Look, what a nice rabbit hole!

[auroracloud]

This morning I finished listening to the latest weekly episode of Radio Free Skaro (a Doctor Who podcast), and in the news segment they mentioned a thing called Box of Delights, which apparently is a children's fantasy series from the 1980s which is something of Big Thing and stars Patrick Troughton as one of the leads. (The reason they mentioned it on the podcast is that the soundtrack is being released.) I felt curious and looked up what this is, and oh dear, it really sounds like something I would love to watch, even if Patrick Troughton looks very different in it than he does in Doctor Who, and why have I never heard of this before anyway?

I looked it up on Zoom.co.uk (I recently found that website when I looked for a way to find Doctor Who things at a reasonable price without buying them from Amazon) and they have it, and then I clicked on the Patrick Troughton tag there... And it kindly gave me all the Patrick Troughton DVDs they have. In addition to much Doctor Who, there's also a bunch of other TV stuff he made over the decades, including a lot of historical adventures, and ooh, look, I could watch him in a Scarlet Pimpernel adaptation! And apparently he's been in some Count of Monte Cristo adaptation as well - hmm, I've managed to steer clear of Monte Cristo adaptations so far as I really like the book, I wonder if that will hold... And look at all these other adventures and historical dramas and such...

... Oh, what was that phrase about rabbit holes... Something about falling down them...

I should probably get recommendations.

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[thisbluespirit]

If I know me, there is a big risk I'll eventually hunt down all sorts of things just for the guest of the week. But maybe I'll try to at least start with something bigger!

That sounds reasonable! (on both counts, heh. :-D)

Oh dear, this sounds terribly much like the sort of thing I would find very entertaining.

swordznsorcery got me into it! I mean, it depends a lot, because Georgie is no Mrs Peel, just a plucky teenage DJ who sometimes helps and sometimes gets into trouble (but she's always unrepentant and determined to look after Mr Adamant, who is after all a nonagenarian with a tendency to believe in the goodness of women, even though he never meets a single lady who doesn't bash him over the head with something, or betray him, or shoot him). There's also Simms, an ex-music hall artist they pick up, who becomes Adam's manservant. He likes housework, keeping well out of danger, and delivering terrible limericks. So it's 60s and Edwardian and problematic but deliberately ridiculous and adorable and also has quite a bit of heart, so yes. I love it, as you can tell!!

I made a (non-spoilery) vid a while back, if you're okay with watching vids.

But I'm fond of the sort that isn't actually scary even for me. Like Gothic horror.

Gothic is a about my limit, too! I'm a complete horror wimp. The Troughton one is okay - most of the others aren't scary, either, but there were more skeevy 70s sex killers across the anthology than anyone would ever want to encounter! But there were a few supernatural ones which were fun, especially the one with Troughton which is entertaining and cheesy & has a good female lead and a very pretty male cast - it was my favourite (save for the equally cheesy but mundane one that had my particular favourite person in. he was murdering a lot of women, but not for sex, and he would rather have been reading classic lit. He did feel bad about it).

[auroracloud]

Thanks, I'll check out the vid at some point! It does sound very entertaining. And regarding problematic stuff, I do have a fondness for 19th century literature, so I've got a lot of experience of reinterpreting problematic stuff to fit my worldview somehow, heh.

and he would rather have been reading classic lit. He did feel bad about it

That sounds like my kind of murderer! Er, or something like it.