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I know some of you enjoy a series. I have just seen a report on one which is starting on BBC One and starring Michael Palin (probably why our local media are covering it).

 


Series starts: Sunday 23 November | 9.00pm-10.00pm | BBC ONE | 3 Parts


 

Synopsis

 

At the age of ‘eighty-odd’, Tom Parfitt (Michael Palin) sits alone in his terraced house in the otherwise entirely Asian community of a small Yorkshire town, and remembers a strange drowned figure washed up on a beach.

Tom carefully fakes a fall to trick social worker Alison Denning (Rebekah Staton) into taking him into residential care. Roshana Salim (Mina Anwar), his friend and neighbour, is upset to see Tom leave, especially when he insists she must never visit.

 

At the old people’s home, Tom meets 18 year-old care assistant Hannah Ward (Jodie Comer) and they like each other immediately. Hannah is puzzled to discover he’s brought nothing with him but an empty suitcase.

Social worker Alison visits Tom alone in his room to present a framed photograph of himself as a little boy, which she has brought from his old house to help him feel at home.

 

Mysterious noises bring Hannah running to find that Alison has fallen from Tom’s third floor window. In what looks like a shocking accident, the entire window frame has broken free from the wall. Hannah finds Tom cowering in the corner of the room, claiming: “There’s something missing, and I can’t find it.”

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Originally Posted by Baz:

Ooo I like the sound of that ...and I really like Michael Palin

So do I, but I am notoriously poor at sticking with a series, I tend to watch one or two then forget the rest.  

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:

I saw that and I've got it set to record.. but it might be a bit scary for me  

Ahhh....don't be such a pooftah!      

I'm seriously rubbish.. I love the sound of things then watch till the first 'jumpy' moment and switch off!

Kaffs
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

Thanks El, I'm going to record it.

I suspect you were going for EC as opposed to El  

 Your suspicions are correct.

Yogi19
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:

I saw that and I've got it set to record.. but it might be a bit scary for me  

Ahhh....don't be such a pooftah!      

I'm seriously rubbish.. I love the sound of things then watch till the first 'jumpy' moment and switch off!

  

Me too... Reckon I'll give it a watch though... from behind the sofa 

 

FM
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

Thanks El, I'm going to record it.

I suspect you were going for EC as opposed to El  

 Your suspicions are correct.

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities
Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan:

Cor..!  That reads good and I like Michael Palin a lot.  It'll freak me out but I'll give it a go....unless I'm home alone 

You're a pooftah and all!   I'm watching it alone. With the lights out.

FM
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan:

Cor..!  That reads good and I like Michael Palin a lot.  It'll freak me out but I'll give it a go....unless I'm home alone 

You're a pooftah and all!   I'm watching it alone. With the lights out.

 

I am..!    A softy suvvern jessie in fact, whilst you're obviously an outright masochist.

Cosmopolitan
Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan:

Cor..!  That reads good and I like Michael Palin a lot.  It'll freak me out but I'll give it a go....unless I'm home alone 

You're a pooftah and all!   I'm watching it alone. With the lights out.

 

I am..!    A softy suvvern jessie in fact, whilst you're obviously an outright masochist.

  I am, I am 

FM
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:

I saw that and I've got it set to record.. but it might be a bit scary for me  

Ahhh....don't be such a pooftah!      

Norty Rosie .. you need a smacked botty.. 

 

aren't we trying to teach the newer generation that using words like that as a piss take or in a defamatory way is not on anymore

Mount Olympus *Olly*
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:

I saw that and I've got it set to record.. but it might be a bit scary for me  

Ahhh....don't be such a pooftah!      

Norty Rosie .. you need a smacked botty.. 

 

aren't we trying to teach the newer generation that using words like that as a piss take or in a defamatory way is not on anymore

  Oooh! Is it? 

 

How about "big girls blouse"? Or it that secksist 

FM
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:

I saw that and I've got it set to record.. but it might be a bit scary for me  

Ahhh....don't be such a pooftah!      

Norty Rosie .. you need a smacked botty.. 

 

aren't we trying to teach the newer generation that using words like that as a piss take or in a defamatory way is not on anymore

  Oooh! Is it? 

 

How about "big girls blouse"? Or it that secksist 

 Probably. I wouldn't worry about it though.

Yogi19
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan:

Cor..!  That reads good and I like Michael Palin a lot.  It'll freak me out but I'll give it a go....unless I'm home alone 

You're a pooftah and all!   I'm watching it alone. With the lights out.

Hubby's in the house, but I'll be watching by myself. He'll be elsewhere in the house doing his own bits and pieces.

Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:

Reminder.

 Watching the jungle, so recording it.

I'm gonna watch it then catch the last half hour of the jungle Yogi  Can always read the fred to see what I missed!

FM
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:

Reminder.

 Watching the jungle, so recording it.

I'm gonna watch it then catch the last half hour of the jungle Yogi  Can always read the fred to see what I missed!

I'll keep you a seat.

Yogi19
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:

Reminder.

 Watching the jungle, so recording it.

I'm gonna watch it then catch the last half hour of the jungle Yogi  Can always read the fred to see what I missed!

I'll keep you a seat.

   Fankoo

FM
I can't take this sort of material seriously but since the Boss insisted we watch it, I sat down with an open mind. Very well filmed and acted! I'm quite happy to watch the rest of it. Filmed in Happy Valley by the look of it too.
Garage Joe

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