MM 14th scariest prog in UK

[voidprime]

Their list is fragged. No way is Twin Peaks and Stephen King's IT scaier than Millennium and some of the other choices higher on the list aren't scarier than Millennium! Also this is the Sun we're talking about.

Be Seeing You,

David Blackwell

[Guest WaveCrest]

They mentioned Radio Times' scariest TV poll on the radio station I listen to regularly earlier this week, and asked listeners to put forward their choices for the scariest TV shows ever. I thought of three which I think are scary, the first two more than the last:

Millennium (you've got to mention that being as we talk about it here!)

The X Files

& Twin Peaks.

[Guest LauraKrycek]

Sorry, but that mental image has me....

Hey! I'm dead serious! *YOU* go see the play and see how much you like it when you're still lying awake months later!

It made it doubly worse b\c we followed it with an evening showing of the Japanese film "Dark Water", though... *scariest movie ever*. Believe me. Until they make the remake with Jennifer Connelly, though... ::grumble grumble grumble::

[Libby]

There's another set advertised on the same catalog page, "The Protectors" season one, 26 episodes.  Says it stars the other "man from UNCLE" Robert Vaughn.  The details of the basic plot are sketchy but this appears to be a spy/action series.  Is that right?

Sorry to get off the main thread but there doesn't seem to be a need to start a new one.  

The Protectors ran during 1972 and 1973. imdb says there were 52 half-hour episodes. Here's a fan summary:

"The Protectors were Harry Rule, the Contessa di Contini and Paul Buchet, three freelance troubleshooters who ran an international crime fighting agency. Based in London, Harry was the leader of the group. The Contessa lived in Italy and, when she wasn't working with Harry, ran her own detective agency that specialized in exposing art frauds and recovering stolen art. Paul Buchet worked out of Paris, and was the group's researcher and gadget specialist. Their adventures ranged from simple kidnaping to convoluted cases of international intrigue. Since the episodes were only half-an-hour long, the show's forte was face-paced but straightforward action."

I do recall watching this one. I'd rate Sapphire and Steel much higher than this series, but it was entertaining in it's own way. Pretty outdated now, though.

If anyone watched the BBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy's "The Forsyte Saga" then they'd recognise Nyree Dawn Porter, who plays the Contessa in "The Protectors". In "The Forsyte Saga" she played Irene, first wife of the nasty Soames Forsyte.

As for getting off the main thread - well, I can see that you've already figured out that, as you say, there doesn't seem to be a need to start a new one. One of the many good things about this board is that conversations can strike off in all directions without anyone being too bothered by that until it goes sooooo far off-topic that one of the Elders reins it in or moves it somewhere where other people can find it more easily.

(Actually, that pretty much sums up what MM fans are like - we aren't straight-line thinkers.) :grin2:

[Guest amnesic]

Their list is fragged.  No way is Twin Peaks and Stephen King's IT scaier than Millennium and some of the other choices higher on the list aren't scarier than Millennium!    Also this is the Sun we're talking about.

Be Seeing You,

David Blackwell

it wasn't a Sun poll it was a Radio Times poll. Don't know how many people voted but we are a tleast talking about a different TV watching population here!

[Guest se7en]

Hey! I'm dead serious! *YOU* go see the play and see how much you like it when you're still lying awake months later!

It made it doubly worse b\c we followed it with an evening showing of the Japanese film "Dark Water", though... *scariest movie ever*. Believe me. Until they make the remake with Jennifer Connelly, though... ::grumble grumble grumble::

....okay,Laura,since i've now upgraded my NETFLIX accout to "5-OUT AT A TIME",what "is" this movie about? i keep hearing about it. could you provide a premise so i can decide whether to put it in my online dvd-rental gueue?

***PLEEEEEEEASE***

~thanks,

se7en

[Guest JRC]

Their list is fragged.  No way is Twin Peaks and Stephen King's IT scaier than Millennium and some of the other choices higher on the list aren't scarier than Millennium!    Also this is the Sun we're talking about.

Be Seeing You,

David Blackwell

Oh, I have to rate the final episode of Twin Peaks as one of, if not the, most disturbing, scariest things that I've ever seen. It ruled. So I'd agree with it being placed so highly.

Sapphire and Steel, though?! It was eerie, granted, but it didn't scare me back then, and I scared a lot easier in those days...

[Guest JRC]

3 Ghost***ch (1992) - spoof BBC documentary.

Oooh! Missed this, before... we have a tie! The OTHER scariest most disturbing thing ever. (Despite some bad acting).

[Guest LauraKrycek]

....okay,Laura,since i've now upgraded my NETFLIX  accout to "5-OUT AT A TIME",what "is" this movie about? i keep hearing about it.  could you provide a premise so i can decide whether to put it in my online dvd-rental gueue?

                              ***PLEEEEEEEASE***

                                                        ~thanks,

                                                                    se7en

Well, this couple is getting divorced, and they have a daughter of about 5 or 6 years old. The mother is trying desperately to keep custody of the daughter. They move into an old apartment building, because it's cheap and has bedrooms for them both. The ceiling above the mom's bed is leaky, despite the fact that they aren't on the top floor. And the mother keeps seeing this strange little girl dressed in a yellow raincoat. And feeling a very menacing presence...

Ah man, I'm freaked out now in the middle of the day just from thinking about it. It's unfortunate about the US remake... and Jennifer Connelly was only cool in "Labyrinth" and "The Rocketeer". I'll probably see it anyway, though, sometime when I can see it cheap.

Edited April 24, 2004 by LauraKrycek

[voidprime]

Maybe some of us need to get some cool movies for Laura for next Christmas to further her movie watching experience.

Be Seeing You,

David Blackwell