Paddington 1976 TV Series "A Shopping Expedition" Review

Paddington really is a character that needs no introduction as thanks to the live action films alot of people seem to know who he is. Yet those same people nine times out of ten don't realise that there was ana animated show with the character and yet it's that show that I find to be really enjoyable so much so that I got the DVD of it for Christmas and will continue to do reviews based off of the series until it's all done and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Paddington go shopping with the episode in question being called simply just "A Shopping Expedition" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Paddington , Mrs. Brown and Judy Brown go shopping to help find Paddington some pajamas. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with the episodes plot being as delightfully simple as you'd expect from his show and yet this is something that doesn't hold the episode back as the episodes plot does shine in how simple it is die to the fact that it allows the characters to be charming and for the world of this show to be more charming because of it with this something that might not be possible if the episode had a more complicated plot and heck even all of the live actions films knew to keep the plot simple as that is something that would allow there characters to be simple and while yes the plots of the films do have to be epic in a sense due to the fact that they are films and we expect that from them we don't have that which is something that does mean a plot that really should be simple remains exactly that simple as a plot about someone going shopping doesn't scream high end gripping television and yet the episodes plot works due to how simple it is as alot of the British public even today can relate to going to shopping to buy any clothes not just pajamas with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is of course Sir Michael Hordern with him even doing something that was totally unexpected. Which is instead of using his usual voice for all of the characters something which he would normally do for this show he does give some of the characters there own unique voices as he gives the salesclerk a more posh sounding voice whilst the store manager is given a more upper class voice but one that's not quite as posh as the sales clerks voice which is something that does make sense as this show is meant to be London and therefor the owners of these types of stores would have more posh sounding voices as would alot of the people that work for them and yet it's also something that makes you wonder why he didn't give the rest of the shows characters there own unique voices as he does nothing to alter his voice when he's playing the Brown family which is fine as he's essentially reading us a story and serving as a storyteller for the show think of the early Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends and what the storytellers on that show usually did as that's what Sir Michael Hordern is doing here in this show and it is something he does really well as he has a splendid voice for animation as his voice is one that is soothing and is relaxing for kids to hear but at the same time tho it would always help if he did give more of the characters in this episode there own unique voice as that would make it alot more easier for us the audience to work out whom is talking and when but to be fair given that he's a narrator for the show it's not really something that he has to do as the episode does work just fine the way that it is but it is something that would make the episode better as it would stop alot of the characters from sounding the same.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With it being made clear as day that the episodes only actor is having alot of fun doing the show as you wouldn't really go to the lengths of giving the characters even if there just small one off characters there own unique sounding voice if you weren't having fun doing the show in the first place with that fun really shining through in Sir Michael Horderns performance with him quite literally being the voice for this show and the fact that the makers of this show managed to get an established actor to do this kids is something that does speak wonders to the character of Paddington Bear as a whole with the episodes best actor also of course being it's only actor as it's clear as day that Sir Michael Hordern really was the best choice to do the voice over work for this show as he speaks his lines with such passion and grace that it almost comes across as him being a fan of the character with him therefor wanting to turn in a good performance because of it and while yes it does help that he was a good actor in his own right the fact that he still managed to turn in a good performance not only in this show but in this episode is still something that is worth talking about with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actor has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of him naturally something which does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode really is the legends and the greats that are currently over at FilmFair. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with the episodes animation being of a really high quality in this episode with all of the 2D characters getting some really nice and fluid movements to them which was something that was kind of a surprise as it make you wonder how they animated those characters in the first place due to the fact that the world that the show takes place in is a 3D world and yet you can tell that the animator Barry Leith had alot of fun in animating Paddington and alot of the other characters in the episode all of which are things that do come through in the final episode as while there aren't any impressive shots in this episode that make you wonder how it is that they managed to pull them off the episode purely from an animation point of view still looks really good and while yes granted the episodes animation does look a little bit more dated when compared to the CGI cartoons that kids get together it's the fact that it looks dated that adds a certain charm to the episode as you can see all of the blood , sweat and tears the animators poored into each and every frame of animation in this episode with that being something that you just don't get in more modern cartoons as all of them are now done entirely in CGI and because of that they lack personality and they lack charm so say what you will about this episode and it's animation but the one thing that you can't say is that it lacks charm and personality.

