Get Smart and TV Shows
The morning TV showed me previews of Get Smart and I suppose I will have to bestir myself to get out and see it. There is a cheap day in picture theatres during the week to see films, I will check my purse for loose change. Or else wait till it’s on DVD at BlockBusters.
But it made me think of the shows I used to watch on TV (how many many years ago?) in the 60s and 70s.
Get Smart was one of course, and I enjoyed Dick Van Dyke too - we were more innocent then. The only other American show which I remember enjoying was the Twilight Zone for my tastes ran - and still run - to English cops and robbers, and to English spies.
Z-Cars was a fabulous show. At the time it was shocking! There was suddenly a new realism to the genre as it featured ordinary policing in Newtown, a fictitious town to the north of Liverpool. Apart from the crooks, it featured the day to day lives of the policemen themselves, depicting them as fallible human beings capable of gambling, drinking and, most controversially of all, wife beating.
Society was changing rapidly and Z-Cars mirrored the social changes of its era. The writers bravely dared to push the envelope of the dramatic depiction of the police and their role in a rapidly changing society, to starkly realistic new heights.
It went on to be replaced by an even more realistic show, the Sweeney. More on that later, and on Callan.
Can you spare a dime for an old dame?Our Dancing Queen
You will be thrilled to know that Lizzy Two, Mrs Battenburg, is still out and about and having a jolly old time.
Not one to be outshone by the rollicking antics of her grandsons with their games of dress-ups and soldiers, our erstwhile monarch has been polishing her dance steps and wowing guests at Windsor Castle.
At a recent brunch of a few hundred guests she cavorted to an enthusiastic audience of relatives and hangers-on.
Can you spare a dime for an old dame?Horrible Cinderella
The story of Cinderella has been haunting me. A few days back I posted Fairy Tale, a story from Gardner Dozois which showed the commonplace basis of the gothic tale.
But from childhood I always knew it was a horror story and some clever person has shown me just how right I was.
cinderella
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