembered as being the thing that 'Allo 'Allo was originally intended as a very close spoof of (I mean, look at the photo, it's obvious). Clifford Rose, Rorvik out of Warriors' Gate, played the nasty Gestapo officer in it. It's never-seen finale episode sounds like all sorts of political wrongheadedness, though...
