" The Mad Death " (1983 Mini Series)

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Shit yeself, or what?

[Guest ripstop]

Shit yeself, or what?

 

WHAT WAS IT ABOUT MATE, I CAN REMEMBER A FEW WEIRD PROGRAMMES WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, ABOUT PEOPLE GOING IN TO A CLOUD IN THE SKY WITH MAD PEOPLE LIVING THERE, WAS IT THAT?

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

No, mate. It was about a Rabies outbreak in england.

 

For about a decade, back around then, for some reason there was a huge upsurge of public awareness of the threat and it's consequences. Resulted in two or three more or less amateur hour level books being churned out. But then came that series.

 

Talk about compulsive f*ckin viewing! One of the most memorable things is the way they conveyed to ye that an animal was rabid. Ye might be looking at a perfectly friendly and docile Dog. Then the screen image of that Dog would ripple across, like water. Then ye arsehole would clench up, I can tell ye!

 

Thing of its time really. But f*ckin brilliant, for its time.

[Kay 3,709]

I couldnt even watch tales of the unexpected that used to scare me todeath

[Guest ripstop]

I couldnt even watch tales of the unexpected that used to scare me todeath

I CAN REMEMBER IT NOW, WAS IT STARTED BY A FOX, OR WAS THAT ANOTHER ONE, OH AND MY UNCLE HAD A RABID LASSIE DOG AND I USED TO SHIT MY PANTS(LITERALLY )FREAKY AS f**k

[Kay 3,709]

I couldnt even watch tales of the unexpected that used to scare me todeath

I CAN REMEMBER IT NOW, WAS IT STARTED BY A FOX, OR WAS THAT ANOTHER ONE, OH AND MY UNCLE HAD A RABID LASSIE DOG AND I USED TO SHIT MY PANTS(LITERALLY )FREAKY AS f**k

 

It used to start with a woman dancing round & a box thing whizzing round as well i think

[Guest ripstop]

I couldnt even watch tales of the unexpected that used to scare me todeath

I CAN REMEMBER IT NOW, WAS IT STARTED BY A FOX, OR WAS THAT ANOTHER ONE, OH AND MY UNCLE HAD A RABID LASSIE DOG AND I USED TO SHIT MY PANTS(LITERALLY )FREAKY AS f**k

 

It used to start with a woman dancing round & a box thing whizzing round as well i think

 

 

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED WAS MAD COULDNT QUITE UNDERSTAND IT, COME TO THINK OF IT I COULDNT UNDERSTAND MUCH THEN APART FROM STAR WARS FIGURES AND ACTION MAN

[J Darcy 5,871]

I remeber it DS.... was it 2 or 3 part series? The mad alsation was going to bite a kid when the other bloke called the dog to him. The dog was then shot dead. It was back in the days of juliet bravo and tales of the unexpected and hammer house of horror.

#

the good old days.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

:clapper: JD, yo da Man! That's Exactly the bit that got me thinking about it!

 

I was talking guns with Dean o' the other week and he said how, in a live situation, it actually takes a Lot of cool to line up a possible second shot. Something along those lines anyway His exact words were - very close to - that it needs a man so innured to the heart racing excitement of a mind bending target that he can just think, " Oh. I'll have this. " and coldly, calmly take aim.

 

Now, remember when they were driving along with that Marksman in the back, leaning foreward between the seats to listen to their conversation? What ever they said - and they were raising some pretty hairy points - his face remained interested, yet impassive.

 

Then, comes the moment ye mention, when the vet calls the Dog and it charges him, matey there fires - Misses! - and the expression on his face is so priceless it's stayed with me ever since! So Unfazed! Just sort of looked as if to say, " Mm. I wonder how that happened? Hey ho. " Lines up and fires again just about as the mad Dog gets airborn. Even then there's not a hint of relief on his face. Brilliant!

 

Now, I'd become convinced that actor was the same guy as played ' Razors ' in " The Long Good Friday ". But it's not. I was checking last night and PJ who ever Razors was doesn't appear in the cast listing of Mad Death.

 

Looking back; I can only imagine the Marksman would have been the guy listed as " Army Sergeant "

 

Anyway, blistering performance in a Great bit of television!

[J Darcy 5,871]

I bet it looks incredibly dated now. I wonder if its possible to buy this on DVD.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Sadly, it seems not, mate? Even more sadly; I don't remember as his partner / girlfriend ever got 'em out for the boys! Bit of alright though, wasn't she?

[WHITEYrs4 29]

I couldnt even watch tales of the unexpected that used to scare me todeath

I CAN REMEMBER IT NOW, WAS IT STARTED BY A FOX, OR WAS THAT ANOTHER ONE, OH AND MY UNCLE HAD A RABID LASSIE DOG AND I USED TO SHIT MY PANTS(LITERALLY )FREAKY AS f**k

 

It used to start with a woman dancing round & a box thing whizzing round as well i think

Kay look OUT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTe7UThwfmU...feature=related

[Guest bigredbusa]

here you go , a taster of 'the mad death'

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0831J7wv-0M

[macberran 2]

I never saw it but by your description he sounds like the all-action chocolates delivery man, remember the sharks.....All because the Lady loves.............Milk Tray ....there wasa also one about a downed russian fighter pilot on I of Lewis wandering round EATING SHEEP.......In the cold war...chuff,chuff,chuff