Star Cops

[altariel]

Twelve reasons for loving Star Cops:

1. The premise is so simple. Cops! In space!* They should do it with Criminal Intent, that would rock.


2. They play bridge in one episode.


3. The dialogue is bitchy-brilliant.


4. I never remember anything about the episodes, which means it's like watching it new every time.


5. Spring is so grumpy.


6. Kenzy is so snarky.


7. Spring and Kenzy make the cutest couple.


8. Batshit.


9. It's more exciting than Moonbase 3 (hm, actually, I'll have to rewatch that now...)


10. John "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" Collee wrote two episodes.


11. Graeme "Spiritual Heir to Douglas Camfield" Harper directed a couple of episodes.


12. On Chris Boucher's commentary on the first episode, he starts grumbling before the opening music has a chance to finish. And doesn't stop.

* And, as communicator once pointed out, anything is improved by putting it in space. Hustle - In Space! The Good Life - In Space! Upstairs Downstairs - In Space! Persuasion - In Space! See?**
** But not The Dirty Dozen or Robin Hood - In Space! That would obviously be rubbish.

Bonus lucky 13: There's a 'stuck in a lift' episode, and I don't care about cliché, 'stuck in a lift' episodes are always great, even the DS9 one with Odo and Lwaxana.

Comments

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Ha, I loved Star Cops! It's on my rental list at Blockbusters, but I've been working my way through Lexx first... I adored the theme song, too - wasn't it Justin Hayward?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's the one! I always think I don't like the theme tune, and then I find myself humming it all the time.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard it since the TV series aired on the BBC, and I can still sing it... "Like the wind across the water..."

Now that is catchy.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Well done, that's nearly twenty years on!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I am offically older than dirt!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

LOL! Is there a special ceremony and everything?!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I do want it, but the list of DVDs I want has just blown out to daunting proportions...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It really is very good. Perhaps you could pick up the tapes very cheaply on Ebay or something?

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I so wish that Moonbase 3 hadn't wimped out on the last episode.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen the "stuck in a lift" episode of Hancock's Half Hour? Getting on for fifty years old, but absolutely brilliant!

And the bridge game scene from the Marx Brothers' Animal Magic is another classic.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was a "stuck in a lift" Hancock! God, I bet that's brilliant.

And I have to confess I've never seen a Marx Brothers film.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

A little research shows that the Hancock episode in question is available on DVD:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005M6OM/qid=1127841585/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_11_8/202-5940857-3239057

Since the DVD also includes, inter alia, The Radio Ham and The Blood Donor, I think I'll have to buy it.

If you've never seen a Marx Brothers' film, then you're missing something. A Night at the Opera would be a good one to start with.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good selection of episodes on that DVD - thanks for the link (tho' watching Hancock tends to make me feel sad).

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

They play bridge in one episode.

They do?

I never remember anything about the episodes, which means it's like watching it new every time.

Aha!

No, wait a minute, I do remember, it's Kenzy when she's interrupted in the first episode, isn't it? Or does she do it on-screen too?

It's more exciting than Moonbase 3 (hm, actually, I'll have to rewatch that now...)

But the psychiatrist doesn't have to be saved from rape, even once! She has warm and fuzzy consensual comfort sex with her ex while stuck in the lift, which is very nice, of course...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

There's a bridge machine (that blows up) in Other People's Secrets.

I really like Moonbase 3, it's just not a rollercoaster thrill-a-minute ride.

warm and fuzzy consensual comfort sex with her ex

"Told you I was cuddly."

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd marry him!

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Oh, I still have your videos of Star Cops in my house, Guy dropped them off. I'm afraid the quality is a bit hard to watch. I dunno if it's the tapes or the player. I'll bring them next time I'm in Cambridge.

Criminal Intent in space? Would be Cool.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

They're pretty ancient now those tapes, and much watched/borrowed. Borrow the DVDs if you want to see it.


Criminal Intent in space? Would be Cool.

Wouldn't it?

[kerravonsen]

On Chris Boucher's commentary on the first episode, he starts grumbling before the opening music has a chance to finish. And doesn't stop.

Oh dear! Now you've given me Temptation -- a reason to get the DVDs! Because I've been telling myself that since I already have it on tape (good commercial copies) that I shouldn't be getting it, I should get stuff I don't already have.

(sigh)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's the only one of the extras that I've had a look at, but there are commentaries to two other episodes, I think, as well as interview material with CB and Trevor Cooper... not sure what else.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

as communicator once pointed out, anything is improved by putting it in space

Case in point: Pigs in Spaaaaace!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[gfk88.livejournal.com]

Camberwick Green in space:

Windy Miller grins smugly to himself as he steps out his front door. "Ha ha - those sails will never get me.....oops."

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me of a Dr Who episode from the early 1970s where The Master is watching an episode of The Clangers on TV, assuming that it's factual, and is getting rather confused.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

There's a 'stuck in a lift' episode,

It's just two characters in a very small room.

I like them too.

Grumpy and Snarky sound very endearing.

8. Batshit.

What as in 'pipistrelle poo'?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Grumpy and Snarky sound very endearing.

They really are cute.


What as in 'pipistrelle poo'?

Yes, and 'ow' for coffee up nose.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Yes, and 'ow' for coffee up nose.

My work here is done.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

The first episode is probably a piece of unique viewing in that it is better watching it with Chris Boucher's commentary than without.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, harsh!

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

It's more exciting than Moonbase 3

I gave up on Moonbase 3 after episode 1. It was too realistic. Specifically, it was just like working at BAS, but with static camera angles.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Wow, a hell of a review.

[hardrada.livejournal.com]

And, as [info]communicator once pointed out, anything is improved by putting it in space. Hustle - In Space! The Good Life - In Space! Upstairs Downstairs - In Space! Persuasion - In Space! See?

Brief Encounter - In Space!

Yes, it has a certain something.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh man, yes yes yes!