Doctor Syn

[tenaya]

Anyone remember that lovely movie with Patrick McGoohan? It was based on the novels of Russell Thorndike and they have been out of print for decades. Apparently, some publishing house has reprinted them because Amazon has a few titles of the series, published in June of 2004. I'm so excited! That movie though...I was utterly captivated by McGoohan's Dr. Syn. Powerful, mysterious, heroic and a total rogue--when he wasn't being the milktoast vicar. And he was sexy as hell. I must have been all of 5 years old when I was swept away by the goings on at Romney Marsh.

Did I mention I was excited?

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[obelix]

Ohhh I remember this. At one point they showed it on The Wonderful World of Disney probably on the french channel but I do remember.

Patrick McGoohan and David McCallum my 2 first crushes ;-)

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I think we must be sisters. Poor Illya! I was captivated by him getting tied up all the time and needing to be rescue by Nepoleon.

Did you ever see Alias Smith and Jones? McCallum, McGoohan and Pete Duel were my first three big crushes.

[obelix]

I don't think we ever got Alias Smith and Jones or else I missed it for some reason and since I was a big fan of westerns I doubt I would have missed it.

For me the third major crush was Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon in Wild Wild West I just loved the man.

So does that makes us 2/3 sisters? ;-)

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

No, 3/4 sisters. Let's see...Artie was constantly getting tied up by the bad guys and needing to be rescued, too. And he would have given his life for James, as Illya would have for Nepoleon, as Heyes would for Kid Curry.

You may have noticed I put a bid in for one of your The Champions DVDs. I was quite smitten with Richard. Are we now 4 for 5??

There's a re-occuring theme here, I think. ;-)

[obelix]

LOL there does seem to be a pattern doesn't it?

Well in the case of The Champions it's a tie between Richard and Stuart. After all we did get The Interrogation where Stuart's character got "interrogated" and he did end up getting knocked over the head often enough ;-)

So yeah 4/5 sisters

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Stuart. I remember him being all sweaty and confused. It was a good look for him. I did feel a little cheated that when Richard was kidnapped, he wasn't hurt at all. Even as a small child, I knew that that was both a lost opportunity and just plain wrong!

[obelix]

Agreed. What's the point of having a character kidnapped and nothing happens to him? I mean at least a little bump on the head or something ;-)

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Tied up at least. Physically threatened goes without saying. The captive should be worried! Richard was quite comfy and busy playing mindgames, darn it!

[moonchildetoo.livejournal.com]

Oh gawd this is spooky! I'm an Illya (vs. Napoleon) girl, always had a Thing for Arty, and used to think pre-slashy thoughts about Richard when I was barely a teen!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Oh my god! This means we're triplets! LOL!

I guess the common denominator is Sidekick Obsession. Avon, Lex, McCoy, LaCroix....

[moonchildetoo.livejournal.com]

I was/am often drawn to the sidekick, and/or the 'not classically handsome, but interesting-looking' ones.