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Bouquet of Barbed Wire, will you be allowed to watch it this time around?

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kittya · 28/08/2010 21:47

I noticed they have remade it.

I distinctly remember been sent to bed as the credits were coming on, I mustve been eight. When my parents were out, the babysitter used to let us watch it.

I cant wait to watch it with a bottle of wine and no-one telling me to get to bed!

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extremelychocolateymilkroll · 29/08/2010 20:20

Your post rang such a bell. My mum never allowed me to watch it but she sometimes went out on the night it was only to discover quite some time later that my dad had let us stay up to watch it.

GeorginaWorsley · 29/08/2010 20:44

Me too! I was not allowed to watch it either.

Alouiseg · 29/08/2010 20:46

I read it! I was about 13..............Andrea Newman? If I remember correctly.

KurriKurri · 29/08/2010 21:25

I watched it with my mum first time round, but I think I was about 15/16 when it was on. I'm quite looking forward to watching it again since it has the lovely Trevor Eve in it.

tegan · 29/08/2010 21:44

i have never heard of it. When i saw the ad it thought it was something he had recently done

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kittya · 30/08/2010 09:08

Is he playing the old father?

I can remember it like it was yesterday!! and no-one Ive spoke to can remember it!

There was someone called Prue and, wasnt his wife Cassandra?

Didnt he get off with his sons wife? or something like that.

It was our Dandelion and Burdock and a packet of crisps night in with the babysitter.

Defo couldnt watch it with parents in, that, and Pennies from Heaven!!

Is it just me or was there alot more nudity going on in the 70's?

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diddl · 30/08/2010 09:14

Oh I remember that!

Didn´t the mother have an affair with the son in law?

And the father was in love with his daughter?

BudaisintheZONE · 30/08/2010 09:14

I wasn't allowed to watch it either. I think it was mostly so my mum knew we were all in bed and the evening was hers! She was the same with that dreadful programme, The Brothers, that was on on Sunday evenings. I HATED it!

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kittya · 30/08/2010 09:24

I wanted to say about the daughter but I wasnt sure if I was dreaming about the incest. I bet they have tamed it right down.

I distinctly remember someone putting lipstick on their nipples in pennies from heaven and that short actor (from the train robbery) having a good grope!!

The things they used to show, now its all guns and murders.

Remember Play for Today? that was another we werent allowed.

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diddl · 30/08/2010 09:31

I was 13 I think & remember watching it with mum!

I don´t know if there was incest, or if the father was "unhealthily obssessed".

But iirc, she was a manipulative bitch & used his feelings to get her own way.

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kittya · 30/08/2010 09:32

wasnt there an American in it also?

Oh, Im really getting excited now!!

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diddl · 30/08/2010 09:36

Gavin-played by James Aubrey.

I remember thinking he was gorgeous.
Just googled & he died recentlyShockSad

WhatsWrongWithYou · 30/08/2010 09:40

Bob Hoskins, Kittya - God that was squirm-inducing! Creepy as well.

I can only remember brief glimpses of it, but I don't think I liked it; just seemed to be people moaning and arguing. Susan Penhaligon was the daughter, very pretty but I can't remember ever seeing her in anything else.

And Play for Today - I remember feeling shocked my Mum and Dad were letting me watch it. A lot of it was self-consciously ground-breaking and edgy, but I think the reason it seems shocking today is that none of it was sanitized - the actors were warts-and-all and it wasn't shot to look glamorous.

akhems · 30/08/2010 09:42

ooh when's it on and which channel please?

KurriKurri · 30/08/2010 11:58

Monday 6th sept. ITV.

There's an article about it in the RT - sounds as if they may have tamed down the incest thing a bit. I do remember it being seen as quite shocking at the time. But my mum and I used to watch quite a few things together that other kids probably weren't allowed to. She was pretty unshockableGrin

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kittya · 30/08/2010 18:09

Its a shame theyve tamed it and yet they will happily let us what crack heads smacking their mothers at 730 on a week night!

I cant wait, hope its better than Mistresses

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kittya · 01/09/2010 17:12

Remember that other drama with Trevor Eve, it was very similiar?

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MoominMymbleandMy · 01/09/2010 17:22

I must have been very young because my mother assumed I wasn't paying any attention to the TV and was just playing quietly in the background.

Oh what a shock she got when she was filling in her sister on a missed episode and I piped up: "And that's when the affair began!" meaning between Gavin and Cassandra.

I read the novel for the first time the other day and although all the sex seemed fairly tame, the casual acceptance of Gavin beating the crap out of Prue revolted me.

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kittya · 01/09/2010 17:53

I still cant get over the amount of nudity that was acceptable and you dont see any now!!

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bebesequin · 01/09/2010 20:53

I was sent to bed too in 76- my mum and gran loved it-hope this version as good

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kittya · 02/09/2010 09:16

someone told me that the books were pretty good at the time.

I hope its as good, even if it is tamed.

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swanandduck · 02/09/2010 11:35

I wasn't allowed watch it either, but saw the repeat years later. I remember being envious of my best friend who's mum let her stay up and see it.

coolma · 02/09/2010 11:39

I remember it - Frank Finlay played the dad - I was about 10 I guess and remember my mum loving it. Did anyone watch 'A sense of Guilt' a few years back? Another brilliant Andrea newman with the too-sexy-for-words trev in it.

sue52 · 02/09/2010 13:05

I remember it well though I'm not sure I'd let my 14 year old watch it.