1.14 - The Springers

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Yes I can hear Ian Hendry saying those words. I love the biro'd insertions! Whose script is that? I wish we had Pat's or Ian's rehearsal scripts to see what their first-day reworkings looked like.

The stuff with the criminals having to behave themselves around the super-enthusiastic schoolgirl was quite funny.
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It's Barbara Forster's copy of the camera script - Barabara was the Production Assistant for the episode.
There's a script for "Please Don't Feed the Animals" which has Pitman shorthand lines added, some of which are a bit ... opaque.

I'm vaguely contemplating uploading all the scripts I have that are not yet linked on my site but I'm not sure how that would go copyright-wise. They were offered as a free download because they forgot to put them on the Tunnel of Fear DVD but I don't know who "owns" them.

Those I have linked were offered to me privately before they were offered to Studio Canal.

I agree with you about the schoolgirl scenes, it must have been a great episode to watch. I've come to realise that despite the reputation for being hard-boiled thrillers in series 1, there is a great deal of tongue in cheek dialogue and comic relief in many episodes. Norman Chappell turns up several times just to play the comic relief. Great stuff!

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Well it must be pretty good, because when I saw the Tele-Snap reconstruction and listened to the audio it was exactly how I imagined from reading the synopsis earlier.

I own the Tunnel of Fear DVD. I totally forgot it was meant to have scripts on it. Probably just as well, otherwise I'd have to experience each episode 5 times in one night - synopsis, book, reconstruction, script, and audio.
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