#bbc ghosts terry

[datsderbunnyblog]

MAT BAYNTON IS READING THE AUDIOBOOK FOR THE TRUTH??!!

[yonderghostshistories]

I wonder what would happen if the Pythons (John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam) were to travel forwards in time (by accident of course), end up in present day, only to then overhear some young Six Idiots fans talking out loud that the Six Idiots (Simon Farnaby, Ben Willbond, Jim Howick, Mathew Baynton, Laurence Rickard, Martha Howe-Douglas) are the "Monty Python of this generation", and the Pythons somehow misunderstand this as being that the Six Idiots have apparently replaced Monty Python lol, and so the Pythons go with the young fans to the BFI Southbank (where the Idiots usually do and are currently doing their Q&A sessions rn) in order to storm in and uhh confront their uhh, "replacements", and the Idiots are very baffled at the sight of it all and think "what the hell is happening???" but comply with the situation they're in.

Can someone please make fanfic about this concept idea please? Pl-Please?

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Monty Python members as the characters in "BBC Ghosts":

Graham- Captain (duh)

John- Julian

Terry- Robin

Eric- Thomas

Jonesy- Fanny

Michael- Pat

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

[pers-books]

Hey BBC Ghosts fans, did ya know, your man Mat Baynton is narrating the new audiobook of Terry Pratchett’s The Truth, aided and abetted by Bill Nighy and Peter Serafinowicz?

[toetapterry]

[lttleghostlemon]

Putting in my two cents for anyone who follows me, and in the future will see my posts. On the topic of fandom such as Coraline or Good Omens, I am going to continue enjoying them. I already own the books of both, and also dvds of both, so I won’t be giving him money by watching either. Both of these pieces of media are a huge part of myself that I cannot simply do away with. However, I can do away with the creator. In this situation it’s a “guilty until proven innocent” thing. Not the other way around. 

I’ve loved the Coraline movie before I even knew who Neil was. I am not going to throw it out because yes, I would be throwing out NG, but also the 500 people, who spent 4 years of their life working on the beautiful stop motion within the movie. Throwing out Good Omens gets rid of Neil, but also the countless amount of film crew, animators, editors, actors, background actors. And also Terry Pratchett.  

I am going to continue to appreciation these works for the other people involved. However I will no longer be supporting Neil himself. He is guilty until proven innocent because what he did is disgusting. I mainly am fixation on BBC Ghosts at the moment, but if I post about Good Omens or Coraline again in the future, this is my stance. *Edit 2 days after posting. I did not say I WOULD be posting about this content anytime soon, since my fixations lay elsewhere atm. But any future reblogs fit with my statement. That I continue to enjoy the media, and will forever deeply hate the artist. Because hes 1: a zionist, 2: supported CP. and 3: a rapist. I will probably no longer post any art since I would loved to not be mauled by 30 yr olds on tumblr. So yes, I will enjoy Coraline, I will enjoy Good Omens, though more privately with friends now rather than tumblr or insta. However I will forever bring up how disgusting this man is.

[liam-an-siorc]

BBC Ghosts episode ranking

By Liam

Season 1

My favourites (Personal opinion)

1st: Happy death day (third episode) 2nd: Free pass (forth episode) 3rd: Who do you think you are? (Pilot) 4th: Gorilla war (second episode) 5th: Moonah ston (fifth episode) 6th: Getting out (sixth episode)

IMDB Rankings

1st: Moonah Ston (7.9) Joined 2nd: Happy death day, Free pass, Getting out (7.8) 3rd: Gorilla war (7.7) 4th: Who do you think you are? (7.4)

Best ones (My opinion)

1st: Happy death day 2nd: Moonah ston 3rd: Who do you think you are? 4th: Free pass 5th: Gorilla war 6th: Getting out

(5th and 6th can be swapped)

Why?

My Favourites (personal opinion)

1st: Happy death day: I just really love this episode I do think it’s one of the best but pats storyline was very nice it’s very cool to see a ghost with family that is still alive and visits it was sweet I was happy for him with his son I also think this episode is funny I found it funny Alison talking to the ghosts and terry thinking she was talking to him and being confused i loved bits like “WATCH OUT!!!!…..for the sugar terry?.. that’s to many” actually though that is a lot of sugar four?! Four?! for one cup of tea it must be so sweet can you even taste the tea but yeah, mainly Pats story line is what got it first place but also with the builders was funny. I also love the Kylie Mynoige thing and the captain and Julian’s friendship.

