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Caractacus wrote:
> I quite like the Manxians with their three legs and their
> tailless cats, and their habit of harbouring fugtives from the
> Midlands like Nigel Mansell.
I never once saw a tailless mog in three weeks. The 2 famous expars? Mansell and Norman Wisdom. Good grief.


> And I think the late, great Nigel Kneale was a Manxman.
WHO?

Creator of Quatermass. Early TV pioneer of drama---responsible for the TV adaptation of 1984.

He sounds worth a look-up.
Thanks for lightening my darkness.

He wrote a TV play called The Year Of The Sex Olympics, which told of reality TV gone mad---30 years before Big Brother.

One day, I must look it up and watch it.

I think I remember that- probably a Play for Today [now that was world-
class broadcasting: no wonder those Beeb arseholes axed it]

Politicians are all tosspots, whatever the nationality. A sweeping generalisation, I know, but I'm willing to apologise personally to the handful that don't conform to the norm.

I tried the link again, and yes, it has egafd at the top but it also has O/T-
that's because I initially accessed the O/T fron egafd rather than bgafd:
both sides link to the O/T forum, naturally.

He's right, Magoo---the O/T exists in both places.

It had Leonard Rossiter in it, according to the IMDB, and a very young Brian Cox. I've seen it recommended so many time, I fear it would be a let-down if I watched it.

He did a series in the 1970s, six single plays, under the title Beasts. At least one of them is a classic; one is completely risible; one partly risible; and the other three have their moments.

Responsible too for the late 1980s adaptation of Susan Hill's bowel-loosener The Woman In Black. If nothing else, Nige knew how to scare folk.