1.15 - The Frighteners
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:31 pm
Teleplay by Berkely Mather
Directed by Peter Hammond
Production completed: 25 May 1961
Directed by Peter Hammond
Production completed: 25 May 1961
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That's an interesting point and I do also feel that, at times in The Frighteners, that Patrick doesn't give Ian much time for his lines. There are understandably, a few acting nerves about in this one. However whether that happened much in Series 1 is hard to know; in Hot Snow there were few nerves and they gelled very well.Frankymole wrote:...Dr Keel doesn't seem to have as much room to breath when steed is around, so presumably series 1 was a lot more like this than "Girl on the Trapeze"...
I am a fan of Patrick, but I actually have trouble making out what he is saying sometimes in series 1 as he speaks so rapidly. I also have no doubt he was nervous but I do think it had a negative impact. They were still working a lot of things out from the start and it certainly did start to improve even in series 2 I believe.Rhonda wrote:That's an interesting point and I do also feel that, at times in The Frighteners, that Patrick doesn't give Ian much time for his lines. There are understandably, a few acting nerves about in this one. However whether that happened much in Series 1 is hard to know; as in Hot Snow there were few nerves and they gelled very well.Frankymole wrote:...Dr Keel doesn't seem to have as much room to breath when steed is around, so presumably series 1 was a lot more like this than "Girl on the Trapeze"...
That's a very interesting suggestion! Patrick, and therefore also Steed, does change slightly over the years. Something that actually adds a certain realism to a series that didn't generally seek that quality. Steed does visibly develop more than other characters in comparable shows.Rhonda wrote:Another thing we wondered, while watching both Hot Snow and The Frighteners, is that maybe Ian Hendry's relaxed acting style positively influenced Patrick Macnee's from a little later on.
i never saw series1 until recently . steed sounds dramatically different between series1 and the tara years he seems like a diffferent person to me rather just a transformation of his characterSpaceship Dispatcher wrote:That's a very interesting suggestion! Patrick, and therefore also Steed, does change slightly over the years. Something that actually adds a certain realism to a series that didn't generally seek that quality. Steed does visibly develop more than other characters in comparable shows.Rhonda wrote:Another thing we wondered, while watching both Hot Snow and The Frighteners, is that maybe Ian Hendry's relaxed acting style positively influenced Patrick Macnee's from a little later on.