2nd: Free Pass: I like this episode because it’s something new and cool for the ghosts to do like Mary and Pat looking at the camera thing and the captain pretending to be the manager they are all so bored I feel bad I want them to have something to do it was a funny episode but they did stick with the same ish joke the whole way but still Thomas was funny in this episode very dramatic Mike also what was he doing strange man “why is that?” He kept saying the guy Toby nightingale ? I think is his name he was strange captain was being queer as always can’t think of a better way to say that there’s a lot going on in the episode so it’s not boring but not one of them best just entertaining one and this section is for opinion so it’s fine

3rd: Who do you think you are?: I think this is one of the best pilot episodes I ever seen uselly I don’t like rewatching pilots because they can be a bit boring but this one was really good they introduced the characters well and I just liked it I know all the words

4th: Gorilla war: this one is more continue on from the last one but I also really liked this I think the plague ghosts where very funny and one scene that was brilliant is where Alison gose to the hospital and the docter is a ghosts that was great same thing really as why I liked the pilot it’s also one of the funniest episode I think that’s whole scene where Mike is singing and drilling holes in the wall and fanny was sleeping and then there’s a whole and kitty is peaking through the hole was good and I really loved the plague ghosts

5th: Moonah Ston: I liked moonah Ston arguably it’s a very good episode but it’s just gets older I think then the other ones like I can’t watch it over and over well I can I do I just get a bit tired of it but the friends thing was great and Robin with the moonah was nice I love him so it’s nice to have an episode focused on him

6th: I don’t know why but this episode I did not love it as much as the rest it sort of just one story all the way through and it was filmed or directed different ?!? Maybe it seemed so different but it was still good because it’s ghosts and there where funny bits poor Mike trying to get rid of the goose berry’s and I felt bad for the captain but also it was funny. He did not make much sense in the episode he was trying to get rid of Mike and Alison but then made them stay? It was strange

I don’t know why IMDB people voted like that

Why? (Best ones (my opinion))

1st: Happy death day: still this was a great episode Pats story was really nice and it was funny it was a great 3rd episode because it probably connects you to the characters soon into the show the Kylie mynoige scene was great and Robin is very wise the character are all done very well in this episode and there relationships with each other.

2nd: Moonah ston: It’s a great episode the scene where they are all out on the couch is great like friends I love Alison asking Mary also “what do posh people wear?” And she says “Crowns?” I loved Mary’s involvement in this episode actually she was good poor Robin they all ditched Moonah ston ceremony for friends but then ending was nice and was a nice moment all together it was also smart with Barclay and the Fiji account I was wondering how Mike and Allison would get out of that mess though over all good episode with some very nice moments

3rd: Who do you think you are?: I just think it’s really good considering it’s a pilot one of the best pilot episode I have ever seen characters and plot was introduced well and it was not boring at all to rewatch so it gets points for that.

4th: Free pass: don’t know I really like it I just think the other ones should go first this section is not for my opinion well it is but it’s different

5th: Gorrila war: is great I don’t know why I put it here but the reasoning for the others makes them better I think

6th: Getting out: I don’t know it just not a lot happened it was a bit confusing the captains change but still a very good episode it’s hard to rank them because I like them all

Considering all that

1st: Moonah ston 2nd: Happy death day 3rd: Free pass 4th: Gorilla war 5th: Who do you think you are? 6th: Getting out

I’ll do next seasons then over all Aswell 👍🦈

[emaya-chan-the-potato-headed]

TO MY BBC GHOSTS MUTUALS...

Can any of you help me find a post where each of the Ghosts characters are paired with a Christmas snack/food of some kind? (it was popular Christmas food from their time periods I believe)

The one where Pat Butcher is paired with a Terry's Chocolate Orange?

[ailendolin]

I finally found some time to catch up with a few tag games. Thank you @viola-halogen @unusual-ly and @leftabit-leftabit for tagging me in these!

Make yourself in this / this picrew:

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9 people you would like to get to know better

3 ships: Thomas/Nigel, Ho-Tan/Vex, Dissectus/Voltari

First ever ship: probably Michaela Quinn/Sully

Last song: Detectorists Theme Song

Last movie: GotG Vol 3

Currently (re)reading: Rotten Romans (Terry Deary), The Kingdoms (Natasha Pulley)

Currently (re)watching: Detectorists series 2, BBC Ghosts series 3

Currently consuming: Water

Currently craving: Crisps. Always crisps.

