The Stone Tape

It's always nice to get out of the house of course, but the number of venues willing to welcome The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour grows vanishingly small (imagine being barred from a bottle-bank). Luckily, Simon and Ken of The ExtonMoss Experiment are always ready to share their convivial hospitality, on the condition that the gin is mixed only with some archive television that'll make your teeth curl.

On offer tonight is a thorough cultural appraisal of Nigel Kneale's 1972 exploration of memorical masonry, The Stone Tape . Although naturally, a piece of seminal televisual eeriness whose cultural footprint is still felt to this day doesn't mean that Doctor Velvet and Blackout are going to take it that seriously...

When will The Science™ progress beyond middle-aged men yelling at each other and drinking in a room full of wires? When can our brave televisual analysers stop trying to tie in macabre literary references and get back to discussing The Slacks? When does the screaming stop?

Get somebody to use four rolls of paper printing out the hand-typed program used to press Play, and find out...

The ExtonMoss Experiment · Episode 166: The Stone Tape

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: The Stone Tape
Broadcast: Tue 02 October 1973, 21:00
Production/Channel: BBC Two
Writer: Nigel Kneale
Music: Desmond Briscoe
Producer/Director: Innes Lloyd, Peter Sasdy
Starring: Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Bates, Reginald Marsh, James Cosmo, Christopher Banks

Of note, this week...



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Dramarama / Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World

Fear (fee~r)
noun

1. a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.

2. a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling.

The demarcation of the aforementioned is the selected substratum for this week’s episode as Doctor Velvet and Blackout self-immerse and wallow in an ambience of foreboding and trepidation. The tentative steps begin amidst the bleak and exposed tableau of Romney Marsh following the supposedly-innocent day of schoolboy Peter in Dramarama’s ‘Snap’ before adopting a more global and ambulatory line of enquiry, throwing them headlong into the incongruous and skeptical climate of Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World.

Are we being watched? What is the socially accepted sine qua non for a 'too-wet mouth’? Could a Smogule™, worn with sky-blue slacks, become the sartorial de rigueur for Summer? Grab a polaroid camera, a crystal Mitchell-Hedges skull and stride on to find out…

To note...

Ref the attire of young Peter vs that of David Dunn in Unbreakable, are we imagining this?



And ref the lineage of one Harrington HIll, we wish we were imagining this...




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