Robin of Sherwood (the inferior sort)

[lesbiassparrow]

I have moved onto Robin of Sherwood: the Connery bits. I don't dislike it as much as I used to because a) well, the Merry Men and Marian are still amazing and b) Connery's commentary and interviews are HILARIOUS.

Also! The first two episodes with Owen of Clune and Richard O'Brien as a mad sorcerer are to be cherished for their impressive amount of over-acting. Now the Merry Men are off to see if Mad Peg can cure Robin's wounds. When your choice of medic has 'mad' in their name it is never a good sign for the state of medicine.

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[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Hey, some of us don't have the DVDs. Tell us more of the hilarity!!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of 'Praed/Connery almost died here due to drowning or being actually whacked over the head' and 'here's where we nearly burned down the castle because we used heavy lighting and plastic cladding in close combination. Maybe on reflection we shouldn't have done that' and 'We didn't tell them the nuns would be Satan worshippers so they let us use the cathedral for filming.'

The best one is where a guest star sympathetically said to Richard O'Brien after learning he'd been in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, 'Well we all do stuff we're embarassed about afterwards! But you've got to pay the bills.' Without knowing he'd written the thing....

ETA: Plus endless stuff about weather and huddling in the rains. And bits about 'we may have looked like we were having fun but I nearly got hypothermia from the water.' And you get to hear a lot about trousers splitting as they ran through the woods.

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Heeeee! Excellent, excellent. Yeah, I remember hearing one thing about how they once almost strangled a bunch of their extras when they realized their fake chainmail would constrict once wet...

It just generally seems like making tv might've been more fun back then, doesn't it?