[yonderghostshistories]

If Monty Python & Co made BBC Ghosts, I think it'd kinda be very silly with less emotional parts, with of course the show including a laughttrack/live studio audience and also shot in a studio set for interior/inside scenes, with the exterior/outside scenes shot at West Horsely Place irl.

Any thoughts? Any more things that I missed that would've been included in this MP BBC Ghosts AU? If so, I'd like to hear them from y'all!

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Monty Python as Ghosts BBC

(I've connected the dots...)

John Cleese as Julian

Terry Jones as Robin

Michael Palin as Thomas Thorne

Connie Booth as Lady Button

Graham Chapman as Captain

Carol Cleveland as Mary

Eric Idle as Pat

Extra: Floella Benjamin as Kitty

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

The first time Fanny met Humphrey

Fanny: You can see me?

Humphrey: Oh, yes. Quite clearly, in fact.

Fanny: Ah, you're a ghost, too.

Humphrey: Well spotted.

Fanny: It was the head under your arm. That gave me a clue.

[bakedbakermom]

thanks for the tag @cutemothman

Tag Game

Three Ships: MSR, Kristen/David, Loustat

First Ship Ever: I think it was Goliath/Eliza from Gargoyles (which everyone should watch) or Picard/Crusher from TNG (I was a Trekkie literally in the crib)

Last Song: Foreigner's God by Hozier

Last Movie: uhhhhhhhh I don't remember but I'm going to be watching Practical Magic soon?

Currently Reading: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Shaw (daytime only) and Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (bedtime reading)

Currently Playing: I cannot remember the last video game I played.

Currently Watching: BBC Ghosts

Currently Consuming: Coffee

Currently Craving: Ike's. I am forever craving Ike's. Someday they'll open a shop up here, right? RIGHT?!

tagging @perpetually-weirdening @wingsformypillow @ereh-emanresu-tresni @storybycorey @queasybakeovens I know I've tagged some of you before but it's always nice to see what's new :)

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

Thanks for the tag @maakeba !! 😊💜🥰

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know better!

last song: Due Vite by Marco Mengoni is currently the wavelength of my brain my heart my soul my life only the spotify overlords know how long I've had it on repeat for and I'm not stopping any time soon it's just so se questa è l'ultima canzone e poi la luna esploderà sarò lì a dirti che sbagli ti sbagli e lo sai qui non ARRRRRRIVA LA MUSICAAAAA *actually explodes* last show: um... I think Inventing Anna back in January?? currently watching: Succession s4 currently reading: Nordiska myter (Norse Mythology) by Neil Gaiman, Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett, and a wonderfully angsty fic about the Captain from BBC ghosts current obsession: I mean Good Omens is here to stay, then I think Succession will be a grower since I caught up last week, and any time I'm not spending on those I'm listening to the Eurovision songs and hyping myself up for rehearsals to start in Liverpool :D

zero-pressure tags: @aracloptia @sp-aace @sevenmilliongoldfish @tenthrees @because-its-eurovision and anyone who wants to :)

[ausetkmt]

and if you want to sing along -

"Ghost Town"

This town, is coming like a ghost town All the clubs have been closed down This place, is coming like a ghost town Bands won't play no more Too much fighting on the dance floor Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town? We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown This town, is coming like a ghost town Why must the youth fight against themselves? Government leaving the youth on the shelf This place, is coming like a ghost town No job to be found in this country Can't go on no more The people getting angry This town, is coming like a ghost town This town, is coming like a ghost town This town, is coming like a ghost town This town, is coming like a ghost town This town, is coming like a ghost town This town, is coming like a ghost town This town, is coming like a ghost town This town, is coming like a ghost town

Riots have broken out around Britain.

Charles and Diana are about to marry.

And backstage at Top of The Pops, The Specials are falling apart.

In a few minutes they will perform their latest hit Ghost Town, which over the years, would come to be regarded as one of the greatest British singles of all time. It was a track which bottled the discord, racial tensions and societal breakdown happening in the UK that summer.

There had already been riots in Brixton that April, over the increased use of a new stop-and-search policy, the so-called sus law, which was named Operation Swamp. Police were said to have mounted a campaign of harassment against the black community in south London.

