A Movie Called "Serenity", just some good Sci-fi.

oh yeh? what about.. Skippy Flying Doctors that thing about the big family in Victorian Times Skippy see? Aus telly, full of choice and discovery..

not the Sullivans, that was ITV, set around and during WW2. there was another series on BBC (kids show) about this huge family in this rambling house in the Blue Mountains, the dad was some British colonel of the 19th century, he´d takewn his tribe to live there, the eldest girl was a bit of a rebel (she ended up dying when the baby nearly got killed by a tree) - probably before your time. can´t remember what it was called. it was a bit like a kids version of The Thorn Birds or The Flame Trees of Thika. Esq - something had to fill up those hours on a Sunday morning and during holidays when there weren´t even home-grown or Yankee shows to go round. the BBC tried Czech and Polish cartoons like Worker Robot v Capitalist Robot, and Carry On Down The Collective Farm, and there was even an effort with French Saturday matinee mini-series, which you usually joined at ep 26 when Ahmed was about to be abducted in the baddie´s Citroen van that he´d stowed away in after running away from the pirates who´d kidnapped him from his uncle´s melon farm. However such determined efforts to break away from the pattern of filling dead time with antipodean culture failed, Skippy had already blazed a trail for cheesey down-under plots. Many a happy hour was spent by British children trying to the train the dog to come heel by blowing through a privet leaf and saying "g´day" "cobber" "sport" "Skeep" although it tended not to work when you called your mum "Sheila". We did however have our own *down-under* show in the form of the legendary Tingha & Tucker and *Auntie* Jean Morton - this was however religious propoaganda in the form of children´s entertainment. Recently I discovered that Tingha converted to Islam and is now known as Yussef al-Tinga, whereas Tucker fell into a drink and drugs hell and has been in rehab for years now. Auntie Jean ran off with someone we know all too well. at least Lassie got reincarnated. Skippy got stuffed. You know they made her (because she was a she, not a he as the porog would have you believe) talk via eleastic bands wrapped round her muzzle and tongue.

it wsnt Heidi. anyway Heidi doesn´t die, she goes back to Grandfather, and it´s set in Swiss Switzerkand amongst toblerones and cuckoo-clocks, not Orstrayluh. the Moomins still freak me out a bit, theyre very odd. Mrs Taw loves em though. but the Moomins were Scandinavian I think (Finland?) not Eastern European. I was thinking of Hero Worker Mouse v. Evil Capitalist Exploiter Cat, critically acclaimed at the 36th Party Congress and winner of the 1963 Workers Award for Socialist Culture. or that bizarre thing with the Mole. I shouldnt really laugh at them, I enjoyed them at the time cos they were so different from Tom & Jerry or Bugs or Daffy. And there was The Bluebird of Happiness which was an all-star Soviet/US production, and I thought it was brilliant. hmm can´t think of any other kids progs from Orstralyuh.

that you can link so quickly to a Moomins website is in itself highly disturbing. anyhoo, getting back onto something more like the subject, I just picked up the entire collection of U.F.O. on DvD, which I´m rather pleased about. I can carry on lusting after Wanda Ventham and Gabrielle Drake now. Oddly, Wanda was a full colonel in S.H.A.D.O just like Alec and Foster, yet all she ever did was bring Straker brews and memos. At least Gaby got to launch Interceptors and talk to S.I.D. <img src=´http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t…pics/Wanda%20Ventham7.jpg ´> Wanda Ventham as Col Virginia Lake, the highest-ranking brew-maker in sci-fi.. Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/10/2005 9:09:47 AM

grrrr yeh she was babe-a-licious. woof, as you´d say. but I was only about 10 and she was already in her late 30s/early 40s, and I didnt want her to get in trouble.

too skinny. they will break. they look like theyre made from sticks with a few bits of cloth thrown on them, I´ve seen more meat on a Linda McCartney microwave meal. Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/10/2005 10:01:46 AM

they look like a girly band? I can´t see these four whoopin´ some alien butt, they might break a fingernail. unlike... <img src=´http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tawakalna/pics/141888-leela.jpg ´> the lovely and really rather vicious Leela Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/10/2005 10:40:06 AM

and there was also this lady.. <img src=´http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tawakalna/deliv9.jpg ´> now, she really was a hottie in her day, and nasty to boot. uber-evil. I met Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan) a few years ago on holiday in Cornwall, obv aged quite alot now but still a fine-looking woman. I had quite an interesting natter with her. She´s a very elegant lady and highly intelligent, although not jonben/benjon standards of course <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Coincidentally enough, around the same time, Mrs Taw went to a writer´s forum somewhere and met Paul Darrow (Avon) of all people.

well, Hugh Grant did arrive by sky-diving - nude. *Browncoats*<img src=smilies/icon_smile_question.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/10/2005 12:08:10 PM