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stalking the not-so-elusive McCallum
So the Quest for more David McCallum has lead us from Sapphire & Steel (worth watching - check out this non-spoilery picspam for more details. Now I'm trying out the radio plays, even if they are sadly McCallum-less - David Warner does a bang-up job as Steel, though, and I do like his voice) to Colditz and the '70s Invisible Man TV show.
Colditz is a '70s BBC two-series show about a WWII POW camp, mostly adapted from a true story--The Great Escape with much less action and much more Serious Talking. It took a bit to get going but now we're quite enjoying it, though it is terribly British, dour muted atmosphere and upper-lips so stiff one could hammer nails with them. (DMc's own upper lip is adorned with a mustache (sigh) as hot-headed young Flight Lieutenant Carter; it cracks us up that as far as we can tell the char's meant to be about thirty, when he was forty at the time - he doesn't have trouble pulling it off.)
The Invisible Man is in attitude like the otherwise unrelated SciFi Channel show of the same name, mostly comedy-action, though not as clever; it's pretty much a bad show across the board, if generally innocuous. It did, however, surprise us in the first episode. So DMc is the main character, the scientist who turns himself invisible. In the pilot he's happily married to a fellow scientist, and they're obnoxiously adorable together, calling each other "Doctor Westin" and snuggling and such. Naturally we spent the whole episode waiting for her to die - which she failed to do; instead of becoming the woman in the refrigerator, the wife becomes his partner, and for the rest of the series they run around doing missions together and having lots of happy marital sex (at least twice an episode, I'd say - she's married to David McCallum, who can blame her?) It's ridiculously cute - why isn't there more scifi with adorable married couples? Mmm, I love me some established relationshipping...
Colditz is a '70s BBC two-series show about a WWII POW camp, mostly adapted from a true story--The Great Escape with much less action and much more Serious Talking. It took a bit to get going but now we're quite enjoying it, though it is terribly British, dour muted atmosphere and upper-lips so stiff one could hammer nails with them. (DMc's own upper lip is adorned with a mustache (sigh) as hot-headed young Flight Lieutenant Carter; it cracks us up that as far as we can tell the char's meant to be about thirty, when he was forty at the time - he doesn't have trouble pulling it off.)
The Invisible Man is in attitude like the otherwise unrelated SciFi Channel show of the same name, mostly comedy-action, though not as clever; it's pretty much a bad show across the board, if generally innocuous. It did, however, surprise us in the first episode. So DMc is the main character, the scientist who turns himself invisible. In the pilot he's happily married to a fellow scientist, and they're obnoxiously adorable together, calling each other "Doctor Westin" and snuggling and such. Naturally we spent the whole episode waiting for her to die - which she failed to do; instead of becoming the woman in the refrigerator, the wife becomes his partner, and for the rest of the series they run around doing missions together and having lots of happy marital sex (at least twice an episode, I'd say - she's married to David McCallum, who can blame her?) It's ridiculously cute - why isn't there more scifi with adorable married couples? Mmm, I love me some established relationshipping...
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http://www.youtube.com/user/dalek64
and here;
http://www.youtube.com/user/dreamybluemeany
Everyone should then come and play with our friendly little escape committee of Oflag 4c Colditz here
http://www.youtube.com/user/Shovewood
We just adore Fl Lt Carter to pieces.
(warning; here be some major squeeing and fangirlish overload by many fangirls who should know better) This week the escape officer's theme is going to be McCallum in uniform
http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/Shovewood/annbillybudd1.jpg
Squee.
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HOMG where did that picture come from?? he's so young! and soooo pretty...
(along similar lines, just out of curiosity...would you have any idea where one might obtain the DMc Kidnapped series? or is it generally unavailable?)
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Ah, Mr Allan Breck McCallum in all your blue silk, swishy cape, feather hat, leather gloves glory!
http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/Shovewood/probably6001_1__0033.jpg
Oh how I love thee!
As to a dvd, it's hard to come by. We got it from Serenaar, who got it from GeorgieSmith who I think got it from Sparky.
Have you met Major Mohn yet in Colditz series two? Mr Carter gets his own absolutely brilliant nazi Mohn to fight with (he's basically the dalek Sec of colditz) and things get a bit uncomfortable for the poor dear.
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Celtic, ahah! (I just cracked your youtube code, but didn't realize what it meant...)
Dangit, why don't they release a David McCallum Special DVD set! They'd have so many buyers! ...well, one buyer, at least...
Haven't started series 2 Colditz yet, but you are giving us much to look forward to!
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http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/Shovewood/wild.jpg
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(and now we must go watch more Colditz, cause the series two stuff sounds fun! ^__^)
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For the slightly rough look....
http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/Shovewood/robber21.jpg
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WOW!!! So beautiful and young, our Pretty!!!