Forgotten brit-fi FTW!

[pontisbright]

KNIGHTS OF GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!



Why yes, that is BLAKE AND TWO. HANGING OUT. IN WALES. MY CAPSLOCK IS ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED.  Bonus Trout in comments for the unbelievers!

How the hell did I never see this at the time? 1987, ITV, crazypants Nazis from 'Anglia' in black helicopters trying to defeat the citizens of 'the north' while being harassed by Welsh rebels. (CASTING GARETH THOMAS AS A WELSH GUNRUNNING REBEL? CRIVENS!) There are 13 episodes and I've only seen one, but we've already had:

• awesome credits with a burning Union flag and some marching jackboots
• Julian Fellowes (with hair!)
• a youthful Welsh hero called Gervase, who is now pretending to be called Llewellyn Ap Griffiths to prove how completely and entirely Welsh and heroic he is
• a quarry
• the only kid in the entire story getting killed off, despite this being kids' telly
• Paul 'The Castellan' Jerrico
• Nigel 'old bloke in loads of things including Time-Flight' Stock
• the immortal line 'You will go to Caernarfon when I tell you and not before!'
• BLAKE AND THE TROUT OMG

They're being v careful not to make it into anti-English nationalist propaganda, though.  Apart from the big where a chapel full of Welsh rebels who've been commanded by the Knights of God to bow before the nation of Anglia all stand up and sing 'Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau' instead, before being herded into trucks to take them to the 're-education' camps.  I've simply no idea what they were getting at there.

Has anyone else seen this wondrous thing?  I'd never even heard of it till kind friend sent me a dodgy tv rip. I foresee many happy hours of not going to Caernarfon in my future.

Comments

[taleya.livejournal.com]

O.O

I'm torn between wanting to see it and running shrieking in terror because OH MY FUCKING LORD the Trout looks like my father there. Especially the buggy eyes if he's had to hit the asthma medication hard. Uncannily so.

So much so that my first reaction on seeing it was "wtf? Dad?"

*traumatised*

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

Tee hee, your Dad is talking to Blake and impersonating the Mighty Trout. Truly the world has fallen off its axis.

My mate says it gets really dull and slow, but possibly he doesn't watch quite as much 80s telly as me. Or get so excited about being able to shout 'the Castellan!' and the like. I might try and up the first one somewhere if people are interested, though.