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captainsblogMaybe I HAVE found something to supplement the Doctor off-season.
I spent several minutes this morning, following the morning feeding, cleaning up after Zoey's latest installation in our living and dining rooms. A repast of her Celebrated Yarn Period, this one took a small ball of white yarn and turned it into an infinite number of polygons, wrapped round every chair and table leg and several other sharp corners.
The mind is a terrible thing, and throughout this exercise, I found myself remembering another piece of ancient BBC-ery: Ripping Yarns.
PBS carried it in the late 70s, as part of the All Things Now or Partially Python craze post-Holy Grail, and there's only one of them I remember. One sounding particularly timely here at the end of this World Cup business. Its official title is "Golden Gordon," but the one remaining burned brain cell atop me remembered it by this one word:
Barnstoneworth.
Barnstoneworth United is a small football club, once playing in the top leagues, now losing every game. One of their fans, Gordon Ottershaw (Palin), who has named his son Barnstoneworth United (John Berlyne), comes home after every lost match and smashes the furniture in fury. His wife Eileen (Gwen Taylor) quietly accepts this. She keeps trying to tell him that she’s having a baby, but he seems not to notice. After an 8-1 defeat by an elderly team ("Eight One - Eight bloody One! - And even that were an own goal!" David leland), it is decided that the club be sold to a scrap dealer. The upcoming match against Denley Moor (the scene of The Testing of Eric Olthwaite) will therefore be the last. Gordon visits the owner, Mr. Foggen (Bill Fraser), and tries to persuade him to keep the club alive. Foggen refuses. But Gordon has another idea. He starts visiting the players from the great 1922 team, reassembling them for the last match. The day of the match it looks bad for Barnstoneworth. They have only four players (and three pairs of shorts), whereas the captain of the Denley Moor team is the famous Eric Olthwaite. At the last minute, Gordon arrives with the old team, who defeat Denley Moor. Gordon arrives home and the family smashes the furniture together in happiness. (John Cleese makes a brief cameo as a passer-by in the street, who peers at Eileen after she shouts to her husband.) The inspiration is Huddersfield Town F.C.'s decline in the late 1970s, while Ripping Yarns was being filmed.
So now there can be only one question: who's got it?
Answer: Netflix. Streaming, even. (No disks, though.)
Library, sortof. A VHS copy, Central location, availability unknown.
Even so. This could bestreamingly excellent.
ETA.Well, bite me. They only have the first disk of episodes available to stream:P I shall need to settle for one of the earlier ones.
I spent several minutes this morning, following the morning feeding, cleaning up after Zoey's latest installation in our living and dining rooms. A repast of her Celebrated Yarn Period, this one took a small ball of white yarn and turned it into an infinite number of polygons, wrapped round every chair and table leg and several other sharp corners.
The mind is a terrible thing, and throughout this exercise, I found myself remembering another piece of ancient BBC-ery: Ripping Yarns.
PBS carried it in the late 70s, as part of the All Things Now or Partially Python craze post-Holy Grail, and there's only one of them I remember. One sounding particularly timely here at the end of this World Cup business. Its official title is "Golden Gordon," but the one remaining burned brain cell atop me remembered it by this one word:
Barnstoneworth.
Barnstoneworth United is a small football club, once playing in the top leagues, now losing every game. One of their fans, Gordon Ottershaw (Palin), who has named his son Barnstoneworth United (John Berlyne), comes home after every lost match and smashes the furniture in fury. His wife Eileen (Gwen Taylor) quietly accepts this. She keeps trying to tell him that she’s having a baby, but he seems not to notice. After an 8-1 defeat by an elderly team ("Eight One - Eight bloody One! - And even that were an own goal!" David leland), it is decided that the club be sold to a scrap dealer. The upcoming match against Denley Moor (the scene of The Testing of Eric Olthwaite) will therefore be the last. Gordon visits the owner, Mr. Foggen (Bill Fraser), and tries to persuade him to keep the club alive. Foggen refuses. But Gordon has another idea. He starts visiting the players from the great 1922 team, reassembling them for the last match. The day of the match it looks bad for Barnstoneworth. They have only four players (and three pairs of shorts), whereas the captain of the Denley Moor team is the famous Eric Olthwaite. At the last minute, Gordon arrives with the old team, who defeat Denley Moor. Gordon arrives home and the family smashes the furniture together in happiness. (John Cleese makes a brief cameo as a passer-by in the street, who peers at Eileen after she shouts to her husband.) The inspiration is Huddersfield Town F.C.'s decline in the late 1970s, while Ripping Yarns was being filmed.
So now there can be only one question: who's got it?
Answer: Netflix. Streaming, even. (No disks, though.)
Library, sortof. A VHS copy, Central location, availability unknown.
Even so. This could be
ETA.Well, bite me. They only have the first disk of episodes available to stream:P I shall need to settle for one of the earlier ones.