I managed to see "Julius Caesar" (1970, Gielgud, Charlton Heston) earlier in the week. Michael Keating is in it, looking much like he's just stepped out of The Sunmakers (though that's, what, four years later?). Master S Pacey is in it too, as a young chubby(ish) cheeked lad (Lucius).

I'd love to read it!

Why did the Mexican push Arlen off a cliff?
Tequila!

Orac is wearing his seatbelt.

Clunk click, every trip.

(Does anyone's seatbelt actually go clunk?)

Argh! At that point my PC decided to do some updates! Where are we up to now??

Where are we up to now??

Orac is wearing his seatbelt.

Clunk click, every trip.

(Does anyone's seatbelt actually go clunk?)

Avon and Orac are off exploring.

The crew have just convinced Avon he's the only one who can do the undercover mission this week.

He's putting on the ballet tutu as we speak.

I think they did in the seventies. A simpler age . . .

Skipping hand in hand across the lanscape?

Deva as the Voice of Reason. Like Avon.

Blake: "He didn't have price..." GT sounding positively Welshly Welsh for an otherwise Welsh word, as with J L-Price.

When he tells Tarrant to hold still he sounds even Welsher! But yes, Blake needs an Avon and subconsciously seeks one out - I like it.

The sound design is really good in this one. I love the burble-y computer bank noises at the very end. Right now I'm listening to the quiet howling noise inside Scorpio (Engines? Atmosphere?) and the keening pitch of Scorpio as heard from down on the ground.

Now silence, but for Orac and another quiet 'atmosphere' noise in the plantation forest.

I soooo like David Collings. Fell for him in Scrooge in 1970. I hope they show it again this Christmas.

I soooo like David Collings. Fell for him in Scrooge in 1970. I hope they show it again this Christmas.

The sound design is really good in this one. I love the burble-y computer bank noises at the very end. Right now I'm listening to the quiet howling noise inside Scorpio (Engines? Atmosphere?) and the keening pitch of Scorpio as heard from down on the ground.

Now silence, but for Orac and another quiet 'atmosphere' noise in the plantation forest.

He's excellent! It was only this year I realised he was the voice of Monkey in "Monkey", the Buddhist comedy/adventure serial that used to be on the ABC around the same time as Doctor Who and the Goodies.

Avon has an iPhone.

Blake has an iSteddfod.

Aaaaaarrrrgh! I told Travisina ages ago that she needs to get hubby onto creating a throwing up emoji.

Vila, Dayna and Soolin have signed up to "Escape to the Country" and are checking out an airy bijou little property.

OOOO. Avon's eyes when he doesn't answer about Tarrant. (completely lost track now. House guest trying to talk to me about a friend who's travelling to Egypt today...)

Oh, I have to bail unexpectedly, to drive my daughter somewhere.

I probably won't make it back before the episode finishes, so I will say here and now that the very last Avon moment - where he smiles and grimaces - is just brilliant and blows away any charges that PD can't act.

See you next week for S5 episode 1, when we find out how our heroes got out of the end of series cliffhanger. Can't wait!

Oh, I have to bail unexpectedly, to drive my daughter somewhere.

I probably won't make it back before the episode finishes, so I will say here and now that the very last Avon moment - where he smiles and grimaces - is just brilliant and blows away any charges that PD can't act.

See you next week for S5 episode 1, when we find out how our heroes got out of the end of series cliffhanger. Can't wait!

Oh, I have to bail unexpectedly, to drive my daughter somewhere.

I probably won't make it back before the episode finishes, so I will say here and now that the very last Avon moment - where he smiles and grimaces - is just brilliant and blows away any charges that PD can't act.

See you next week for S5 episode 1, when we find out how our heroes got out of the end of series cliffhanger. Can't wait!