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27th Sep 2010, 9:16 PM #1
The Mutants - Un-Out on Un-DVD Un-Together!
You'll all be delighted to hear that extras for The Mutants have been cleared at the BBFC:
00:02:55:18 THE MUTANTS - PHOTO GALLERY
00:20:36:21 MUTT MAD - THE MAKING OF THE MUTANTS
00:01:35:07 (BLUE PETER) (CLIP FROM BLUE PETER IN 1970S)
00:27:03:13 DRESSING DOCTOR WHO - JAMES ACHESON (FEATURETTE)
00:37:36:10 RACE AGAINST TIME (FEATURETTE)
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Sep 2010, 10:07 PM #2
Hmmm .... my least fave Pertwee... still better than nought!!
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27th Sep 2010, 10:14 PM #3
I have to say I actually quite enjoyed The Mutants. It's nt a classic by any means, but it has something that just appeals a little to me. Maybe precisely because it is so poorly regarded and so not overexposed.
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27th Sep 2010, 10:23 PM #4
It should be a bit more bearable when the 525 line prints are smartened up and don't look quite so washed out.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Sep 2010, 10:42 PM #5
Will there be a special CGI feature where Messrs Coll and James are digitally replaced by two planks of wood ?
Bazinga !
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27th Sep 2010, 10:45 PM #6
It's a Pertwee (hurrah!) but not another delicious recolourisation (boo!). Bring on "Terror of the Autons" and ""The Daemons"!
Is there Reverse Standards Conversion required on this?
Si.
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27th Sep 2010, 10:49 PM #7
Cor, even the Pertwee fans aren't excited about this Pertwee release!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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27th Sep 2010, 11:36 PM #8
Pish & tush, I love The Mutants. As I've often said of it, it just keeps on chucking stuff at you that it's just impossible to get bored. It's not without its (many) faults, but as a kid I remember being particularly fascinated by the 'evolution' element of it.
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28th Sep 2010, 7:33 AM #9
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28th Sep 2010, 7:38 AM #10
Shame the Making Of is barely 20 minutes, but what looks like a dreary thing on apartheid is twice as long. I'll put the washing away when that comes on.
Si. :mobile
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28th Sep 2010, 8:00 AM #11
Apparently that one's been made by Noel Clarke. and it's about minority actors appearing in Doctor Who.
Si xxLast edited by SiHart; 28th Sep 2010 at 8:14 AM.
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Sep 2010, 8:18 AM #12
Will they be interviewing whatsisname who plays Cotton (Rick James is it)? Hope he's a better interviewee than he is an actor!
At the risk of not being PC though... nearly 40 minutes does seem a long time to spend on that. Without being rude to Who, we could probably reel off the names of all the 'minority' actors who've ever appeared in Who pretty quickly, it's not like there are thousands of potential interviewees.
Edited to add: Although maybe it's going to look at the other side of things, with, for example, John Bennett being 'Chinesed-Up' for Talons. At the time I don't thing many people would have even given that a thought, but I do remember Zel actually being quite shocked when she first saw it (she'd missed it completely in 1976, so this was around 1999). Maybe that's another element of it, probably widening to TV & the BBC as a whole (cue clips from "It Ain't Alf Hot Mum" maybe?). Actually, you know, it could be quite interesting!!
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28th Sep 2010, 10:23 AM #13
Only for the first two episodes.
I shouldn't think so, he died years ago.
The documentary might be looking at the overall issue of casting ethnic actors in British TV programmes in the 60s and 70s with particular reference to Doctor Who eg examining whether minorities were under-represented, were the characters they were cast as stereotyped or not, discussions of that sort of nature.Last edited by Logo Polish; 28th Sep 2010 at 10:29 AM.
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28th Sep 2010, 12:11 PM #14
He died a few times when he was in "Doctor Who".
Interesting choice of Noel Clarke to make this one. It can't be because he's a minority actor, as arguably that situation doesn't exist anymore. Perhaps it's that they think by getting a black actor to make it, they can't be accused of any actual racism in the feature itself?
Si.
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28th Sep 2010, 12:14 PM #15
Maybe it was something he wanted to do?
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Sep 2010, 12:20 PM #16
But if I believed that it wouldn't involve any cynacism!
Si.
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28th Sep 2010, 12:28 PM #17
I'm optimistic your cynacism is misplaced!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Sep 2010, 12:53 PM #18
Has he actually "made" it himself, as it were, I was under the impression that he'd just provided the narration?
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28th Sep 2010, 1:28 PM #19
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28th Sep 2010, 1:37 PM #20
Sorry Ant.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Sep 2010, 1:53 PM #21
Apology accepted!
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28th Sep 2010, 9:08 PM #22
I like Stubbs.
For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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28th Sep 2010, 10:07 PM #23I shouldn't think so, he died years ago.
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30th Sep 2010, 8:51 AM #24
I think The Mutants is an underrated Pertwee story. Not the best but better than say, The Time Monster.
I shouldn't think so, he died years ago.
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30th Sep 2010, 10:13 AM #25
No, I'm not thinking of the singer. It was a few years ago I was told about it and unfortunately can't remember exactly where or who it was, but they definitely said that the Rick James who appeared in The Mutants was no longer with us.
I'll accept that the source might have been mistaken as I can't check it now, although the fact that, according to IMDB, he doesn't seem to have appeared in anything since 1981 doesn't make me hopeful.
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