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Post by Midsomerlover on Dec 28, 2010 6:40:58 GMT 12
I've watched this one yesterday and thought it was a brilliant episode! A typical DA situation and of course, full of laughs. Always nice to see Harold Bennet's character Mr. Blewitt. "Them Germans make very good megaphones!" ;D Brilliant. I'm off to watch Series 6 now!  |
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Post by jonboy on Dec 28, 2010 7:42:46 GMT 12
Yes another great story, though I did read it was rather difficult to make with all the mechanical devices, David Croft did try to make it as easy as possible by using midgets dressed up as the figures in the belltower.
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Post by mortimer on Dec 31, 2010 2:56:09 GMT 12
If you watch carefully, you can see the stage hands behind the curtains when the figures come out.
This may have been removed during digital mastering, I'll need to check.
Love the bit with the rubber ring "You'd think they would've wrapped it"
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Post by Katie on May 3, 2011 6:57:28 GMT 12
Series 5 Episode 13: Time On My Hands
Broadcast on 29/12/72
Mainwaring and Wilson are enjoying their morning cup of coffee and Rich Tea biscuits at the Marigold Tea Rooms when Pike rushes in, hands them rifles and says the police have phoned: a Nazi pilot has bailed out and is hanging from the town hall clock.
The men of the Home Guard congregate at the town hall and try to work out how they'll capture the German. They consider different ways of pulling him in, including taking the minute hand off the clock, which has not worked since 1939. Inside the clock tower, a mishap sees Jones trapping everyone inside the tower.
Eventually they pull the German in and Mainwaring writes a note, stuffs it in a bottle and drops it onto the road below asking for help to get down. But he doesn't hold out much hope of receiving aid from Hodges and the others below, so everyone racks their brains for a solution to their predicament. Although Walker's idea puts Jones in a precarious situation, Wilson's plan - based on a fairy tale - comes up trumps.
Also appearing: Bill Pertwee (ARP Warden), Frank Williams (Vicar), Edward Sinclair (Verger), Harold Bennett (Mr Blewitt), Joan Cooper (Miss Fortescue), Eric Longworth (Mr Gordon), Christopher Sandford (German Pilot).
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Post by jonboy on May 8, 2011 6:09:20 GMT 12
Lots of funny scenes including Mr Blewitt realing off lists of things the Germans are good at making, Jones thinking he is being helpful puts away the pole holding up the ladders where the staircase was gives Fraser a chance to say his catchprase ' We're doomed !!', and when Hodges is being his usual obnoxious self Pike lobs a bottle down just missing him ' What was in that ?' says Mainwaring, 'Nothing', says Pike ' I was aiming for the warden', ' Good' says Mainwaring, all classic stuff
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 8, 2011 21:21:52 GMT 12
Another total classic but perhaps one that gets thought about as such less than others.
And another one in which the platoon captures a German. They had a good record for capturing Germans - two in The Enemy at the Gates (plus Captain Wynodgroski); one in Man Hunt; the U-boat crew in The Deadly Attachment; three in Come In, Your Time Is Up, and this pilot. :-)
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Post by jonboy on May 9, 2011 5:36:08 GMT 12
I read that the moving clock figures proved a problem which was solved by using midgets dressed to look the part.
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Post by thespiv on Aug 13, 2011 7:23:36 GMT 12
really thats interesting i never knew that
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Post by dazza97 on Feb 8, 2012 8:28:48 GMT 12
Watching this episode at the moment. Absolute classic  |
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Post by jrt2345 on Feb 21, 2012 23:14:05 GMT 12
I love Jones's relationship with the horse and moving figures, and when he thinks the German is saying smell : "Schnell!" "Don't worry about the smell, that's nothing to do with it"
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Post by stephen68 on May 16, 2014 10:45:12 GMT 12
Who can remember how much and when Frazer bought his top hat in this episode?
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Post by Grace on Jan 6, 2015 5:01:22 GMT 12
did he buy it in 1911, for one and six?? i watched this episode the other day. one of my fave Frazer monologues as well when he ends in 'in the end they had to dismantle the lighthouse...brick by brick..." that really makes me laugh
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Post by stephen68 on Jan 7, 2015 5:32:50 GMT 12
Almost Grace it cost him 8 shillings and 6 pence in 1911. The grand total today of about 46p.
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Post by Grace on Jan 7, 2015 7:16:31 GMT 12
that's a bargain!
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Post by stephen68 on Jan 7, 2015 8:04:12 GMT 12
I think Frazer would be hard pushed to buy a hat for 46p today . |
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Post by Grace on Jan 7, 2015 10:10:28 GMT 12
are we talking pounds or pence?
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Post by stephen68 on Jan 7, 2015 11:53:53 GMT 12
Talking pence as 8 and 6 is equivalent to 46 pence today.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2015 1:45:24 GMT 12
Surely that is the equivalent as given when Britain went to decimalisation in the 1970's. There would be 40 something years of inflation on top of that 46p
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Post by stephen68 on Jan 8, 2015 6:54:02 GMT 12
£43.66p in todays money Frazers hat would have cost or there or thereabouts.
I did not word my last comment very well, what I meant is 8 and 6 was 46p before decimal coins came in.
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Post by rageofangels on Jan 23, 2015 6:25:22 GMT 12
Love this episode. Would have given it a 10, but thought they slightly over played Jones' on the back of the horse. But that aside it is up there in my top ten episodes. Love the hat bit when they're all used to stop the bells, and also when Pike throws a bottle at hodges, and also Jones' reply to the pilot. Classic stuff.
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