'Juliet Bravo' incoming

'Juliet Bravo' incoming

With the release of Episode 23 of 'Round The Archives' yesterday, it was no longer a secret that we're going to take a look at 'Juliet Bravo' in Episode 24.

This announcement has already caused a small flurry of interest and we've started a not-very-scientific poll on Twitter ('THE CHANGING FACE OF JULIET BRAVO') to see if people prefer the First Juliet Bravo (Stephanie Turner) over the Second Juliet Bravo (Anna Carteret).

For some, this has been an impossible choice, as they're splendid Ma'ams, both of 'em! This is clearly a series that is fondly remembered and it's been amusing and flattering to receive a number of pieces of artwork from Martin Holmes and Dominator Rago with 'Juliet Bravo' / 'Round The Archives' crossovers.

We always do a bit of digging on YouTube to look for bits of continuity or other odds and ends in case anything rare or interesting pops up. One thing that we could hardly ignore was the precise and perfect sketch done for 'Alexei Sayle's Stuff' which featured a fake episode ('Shock Tactics' by S.J. Price) which is abssolutely spot on in its camerawork and central performances.

This piece of genius may be seen here...

Although we'll be concentrating in the article on the episodes 'Shot Gun' (from 1980) and 'Teamwork' (from 1983) it never hurts to watch a few other ones if you've got the time, so this afternoon we bunged on 'The Intruder', from 1982.

We went for this one mainly because it features a certain Colin Baker as Frankie Miller, being generally dodgy and supping some good proper ale.

Sadly, the DVDs are pretty expensive, but the good news is that the UKTV Drama Channel are in the middle of a run (although the episodes are somewhat edited) and 'The Intruder' is scheduled for Thursday / Friday of this week.

So we won't go into the details of the plot here except to say that the episode starts off fairly low-key with two kids nicking from the local sweet shop, but builds to a robbery that involves the use of gelignite.

People might assume that 'Juliet Bravo' is a safe sort of show, not dealing with anything too nasty, but there's some dark stuff from the very first episode.

So, we're very much looking forward to covering this series as a follow-up to our article on 'The Gentle Touch'.

But we won't be doing any 'Juliet Bravo' cosplay any time soon, before anyone asks!

(By Andrew Trowbridge)

(With thanks to Dominator Rago and Martin Holmes)