Brixton was the centre of clashes between members of the public and the police

Terry Hall is telling the band that he too has had enough. Worn down by touring, band infighting and struggling to deal with success, he wants out. It is too difficult to be singing about disharmony, while surrounded by it, both inside and outside The Specials.

"We knew it was going to end as we were recording it (Ghost Town)," Terry Hall told Front Row in 2019.

"It was bizarre. It took about eight months to record. I don't think there were more than two of us in the studio at any point. Those weren't good signs really. It finished up with me in a living room in Tottenham singing Ghost Town. It was all over the place. But it was a great way to bow out."

The song was written by the band's founding member Jerry Dammers, but it is also the track with which lead singer Terry Hall is most closely identified. Every TV and radio report about his death has centred on Ghost Town.

The single was simply one of the most timely releases in music history.

Terry Hall performing in Amsterdam earlier this year

"Talk about zeitgeist. That one song suddenly captured so much," remembered Specials fan and Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chada in the 2021 BBC Documentary 2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry.

"If there is one song Margaret Thatcher wishes never got released, it's probably Ghost Town," she added.

On 7 July 1981, Radio One announced that Ghost Town had replaced Michael Jackson's One Day In Your Life at the top of the charts.

That same day, newspaper front pages were full of reports about the first ever use of CS gas grenades by the police on mainland Britain, as they struggled to contain the Toxteth Riots. These were sparked by tensions between police and the local community in Liverpool.

By the end of the week more than 20 towns and cities including London, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Leeds and Luton had riots of their own. The Specials were providing the soundtrack.

Amy Winehouse and Terry Hall both attended the Q Awards in 2009

In 2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry, Dammers explained how the creation of the song started with him sitting at his home organ, trying different diminished chords and working out how wailing could substitute a chorus.

"I think I wrote the music first. I was working on that for ages. The lyrics I wrote on tour just seeing what was going down around the country. It was about the recession and three million people on the dole. It's about the police harassment and unemployment. It was like a perfect storm really."

For years there has been debate over whether or not Ghost Town is specifically about their hometown of Coventry. The decline of the car industry had turned a thriving post-war economy into a concrete jungle.

Shakin' Stevens' Green Door shot up the UK singles chart

Neville Staple from The Specials has stated he believes the song should be taken more generally: "In Coventry and all over England it painted the same picture. This town is coming like a ghost town."

Terry Hall's own understanding of Ghost Town changed over the last 40 years. In 1981, when speaking to the New York Times, he insisted: "We were talking about riots in Bristol and Brixton. The fact that it became popular when it did was just a weird coincidence."

But speaking on BBC Radio Five Live in 2019, he told Nihal Arthanayake: "We made a record about how we saw the north of Britain. People think it was about Coventry. It wasn't. It was about Glasgow and Liverpool and Newcastle. It was about the north."

Ghost Town has certainly had an after-life.

When Amy Winehouse joined The Specials on stage at the V Festival in 2009, it was Ghost Town that she wanted to sing.

In Father Ted, when the priests organised a disco and the DJ, Father "Spin Master" O'Dwyer only has one record that everyone has to dance to all night, the 7 inch on repeat is Ghost Town.

West End Girls

On Desert Island Discs, it's a recent favourite, having been picked four times in the last three years: by the charity worker Claire Horton, the Director of Tate Maria Balshaw, the foreign affairs specialist Fiona Hill and the actor Rupert Everett, who called it "one of the great songs of the era".

And in 2020, The Guardian named it the second best number one single in the UK of all time, behind West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys, a song released four year later and not entirely dissimilar with the sense of urban decay which it creates.

Ghost Town is now considered to be an all-time classic, but its reign over the summer of 1981 came to an ignominious end. The day before 28 million people watched the wedding of the future King to Lady Diana Spencer, The Specials were dethroned.

The lunchtime unveiling of the charts revealed that rising 22 places to number one was none other than Shakin' Stevens with Green Door.

The band's era as chart-dominating stars had well and truly been slammed shut by Shaky. Within months, Hall had formed Fun Boy Three and The Specials in their original incarnation were over.

More than 40 years on Ghost Town stands as their defining work - the perfect coming together of pop and politics at exactly the right moment in history. It was that rarest of things, a song dealing with subjects found in The Economist while the band were on the cover of Smash Hits. Special indeed.