tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492795376174847769.post658609437525343219..comments2024-03-18T02:30:23.360-05:00Comments on Ha ha, it's Burl!: Burl reviews Doomwatch! (1972)Burlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471864627412228340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492795376174847769.post-10099804533684566732016-02-02T10:52:12.727-06:002016-02-02T10:52:12.727-06:00And I would, if there were still newspapers around...And I would, if there were still newspapers around to edit!Burlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15471864627412228340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492795376174847769.post-46326016826557981232016-02-02T09:01:40.831-06:002016-02-02T09:01:40.831-06:00And the moral of the story is: Burl should edit mo...And the moral of the story is: Burl should edit more newspapers!THX 1139https://www.blogger.com/profile/07574901864533202054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492795376174847769.post-62724251633775401312016-02-02T08:07:28.146-06:002016-02-02T08:07:28.146-06:00The makeup is pretty elaborate, if not seen in gre...The makeup is pretty elaborate, if not seen in great detail! Ha ha, I used to be the editor of a small newspaper, and was once running an article about a famous film director friend of mine, but had no picture of him handy! So I used a photo of one of the more acromegalic islanders from Doomwatch and put in a caption explaining that the director had had a bad reaction to a bee sting! Ha ha!Burlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15471864627412228340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492795376174847769.post-64851632878636567502016-02-02T07:46:24.858-06:002016-02-02T07:46:24.858-06:00The TV series' most famous episode is called T...The TV series' most famous episode is called Tomorrow the Rat, only because of the scene where Doomwatch agents (including Robert Powell) are attacked by a bunch of superintelligent but noticeably not very animated rats, one of which Mr Powell whomps on the edge of a kitchen table. It's up there with Manuel's hamster on Fawlty Towers for 1970s British TV rat-based hilarity.<br /><br />Nothing as entertaining as that here, but it's not a bad "town with a guilty secret" type of thing. It looks like they spent the budget on the makeup design.THX 1139https://www.blogger.com/profile/07574901864533202054noreply@blogger.com