Sixties
City presents
a wide-ranging series of
articles on all aspects of the Sixties, penned by the creator of the iconic
60s music paper Mersey
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Sixties
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a wide-ranging series of
articles on all aspects of the Sixties, penned by the creator of the iconic
60s music paper Mersey
Beat
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A BBC series of 29 fifty-minute episodes in monochrome, originally broadcast from June 1966 – March 1967. The series was created by Don Cotton and Richard Harrison at the suggestion of Sydney Newman and produced by Verity Lambert. In the Victorian age, Adam Llewellyn De Vere Adamant is a popular hero, a master swordsman, boxer and athlete, dedicated to routing evil. His deadliest foe is a man known only as The Face, a villain whose features are concealed behind a leather mask. Louise is a woman Adamant loves, but will not marry in case her life is endangered by someone using her as a weapon against him, although it is Louise who lures him into a trap. The Face has discovered the secret of suspended animation and injects Adamant with a drug to give him eternal life, then freezes him in a block of ice. |
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The last sight Adamant sees is that of The Face kissing
the hand of Louise. The year is 1902. 64 years later, in 1966, during work
on a building site, the block of ice is discovered and Adamant is revived.
He is so overwhelmed by the sights and sounds – traffic, transistor radios,
women in outrageous fashions, huge neon signs, that he faints. He’s rescued
by a young mini-skirted girl, Georgina Jones, who joins him on a series
of adventures in ‘Swinging London’. Due to the fact that his fortune has increased tremendously as a result of compound interest, Adam is a wealthy man. He buys a penthouse overlooking the River Thames and hires a butler, William E. Simms, a former music-hall artist, who proves an invaluable ally. Over the years, Louise has attended to the frozen body of The Face, and revives him from suspended animation. She is now an old woman and The Face poisons her, resulting in a vow from Adamant that he will avenge her. |
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Season: A Vintage Year For Scoundrels Death Has A Thousand Faces More Deadly Than The Sword The Sweet Smell of Success Allah Is Not Always With You The Terribly Happy Embalmers To Set A Deadly Fashion The Last Sacrifice Sing A Song Of Murder The Doomsday Plan Death By Appointment Only Beauty Is An Ugly Word The League Of Uncharitable Ladies Ticket To Terror The Village Of Evil ‘D' For Destruction |
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Ridley
Scott directed the episodes ‘The League Of Uncharitable Ladies’, ‘Death
Begins At Seventy’ and ‘The Resurrectionists’. Verity Lambert was the first
producer of Doctor Who and this series was her next assignment after leaving
the show. |
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Bill Harry attended the Liverpool College of Art with Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon and made the arrangements for Brian Epstein to visit The Cavern, where he saw The Beatles for the first time. Bill was a member of 'The Dissenters' and the founder and editor of 'Mersey Beat', the iconic weekly music newspaper that documented the early Sixties music scene in the Liverpool area and is possibly best known for being the first periodical to feature a local band called 'The Beatles'. He has worked as a high powered publicist, doing PR for acts such as Suzi Quatro, Free, The Arrows and Hot Chocolate and has managed press campaigns for record labels such as CBS, EMI, Polydor. Bill is the critically acclaimed author of a large number of books about The Beatles and the 60s era including 'The Beatles Who's Who', 'The Best Years of the Beatles' and the Fab Four's 'Encyclopedia' series. He has appeared on 'Good Morning America' and has received a Gold Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. |
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