![]() ![]() So was a sex pest masquerading as a doctor. A looter ("Is it because I's black?") was arrested. TV crews and photographers got the customary hard time from the cops ("You'd think they'd have more respect!"), which is a bit steep since the police were shown clustering round supersized TV screens at every possible opportunity, to find out what was happening. "Mayday! Mayday!" yelled the sergeant, all too appositely. ![]() The Bill (ITV1) staged one of its big set-pieces, with two bombs in a street market and an encouraging turn out of ambulances and fire engines. It was hard to get away from crime last night. Current thinking is that it is better to lie down, ideally on top of your fattest fellow passenger. This is, in every sense, a hit-or-miss affair. While we are on the subject, there is a theory that you should jump up and down in a plummeting lift in the hope that you will be hovering in mid air when it hits bottom. Fraser successfully appealed to his better nature. ") and ended with DC Stuart Fraser alone in a lift with the murderer at the controls, dropping and stopping it in torturing jerks. A Study in Murder started with a college principal being crushed in a lift shaft ("Help! Hel. ( Stuart Hepburn, being the writer, also got to play the corpse.) Taggart has always thrived on ingrained, superstitious, primitive terrors, deep rooted as neeps, and most people believe lifts are out to get us. The ageing Taggart (ITV1), which has been kept alive with vitamin B injections into the buttocks, bucked up with a shivery tale about lifts. You don't wanna see that." Actually, yes, I wouldn't mind. "I'm the hardest man you've ever met in your life. There were spectral overtones of Minder and suddenly he mutated exhilaratingly into Terry McCann and flattened the baddies. Dangerously late, it cheered up considerably with the appearance of Dean Lennox Kelly ("I was the man behind the Rotherham 7. Presumably they were filming out of season. Looking on the bright side, Portaferry, standing in for Devon, is particularly pretty if, quite obviously, perishing. I was only a child but even I could see Caesar didn't look a good bet for the Cesarewitch. I thought they would make me pay for him and I only got sixpence a week. One day Caesar just lay down and, with an infinitely weary and, I thought, over-operatic sigh, died. I used to go riding on a horse called Caesar. You would be looking at a dead horse for some time before you thought you were on to a winner. Where was Mrs Ivory when we needed her? Did no one in the seasoned cast have a queasy feeling about the script? Or notice the absence of jokes in a comedy caper? Next time you are in a pub, try to get a laugh with: "Port and brandy - nature's amoxicillin!" Try even to say it. ![]() For the most heartwarming reasons, naturally. They move into sheltered accommodation and pick up their old trade. Apparently Jenny Agutter, playing 'er indoors, missed Marks & Spencer. Safecracker Maurice ( Anthony Head) and getaway driver Syd ( Warren Clarke), known as The Invisibles in their heyday, come back from Spain. I'm going to call them Daleks." She said, "Drink your tea while it's hot." Every writer needs a Mrs Nation, now and then, to pour hot tea on their bright ideas.) What if they were trying to make a comeback as crooks? ( Terry Nation, who wrote Doctor Who, told me that he called his wife and said, "I've had this brilliant idea for some baddies. Then writer William Ivory had this hilarious idea. There was some interest in developing The Invisibles for TV from BBC Scotland years ago, but nothing ever came of it.The Invisibles (BBC1) was originally a series about elderly people trying to get back in the swim. The Invisibles launched on Vertigo back in 1994, and follows a cell of ‘The Invisible College’, a secret group that battles oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and good old fashioned ultraviolence, which ticks a lot of boxes on our list of things we want in a TV show. The comic is set in 2020, which’ll make the new TV project pretty damn timely, as we’re unlikely to see it premiere until then. Morrison is currently a producer on Happy! for UCP, based on his own book with Darick Robertson, and he’s made quite the success of it, which means The Invisibles could finally materialize on the small screen. ![]() Comics legend Grant Morrison has inked a big deal with Universel Cable Productions this week to develop new content for the studio, according to Variety, and part of that deal includes bringing his iconic and subversive comic The Invisibles to TV. ![]()
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