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| Dr Blake and his devoted side kick Mrs Beazley |
This week I watched the series just ended. The first episode depicts a school boat race. The banners on the course clearly indicate the year is 1959. At one point the Police Constable looks at his watch which is shown in close up.
Wisely perhaps for pedantic viewers like me the watch does not display a brand but it is does have the word Quartz on it. 'Hold on' I thought 'were Quartz watches invented in 1959?' The answer according to Dr Google is 'no'. Quartz watches were invented in 1969.
Dr Google trumps Dr Blake.
Lordy, don't you start. For weeks in The Age tv guide, the Green Guide, letters flooded in about the watches in Dr Blake. What is a quartz watch anyway? Craig still looks quite handsome, doesn't he.
ReplyDeleteOh, I didn't realise others have raised the watch(es). McLachlan looks OK, I agree. He is about do yet another turn in The Rocky Horror Show returning to Sydney shortly.
DeleteI think that I would have been too busy watching Craig McLachlan to notice the watch Victor! He looks better here than in his "real life" shots on Google. The show sounded quite good and when I checked online I was surprised to see that the BBC showed it this past winter but in a daytime spot which I missed completely. I'll look out to tape series 2 and the inevitable repeat of series 1.
ReplyDeleteI find the series a bit 'twee' but the murderer always seems well concealed (at least from me) and it is quite popular here as a part of ABC tv's Friday crime night viewing.
DeleteHoly crap....Craig McLachlan looks better now than when he was in Neighbours. He has aged well.
ReplyDeleteI think some of us have aged well too, AdRad. If I may boast for a moment a work colleague remarked this week that an incoming patient looked old enough to be my father. He was two months younger than I.
DeleteI, on the other hand, WAS invented in 1959. LOL
ReplyDeleteA vintage 10 years younger than I, wcs.
DeleteIn our house with the advent of digital (and digitally recorded) TV we make quite a sport of freezing the frame and zooming in on props which often were not intended to survive more than a passing glance. For example, last week, in an episode of George Gently, we zoomed in on the German passport of the murder victim. For some reason I put the task of those charged with whipping up such articles in the same category as the job of acting a corpse (of which we see quite a few given that murders these days seem to form such a staple of viewing on our national broadcaster - unfortunately we cannot receive the Special one owing to a large block of flats which blocks the signal.)
ReplyDeleteI enjoy "Dr Blake" but I feel that the second series (as is so often the case) has gone a bit downhill from the first. In this case I feel this is because the focus of the series has shifted from aspects of social history of the period to the internal dramatics and narrative of the recurring characters in increasingly implausible ways.
I must admit marcellous that the will he, won't he acknowledge feelings for Mrs Beazley was becoming tiresome.
DeleteI doubted that Blake's daughter's letter from China would have survived the local censor. Twenty years later than those cinematic events my real incoming mail (that which was not via diplomatic channels, of course) was clearly monitored by the Chinese censors as evidenced by the use of sticky tape to reseal the envelopes.
Not just the Mrs Beazley thing (and her wild-eyed stare). The implausibly nasty (like Charles Dance in "The Imitation Game") new police boss, and even the culminating mystery of the murder of Dr Blake's mother in a Masonic love-triangle (or n>3 polygon) and the shoot-out with Malcolm Fraser (sorry, John Stanton) have taken things to risible extremes.
ReplyDeleteHehehhe...you have seen a lot more of Dr Blake than I, marcellous!
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