Tag: adaptations

Blandings, Series 1

Blandings, Series 1

adapted by Guy Andrews (BBC, 2013)

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Series One of Blandings, although adapted rather loosely from the P. G. Wodehouse books (and lacking their most memorable character, Gally Threepwood), nevertheless manages to conjure up a merriment not out of keeping with its source material. Well cast, fast-moving and frivolous.

 

 

The Return of the Antelope

The Return of the Antelope

by Willis Hall (The Bodley Head, 1985)

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Hall excels in depicting minor characters and incidental detail, yet there remains a largely untapped visual element to this children’s fantasy of Lilliputians who have ill-fatedly retraced Gulliver’s Travels back to England. The book reads like — and is — an adaptation from television.

 

Chocky (1984)

Chocky

by John Wyndham, adapted by Anthony Read (Thames Television, 1984)

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A patchy adaptation, quintessentially early 1980s, featuring well-pitched performances by James Hazeldine and child actor Andrew Ellams but terribly written female parts. The intrigue of a young boy’s mind-to-mind alien encounter is built and sustained across six episodes without ever really peaking.

 

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