“Me green’ouse!” Our raincoated chum then adds, in a conspiratorial tone, a further cryptic detail: “It’s the revels.” These ‘revels’ perhaps hint at some callous Bullingdon Club-style bacchanalia, but beyond that we know nothing. “They keep movin’ me ’ouse…” he groffs, jowls presumably a-wobble, to the Duty Sergeant. ’Tis the season and all that, but Man In Mackintosh is not feeling particularly jolly as he pitches up at a provincial police station somewhere in the north of England. Indeed, if Russell T Davies hadn’t got his arse so spectacularly into gear in 2005, it would have proved Doctor Who’s only Christmas special. And as this Dalek-free instalmentself-consciously stands apart from the other eleven-twelfths of the Dalek epic, it can be also be described as Doctor Who’s first ever Christmas special. Man in Mackintosh is named as such in the credits of this demented seventh episode of the 1965 serial The Daleks’ Master Plan, which we’ve gathered to discuss in this festive DWM thanks to its status as the first episode of Doctor Whoto be broadcast on Christmas Day. The 1965 episode The Feast of Steven even has its own ‘Man in Mackintosh’, who turns up with his own unfathomable – indeed, almost unbearable – engima. This observation is no less true of Doctor Who. As the novel’s sometime protagonist Leopold Bloom muses, peering through the grey air of the graveyard: “Always someone turns up who you never thought of.” Is he a physical manifestation of grief? Is it Joyce himself, haunting his own story? Anything is possible. It’s like UNIT dating for literary wonks. Did wily Heathcliff, late of wiley Wuthering Heights, murder the brother of his beloved Cathy? Who would Dickens have fingered as the killer of Edwin Drood, if indeed he was killed at all? And, in James Joyce’s inimitable Ulysses (“an oddball romp, 6/10”), who is the enigmatic ‘man in the macintosh’ who looms as 13th mourner at the funeral of Paddy Dignam? Theory upon thesis upon treatise have hazarded an identity for this brooding, brown-coated figure. "You more than most should marvel at the might of our Monarch"ĭown the years, great minds have pondered at length the unsolved mysteries of literature.We’ve just saved reality from a time bomb, or something of the kind. □ (Well, part 2 of the previous one.) With the lovely ‘Something Who’ team, for ‘Rings o… /i/web/status/1… 2 months ago Kenneth at Mighty Hoopla day two /DiariesKenneth… 2 months ago Gonna tell my kids this was Stranger Things youtu.be/XBeuBFE6yHU?t=… 1 month ago Earth Story: The Gunfighters & The AwakeningĪ beautiful book.The Underwater Menace episode 2 & Galaxy 4: Airlock.
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