{"id":40,"date":"2006-10-03T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T18:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2006-10-03T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T18:52:51","slug":"one-clav-divs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"One Clav Divs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may know, over the past year or so, I&#8217;ve been getting into television dramas from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Probably because of the work the Res<em>s<\/em>toration team has done on sixties Doctor Who stories, if I&#8217;m honest, but also because, thanks to BBC4, for eg, I&#8217;m getting a chance to watch television that as a child I was too young to view, or simply wasn;t allowed to. But I&#8217;ve discovered something. Quite simply the dramas from these periods are far and away so much better then anything that the nineties onwards has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Dramas like Secret Army which has a superb theme tune &#8211; another thing that doesn;t seem to count nowadays, any old bland music will do. There was a reason theme tunes were called <em>signature<\/em> tunes.<br \/>\nHowever, one drama in particular has got me completly hooked.<\/p>\n<p>I, Claudius.<\/p>\n<p>It is, quite simply, superb. The casting is, ahem, stella &#8211; and perfect. Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Geroge Baker-\u00c2\u00a0 even Christopher Biggans! And yes, it has an instantly recognisable signature tune. Watching it you begin to realise that back then, what you were watching was a play. A proper play, alomst as if you were at the theatre, just so much better. No need for special effects and spectacular &#8211; the script and performance carries it.<\/p>\n<p>So, if more internet capable is able to find a cheap dvd boxset of ol&#8217; One Clav Divs, do please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>And set your videos\/tivos whatever you have to record it on BBC 4 &#8211; you simply will not regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may know, over the past year or so, I&#8217;ve been getting into television dramas from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Probably because of the work the Resstoration team has done on sixties Doctor Who stories, if I&#8217;m honest, but also because, thanks to BBC4, for eg, I&#8217;m getting a chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}