Glover?damn... this guy was in Bond, Blake's 7, Indiana Jones, Doctor Who and Star Wars
Add GoT into the mix as well. Wish he'd done Trek (though he continues to work at 89 so never say never!)
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Add GoT into the mix as well. Wish he'd done Trek (though he continues to work at 89 so never say never!)
That's right. David Jackson had to be called back for the role of Gan in the episode 'Horizon', even though he had already filmed his 'death' in 'Pressure Point', because Terry Nation was late in delivering his scripts for the two-part finale and the producers had to shuffle the order of episodes around as result.
And of course the inverse of that was Killer, which originally featured Gan operating the teleport because it was supposed to air before Pressure Point so they had to reshoot a few scenes!
Not quite... Shadow and Horizon were shot together, after Weapon/Pressure Point. I have a Horizon script that also features corridor and teleport bay scenes for Shadow, but no flight deck scenes for either (as they were all shot with Shadow).
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was watching Sand last night and looked at the IMBD triviva.
It mentions the episode as Jacqueline Pearce's favourite (whether of the entire run or the season it doesn't say).
Part of that was she was unhappy with the way her character had gone in the last season.
Anyone got BTS stuff to confirm/deny/give a different persepective?
It mentions the episode as Jacqueline Pearce's favourite (whether of the entire run or the season it doesn't say).
Part of that was she was unhappy with the way her character had gone in the last season.
Anyone got BTS stuff to confirm/deny/give a different persepective?
I don't know if it was her absolute favourite, but I'd always heard Sand was up there. I think she definitely missed the sparring with Avon.
That said if there had been a Series E I reckon she'd have been one of the few to continue (along with Darrow and Keating I imagine, oh and Tuddenham obviously)
That said if there had been a Series E I reckon she'd have been one of the few to continue (along with Darrow and Keating I imagine, oh and Tuddenham obviously)
It occurred to me when watching "Blake" that
Orac and Servalan are the only main characters that we can be reasonably sure are still alive/intact after the finale. The last we saw of Orac in "Blake," he was in the cockpit of the flyer they used to reach the base. Although that means there was probably nobody to stop him from falling into Federation hands at last.
And the village pub (he dropped in for directions a few years ago).
Deep Roy also has Who, B7, Star Wars, Trek and more on his resume.
the Kloot is probably one of the few times he's not made up in such a way as to be recognizable.
Gather ye also played on the links that attacked Tarrant in Terminal which didn't work out well as he suffered a broken collar bone after being thron off by Steven Pacey.
It's ironic that Deep Roy's one major on-camera role in the series was non-speaking, while his one major speaking role in the series (as the puppeteer of the title character in "Moloch") was not on-camera.
Among the little people pressed into service as Decimas was actor/stuntman Deep Roy, who had played numerous monsters and aliens over the years. "It was very cold and we were in the forest somewhere," he remembers, on filming "The Web". "Those costumes were also very cold, especially if they got wet going through the forest, and then we got an opportunity one day to destroy the whole lab, the ship and everything; we all had a great time destroying that! I got so carried away that I touched some of the stuff we were supposed to leave alone, and threw that in too. The cameras were still rolling, and it was the only equipment left, so I started throwing that too until they cut."
"I remember Deep Roy dying, because he couldn't die without crossing his eyes," chuckled Gareth Thomas. "I think he was the Decima leader, and every time he dropped to the floor, his eyes would cross, and we would fall about laughing. He was told very politely and gently not to do it: 'Could you just keep your eyes -' And he'd say, 'Oh yes, yes,' and he would go cross-eyed again."
"I remember Deep Roy dying, because he couldn't die without crossing his eyes," chuckled Gareth Thomas. "I think he was the Decima leader, and every time he dropped to the floor, his eyes would cross, and we would fall about laughing. He was told very politely and gently not to do it: 'Could you just keep your eyes -' And he'd say, 'Oh yes, yes,' and he would go cross-eyed again."
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Probably
Many years ago there was B7 fansite (off hermitage.org) and one poster told of Peace being asked if anyone minded the show still being called Blake’s 7 when there was no Blake.
The reported responses was along the lines of “ no-one gave a fuck as long as they were in it”
The "7" part wasn't always accurate either. If we count both Zen and Orac, then it was technically Blake's 8 between "Orac" and "Pressure Point." And I resist counting Slave as a full member of the team as much as Zen was, because I don't believe it was as sophisticated a computer.
David Maloney, not entirely convincingly, said at the time that the ship was the last member of the seven.
Trivia for Spacefall on the IMDB listed who was intended to be the 7 but the other were cut for budgetary reasons.
Given the way Sally and Jan were sidelined another two male members of the cast would have made is worse.
Only was the guy sealed in by the foam when the London's hull was breached, the other I can't remember.
That guy was named Nova, which is Avon spelled backward, so it's just as well they didn't keep him around.
That whole sealing-foam death sequence was totally gratuitous, though. Nova's only function in the episode was to say he hadn't done anything yet and then die, after which nobody seemed to notice he was gone or remember he'd even existed. It would've worked better to use the sealing foam as a peril that Blake or Avon had to escape.
I also love the directorial oversight where Jenna says the sealing gel hardens in seconds -- while she has a bunch of it stuck to her fingers for the rest of the scene with no ill effect.
It was supposed to be Arco and Selman, both in Cygnus Alpha.
I find it hard to believe that they'd name a show Blake's 7 and start producing it without having decided who the title seven would be. So I'm skeptical that this has been reported accurately. I could buy that various characters were considered in early planning and a couple of their names were reused once they'd settled on the final cast, but it seems unlikely that the process would've been so improvisational that they would've actually written scripts with those characters joining the crew and then written them out when they belatedly found out how small their cast budget would be, after somehow not having already known that before they wrote the scripts.
Also, it doesn't add up to say they cut two cast members for budgetary reasons when they ended up with six human (or humanoid) regulars plus Zen. If they wanted seven but had the budget for six, why not cut just one instead of two?
The only thing that my book says is that once it was decided that Zen would be one of the Seven, that was when Peter Tuddenham was contacted by Vere Lorrimer.
"They used my Zen voice, which was not pompous exactly, but forthcoming, like a tutor, trying to teach people. I tried to make him sound full of knowledge, like a headmaster."
"They used my Zen voice, which was not pompous exactly, but forthcoming, like a tutor, trying to teach people. I tried to make him sound full of knowledge, like a headmaster."
Guidelines for Slave's speech patterns where orchestrated by a major asshole. It's possible that Slave was Dorian... Really? Did we see his wretched painting? It's possible that Slave was Dorian's early work, or a weird computer he just bought, found or stole, but if Dorian built Slave "recently" even though Slave sounds like a day labourer from a brickyard, he's likely to have been the most sophisticated computer in the galaxy.
