tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post4982449551969170564..comments2024-03-14T05:07:57.110-07:00Comments on Doc Oho Reviews...: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Stephen Wyatt and directed by Alan WareingDoc Ohohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-89383929705555460462021-05-12T03:19:14.032-07:002021-05-12T03:19:14.032-07:00Watching all in order. 4 to go after this. This is...Watching all in order. 4 to go after this. This is the best story since Revelation and Caves, really stands up for todays viewing, what a script, justifying any plaudits Paradise Towers was due and it was written for Mel as well. Ian Reddington would get a Bafta today. He is up there with THE best villain performances and deserves all the credit. I hope he knows it 32 years on. 6.6m viewers vs Coronation St. Unbelievable. The guest cast is great, TP McKenna and Jessica Martin, who is very hot. Great music at last, bin Keff please. Part 4 was in 1989. A real treat. Especially when it was nearly cancelled.Linx D Oderanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587578831858117637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-25330686628708727572018-03-13T21:20:03.219-07:002018-03-13T21:20:03.219-07:00This really is great stuff and I agree that it is ...This really is great stuff and I agree that it is right up McCoy's alley. "Menacing humor," as you say, is really the perfect note for him. I think that is why I like Paradise Towers and The Happiness Patrol so much, though this one is by far the best of the mold.David Pirtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636601389899125100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-64485925634974737122014-09-08T14:23:33.646-07:002014-09-08T14:23:33.646-07:00Ditto on the Bellboy's exit. Few things rankl...Ditto on the Bellboy's exit. Few things rankle me like a complacent sellout and it's gratifying to these loser gets destroyed and/or redeem themselves. The mime/clown is played with such panache. At first I thought it was mistake to have him to speak, but his Mark Hamill-style mood swings will chill your blood. "You won't use it, you know that. You're not STRONG ENOUGH!!' <br /><br />The fun thing about the McCoy episodes is that it's so painfully eighties and yet not afraid to mock pop culture of the time. 'Welcome folks / I mean that from the heart / 'cause the Greatest Show is about to start!' God give me strength...alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18287658017103606748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-53538926875732961262014-04-02T23:21:04.778-07:002014-04-02T23:21:04.778-07:00I'm rapping! I'm rapping! I'm rap-rap-...I'm rapping! I'm rapping! I'm rap-rap-rapping! Apart from that particular musical miscall, TGSITG stands up as well now, if not better, than it did back in 1988. It is probably one of the stories that the wildly different Doctor Who programme *ever* made - bar none. So my problem here is - why it didn't get a 10? The funny thing of course is that it is paced in order to build up to a conclusion over four weeks - I'm not sure that TV can do that these days.Carl Rnoreply@blogger.com