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Post by mark687 on Apr 22, 2016 17:48:52 GMT
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 23, 2016 15:07:04 GMT
Now that is a smart looking bowler. I like the color scheme quite a lot.
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Post by ljwilson on Apr 23, 2016 17:31:00 GMT
Bring it on.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 23, 2016 20:47:18 GMT
And the cover artwork reminded me that I had not ordered volume 6. That is sorted.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jun 8, 2016 8:18:18 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jun 8, 2016 8:50:39 GMT
No Probs Tony
Cheers
mark687
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Post by OneTen on Jun 8, 2016 9:00:49 GMT
Apologies if this has already been asked and answered elsewhere - but is Rae Leaver, who has adapted The Frighteners (and Girl on the Trapeze in vol 5), any relation to Don Leaver? (The Avengers brilliant first director on TV)
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Post by dorney on Jun 8, 2016 9:57:16 GMT
Apologies if this has already been asked and answered elsewhere - but is Rae Leaver, who has adapted The Frighteners (and Girl on the Trapeze in vol 5), any relation to Don Leaver? (The Avengers brilliant first director on TV) Not that I'm aware of. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 11:12:21 GMT
I couldn't get into the Steed/Peel stories at all. Mind you, I felt much the same about the television show, so perhaps that proves what an accurate adaption those stories were. The dynamic between Keel and Steed is much more believable, fluid and actually contains some genuine jeopardy. So it's a mixed blessing that Volume 6 is so close - good, because the Lost Stories adaptions are terrific and I look forward to hearing them; bad, because the Lost Stories adaptions are terrific and I';m sorry we're nearing the end of the line.
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It's tangerine....not orange
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Post by ljwilson on Jun 8, 2016 11:34:34 GMT
I have yet to preorder but will be doing so (my money is better in my account than someone elses) and will be saving this as a treat when im on my summer hols. Lets hope plans are afoot for some original adventures after vol 7.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jun 8, 2016 15:04:39 GMT
I've never read any of the recaps of the lost episodes so forgive my ignorance but as that first season progressed did Steed start to take on a more prominent role over Keel? I ask because the trailer makes it sound, at least to me, that this volume is more Steed-centric. Either way, I am looking forward to this release as this range has been one of the best BF ranges over the past couple of years. I'll be sorry to see it ending as well.
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Post by izp1 on Jun 8, 2016 15:23:17 GMT
Keel has a greatly reduced role in 'Death on the Slipway' to allow Ian Hendry to do an Armchair Theatre- 'Afternoon of a Nymph', so he's largely absent there, but both original leads do have time off. If I've done my sums right I think volume 7 will feature the remaining Keel solo story and the one Steed solo one.
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Post by OneTen on Jun 8, 2016 15:29:30 GMT
I've never read any of the recaps of the lost episodes so forgive my ignorance but as that first season progressed did Steed start to take on a more prominent role over Keel? I ask because the trailer makes it sound, at least to me, that this volume is more Steed-centric. Either way, I am looking forward to this release as this range has been one of the best BF ranges over the past couple of years. I'll be sorry to see it ending as well. It certainly fluctuates. You could argue there's a progression even over just the first 3 episodes to being very Steed-centric! I'm not sure if there's a progression, on average, over the series, but there's certainly a mix of Keel-lite and Steed-lite (or free) episodes - and remember the episode order in these boxes isn't the same as the episode order on TV (which I think is relatively uncontroversial for series 1...) |
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jun 8, 2016 23:04:54 GMT
You get a real sense in the early stories they were going for a "Keel and his contacts", with Steed as simply "the spy contact", feel rather than "Steed's medical chum who sometimes does stuff without Steed".
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 17, 2016 8:57:41 GMT
In this week's news wrap-up we are told to expect this next-to-last volume of lost adventures to be released this week.
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Post by dorney on Jul 17, 2016 10:47:47 GMT
I've never read any of the recaps of the lost episodes so forgive my ignorance but as that first season progressed did Steed start to take on a more prominent role over Keel? I ask because the trailer makes it sound, at least to me, that this volume is more Steed-centric. Either way, I am looking forward to this release as this range has been one of the best BF ranges over the past couple of years. I'll be sorry to see it ending as well. It certainly fluctuates. You could argue there's a progression even over just the first 3 episodes to being very Steed-centric! I'm not sure if there's a progression, on average, over the series, but there's certainly a mix of Keel-lite and Steed-lite (or free) episodes - and remember the episode order in these boxes isn't the same as the episode order on TV (which I think is relatively uncontroversial for series 1...) One of the things I've found really interesting about working on these was that it punctures the myth Steed was a support character to Keel. They were always co-leads. I believe that the original idea after the first two episodes was that the series would alternate Steed and Keel episodes. Not solo as such (only Trapeze being an exception). But you've got this from episode three til episode nine/ten or so. In 3 (Square Root), 5 (Crescent Moon) 7 (Diamond Cut Diamond) and 9 (Ashes of Roses) the story is very much a Steed story with little more than a cameo from Keel. And the alternate episodes go the other way, barely featuring Steed. It's only round about episode ten that they opt to feature them both properly in every episode with only a couple of solos in the last five breaking the rule (As Ian correctly observes, both will be in set 7 - the Far Distant Dead for Keel and Dragonsfield for Steed). |
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Post by OneTen on Jul 17, 2016 13:10:19 GMT
I believe that the original idea after the first two episodes was that the series would alternate Steed and Keel episodes. Not solo as such (only Trapeze being an exception). But you've got this from episode three til episode nine/ten or so. In 3 (Square Root), 5 (Crescent Moon) 7 (Diamond Cut Diamond) and 9 (Ashes of Roses) the story is very much a Steed story with little more than a cameo from Keel. And the alternate episodes go the other way, barely featuring Steed. It's only round about episode ten that they opt to feature them both properly in every episode with only a couple of solos in the last five breaking the rule (As Ian correctly observes, both will be in set 7 - the Far Distant Dead for Keel and Dragonsfield for Steed). Fascinating. I wonder what motivated that pattern, and why they changed away (not that I'm unhappy to have the episodes featuring them together - far from it!) |
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Post by acousticwolf on Jul 20, 2016 7:39:09 GMT
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Post by chapwithwings on Jul 20, 2016 18:29:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 11:01:22 GMT
Now we only have a handful of these Lost Stories left, I'm trying to space out listening to them. So far, The Frighteners (the first one from this boxset) is the typically solid, entertaining story-telling I've grown to love from this series. The leads are exceptional, and have provided one of the most convincing partnerships in any series for a very long time. I love the menagerie of 60's cockney villians, as I have throughout these stories - all chancers, all small-time hoodlums, often in the thrall of upper-crust bosses. I love it all - the production, the music; the characterisation and humour displayed here is so much more convincing (for me) than the OTT silliness of later Steed/Peel stories that I have never been able to completely embrace, either on television, or on audio. I love this world, and when it finally ends at the beginning of next year, I will miss this range very, very much indeed.
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