tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post1044875093907316467..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Banana Splits, Chanting Stones and Flashing Blades by Steve GladwinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80644829282317942112017-06-25T08:03:22.758+01:002017-06-25T08:03:22.758+01:00Thanks Sue and thanks for your choices. Of course!...Thanks Sue and thanks for your choices. Of course! I was a massive fan of Arthur of the Britons and the original Robin Hood. I don't remember Sword of Freedom but it sounds great.Steve Gladwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01809330248051701869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-46609779111683358092017-06-25T02:49:46.567+01:002017-06-25T02:49:46.567+01:00I think I have one episode of Children Of The Ston...I think I have one episode of Children Of The Stones sent to me by a friend up in England, because Blake's 7 actor Gareth Thomas was in it, but I can't play my videos any more, only DVDs, so glad to hear the whole thing is up on YouTube. <br /><br />Sword Of Freedom with Edmund Purdom, set in Medici Florence? He is an artist who rarely seems to paint, though his model Angelica is a regular character. The opening credits, in fact, show him flinging down his paintbrush, grabbing a sword and using his palette as a shield when an assassin suddenly appears. Says something about the show. But it was great fun, though Lorenzo de Medici is the villain and Machiavelli is his sidekick. <br /><br />How about the Richard Greene Adventures Of Robin Hood, which was, interestingly, written and produced by Americans who had fled the McCarthy witch hunts in the U.S.? So this Robin, while an aristocrat, was very left wing in his leanings. A lot of big name or later big name actors played guest roles in it, including Robin's friend Sir Richard of the Lee played by the actor who was Rochard the Lionheart in the Hollywood Robin Hood film. <br /><br />Arthur Of The Britons with Oliver Tobias, in which Arthur ran a few villages rather than a country, and the costumes looked very lived in. Mark of Cornwall was played by Brian Blessed and he was shown as the sort of character Brian Blessed usually plays, ie the sort who would rip several bits off Tristan if he had the nerve to fool around with his wife(nit that he had one in this show). The theme tune was composed by Hollywood great Elmer Bernstein - no idea what he was doing composing music for a low budget British children's TV series, but there you are. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://suebursztynski.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/cbca-shortlist-1-frankie-by-shivaun.html" rel="nofollow">CBCA Shortlist #1: Frankie by Shivaun Plozza</a><br /><br />Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-62321023672917839102017-06-23T22:14:44.300+01:002017-06-23T22:14:44.300+01:00"Children of the Stones" was mid-70s, wa..."Children of the Stones" was mid-70s, wasn't it? I wasn't born in 1967 but I remember it being on. And it's in colour.Daniel Blythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07487799866651688342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-22372957857783681252017-06-23T17:38:36.892+01:002017-06-23T17:38:36.892+01:00Happy memories - and some of them half-forgotten, ...Happy memories - and some of them half-forgotten, so thank you for the reminding, Steve.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.com