Blott

[tikay]

For those that can get the very good "London Live" TV Channel (Ch 117), on Friday evening, they are starting the 6 part repeat of the TV Series "Blott on the Landscape".

Not sure I appreciated this first time round, but it's superbly acted & extremely funny.

Well worth a watch, if only to see George Cole again, at his best, & David Suchet.

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[Sheriff Fatman]

Brilliant series, and one of my favourite Tom Sharpe books. 

Geraldine James is brilliant as Lady Maud, as is the late Simon Cadell as the hapless Mr Dundridge.

Porterhouse Blue was another fantastic adaptation of a Tom Sharpe novel, with David Jason playing the college porter, Skullion.

It's just a pity that his funniest book, Wilt, was turned into an absolute turd of a movie.

[TightEnd]

very funny books indeed

i too like Wilt best of all.

never saw the TV adaptations. late 80s originally?

[tikay]

Brilliant series, and one of my favourite Tom Sharpe books. 

Geraldine James is brilliant as Lady Maud, as is the late Simon Cadell as the hapless Mr Dundridge.

Porterhouse Blue was another fantastic adaptation of a Tom Sharpe novel, with David Jason playing the college porter, Skullion.

It's just a pity that his funniest book, Wilt, was turned into an absolute turd of a movie.

I loved the TV "Porterhouse Blue", David Jason's finest work, imo.

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[tikay]

very funny books indeed

i too like Wilt best of all.

never saw the TV adaptations. late 80s originally?

BotL was 1985.

Books don't always trasnsfer well to screen (see Papillon etc), but I had not read the book, & for me, the TV series was superb.

[Sheriff Fatman]

very funny books indeed

i too like Wilt best of all.

never saw the TV adaptations. late 80s originally?

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Mid to late 80s from memory.  Blott was done first, then Porterhouse Blue.

The Wilt movie should have been funny, with Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones and Alison Steadman in the main roles but it completely failed to translate everything that was so funny in the book, in particular the interrogations between Wilt and Inspector Flint.  It's one of my all-time biggest disappointments as a book to film conversion and, let's face it, there's a huge amount of competition in that field.

[Karabiner]

Loved the books never seen any of the TV adaptations.

Which was the one set in South Africa with the hapless Corporal Els?

[Doobs]

Porterhouse Blue was a far more memorable series for me and I am sure I watched both.  Loved the books when I first started reading them, but I think they got a bit samey when you had read a few of them.

[Sheriff Fatman]

Loved the books never seen any of the TV adaptations.

Which was the one set in South Africa with the hapless Corporal Els?

Think that was Riotous Assembly.

Tom Sharpe only died relatively recently (last couple of years) and was still writing books into an old age (including a sequel to Porterhouse Blue called Grantchester Grind).  The later books had lost some of the magic but he's undoubtedly one of my favourite authors (provided you enjoy his particular brand of farce).

[atdc21]

Was thinking of this prog last week, thought it was 'different' in its day.
 Didnt he say something along the lines of - its the whassname blah blah baaboom ? as  a sort of catchphrase?

[taximan007]

Misread. 

Thought Bolt was back 😏

[booder]

I miss Bolt.

[tikay]

9pm tonight, Channel 117, London Live.

[Nakor]

I miss Bolt.