Clouds drifting by

Whatever you celebrate and however you celebrate it, I hope this season brings good will and good things your way. *hugs*

By The Struts with Robbie Williams.

I really like The Struts. This is one of their latest releases. Kudos to swordznsorcery for pointing them out to me.

Man Without a Past is a season 2 episode where Bodie's date with a lovely lady is interrupted by a flower bomb. Despite being warned off by Cowley as Bodie's emotionally involved, Bodie tramples all over the investigation, gets involved with a car chase (twice), is rude to various characters, and comes off with barely a scratch.

Doyle, on the other hand, follows Cowley's instructions, gets run down by a car, is kidnapped, and get used as a punching bag.

Some days, it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

I'm not actually posting about them.

Spoilers and slash under the cut.
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The quality is far better than it was but the main change was that they left the first episode's opening credits in place for the whole season. There was no voiceover but you got the guys running from the car/climbing ropes/fighting figures, and Cowley with a stopwatch.

It was a bit of a who's who in British acting too. David Suchet appears with a rather ridiculous moustache (check under the cut); Geoffrey Palmer is a corrupt businessman; Keith Barron is a scientist with a plan to kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions; Roger Lloyd Pack is an internatational assassin. The list goes on.

I really had to laugh at Diane Keen in Killer with a Long Arm. She's all, "I'm a Greek warrior at heart!" but as soon as a police officer speaks to her (to return her dropped orange!), she panics and runs out into traffic.

The biggest surprise was in Old Dog with New Tricks. Charley Turkel plans to take the Home Secretary as a hostage and demand his imprisoned brother Henry in exchange. Unfortunately, Billy Turner steals a gun and grenade from him, takes Nurse Emma Bolding hostage and demands to see his ex-doctor. Emma Bolding is played by Pamela Stephenson (1 of 3 times she'll pop up in The Professionals). But did you notice Billy Turner (pic under cut)? It's none other than Phil Davis, the serial killer cab driver from Sherlock!

The remastered season also includes Klansmen, a previously banned ep about racial tensions and white supremacists. Bodie shows a bigoted side to his character, gets stabbed in the back, and ends up on a ward run by a black doctor and nurses. They cure Bodie's bigotry along with his stab wounds. It's rather an odd episode.
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Trump's hat: Make America Great Again

Joe Biden's hat (photo posted after the election was called in his favour): We Just Did


Such a beautifully simple riposte.

I can't believe we're still waiting for this to be called. Geeze. Does anyone else feel like the machine needs a good old kick to get it moving again?

Trump is throwing fit after fit about how he can't have lost the election. I really liked his, "Stop counting now because I'm in the lead." Even I know it doesn't work that way.

Someone posted this (from Twitter) saying this is what it'll be like trying to get Trump out of the White House. I know it's totally fake but I laughed so much.

My pet conspiracy theory is that Trump and his cronies committed voter fraud in various ways but they severely underestimated how much fraud they'd need to commit to win the election. Hence Trump's confusion now.

I've been watching Wildlife Aid videos on YouTube lately. They're in the south of England, and respond to calls from the public about stranded or injured wildlife.

This one has a hilarious bit of one of the young volunteers driving a swan back to its area to be released.

The original running order and the remastered version.

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The Professionals is on Amazon Prime and it's been remastered. Tha also means the episodes are in a completely different order. Season 1 started with Old Dog With New Tricks (which was originally season 1 episode 3, according to the IMDb).

The second remastered episode is Long Shot (season 1 episode 11). It's studded with familiar faces! There's Roger Lloyd Pack as Ramos, a hired killer. Nadim Sawalha as Sheikh Achmeia (one of 3 roles he appeared in). Ed Bishop as Dr. Ernest Harbinger (one of 2 roles he appeared in). John Horsley (a regular on my favourite You Rang, M'Lord?) as Mitchell, a millionaire (one of 2 roles he appeared in). And Robert Gillespie as Sammy (one of 2 roles he appeared in).

As you can see, The Professionals loves reusing actors.

The story runs thus: Ramos, a professional assassin is hired to kill George Cowley. As back up insurance, he kidnaps the daughter of Mitchell, a millionaire. His first attempt on Cowley's life goes awry but it's believed his target is a visiting American, Dr. Harbinger. The race is on to find and stop Ramos before it's too late.

Dun dun dun!

Title: About Turn
Author: Dimity Blue
Rating: Suitable for all
Genre: gen, missing scene,
Characters: Cissy Meldrum, Ivy Teasdale, Poppy Meldrum
Word Count: 791 words
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Summary: How Cissy stepped in to make sure Ivy had a dress for the servants' ball.

A missing scene for the episode Come to the Ball (season 4, episode 3).
Spoilers for the episode.

On AO3 here.