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The Dark Side Of The Sun (television)
''The Dark Side of the Sun'' is a television serial written by Michael J. Bird and produced by the BBC in 1983.Dennis Hackett. "Television." Times ondon, England14 Sept. 1983: 13. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2012. Plot ''The Dark Side of the Sun'' takes place on the Greek island of Rhodes. The story combines elements of supernatural Gothic romance with the contemporary conspiracy thriller. There are themes of telepathy and hypnosis, and a secret society, descended from the Knights Templar, holding clandestine meetings on the island. The historical back-story is linked to the suppression of the Templars, and seems also loosely inspired by the overthrow of Foulques de Villaret, 25th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. His former stronghold at Lindos was one of the main filming locations. The Templar conspiracy theory element in the modern plot-line shows some influences from ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'', which had been published the previous year. Crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights Templar
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Trevor Baxter
Trevor Baxter (18 November 1932 – 16 July 2017) was a British actor and playwright. He was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Early years A postal worker's son, Baxter was born in Lewisham, London, England, and was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career His credits include: ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Maelstrom'', '' Thriller'', '' The New Avengers'', ''Jack the Ripper'', (1988) ''The Barchester Chronicles'' (1982) ''An Englishman Abroad'' (1983) and ''Doctors''. He is known for his appearance in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' (1977) as Professor George Litefoot and in 1978 in ''Rumpole of the Bailey''. He reprised his role of Professor Litefoot in an episode of the audio series, '' Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles'': '' The Mahogany Murderers''. The following year he was Professor Litefoot again for a continuing series of '' Jago & Litefoot''. Trevor Baxter worked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Kendall
Kenneth Kendall (7 August 1924 – 14 December 2012) was a British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. He is also remembered as the host of the Channel 4 game show '' Treasure Hunt'', which ran between 1982 and 1989, as well as the host of ''The World Tonight'' in the 1968 science fiction film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. Early life Kendall was born in India where his father, Frederic William Kendall (d. 30 May 1945), worked. He was brought up in Cornwall. Kendall was educated at Felsted School in Essex, England. He read Modern Languages at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for one year before being called up to the British Army. Military service Kendall joined the Coldstream Guards where he was commissioned as a lieutenant. He arrived in Normandy ten days after D-Day but was wounded about a month later. In 1945, he was among 100,000 British military personnel sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Whitaker
Peter Whitaker was an English actor who appeared as bar owner Jack Pomeroy in the first series of ''Rumpole of the Bailey''. He is also known for playing the murdered police inspector Gascoigne in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Faceless Ones'', as well as appearing as a supporting extra in many other episodes of the series, including ''The Seeds of Death'' and ''The Pirate Planet''. He also appeared in many other television series' such as ''Taxi!'', ''The Forsyte Saga'', ''Dad's Army'', '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' and ''Blake's 7 ''Blake's 7'' (sometimes styled ''Blakes7'') is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four 13-episode series were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first ...''. References External links * English male television actors {{UK-tv-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Plytas
Phokion Stavros Plytas, known professionally as Steve Plytas (9 January 1913 – 27 December 1994), was a Greek film and television actor based in the United Kingdom. His stage work included West End appearances in Tennessee Williams' ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1965) and Agatha Christie's ''The Mousetrap'' (1970s). Credited film roles include '' Passport to Shame'', ''Beyond the Curtain'', ''The Moon-Spinners'', '' The Spy Who Came In from the Cold'', ''Theatre of Death'', ''Interlude'', '' Ooh... You Are Awful'', ''Silver Bears'', '' Revenge of the Pink Panther'', ''Carry On Emmannuelle'', '' The Bitch'', '' Eleni'', '' Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'' and ''Batman''. TV credits include: '' The Avengers'', ''Danger Man'', ''The Troubleshooters'', ''The Saint'', ''Doctor Who'' (in the serial ''The Tenth Planet''), ''Z-Cars'', ''The Champions'', '' Department S'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Man About the House'', ''Fawlty Towers'', ''Who Pays the Ferryman?'', '' The Professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sheard
Michael Sheard (18 June 1938 – 31 August 2005) was a Scottish character actor who featured in many films and television programmes, and was known for playing villains. His most prominent television role was as strict deputy headmaster Maurice Bronson in the children's series ''Grange Hill'', which he played between 1985 and 1989. He appeared as Admiral Ozzel in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980). Early life Sheard was born Michael Lawson Perkins in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Donald Marriot Perkins, a church minister. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and took his mother's maiden name as his stage name. During his national service Sheard was a Royal Air Force aircraftman. Career Sheard had a lengthy affiliation with science fiction, and appeared in six televised stories of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', appearing with the First Doctor in '' The Ark'' (1966), the Third Doctor i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey James
Godfrey James (16 April 1931 – 29 October 2019) was an English actor. His film appearances include: '' Séance on a Wet Afternoon'' (1964), ''Witchfinder General'' (1968), '' The Oblong Box'' (1969), ''Cry of the Banshee'' (1970), ''The Blood on Satan's Claw'' (1970), ''Villain'' (1971), ''Hide and Seek'' (1972), '' The Land That Time Forgot'' (1974), '' At the Earth's Core'' (1976), '' Camille'' (1984), '' Out of Order'' (1987) and ''Piccolo Grande Amore'' (1993). In the 1970's British police drama '' The Sweeney,'' episode ''Big Spender,'' James appeared as hard man Charley Smith, part of an organized crime family who involve themselves with two dishonest employees of a car park company in an elaborate fraud. His television credits include: '' The Avengers'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', '' Department S'', ''Z-Cars'', ''UFO'' (the 1970 episode "The Square Triangle"), ''The Onedin Line'', '' Space: 1999'', '' The Lotus Eaters'', ''The Carnforth Practice'', ''Special Branch'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Banks-Smith
Nancy Banks-Smith (born 1929) is a British television and radio critic, who spent most of her career writing for ''The Guardian''. Life and career Born in Manchester and raised in a pub, she was educated at Roedean School. Banks-Smith began her career in journalism in 1951 as a reporter at the '' Northern Daily Telegraph''. In 1955, after a brief period at the women's section of the '' Sunday Mirror'', she moved to the '' Daily Herald'' as a reporter. She worked for the ''Daily Express'' from 1960 to 1965 as a feature writer, moving to be a TV critic for '' The Sun'' in 1965. She left the newspaper in 1969 when it was bought by Rupert Murdoch.Celebrating 40 years of Nancy Banks-Smith ''The Guardian'', 4 February 2010 Banks-Smith began writing for '' |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail
''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (published as ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh (author), Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unofficial follow-up to three BBC Two TV documentaries that were part of the ''Chronicle (UK TV series), Chronicle'' series. The paperback version was first published in 1983 by Corgi books. A sequel to the book, called '' Priory of Sion#The Messianic Legacy, The Messianic Legacy'', was originally published in 1986. The original work was reissued in an illustrated hardcover version with new material in 2005. In ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'', the authors put forward a hypothesis that the historical Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had one or more children, and that Jesus bloodline, those children or their descendants emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they intermarried with the nobility, noble families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
