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Old 22-08-2005, 05:16 PM
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Does anyone remember a 80s BBC drama called Dead Head, first eposiode showed a decapitated head in a box.

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Yes I do.

Although I can picture the male lead his name escapes me. Dennis...? I think Lindsay Duncan was in it as well.

I remember the tabloids ran some shock horror sex & violence tittle tattle about this and perhaps for that reason the BBC have never repeated it.

The papers today ran similar pieces about a BBC/HBO coproduction entitled "Rome", which stars.......Lindsay Duncan!

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Denis Lawson and George Baker, is it my photographic memory or.... http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0088501/ [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
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...the other reason being that it really wasn't very good - I seem to remember watching the whole thing on its original broadcast, but I'm not at all sure why I bothered!

A major reason for the controversy, I suspect, was that it was written by Howard Brenton, whose The Romans in Britain led to a huge censorship row when staged at the National Theatre in the early 1980s. Brenton's name alone would have been more than enough to set tabloid alarm bells ringing.
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Yes, I remember it too. Had to think hard, though - wasn't a member of the royal family the actual perpetrator? A tad controversial, too, what?!
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...the other reason being that it really wasn't very good - I seem to remember watching the whole thing on its original broadcast, but I'm not at all sure why I bothered!

A major reason for the controversy, I suspect, was that it was written by Howard Brenton, whose The Romans in Britain led to a huge censorship row when staged at the National Theatre in the early 1980s. Brenton's name alone would have been more than enough to set tabloid alarm bells ringing.
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Lawson! That was it. I'll admit I was too lazy to go to imdb.

Wetherby Pond I suspect you're right about it's overall quality. Although I know I watched at least some of it I can't remember a thing that happened which is normally a bad sign.

Leonie Mellinger was in it though so it can't have been a complete write off.

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