The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: Roger Moore in conversation" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/10/review_roger_moore_in_conversation.php Comments for the entry "Review: Roger Moore in conversation" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:12:49 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry Ah The Persuaders. First time I fell in love with a TV hero. I must have been all of five... And no, it wasn't Mr Eyebrows, it was Tony Curtis. How I loved him. Sigh...Not sure I could bear to watch an episode now in case I am terribly terribly disappointed.

]]> 4449@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c26093 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:12:49 +00:00 Comment from Toby O'B I've gone through the run of 'The Persuaders!' again via Netflix and watched it on A&E over here. Some of it was just the chance for them to have fun on location and get paid for it; a lot of riffing and padding out the episodes. But it's still a lot of fun, just as I remembered it back when it first came out.

Just to juice up the audience, maybe they should have run the episode that guest-starred Patrick Troughton. Or the take-off on 'Kind Hearts And Coronets'.

And I always liked that theme song!

]]> 4449@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c26096 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:19:37 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry The music was fab. It still sends shivers up my spine. Ok, Toby, you've persuaded me. Can't remember either episode, though at five I probably wouldn't have appreciated the KHAC references. Now I would though.... Hmm. Maybe my husband deserves the series on DVD for Christmas (you know, one of those presents you buy for your partner, but is really for yourself...)

]]> 4449@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c26111 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:27:51 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I first saw The Persuaders! in France, where it was called Amicalement vôtre. Naturally, it was dubbed. Then when I saw it back in the UK, I remember being bitterly disappointed when I heard Tony Curtis's voice for the first time, because it simply wasn't as good as the French's guy's.

The theme song/titles are indeed brilliant and I nominated it as one of the best combos ever. It's only partially spoiled by the fact that they did a lesser version of it again for absolute tosh that was The Adventurer.

I really wouldn't buy your hubby The Persuaders!, since it's not exactly the best show ever made. There's some great chemistry between Moore and Curtis, and Curtis's ad libs keep the whole thing afloat, but the scripts are very generic and dumb – not to mention extremely sexist, as you might imagine. They can't even keep to the show's Hardcastle and McCormick-esque concept of a judge blackmailing two playboy crims into fighting crime for him for more than a couple of episodes - it usually ends up with them wandering around and then bumbling across a crime.

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