Speaking of charm that's the one thing that this episode is in spades as it's a very charming episode of the show. With this stemming from the fact that the episode does technically finish of a storyline that was started in episode two of this show with Paddington finally getting to London and getting his pajamas and yet what also helps to make the episode be all the more charming is that not only do we get to see Paddington messing things up in his lovable way but we also get to see how the outside world treats him as well something which was hinted at in the previous episode as well as we get to see the sales clerk get flustered when he sees that his customer is a bear who walks and talks and with the manager who gets confused when Paddington falls asleep in shop window bottom line there is plenty of charm to be found in this episode and while yes granted the episode isn't as charming as the first or even second episode for that matter this episode still does have moments in it that remind you of just how good that this show is and could be as we get to see Paddington , Mrs. Brown and Judy Brown all get to be there typical selves which is something that is more then enough for this episode to be a charm filled episode as the characters themselves are very charming characters that you want to see more of and while granted the episode doesn't go into there characters given that this episode is also technically finishing of a plot line it really doesn't have to as both the first and second episodes of this show did all that in the first place with this episode being alot more focused on just giving us these charming characters and letting them do what they do best which in this case results in what could have been seen as being fun episode now being one that's both fun and charming due to the fact that these lovable characters are just being there lovable charming selves.

If there's a few things that this episode gets wrong its the fact that the episode doesn't really take the time to show us how Paddington got himself confused and ended up in the shops store window in the first place. Which ranted is a very minor thing to bring up but it is something that serves as a plot point for the episode as it's due to the that that people start buying the pajamas from this one store in the first place and yet it's something that should have been shown to us the audience like maybe Paddington got himself a bit confused because of the fact that he couldn't really see where he was going and therefor chose the corridor that led to the store window in the first place as that then would have been something and it's somethin that would have made it more understandable in the first place with the other thing that the episode doesn't really get right is the fact that it doesn't show us much of the Browns in this episode which fair enough this is a show called Paddington and therefor he should of course be the main focus of all of these episodes but it still would have been nice to see both Mrs. Brown and Judy appear in more then just two scenes in the episode as that then would help to fully establish them as characters something which the episode could have done and while yes granted it might well have been this have in the book version as well which is fair enough is the show is meant to be adapting the books pretty much word for word but what works well in the books might not always work well in the show with this episode being a prime example of that as while yes this is a really good and funny episode in it's own it's those little things that make the episode feel like it could have been much more better then what it already was in the first place.

