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#early itc shows). exactly what went wrong i dont know; Goring was heavily involved in production as well as starring and maybe that played
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Patrick Troughton - billed as Pat - helps the stricken French nobility (and flashes the audience) as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, a staunch ally of the title character in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (ITP, 1955 - 1956)
#fave spotting
#patrick troughton
#the adventures of the scarlet pimpernel
#doctor who
#classic doctor who
#two
#itp
#itc
#1955
#I've had a nice rhythm going lately with pairing a 50 min series (usually The Saint these days‚ tho not for much longer...) with a shorter
#25 min one to dip into when I've less time or whatever. with The Adventurer over (adieu and farewell Gene Bradley you insane
#multi talented everything) i thought I'd change it up a little and go for a much earlier itc series for a different tone. so early in fact
#that they weren't even ITC yet; the company was then known as the Incorporated Television Programme Company‚ ITP for short‚ but be not
#fooled; this is in every way the Lew Grade led company that would come to dominate the commercial tv world in the decades to follow
#The Adventures of Robin Hood is usually identified as the first ITC production but in fact it beat this series to the screen by only
#3 days and the two shows were presumably in production simultaneously. Hood went on to be the making of ITC and Lew Grade and lasted
#a whopping 143 episodes over 4 years; Pimpernel made it to only 18 despite being planned as a 39 part series (standard length for these
#early itc shows). exactly what went wrong i dont know; Goring was heavily involved in production as well as starring and maybe that played
#a part‚ or maybe the popular success of Hood meant this show was no longer affordable. idk im just speculating but from
#what I've seen it's fairly fun. starting on ITV just a week after the network commenced transmission‚ it's safe to say this didn't capture
#the public imagination like Hood did and it does seem to have been rather forgotten about. Pat is actually a series regular and these
#pics come from a few different eps among the first few. he isn't in the very first (nor is the Pimpernel's other faithful companion
#played by Anthony Newlands) and i do wonder if that was a pilot (it has Robert Shaw as the Pimpernel's right hand and to my
#knowledge he doesn't reappear; he'd make up for it with a starring role in one of ITC's next series‚ The Buccaneers
#but yes he's here and he's fantastic and gets to be dashing and heroic (tho never moreso than Goring of course). he's also the one of the
#three heroes who best suits the powdered hair look (Newlands looks quite unfortunate). and of course i know what im doing with that
#last shirtless pic.. you're welcome Pat girlies (gender neutral)
#maybe I'll make another post after I've seen a few more eps but i wasn't going to commit to a Pat post for every episode im afraid
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