i claudius

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channel 31 has just started up again in adelaide and it's showing the famous i claudius drama series at lunch times on wednesday and friday.

it just goes to show that you dont need lots of money to put on quality programing, just look at what the other stations have on at middays:

*ch10 - jerry springer
*ch9 - dr phill
*ch7 - crappy midday movie
*ch2 - take the high road
*sbs - subtitles

well done ch31.
 

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Originally posted by noodnuts
channel 31 has just started up again in adelaide and it's showing the famous i claudius drama series at lunch times on wednesday and friday.

it just goes to show that you dont need lots of money to put on quality programing, just look at what the other stations have on at middays:

*ch10 - jerry springer
*ch9 - dr phill
*ch7 - crappy midday movie
*ch2 - take the high road
*sbs - subtitles

well done ch31.
We tried to tune in Ch31 and couldn't find it anywhere! And we've just had Mr Antenna out recently so we've got good antennas!
 

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I remember when that was on on like 9.30 on fri or sat nights on ABC, bit much for me at that age. There was a comedy series about ancient rome on not long after that on ABC, anyone remember what it was called?
 

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#10
Originally posted by Adrian Shelton
I remember when that was on on like 9.30 on fri or sat nights on ABC, bit much for me at that age. There was a comedy series about ancient rome on not long after that on ABC, anyone remember what it was called?
"Up Pompei"?

Starred Frankie Howerd, shamelessly mugging his way through a catalouge of double entendres.
 
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The late,great Frankie Howard had no peer when it came to that most English of the great arts...the "Bawdy comedy" . Even that other great practitioner of the art of the sniggering double entendre Sid James could not match Frankie in a Toga mouthing such gems as " I have to go and see my mistress...I call her my miistress because I SERVE her.." His other great contribution to the Pommie phyche, his purched lipped " Oooooohhh" when a hit of a bit of "Hows your father?" is about is something that deserves a knighthood. After all they made Barbara Windsor a Dame.
 

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Originally posted by noodnuts
caligua who's married to his sister just strung here up by the wrists and cut her unborn baby from her womb.
Didn't he eat it as well?

Does anyone know how much poetic license the creators of this series took when depicting Caligula's descent into madness. I ask this because I read somewhere else that he had his cousin's head chopped off because he was coughing all the time, which happened in 'I, Claudius', so perhaps it's a fairly accurate depiction.
 

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Originally posted by Possumisagun
Didn't he eat it as well?

Does anyone know how much poetic license the creators of this series took when depicting Caligula's descent into madness. I ask this because I read somewhere else that he had his cousin's head chopped off because he was coughing all the time, which happened in 'I, Claudius', so perhaps it's a fairly accurate depiction.
He also went to invade England once after having his arse kicked by the germans. They got to the beach about to board the boats and he ordered all of his soldiers to collect all the shells on the beach in their helmets. Once this had been done he declared that he had beaten the sea gods.

There is a movie about him as well.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/

A few months back on Optus/Foxtel he was featured in a series of 'The Worlds Most Evil People'. Out of about the 18 episodes made about 10 of them were based on Romans.
 
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