Prof, you're so right about "Look to the Lady"- easily my favorite episode from the first season. Have to say that I enjoyed the second season a bit more. I still watch "Sweet Danger" (my favorite Campion episode) and "Mystery Mile" at least once a year. Cheers, Bowers
"
SWEET DANGER" was last night. Iain Cuthbertson was such a BASTARD!!! I finally figured out, he wasn't a corrupt government employee, he was a corrupt head of a corporation with political ambitions. Talk about the story being decades ahead of its time!
Lysette Anthony was, by a wide margin, my favorite girl in the entire run of the series. It was only after I saw it the first time that I found out that Albert later MARRIED Amanda. Wow. She later turned up as "Angelique" on the prime-time redo of
DARK SHADOWS, and later still, as the doomed Lucy in
DRACULA: DEAD AND LOVING IT.
She's got a GREAT scene with Jonathan (Steven Webber) when she confronts him in the cemetery...
"Join me, and I can give you an eternity of endless passion!"
"But-- but-- I'm British!" (and frigid)
(grabbing her breasts)
"SO ARE THESE!!!"Saw that in a theatre twice when it came out! Sadly, not since...
I've often said Peter Davison is more like "The Doctor" in
CAMPION than he ever was on
DOCTOR WHO. In "
LOOK TO THE LADY", this is even more so! It amazes me how many actors had been on
WHO before who got much better writing on
CAMPION. (Except maybe for Cuthbertson, his role in "
The Ribos Operation" could not be topped.)
When Davison confronted Cuthbertson at the end of "
SWEET DANGER", he almost reminded me of Tom Baker. I also loved when he yelled at Lugg at the top of his lungs. At first, it looked like he was angry that Lugg almost killed someone, but the truth was, he was really upset because LUGG almost got killed! A little more passion like that (or, a LOT, actually) would have been very called for on
WHO. I've always liked Davison as an actor, but too many of his fans on
WHO totaly ignore and excuse what was REALLY BAD WRITING.
