30 Days Of Adam Adamant #1

[swordznsorcery]

So, a little while ago, liadt wrote a TV meme, intended as a "30 Days Of Telly" affair, consisting of sixty questions to choose from. And a grand thing it is too. I've decided to co-opt it, in order to spread a little Adam Adamant Lives! love. There just aren't enough people on the internet who are talking about Adam Adamant. Or off the internet, for that matter, but I can't do anything about that. If I talk about this sort of thing offline, I get horrified looks, and people move quickly away. Online... well, there may indeed be horrified looks and rapid departures, but I can't see them.

I don't imagine I'm going to spread this out over thirty days, as some of the questions call for fairly short answers, and I'm not terribly good about remembering to post. I'm keeping the title though. It's the thought that counts.

01. Favourite episode

A really difficult question this, but I think the one that delighted me the most during my recent rewatch was "Beauty Is An Ugly Word" from series one. Broadcast on Thursday 15th September 1966 at 20:00, fact fans, to an audience of 8.8 million. In this one, a rich megalomaniac sets out to collect the most beautiful and physically perfect people in the world, planning to wipe out the rest of humanity. Only body builders and beauty pageant winners will survive.

I'm a trifle concerned as to the IQ level of his little survivalist den, which is no doubt extremely prejudicial of me. But still. Anyway, Adam does battle, and it's absolutely glorious.

02. What you wish happened

The great thing about this show is that it did, for the most part, do just what I wanted it to. Swords and fisticuffs and even the occasional rope swing, and leaping about on tables. I suppose, if I had made it, I would have had Georgina Jones, Adam's partner in crime, be a little closer to him in age, and therefore slightly more his equal. She did quite well in comparison to a lot of other female characters of the vintage, certainly, but it would be nice to see him take her that little bit more seriously.

Comments

[heartonsnow]

I loved Adam Ant in the 80's!!

.........................what?

[kis]

#1 - I need to rewatch every episode because I can't quite recall the plot of BIAUW. Or, indeed, a lot of the other episodes. One of the ones I think was the campest was the one with the fencers. Which was that, d'you remember?

#2 - predictably, I wanted Adam and Georgina to kiss!