This is an episode that is the very definition of a nothing episode and yet this is not a bad thig at all as this episode is only one part of a larger story that being seeing Paddington adapt to life in his new home of London. With this episode and technically the next episode since they are both adaptions of stories from the first Paddington book called "A Bear Called Paddington" this episode is the one that does end the story as the next episode focuses on something else entirely with this episode not having that much going on plot wise as alot of it just revolves around Paddington getting some pajamas and that's it which for a kids show where the average episode of each episode was around five minuets is something that was to be expected but at the same time tho you do still expect there to be more things going on in the episode to help it earn that running time and while yes adapting the stories in order is something that does help with this as while the Browns are learning to trust Paddington so are we the audience it's not really something that goes the other way as we don't get to see Paddington learning to trust the Browns and while the episode doesn't need that as that's something that it could be argued was done in the previous two episodes given that none of this shows episodes touch upon that it still would have been nice to see them start that bond off in someway shape or form and this is the where the first movie does actually fit in really well as they do take the time to show us Paddington learning to trust in this case Mr. Brown and it's something that could have been in these first few episodes as well and while this episode does still work despite the fact that it's a nothing episode one can't help but wonder what this episode would have been like if we did get to see Mrs. Brown and Judy more in the episode and if they did get to play a more active role in the episodes plot.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly five minuets and one second. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this shows regular episodes with the episode having more then plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place as none of this shows episode really need that long of a running time in order to tell there stories as they are only adapting certain parts of the books and therefor they could tell those stories in a shorter running time and the episode would still feel like it had a very satisfactory ending to it and yet this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot and while this is something that could be seen as being a bad thing it is something that does work well enough in the episodes favor as none of this shows episodes really need to fully develop each of there plots as there only adapting certain parts of the books and that's really it and to be fair those don't require plots that are well developed however the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's characters either which is something that the episode could have done but at the same time it also didn't need to do as it cold be argued that the other episodes did that which is something that would be fair enough but at the same time tho it would have been nice to find out something about Paddington something which would have made as this was a story from the characters debut book but at the same time it's not something that was needed in this episode tho but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode having some really funny jokes in it all of which are jokes that work really well as they feel like the kind of jokes that these characters would make which is something that does make this episodes feel very character driven with there not really being a bad joke in the episode as there all jokes that work and land really well in the episode all of which are thigs that do make this episode be all the more better and funnier then what it really had any right to be with the best joke in the hole entire episode being the entire act of the episode as we get to see Paddington get himself confused trying to find the stores dressing rooms only for him to fall asleep in the shops store window which is a really funny idea as it is something that Paddington would do given the fact that he hasn't seen one before now with the episode being filled to the brim with good jokes like Paddington giving the store clerk a hard stare when he starts to have an argument with Mrs. Brown or when he finds out that he slept in the store window he just says that he's been recognized which is a really cute joke and inface that's the best word to describe this episodes jokes as they are cute but they are cute in all of the best ways possible with the makers of this episode really making sure that all of the episodes jokes not only land but land hard in the process in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is a really good episode of the show as while not alot happens in this episode we still get to see the characters be there usual charming selfs as well as jokes that will make viewers both young and old laugh out loud as that's just how good that this episode and it's jokes really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

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Doctor Who: The Interstellar Song Contest Review

It's safe to say that Doctor Who has had quite alot of campy episodes in the past and weather or not those episodes should have been camp in the first place is most certainly up to you the viewer to decide. However the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today is perhaps the only episode in the shows very long history where it would have felt wrong if it wasn't camp and so then join me as I review the episode that sees two classic characters return with the episode in question being called simply just "The Interstellar Song Contest" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Doctor and Belinda stop of on a space station that is hosting it's annual song contest that's broadcast across the galaxy the dup find themselves in trouble when the broadcast is hijacked and they must find away to defeat the villains before they kill three trillion people. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as while the plot of the episode is arguably more lighthearted alot of the time then the rest of this seasons plots are given the fact that the characters are quite clearly appearing in a spoof of the Eurovision Song Contest an event that is known to be camp and quite lighthearted it does make sense that this episode would follow suit but at the same time tho this plot is still one that does still work with the context of it being a Doctor Who episode as we still get alot of the things that we've come to expect from this season of the show and yet the plot of this episode is one that does also feel a bit on the thin side of things as well as the episode doesn't really put alot of focus onto it's plot rather it instead puts more focus onto the episodes musical numbers with this having the adverse effect of making this episodes plot feel more like an afterthought this being despite the fact that the premise alone which was described as being "Eurovision meets Die Hard" being something that does sound like a really fun plot it just needed a better writer to help to bring it to life is all with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Julie Dray as Sabine. Also starring in this episode is Rylan Clark as Himself , Imogen Kingsley Smith as A Runner , Kiruna Stamell as Nina Maxwell , Iona Anderson as Wynn Aura-Kin , Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood , Charlie Condou as Gary Gabbastone , Kadiff Kirwan as Mike Gabbastone , Freddie Fox as Kid , Miriam-Teak Lee as Cora Saint Bavier , Akemnji Ndifornyen as Len Kazah , Christina Rotondo as Liz Lizardine , Graham Norton as Himself , Abdul Sessay as Jeddy Kine , Archie Panjabi as The Rani and Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With both Ncuti and Varada being really good in this episode with this being something that was kind of expected as all throughout this season of the show those two are always turning in some really good performances with this being something that even those that don't like this era of the show all that much have to admit is true as the pair of them are a pair of really good actors in their own right with it being helped by the fact that alot of this episodes guest actors like for example Miriam-Teak Lee , Kadiff Kirwan and Charlie Condou do really good jobs as well with all three of them feeling that fit in in the world of Doctor Who with even the returning Carole Ann Ford just slipping right back into character with it feeling like that she never really stopped playing Susan as while she doesn't get alot of screen time in this episode she is still really good with it being made clear as day that she is having alot of fun in the episode with the best actor in the episode being Ncuti Gatwa as we do get to see another side to his version of The Doctor where we do get to see him pushed to the point where he believes that killing someone in cold blood is the best thing with Ncuti putting all that across beautifully in the episode with the acting that's in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first lace which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Pixomondo and Real SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with the makers of this episode making some really good use of CGI in this episode as while this episode was always going to be an effects heavy episode just due to the amount of crowd shots and shots of the space station alone there is a shockingly high amount of practical effects to be in the episode as well with them all blending in really well with the episodes CGI effects and while it could be argued that this episode does go overboard with the amount of CGI that they use so much so that it makes this episode feel alot more like a cartoon then it does a live action show there was really never going to be anyway that you could do this episode without using alot of CGI in it just due to the fact that the episode does things with it's characters that you couldn't possibly do for real with the episode having some really cool looking CGI effects in the episode like the shot of all of the people being sucked out on the space station is a really cool looking effect with the same thing even being true for the shot where the ice on The Doctors body breaks away when he's stuck in space and while yes it would have been nice if this episode was done fully practically as then the effects would age at a much more slower rate the makers of this episode did use that Disney money really well as we got some really good looking effects in this episode.

