Aphrodite Inheritance [DVD]

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S seen in 2020 I simply CANNOT understand what the appeal is NOW for this absolutely DREADFUL see-through drama. This has to be up there as one of my all-time favourite series. It has everything; great scenery, great actors, a beautiful female lead (the late Alexandra Bastedo in surely her most memorable role). The actors are all well placed and aside from the main characters, many locals were used as extras to add authenticity. Godrey James plays a great police inspector and Peter McEnery looks like a boyish version of Ian Ogilvy only without the suavity. Oh yes, and Alexandra Bastedo plays the mysterious beauty rather well too. Morrison waits to conclude his deal – but he is horrified when the ‘buyer’ appears. Inspector Dimas is intrigued by what he learns from Collier; later he gets startling news from Morrison’s girlfriend. After Christianity became the dominant religion in the West, the Greek gods could have taken it easy and had a rest. Some suggest they did; others, however, tell a different story.

I enjoyed this book a lot but did have the images of the tv show in my mind. A revisit to my past that did live up to its memories. In the midst of it all, our hero – the dead man’s brother David (Peter McEnery) – conducted himself with a somnolent naivety that only a charitable suggestion of jet lag could explain. There’s a lot of things I don’t understand,” one of them mutters. “Your part in this, for instance.”“All we have to find out is who took the money and where it is now.”“But who? And why?”“It doesn’t make sense.”“Unless…”“Someone is using you.” And so on. Oddness included the waiter slipping our teetotal hero some alcohol and a crime scene with bodies and”

No, the big winner in the Med boom were Greece and Cyprus thanks mainly to one man: Michael J Bird. Bird created two hit shows for BBC1: The Lotus Eaters and Who Pays The Ferryman?, two reasonably conventional programmes about British people coming to Crete (or living on Crete in The Lotus Eaters‘ case), although with some thriller undertones. These proved successful enough that their effects are still being seen in Eloúda, where Who Pays The Ferryman? was filmed (and Victoria Hislop’s The Island is set): Anyway, as the story unfolds there are plenty of strange goings on for David, plenty of weird coincidences that occur and draw him deeper into a plot that involves the lost tomb of Aphrodite. Along the way we meet another of Helene’s friends, the magnificent bandit Basileos (Brian Blessed). We also meet the seemingly untrustworthy American millionaire Hellman (Paul Maxwell), as well as dishonest partners and killers with big guns. Collier stumbles on people he is sure can help him convince Inspector Dimas of his brother’s murder. Later the evidence which Helene first produced mysteriously turns up again – and again leads to trouble. It might be illuminating to see who was doing the criticizing, sometimes people seem to guess wrongly in imagining what others think....

He claims that it was on that plane he came up with the idea for The Aphrodite Inheritance and almost every scene for all eight episodes of the show – a plot that included the legend of Aphrodite’s final resting place, something Bird said he had no knowledge of until he began work on the series itself. Spooky, huh? Linda Pirie I was a child in primary school when this series was broadcast, but I don't remember watching it, or even hearing about it at the time... money strewn everywhere magically cleaning itself up once dark-hair takes a doubting, fat policeman to see.” It’s not been repeated since UK Gold showed it a decade ago, it’s never been released on DVD, although you can find it on YouTube (playlists later): it’s The Aphrodite Inheritance and it’s a Lost Gem. Here’s the title sequence and for those who want to cut to the chase, the final ten minutes of the final episode in which the gods’ game with the poor mortals is finally uncovered. Eventually, police inspector Dimas, armed with the translation of the inscription, works out the full story and shares his theory with Collier. His proof? Three statues of the gods at the temple of Dionysus on Cyprus, identical to Helene, Charalambous and Basileos. And as Collier leaves Cyprus, mysteriously finding at his feet his reward while on the aeroplane home – that suitcase full of cash – the gods wave him goodbye, their games continuing.

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Christopher Marriott OK so it's been over a decade since this article was written but damn does it stand up haha. I JUST discovered "breakout kings" &, am only halfway thru episode 2, yet I'm saying "why the hell did... Gradually, over subsequent episodes, it becomes clearer and clearer that something truly odd is happening, with Basileos able to impersonate Collier’s voice exactly when Hellman’s heavies come for him at night, and Helene disappearing from the middle of a room without even opening a door. The question for the viewer is no longer “Who are these people?” but “Are these really the gods or is this a double bluff? If it isn’t, which ones are they and what do they want?” I admit that the story is a little slow in a couple of places and there are one or two scenes that invoke a slight cringe-worthy wince, which can promote the tendency to get up and put the kettle on or cast your eyes over a newspaper just to hold sleep at bay, but take my word for it, it’s well worth staying with it. While it may not be outstanding, it is highly enjoyable and quite intriguing. It’s the waiter who tidies it up and the crime scene didn’t have any bodies – it was a fight between the hero and another character who runs off when the police arrive. And it wasn’t the fat policeman (Dimas) who went to see it first.

There are also times where the whole thing teeters on a precipice of silliness, such as the aforementioned “double burglary” incident in the first episode and a very odd, ill-advised dream sequence in the fifth that’s just about excusable as an example of Dionysian ecstatic incoherence. And Peter McEnery should never be allowed to dance. Ever. Mark Carroll I'm glad you enjoyed it. I do often wonder about actors who seemed good in things, then I didn't notice them subsequently. Collier’s attempt to take Helene’s evidence to Inspector Dimas is violently interrupted and he is unable to persuade the Inspector of the truth of what has happened. Later a meeting with his brother’s friend, Eric Morrison, is broken up in a frightening way. Collier is eventually able to discover that his brother came across a tomb, said to be the last resting place of Aphrodite and her possessions, the contents of which he was selling off. An inscription in the tomb says that anyone breaking into the tomb would suffer a terrible vengeance at her hands and the hands of the co-protectors of the tomb: Pan and Dionysus. And what better way to exact revenge, have all the intruders killed and their possessions returned than through the manipulation of a mortal man, just as they’d done in the olden days? When all is revealed and Barry’s murder is solved, there’s one last mystery: Collier discovers that rumours of the deaths of the gods Aphrodite (Alexandra Bastedo from The Champions), Pan (Stefan Gryff) and Dionysus (Brian Blessed in full Brian Blessed mode) have been greatly exaggerated.How much further?” enquired the hapless David after an apparently endless drive in Helene’s car through the comparatively featureless Cyprus countryside “We’ve been driving for an hour already”. It seemed longer.

Tannedhaggis Watching first episode and put off already as Rex doesn’t seem to have a GPS on his collar. How is that possible for police dog?

ONE OF THE BEEB’S many 1970s Mediterranean thrillers bundled out during winter to cheer people up and which made no sense whatsoever but which you wanted to stay up and watch all the same. Here dark-haired chap (PETER MCENERY) goes to Cyprus to encounter much strangeness, including ALEXANDRA BASTEDO, a spooky Dracula-like waiter and a jolly restaurateur/wine merchant.” waiter, one is of Bacchus, again bearing a strange resemblance to the restaurateur chap and the final one is of Aphrodite, looking like…work it out. Your Dad thought this was twaddle.” Preece is badly shaken by the things Hellman tells him. He realises he still has a long way to go to achieve his ends. Collier again meets Helene. Unsuspecting they wander into a situation of great danger. the TV series entitled "The legacy of Aphrodite". The team members were welcomed at the airport by the