Your favorite "crazy characters"

MRotten · Post by **MRotten** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:33 am

Dearesttara wrote:My "crazy characters" prefered are Z.Z. von Schnerk in Epic and Mark Crayford in Dead men are dangerous. There are really Masters of Evil !

I like Mr.Teddy Bear, Monty Bristow in Game and Prendergast (The Joker) as Gundmann (Don't look behind you). In fact, I adore all Diabolical Masterminds of the series !

I vote for Z. Z. von Schnerk, too, played by the marvelous character actor Kenneth J. Warren.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:36 am

So many great ones but I'll vote for Roy Kinnear. He was terrific every time but my favorite role of his was the absent minded scientist in The See-Through Man.

Dearesttara · Post by **Dearesttara** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:19 am

I prefered him in Bizarre but he did always a perfect acting. He's hilarious in Esprit de corps too.

darren · Post by **darren** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:44 pm

Dan wrote:So many great ones but I'll vote for Roy Kinnear. He was terrific every time but my favorite role of his was the absent minded scientist in The See-Through Man.

I don't care for the episode but Roy Kinnear is always good value.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:41 pm

Darren wrote:
Dan wrote:So many great ones but I'll vote for Roy Kinnear. He was terrific every time but my favorite role of his was the absent minded scientist in The See-Through Man.
I don't care for the episode but Roy Kinnear is always good value.

Agree that it's one of the weaker Peel era episodes but it does have its merits. I am one of Brodney's few fans. The scene where he goes crashing through a window and you hear him trying to get away from the big dog is great, and I also love the scene where Ackerloyd meets Steed in the park- very Avengeresque.

Dearesttara · Post by **Dearesttara** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:04 pm

I disagree. I adore The See-Through Man, it's funny (ah Brodny !...) and there are good story and fine suspense. Without forget beautiful decors (Russian embassy)... The weakest Emma Peel is for me The man-eater of Surrey Green, and it's the weakest episode of the series for my part !

It's true, the scene where Brodny passes through the window...

Yes, Brodny is a "crazy character" I love. As Keller (The Charmers).

MRotten · Post by **MRotten** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:40 pm

Dearesttara wrote:I disagree. I adore The See-Through Man, it's funny (ah Brodny !...) and there are good story and fine suspense. Without forget beautiful decors (Russian embassy)... The weakest Emma Peel is for me The man-eater of Surrey Green, and it's the weakest episode of the series for my part !

It's true, the scene where Brodny passes through the window... Yes, Brodny is a "crazy character" I love. As Keller (The Charmers).

Every episode has marvelous character actors. I especially love "The See-Through Man" for the female villian(ess?) Elena (Moira Lister), who tangles with Emma in a great fight.

Cariheart · Post by **Cariheart** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 5:13 am

For me it's Cheshire from Hidden Tiger. Ronny Barker's character is clearly not playing with a full deck

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:19 pm

Cariheart wrote:For me it's Cheshire from Hidden Tiger. Ronny Barker's character is clearly not playing with a full deck

The BBC treated us to some wonderful Ronnie Barker (and Ronnie Corbett) repeats on Christmas Eve in their Two Ronnies evening, including The Studio Recordings; a selection of unedited footage from the filming of their Saturday night show, complete with bloopers, fluffs, corpsing and studio audience banter. Brilliant.

Cariheart · Post by **Cariheart** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 6:40 pm

Dandy Forsdyke wrote:
Cariheart wrote:For me it's Cheshire from Hidden Tiger. Ronny Barker's character is clearly not playing with a full deck
The BBC treated us to some wonderful Ronnie Barker (and Ronnie Corbett) repeats on Christmas Eve in their Two Ronnies evening, including The Studio Recordings; a selection of unedited footage from the filming of their Saturday night show, complete with bloopers, fluffs, corpsing and studio audience banter. Brilliant.

Would love to have seen that! In America, the Two Ronnies were shown-many, many moons ago- on one of our Public Broadcasting channels (very thankful as this is how I was introduced to Dr. Who and many British tv shows). Presently, I'm content watching clips of the Ronnies on Youtube. Better than nothing, I suppose.