Although Ive always understood that these shows developed out of a radically differentAvengersthat proceeded them.
Yet they also threw in some 16mm filmed location shoots, which serve to elevate the perceived production values.
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Blackmans Gale was all woman, but brutally tough with it.
And based on the audiences the show generated, there was plenty of entertainment here.
It would be another year before Mother would make an appearance and the formality of that relationship was defined.
This is all rather ad hoc adventure with little overriding purpose or plan.
This is one of five stories that have accompanying audio commentaries, this one by Brian Clemens, himself.
Director Don Leaver, script editor Richard Bates, and scriptwriters Roger Marshall and Jonathan Alwyn contribute the others.
If I could make it so again!
But a word of warning about this set, as nostalgic as it made me.
Its not really even DVD quality, and the contrast levels in some scenes obscure all the fine details.
One other curious point is the very strange order they chose to put them on the discs.
Wouldnt it have just been simpler to have them in the order they were shown?
Rating:
3 out of 5
