Mary Morris

Our two movies this week, we started with Pimpernel Smith, which is known as Mr. V in the US.

It was filmed in 1941, starring Leslie Howard, Alan Jayes, Francis L. Sullivan, and Mary Morris.

Pimpernel Smith is a 1941 British war thriller in which an eccentric archeology professor uses a student dig in Nazi Germany as cover for a secret mission to free persecuted prisoners.

For our second movie this week, we did Flammen & Citronen.

What I was going to say was I remember watching that cliffhanger to episode three.

You know, all the clocks going off and Mary Morris there.

and just not having a fucking clue what was going on, but being absolutely enraptured by the weirdness of it.

And Doctor Who just doesn't do that enough either, I don't think.

So in his final scenes, he's playing a older, wiser, much less shoddy version of the same character.

So Richard Todd went through this script and marked off where he is high and where he is low and where he is, uh, quiet so I think it's a very interesting performance it doesn't get talked about a lot because you're overshadowed a bit by Mary Morris who also puts in a terrific turn as the wise

woman

and Simon Rouse who as Hindle does take up a lot of the oxygen in the story this famously of course is the story where they had no need for Sarah Sutton's services in the story so she is written out only appears in one scene at the beginning of part one and one scene at the very end of part four.

I think that's a line that's important on television because it shows how the Doctor knows all these things in advance, but it's probably not necessary for an abridged audio version.

I don't think it harms the story in any way.

And at the end of Chapter 9, which is the Part 3 cliffhanger, there's a really lovely bit where Terrence is narrating the Doctor's vision, which is Mary Morris' character's vision, and she's sharing it with Dr. Todd.

and with the Fifth Doctor.

years.

And another one from the 80s, Mary Morris.

Oh, yes.

Absolutely amazing, just turning up in bike leathers on a motorbike.

Driving all the way from Switzerland to come to the rehearsals for Kinder.

Yeah, to the studios.

I think we definitely need a Beatrix Lem and Mary Morris spin off.

Definitely imagine those two on adventures in the past.