#Michael Hayes

[pulpsandcomics2]

Guardian

[rawsmackdownnxtdivas]

Rhea Ripley like you've never seen before (Part 6)

[womeninfictionandirl]

Arya Stark by Michael Hayes

[wrestlingarsenal]

Before there were wrestle-porn video sites, before YouTube, before even VCRs existed, we had Wrestling Magazines.

Like most perverts who were horny for wrestling in the 1970's and 80's, I'd find my way to the nearest magazine aisle at least a few times per month, keeping an eye out that nobody was watching me and nobody I knew was in the store. Then I'd casually select a wrestling mag and indulge my guiltiest and most stimulating pleasure: checking out the male physiques on display in sleazy, violent wrestling action.

My heart would be pounding, my eyes popping out of my head, my cock like a railroad spike, I'd flip through page after page of big burly men proudly displaying their naked chests and glorious backs and stomachs, clad only in spandex trunks and boots and sexy masks, flexing and sweating and bleeding, fighting for dominance, punishing their competition, suffering in sublime ecstasy. I'd be swooning, I'd be panting, the pleasure centers of my brain an electrical storm.

Once in a while, I'd muster up the courage to actually buy an issue for a few bucks and spend hours devouring it in my bedroom. But usually, I'd just peruse the stunning photos in jaw-dropping awe at the store, too intimidated to face the cashier's judgmental gaze. What if she knows my mother? What if she gets on the loud-speaker or something: "Hey Jimmy! Register 3 needs a price-check on the jerk-off magazine this queer kid is buying!" I would die if she even looked me in the eye while the magazine was face-up on the counter.

[rubyloops]

when he’s a pretty blue eyed attorney..

(Peter Outerbridge as John Manning in TV series Michael Hayes)

[blueonwrestling]

I have some other thoughts on cody rhodes tbh, and those delve deep into capitalism, hopefully without sounding like i'm utterly huffing farts, excuse me if i do, but i dont like cody rhodes because he comes off to me as everything thats wrong with modern day society, he is not the blue collar workings man champion, he isn't stone cold going against the authority, he is the authority, but people today absolutely love that shit, they love standing up for big corpo when they think it's on their side, he's the definition of american capitialism coming out there with the fake blonde hair, expensive suits, white teeth, all the pyro, everything, and he reflects how people just want to show off to the world that they're cool/wealthy/epic, with all the people showing their perfect life in instagram and how perfect they look instead of showing who they really are, cody rhodes is the modern day american dream in that everyone thinks that within american capitalism they can become the next famous instagram or tiktoker and have all this money, but they can't, cody rhodes is born into wrestling and was always going to get an easier life in wrestling because of it, cody rhodes has never ever had to struggle a day in his life, but people just still like the guy because they've been fooled into believing that, what does he do at the end of wrestlemania, he thanks triple h and bruce prichard, thank you corporate heads for giving me this chance, he has to make sure he thinks those two people because thank you for corporations!

meanwhile wwe is in the midst of being exposed as hiding all these sex trafficking secrets for years, vince mcmahon has been "ousted" after years of sexual assault and misconduct but not because of that, only because he used corporate money to silence those women, they dont care they he sexually assaulted countless women, it's because he used money not for him, and theres countless cases of wwe covering up shit whether it be the ring boy paedo scandal of the 80s with pat patterson or michael hayes saying that he's more of a n word with a hard r to mark henry only to now days being back at the tippity top of the producer scene working exclusively with roman reigns in all of his matches, these people just get away with it all because it's a reflection of society, if you're rich and powerful you can do whatever you want.

[demigodofhoolemere]

The commentary for 3x06 "Pig in the Middle" with Robert Hardy, Carol Drinkwater, and director Michael Hayes was so lovely. It's wonderful to hear them talk about the series and their memories, and especially to hear Robert's voice. Some of my personal highlights below.

1) Commenting on everybody going for the whiskey at some point in every single episode.

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2) When discussing bad weather during filming:

Michael: "Well, the great one for that, of course, is Terry Williams, and — I don't know if Terry Williams did any of All Creatures—"

Robert: "No."

Michael: "— but he got to be known as Wet Weather Williams; in fact—"

*Carol laughs*

Michael: "— I was filming in Yorkshire, I'm not sure if it was for this, but I was filming in Yorkshire, and it started to pour and pour and pour. And I said, ‘Gosh, Terry Williams must be filming around here,’ and by George—"

Carol, laughing: "He was?"

Michael: "— do you know, I found he'd been filming in the next dale."

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3) During a shot of Siegfried riding a horse:

Carol: "You're so elegant when you ride, Tim."

Robert, off-handedly: "Oh, yes."

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4) As they try to remember how things turned out with Siegfried and Margery:

Robert: "But what happened, how was it, uh, resolved?"

Carol: "You must have chucked her. She'd never have chucked you, darling."

