Review Tropic (1979)

Doctor Omega

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Your thoughts on this show.....

Serial adaptation of the novel by Leslie Thomas. Plummers Park is an executive housing estate, housing,amoung others, Andre Maiby,Rev.Boon,Audrey Maiby,Polly B lossom-Smith etc.





 
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Ronald Pickup ... Andrew Maiby6 episodes, 1979
Hilary Tindall ... Audrey Maiby6 episodes, 1979
Hilary Pritchard ... Polly Blossom-Smith6 episodes, 1979
John Clive ... Rev. Ivor Boon6 episodes, 1979
Ronald Lacey ... Geoffrey Turvey6 episodes, 1979
Charlotte Howard ... Cynthia Turvey6 episodes, 1979
Bobbie Brown ... Ena Grant6 episodes, 1979
Lynne Morgan ... Bessie White6 episodes, 1979
James Cormack ... Simon Grant5 episodes, 1979
Kate Dorning ... Lizzie Maiby5 episodes, 1979
Rosalind Knight ... Miss. Jankin4 episodes, 1979
Tony Sympson ... Grandad4 episodes, 1979
George Malpas ... Hercules3 episodes, 1979
Nichola McAuliffe ... Primrose3 episodes, 1979
Michael Lees ... Golfing George2 episodes, 1979
 
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Stephanie Cole ... Miss. Dogfoot2 episodes, 1979
Ellis Dale ... Sgt. Davies2 episodes, 1979
Paul Hastings ... Johnny Onions1 episode, 1979
Peter Spraggon ... Bombardier1 episode, 1979
John Alderson ... Bert White1 episode, 1979
James Beckett ... Serving man1 episode, 1979
Melissa Wilson ... Little girl1 episode, 1979
Sylvia Gay ... Little girl1 episode, 1979
Sharon Maiden ... Sharon1 episode, 1979
Royce Mills ... Group Captain Walters1 episode, 1979
Peggy Aitchison ... Mrs. Bellerophon1 episode, 1979
Blake Butler ... Councillor Proctor1 episode, 1979
Josephine Otley ... Little girl1 episode, 1979
Dionne Hypolite ... Little girl1 episode, 1979
John Malcolm ... Burton1 episode, 1979
Series Produced by
Matthew Robinson ... producer (6 episodes, 1979)
Greg Smith ... executive producer (6 episodes, 1979)
 
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Turns out that Bobbie was also in an episode of MINDER....

From 36:40 onwards.

Not once does she mention "Radioactive airborne virus" though, which I find hugely disappointing......



 
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One of her last credits from 1987, with the leading role in a children's tv one-off drama.....


Janna - Where Are You? 1987



 
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If it had been called "JENNA - WHERE ARE YOU?" it could perhaps, at least, been hammered into Blake's 7 continuity somehow.


As to what happened to Bobbie after 1989, life and career-wise, history appears silent, JB.... :emoji_expressionless:
 
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The show was a failure due to it being transmitted during the ITV strike of 1979! Sadly I never got to see any of the episodes or the delectable Bobbie in her bikini which was shown in many newspapers of the day and I'm pretty sure that Bobbie was the victim of a sexual assault some time before the show was made! Living with your parents stopped you watching some shows you wanted to see because they weren't interested and you could hardly tell them why you wanted to see it could you? :emoji_smirk:
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At least we can be certain that ITV will have TROPIC in their archives somewhere, JB.

I was appalled to find that the BBC recently found a missing episode of the series "TRIANGLE" starring Kate O Mara. Luckily somebody had it at home on vhs after taping it when it was broadcast in 1983!

Hopefully their continued and ongoing incompetence will extend to the Whittaker era.
 
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I am just copying and pasting this from the Missing Television thread, because I wondered if TROPIC might be on it. Thankfully it is not, but it makes for a sad roll call nonetheless....

And despite my confidence, ITV weren't safe of course, judging by ACE OF WANDS, THE AVENGERS etc...


Notable shows that are missing stuff.......



ace of wands
adam adamant lives
a for andromeda
adventure game
at last, the 1948 show
apollo 11 (bbc)
armchair theatre
the avengers
billy bunter
boyd q.c
bud
callan
codename
crossroads
cliff richard show
counterstrike
dads' army
dark island
david copperfield
detective
dixon of dock green
doctor who
don quick
do not adjust your set
doomwatch
escape into night
for whom the bell tolls
dr finlay's casebook
freewheelers
frost report
gnomes of dulwich
hancock's half hour
haunted
hereward the wake
how to be an alien
hurricane
the hippodrome show
likely lads
little red monkey
lion, witch & wardrobe
long way home
madame bovary
me mammy
marty
menace
misleading cases
the monsters
the naked lady
night train to surbiton
no hiding place
not only...but also
oh boy!
outbreak of murder
out of the unknown
our man at st marks
out of this world
plateau of fear
hms paradise
police surgeon
public eye
q5
the quatermass experiment
question of sport
radio shows
the rat catchers
rupert the bear
revenue men
screen test
sexton blake
softly softly
stryker of the yard
sierra nine
sherlock holmes
sykes
sykes and a big show
target:luna
techman biography
timeslip
time of day
thirteen against fate
thomas hardy
the trollenburg terror
the tony hancock show
till death us do part
tales of mystery
twizzle
where do I sit?
wild, wild women
wednesday play
world of wooster
you can't win
z-cars
 
johnnybear

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It's weird when we hear that the BBC hadn't got a complete set of Triangle considering that they were supposed to have stopped erasing their shows around 1980 isn't it? The first we got to know about it was when the DWM supplied us information on what Who episodes still existed in the archives and I thought they'd still have the lot!
JB
 
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johnnybear said:
By the way you're not on the Minder forum are you, Doc? As they had the Tropic clip on there I saw today as well!
JB
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No, not on any minder Forum. Have you got a link, JB?

The coincidence factor is very high though.... Perhaps someone has read this thread, then posted it on there? Lol.
 
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