This episode is known for having two major characters returning that being of course The Rani and Susan Foreman. With both characters having last been seen in an episode of Doctor Who being the dreadful charity special Dimensions In Time with Susan's last appearance in the regular show being all the way back in Peter Davidson's era of the show in The Five Doctors so to say that having her appear again in this episode even tho it' just for a few minuets is something that is a big deal because as of this writing Carol Ann Ford is the longest surviving Doctor Who actor having appeared in the very first episode of the show but while it was really nice to see them again one has to wonder why they were included in the episode in the first place as the whole point of this new era of the show was to get a much more younger audience to Doctor Who and there not going to know who Susan is and nor are they going to know who The Rani is either as those characters haven't been seen since the nineties with this being case of the makers of the show including nods to classic Who for the older fan but not really giving the newer fan a reason to care abut these characters returning and while it could be argued that the next two episodes do give them a reason to care for The Rani and why she is returning but for Susan we get nothing as The Doctor doesn't even mention seeing her to Belinda at the end of the episode where it would have made perfect sense and it would have given the newer audience some background information on the character of Susan as well now there is s good chance that the new audience might still have understood who Susan is and why they should care for her in the originally planned ending for this season which we do know thanks to the scripts for this season being released that there was a different ending which Carol Ann Ford herself even admitted that she was going to be a part of the ending but as things stand the new audience isn't given a reason to care for her character which is a shame as seeing her back as Susan Foreman really is a big deal.

Whilst alot of the episodes of this show are indeed camp this is the only episode that should be camp due to the fact that it's spoofing a camp singing contest. With the fact that the episode is camp being something that does work in the episodes as it allows the episode to take it self seriously enough to the point where as the audience buy into the plot and into the threat that the characters are in but also it doesn't take it self that seriously that the episode can't stop and make a joke or two every once in a while with these more campier moments being where the episode does being to shine as it's there that the episode does feel like that's being a proper spoof of the Eurovision Song Contest and is going all in on that idea which is something that it really had to do i order for the idea to work as best that it could do as the episode would have felt off if it was still spoofing Eurovision but was instead playing everything super straight which yes would have been good for the drama aspect of the show as this show is meant to be an action drama show afterall but that doesn't mean that you can't have fun with it's concepts and that is something that the episode does really well even down to the fact that it is has a song from a band that was in Eurovision itself play over a montage which is a pretty funny in the first place with it being something that does embrace just how mad that Eurovision can be alot of the time and it's scenes like that and when The Doctor uses a confetti canon to push himself to airlock and get back inside the space station that does show you that the makers of this episode new full well that they could have more fun in this episode as they take full advantage of it's premise and go all in with the kinds of jokes that they could do in this episode. 

