@@JohnLumb-r2m If it was ever to make a return to the TV I would hope they keep the story progressing week by week rather than a stand-alone story every episode.
I remember watching that explosive cliffhanger (40:42) and coming back the following week to see how it resolved, only to find Arthur of the Britons or something showing in its place. For years, I've thought they must have shifted the final episode of the story to a timeslot on a different day for some reason and I'd missed it. Only now am I finding out that they were actually ending the series on a cliffhanger, which was an alien concept to me at the time. Also, there was an Ace of Wands scene that really unsettled the six- or seven-year-old me. If I remember correctly, it was like a jarring montage of images and sounds that kept coming back to the head of ventriloquist's dummy. I think it was the opening scene of a new story, so I had no bearings, nothing to relate it to, and I got a bit freaked out by it. Anyone know what it might have been?
I really hope that wasn't BBC2's earlier Late Night Horror, you should have been in bed! The opening sequence is still terrifying more than half a century on! (There's one episode hereabouts, "The corpse can't play".) But Ace of Wands did a fair bit of funky visuals, so maybe it was one of the stories, but I don't recall it from the series.
I've always been disappointed they wiped all the episodes with Judy Loe and Tony Selby, they were my favourite sidekicks, particularly Tony as 'duff 'em up' Sam. I still live in hope some home recorded versions might turn up. That said, I enjoyed them all - this, along with series such as The Tomorrow People and Children of the Stones (and of course, Doctor Who to an extent) made my childhood a magical time.
Some of the audio survives: cheaper tape, I suppose. But wiping the rest was an outrage. Freewheelers and Timeslip were my other faves of the period along with TTP and the more down-to-earth Tom Grattan's War and The Flaxton Boys, and of course Dr Who (the earthbound Pertwee period remained a fave, though I recall cowering too from those creepy baco-foil Troughton-era cybermen) and b&w summer holiday oldies (everything was b&w for most of us anyway). But nothing matched AoW's with-it quirkiness. It's odd that most of them are ITV when we were generally a BBC household: on this score "the other side" seems to have been well ahead, though a couple of the Pertwee stories flirted with occult themes.
@davepx1 It was the voices (created by throat buzzers) of the Troughton era Cybermen that made them great for me - facially emotionless and vocally so, too. I found that terrifying! The later ones just sounded grumpy, like they were complaining about a ball going over their fence. 😄
Ah, happy days. It was a fabulous series, exciting, cool and quirky: I was distraught when it ended (and still am!), and again when I found most of it had been wiped including Seven serpents (I still remember the chant!). If only it'd been b&w, it'd probably have survived (apparently nobody wanted those tapes because they couldn't record colour).
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Thanks so much for posting this! Loved this show!
If you can, please do post the Shadows and Dramarama episodes with Mr Stabbs.
@@JarrodCook93 Guess what, they'll be shown over the next couple of Fridays!
Judy Loe is adorable. Such a pity we only have pics of season 1 and 2.
I didn't even know this existed. Nice!
It's an extra on the DVD box set (or it is on mine, anyway).
It's nice to see it here, getting a bit more exposure!
It would be great if there was a reboot of this series. If not as a TV series possibly audio adventures produced by Big Finish?
@@JohnLumb-r2m If it was ever to make a return to the TV I would hope they keep the story progressing week by week rather than a stand-alone story every episode.
Thanks😊
I remember watching that explosive cliffhanger (40:42) and coming back the following week to see how it resolved, only to find Arthur of the Britons or something showing in its place. For years, I've thought they must have shifted the final episode of the story to a timeslot on a different day for some reason and I'd missed it. Only now am I finding out that they were actually ending the series on a cliffhanger, which was an alien concept to me at the time.
Also, there was an Ace of Wands scene that really unsettled the six- or seven-year-old me. If I remember correctly, it was like a jarring montage of images and sounds that kept coming back to the head of ventriloquist's dummy. I think it was the opening scene of a new story, so I had no bearings, nothing to relate it to, and I got a bit freaked out by it. Anyone know what it might have been?
I really hope that wasn't BBC2's earlier Late Night Horror, you should have been in bed! The opening sequence is still terrifying more than half a century on! (There's one episode hereabouts, "The corpse can't play".) But Ace of Wands did a fair bit of funky visuals, so maybe it was one of the stories, but I don't recall it from the series.
I've always been disappointed they wiped all the episodes with Judy Loe and Tony Selby, they were my favourite sidekicks, particularly Tony as 'duff 'em up' Sam. I still live in hope some home recorded versions might turn up.
That said, I enjoyed them all - this, along with series such as The Tomorrow People and Children of the Stones (and of course, Doctor Who to an extent) made my childhood a magical time.
Some of the audio survives: cheaper tape, I suppose. But wiping the rest was an outrage.
Freewheelers and Timeslip were my other faves of the period along with TTP and the more down-to-earth Tom Grattan's War and The Flaxton Boys, and of course Dr Who (the earthbound Pertwee period remained a fave, though I recall cowering too from those creepy baco-foil Troughton-era cybermen) and b&w summer holiday oldies (everything was b&w for most of us anyway). But nothing matched AoW's with-it quirkiness. It's odd that most of them are ITV when we were generally a BBC household: on this score "the other side" seems to have been well ahead, though a couple of the Pertwee stories flirted with occult themes.
@davepx1 It was the voices (created by throat buzzers) of the Troughton era Cybermen that made them great for me - facially emotionless and vocally so, too. I found that terrifying!
The later ones just sounded grumpy, like they were complaining about a ball going over their fence. 😄
@@BackToTheBlues Yes indeed, same for me: It made them creepier than the later mecha-warriors.
Ah, happy days. It was a fabulous series, exciting, cool and quirky: I was distraught when it ended (and still am!), and again when I found most of it had been wiped including Seven serpents (I still remember the chant!). If only it'd been b&w, it'd probably have survived (apparently nobody wanted those tapes because they couldn't record colour).
I thought they were singing "Tarot cards, Tarot padoloby". But then I was five years old.
You seem to have invented a new word. You get to choose what it means!
@FoogouFilms thank you. I'll have a think and get back to you in another 52 years.