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mariocki · 4 years ago

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Out of the Unknown: Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? (1.6, BBC, 1965)

"I think I'd plump for science, if I had a choice. Then I could invent things, and be really sure of what I'm doing instead of guessing all the time. I'd direct all my intelligence towards plants and flowers, and concentrate until I made everybody else think about them the same as I do."

"You mean you'd like everybody to be kind to flowers?"

"Yes."

"You're a very unselfish man, Mr. Wilkes."

#Out of the Unknown #Come Buttercup come daisy come......?#Mike Watts #Single play #Classic TV #1965 #Paddy Russell #Milo O'Shea #Christine Hargreaves #Patsy Rowlands #Desmond Jordan #Eric Thompson #Bernard Kay #Alan Haywood #Ann Lancaster #Julie May #Nigel Lambert #Jack Wild #I wouldn't be the (insufferable) person I am if I didn't clarify that most sources give only three ellipsis in the title (inc. The BFI sets #But the onscreen title looks to have 5 or 6. So. Now that that's cleared up... (.......). This is a very unusual one; very different to all #The episodes we've had so far. This feels more like one of the weirder Armchair Theatres (actually there is an AT ep about killer plants #But I can't for the life of me remember the title). A potty little story of an amateur gardener with an experimental streak whose floral #Creations are maybe as malevolent as they are impressive. It's silly and slight but fun enough and there's a great cast to hold interest.#Notably several of the cast were better known as comic actors at the time (in particular O'Shea and Rowlands) but it's lovely to see some #Old favourites like Bernard Kay and (a few years before his career defining role as the presenter of thrill filled Road Safety) the lovely #Eric Thompson as local chemist and supplier of some of O'Shea's more questionable plant foods. For all its silliness this has a dark streak #And ends with some puzzling details unresolved and the future disturbingly uncertain... Still I think I'll be happy to go back to space #And aliens and more proper Sci fi for a while...

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