The Monocled Mutineer

[mackenzie]

Does anyone else remember this series? It was repeated only once by the BBC and after questions were raised in Parliament the BBC decided never to show it again.

Anyway, it was released on DVD 12 months ago, and I have just watched the first episode again after 22 years.

Probably one of the BBC's finest hours during the 1980's. Paul McGann was made for that part, and just the first episode has again had me smiling and crying in equal measure.

You can get it on Amazon.

 

[Malcontent]

Yes, and I think you have posted about this on here before, unless I am very much mistaken.
It was very good from what I remember.

 

[manclad]

I think the character he played was called Percy Topliss.
Didn't he & some of the other Tommys go on the rampage somewhere around Armietieres ?
I,m sure one of the R & R areas for the battle weary troops was at Le Touquet Plage on the Picardy coast - I had a few days near there in 1992.
It is now quite an upmarket resort.

 

[mackenzie]

Yes, and I think you have posted about this on here before, unless I am very much mistaken.
It was very good from what I remember.

Oh, have I? My apologies.....I was probably asking how to find a copy.

Anyway, it's now on Amazon and I just wanted to tell those also interested where to find it.

 

[mackenzie]

I think the character he played was called Percy Topliss.
Didn't he & some of the other Tommys go on the rampage somewhere around Armietieres ?
I,m sure one of the R & R areas for the battle weary troops was at Le Touquet Plage on the Picardy coast - I had a few days near there in 1992.
It is now quite an upmarket resort.

It's quite wrong historically on certain points but still a great series. The facts show that Toplis could not have been directly involved in the mutiny. However, it is two great stories entwined.

 

[kronkonite]

A fabulous companion to this series would be "Goodbye to all that" by Robert Graves
which tells of his experiences of ww1

some of which include the amateurish use of gas
by us
a brilliant read

 

[mackenzie]

A fabulous companion to this series would be "Goodbye to all that" by Robert Graves
which tells of his experiences of ww1

some of which include the amateurish use of gas
by us
a brilliant read

They show that in the first episode of MM. One of my relatives remembered her father in law dying of the gas he took in during WW1.

 

[simonk]

quality. I always remembered watching that - wondered why it hadnt been back on. Got into all that WW1 stuff after reading Charleys War cartoon strip (in Victor I think) Was the best drawn strip ever. They were gonna bring a book out - think Im gonna have a browse now

 

[manclad]

Tommy Atkins.
For it's Tommy this,and Tommy that,and chuck him out
the brute,
But it's good old Mr.Atkins when the guns begin to shoot.

Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)