Two people are drawn to a remote town and to each other without explanation.Two people are drawn to a remote town and to each other without explanation.Two people are drawn to a remote town and to each other without explanation.
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Written by the Tea Boy
Sixty years on, it's easy to sneer at this long-running series which can still give us a few half-hours of mildly intriguing entertainment, but this one seriously lets down the standard.
Your eternally gracious host John Newland starts by explaining DNA ("genetic memory") to an audience that might well have needed this entry-level overview. But it's about the only convincing dialogue in the whole episode.
The glamorous Norma Crane is cast as a woman about to be married, yet off on a rail journey unaccompanied, apparently for just one night. When she finds she has been given the wrong ticket, the clerk says it was the one she asked for, but replaces it anyway. Somehow she gets on the wrong train, where she can't help staring at a man across the aisle, travelling with his wife and son, and he can't stop staring (rather dumbly) at her.
Arriving at a small seaside resort, she shares a taxi to the same hotel as the other family, after some utterly meaningless exchanges with the driver. Suddenly, and with no explanation, she and the strange husband are together, and acting quite intimately, with the wife and son conveniently nowhere to be seen. As for continuity, that goes right out of the window. Cut straight to a forest, where they're riding on horseback. She takes a fall, with her face untouched, yet there's a graze showing on it. She starts talking in a haunted way about a "second chance", whatever that's supposed to mean. He tells his wife "I have to see her once more". And there we have to leave it, so as not to spoil what little story there is.
It all puts us in mind of the words jokingly attributed to Marie Corelli: "I feel there is a something, somewhere, if only we could put our finger on it."
Worst one so far. Skip it.
Your eternally gracious host John Newland starts by explaining DNA ("genetic memory") to an audience that might well have needed this entry-level overview. But it's about the only convincing dialogue in the whole episode.
The glamorous Norma Crane is cast as a woman about to be married, yet off on a rail journey unaccompanied, apparently for just one night. When she finds she has been given the wrong ticket, the clerk says it was the one she asked for, but replaces it anyway. Somehow she gets on the wrong train, where she can't help staring at a man across the aisle, travelling with his wife and son, and he can't stop staring (rather dumbly) at her.
Arriving at a small seaside resort, she shares a taxi to the same hotel as the other family, after some utterly meaningless exchanges with the driver. Suddenly, and with no explanation, she and the strange husband are together, and acting quite intimately, with the wife and son conveniently nowhere to be seen. As for continuity, that goes right out of the window. Cut straight to a forest, where they're riding on horseback. She takes a fall, with her face untouched, yet there's a graze showing on it. She starts talking in a haunted way about a "second chance", whatever that's supposed to mean. He tells his wife "I have to see her once more". And there we have to leave it, so as not to spoil what little story there is.
It all puts us in mind of the words jokingly attributed to Marie Corelli: "I feel there is a something, somewhere, if only we could put our finger on it."
Worst one so far. Skip it.
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- Goingbegging
- Oct 14, 2021
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