The screen then happens to show a particularly lovely shot of Siegfried as if to illustrate the point that no one would choose to let him go, lol.

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5) Talking about Donald Sinclair and his first wife Evelyn and second wife Audrey:

Robert: "[…] Because Siegfried, the real one, had married, uh, a young wife, who died."

Carol: "Oh, did she?"

Robert: "Tragically, and very soon. And, uh, Donald was in a, in a fearful hole. And then he found Audrey, later, and they married—"

Carol: "Mmm."

Robert: "— and they were the most devoted couple that I have ever seen; they couldn’t cross a room without holding onto each other somewhere."

*Carol laughs sweetly at the adorableness*

Robert: "I mean, they were just so—"

Carol: “Romantic.”

Robert: "— totally, totally in love, and I knew them into their 80s."

Carol: "Yeah."

Robert: "And they were just the same!"

Carol: "And died within days of each other."

Robert: "And died within days of each other."

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6) Robert repeatedly shushing people when the ladies came onscreen:

Michael: *talking about how difficult it is to find period accurate cows*

Robert, suddenly: "Hush, hush, hush. Here comes Helen."

and later, shushing both of them when Mrs. Hall comes into the surgery tipsy

Robert: "Watch this, watch this."

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7) They all spend a good minute discussing Helen's very floral hat. Carol couldn't remember it at all.

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8) Pointing out Christie and then Robert saying that his current dog at the time is just like him.

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9) They all share their love for dear Mary Hignett. You can tell how loved she was by everybody who knew her.

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10) Apparently the cast would take turns deciding the menu of what food they were to have at the table each episode. Robert's go-to was apparently sausages and Carol remembers she repeatedly chose fish and they kept getting irritated with her for it because it would make the studio smell.

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11) Robert talks about his multiple names and how he came to settle on Robert to use for acting.

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12) Carol, while laughing the whole time: "I can remember being in that car with Chris once and the brakes went. We went hurtling down the hills, it was really scary! Especially because you know what Chris is, Chris was never the greatest driver, was he? He was always rather, hurtling to-and-fro."

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13) The woes of filming. They didn't realize the spot they were trying to shoot at on location was right by an artillery range and had to go figure out what all the sudden BANGs were about during their attempts to film.

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14) There was a lighting guy on the show who apparently wasn't very good at making sure everybody was properly lit and Robert was trying to remember who he was and called him "the prince of darkness" as a reference point for the others to know who he meant, as if that's a name they called him at the time!

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15) Robert flubbing Carol's name for her character's for a second:

Robert: "Well, as Helen was saying, I mean—"

Carol, initially agreeing: "Yes." (then a millisecond later after she's realized what he said, now trying not to laugh) "Carol."

Robert, laughing: "Carol! Whatever [unintelligible]."

~~~

16) Talking about the filming of the cricket episode in season 6:

Robert: "It was one of those extraordinarily hot days for England. It was a hot week. I mean, it was in the 90s, and I got fed up so I 'passed out'."

*Carol laughing*

Robert, also laughing: "And they summoned a doctor."

Carol, through laughter: "I never knew you to use that ploy before! Not in my day, you didn't use that!"

Robert, amused: "I would do anything sometimes to stop going on."

Carol, barely speaking through laughter: "I know."

Robert: "But, um, they called the doctor. And I said, 'It's very good of you to come; I don't think there's anything wrong, really.'"

Carol, in a giggle fit: "Except I want to go home!"

Robert, with a laugh: "Except I want to go home."

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This was great fun and I’m so miffed that there were only ever three episode commentaries recorded for the All Creatures DVD set. Truly a missed opportunity for more of Robert while he was still around and now I want them to do a rerelease with new commentaries on more episodes so we can hear lots more of everyone else while we still can.

[randomrichards]

WE WERE ONCE KIDS:

Friends in poverty

Star in controversial film

Then get left behind

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[wheredoisign]

[pulpsandcomics2]

Dejah Thoris

[rawsmackdownnxtdivas]

Isla Dawn & Michael Hayes 💋

[classicprowrestling]

Michael Hayes vs Mike Von Erich - 1984

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1979, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 4) and his companions arrived in Paris and stumbled upon a plan to steal the Mona Lisa. The plot thickened when the Doctor learned the Count Scarlioni, who attempted to steal the Mona Lisa, apparently had several other Mona Lisa’s. To make matters more complicated, Scarlioni appeared to have access to alien technology and working on Time Travel experiments. ("The City of Death", Doctor Who vlm 1, TV)

[littletroubledgrrrl]

Professional wrestlers that look like they could be father and son (or in Davey Boy Smith and Nikki Cross's case, father and daughter).

I put Sami Zayn under Daniel Bryan because both Daniel and Sami look like they could be the Berserker's sons!

[thesamoanqueen]

History making - RR2023