1970s TV series - Five Are Together Again
Posted: 31 May 2014, 03:31
[To borrow "Dick Kirrin"s words:]
I thought I might just start the discussion, sorry if I beat anyone to it. Hopefully my inner secrets will stay locked up just like Professor Hayling's papers... ... or maybe not! But anyway....
[Now more of my own words:]
An equally well-made TV adaptation of this book title: the very last book title in the original series adapted into the 3rd and 4th episodes of the Second Series/Season.
J,D,A+G are making their way by train to Marchwood--I mean, Kirrin--Station, seeing some sights along the way [anybody recogniz/se that "cathedral"/castle in the distance??]. Upon arrival, Anne and her brothers discover a circus is in town, or in the locale of Big Hollow, where their friend Tinker lives (wonder if he knows anything about it??), and George discovers that they'll all have to take a taxi to Kirrin Cottage.
There they find out why: their cook has taken ill and so Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny are in a quarantine van until they find out for sure. Worst case scenario: scarlet fever! But arrangements were made for the Four (minus Timmy, unfortunately) to stay at Professor Hayling's place at Big Hollow for the time being.
But there they found they cannot stay in the guest rooms because... um... the mattresses... are away being recovered. But... if J,D,A,G and Tinker can be allowed to camp out in tents down in the bottom field where the circus is being set up...?
TINKER: "Oh, Dad! I was keeping the circus as a surprise!"
Done and done.
Nothing like a country circus. It somehow feels different to a circus you receive in the big city. And check out the interesting people from Tapper's Circus: Mr Tapper himself (played by Alfie Bass), Sam (Kenneth Cole) and his trained chimp Charlie, a "memory man" named Mr Wooh (Peter Jeffery) and his, um, assistant (David Rappaport--you older Yanks might remember his guest appearances on L.A. LAW).
The intrigue begins when we find out that Mr Wooh and Sam may have had a run-in in the past.
The action begins when we find out that Charlie is a little bit of a kleptomaniac, just rummages through and takes almost anything with him/it.
The mystery begins when some of Professor Hayling's important papers have been stolen, and Charlie the chimp is suspected to be the one behind the theft. But is Charlie truly to blame?
And while we discover that Mr Wooh is also more of an opportunist, there's no denying how well a "memory man" he is. Perhaps too well of one....
Another episode well done. But I have noticed at least one tiny yet fairly glaring error: about George quizzing Mr Wooh as to what day August 9th, 1965 was. He guessed that it was a Thursday and she confirmed it, it being the day of her birth. Silly scriptwriters! August 9th, 1965 was a Monday! Perhaps they were dyslexic and meant it to be August 9th, 1956 (a Thursday), but that would've meant a much older George!
Questions. Comments.
I thought I might just start the discussion, sorry if I beat anyone to it. Hopefully my inner secrets will stay locked up just like Professor Hayling's papers... ... or maybe not! But anyway....
[Now more of my own words:]
An equally well-made TV adaptation of this book title: the very last book title in the original series adapted into the 3rd and 4th episodes of the Second Series/Season.
J,D,A+G are making their way by train to Marchwood--I mean, Kirrin--Station, seeing some sights along the way [anybody recogniz/se that "cathedral"/castle in the distance??]. Upon arrival, Anne and her brothers discover a circus is in town, or in the locale of Big Hollow, where their friend Tinker lives (wonder if he knows anything about it??), and George discovers that they'll all have to take a taxi to Kirrin Cottage.
There they find out why: their cook has taken ill and so Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny are in a quarantine van until they find out for sure. Worst case scenario: scarlet fever! But arrangements were made for the Four (minus Timmy, unfortunately) to stay at Professor Hayling's place at Big Hollow for the time being.
But there they found they cannot stay in the guest rooms because... um... the mattresses... are away being recovered. But... if J,D,A,G and Tinker can be allowed to camp out in tents down in the bottom field where the circus is being set up...?
TINKER: "Oh, Dad! I was keeping the circus as a surprise!"
Done and done.
Nothing like a country circus. It somehow feels different to a circus you receive in the big city. And check out the interesting people from Tapper's Circus: Mr Tapper himself (played by Alfie Bass), Sam (Kenneth Cole) and his trained chimp Charlie, a "memory man" named Mr Wooh (Peter Jeffery) and his, um, assistant (David Rappaport--you older Yanks might remember his guest appearances on L.A. LAW).
The intrigue begins when we find out that Mr Wooh and Sam may have had a run-in in the past.
The action begins when we find out that Charlie is a little bit of a kleptomaniac, just rummages through and takes almost anything with him/it.
The mystery begins when some of Professor Hayling's important papers have been stolen, and Charlie the chimp is suspected to be the one behind the theft. But is Charlie truly to blame?
And while we discover that Mr Wooh is also more of an opportunist, there's no denying how well a "memory man" he is. Perhaps too well of one....
Another episode well done. But I have noticed at least one tiny yet fairly glaring error: about George quizzing Mr Wooh as to what day August 9th, 1965 was. He guessed that it was a Thursday and she confirmed it, it being the day of her birth. Silly scriptwriters! August 9th, 1965 was a Monday! Perhaps they were dyslexic and meant it to be August 9th, 1956 (a Thursday), but that would've meant a much older George!
Questions. Comments.