Blake might be a dedicated freedom fighting, striving to overthrow a corrupt system, but he still can't draw for toffee.
His attempt in 'Duel' (also known as 'Oval' if you read the 'DWB' guide to 'Blakes 7' viewing figures) to draw a tactical diagram of the relative positions of the Liberator and Travis' 'pershoot' (sic) ships actually ends up looking like the winking face of a clown.
But this is the only one done by Douglas Camfield, and we must applaud his attempts to make the whole thing visually interesting, even if the circular multi-coloured thing used when Blake's chopper appears does seem to later turn up in 'Chockablock'.
As usual, we had great fun with our weekly dose of 'Blake' and our YouTube video has a couple of quotes that we feel are worth preserving, if only for their slight air of oddness.
Meanwhile, at Grace Brothers, we were so concerned with where Miss Brahms got her Bugs Bunny-style carrot from in the end credits that we totally failed to mention the director credit for Bob Spiers.
How much Mister Humphries based his director persona on Bob is debatable, but he seems to work quite well with his cameraman, even if the whole thing is a bit of a shambles with Mister Grainger having difficulties in his trouser region.
The Spike Milligan advert that Young Mister Grace talks about where he (Spike, that is, not Young Mister Grace!) jumps through the bottom of a boat is a commercial for Benson & Hedges and also features Peter Sellers. You'll find it in the YouTube place, as we did.
So farewell then, Mister Grainger, you will very much be missed. We will raise a cocktail shaker in your honour!
Now, who's this Mister Tebbs we've heard about, then? We wonder what sort of cakes he likes?
Our video about 'Duel' can be seen here.
Our video about 'It Pays To Advertise' can be seen here.
(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)
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