There is one point where alot of people do agree that this episode doesn't work quite that well that being the episodes main villain Kid. As he's a character that wants revenge for the death of his people and that's it as the episode doesn't really go into that much detail about what it is that makes him tic due to the fact that the episode doesn't focus on him all that much with the episode being more focused on showing us The Doctor and Belinda when it could have spent alot more time in giving us more of a well rounded villain as he does come across as being more of an after thought then anything else as while the idea of having someone be out for revenge for the death of there people is a really good idea the episode does kind of squash that idea by showing us a character that is also out to do the exact same thing but in a more peaceful way in the character of Cora Saint Bavier who just wants to sing a song that her people sang and to win the show as a way to show the company that run the contest that there race will never be forgotten and yet it's her that gets alot more attention from the episode when it would have made more sense for Kid to get alot more of the attention due to the fact that he's the episodes main villain with things being made even more worse when you remember that this is the episode where The Rani reappears with her being a more better villain then what Kid is and while the episode did have to reintroduce The Rani as she plays a big part in the next two episodes here she kind of takes away attention from the episodes main villain when if Kid was more developed as a villain then he would be all the more memorable as a character.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty seven minuets and thirty one seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have with this episode having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet in saying this tho the episode doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time that it really should have done to fully develop it's plot and while this would usually be seen as being a bad thing this is a case where having an underdeveloped plot here it is something that does work in the episodes favor as the episode is meant to be alot more fun and spoofing something that is really camp in the first place and therefor the episode didn't really need to have a fully developed plot to work in the first place rather it just needed the basic setup and that's it and yet the episode also doesn't really take the time to fully develop any of it's characters and while that's OK for The Doctor and Belinda as there you could make the argument that they have the rest of this series to get there character development in the first place the same thing cannot be said for the episodes guest characters all of whom come across as being blanks of wood as the episode doesn't give any of them character development as we know as much about all of the episodes guest characters coming out of the episode then we did coming into the episode with this being something that could have been fixed by giving the guest characters more times to shine and by giving them more scenes that show of just who they are as characters something which would have made them be all the more memorable as characters but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode not really having that much action in it which given the fact that this episode is basically Die Hard in space is something that does make alot of sense but at the same time tho it would have made perfect sense if the episode did have some over the top action in it as this is meant to be a really over the top episode and therefor it's something that wouldn't seem out of place in this episode with the best action scene in the whole entire episode being where The Doctor who is so enraged as he thinks that Belinda has been killed almost tortures Kid to death something which does bring out a new side to The Doctor but at the same time tho this action scene doesn't quite work all that well as The Doctor hasn't really known Belinda for all that long so there would be no reason for him to get this upset at Kid at least not to the point of almost killing him whereas if this was someone like Ruby Sunday for example then it would have made more sense due to the fact that both of these characters have had more time together and have a stronger bond then what he has with Belinda but it is still a good really good scene in it's own right as it's a scene that does show us just how far that The Doctor could possibly go to when he doesn't have a human there to keep him grounded in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst it is easy to see why this episode isn't as good as it could have been as there alot of faults to be found in the episode this episode is also one that's really fun to watch and whilst it really does have an ending that ties into the two part finale this is an episode really that a none fan of the show really can watch and still find some level of enjoyment out of it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the  i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! "Mine Your Own Business" Review

It feels like it's been forever since I last reviewed anything from Scooby-Doo Where Are You and that's because it has with the last review of this show being in early last year. Well as luck would have it I was in the mood for watching something from this franchise and so I thought why not hit two birds with one stone as it were and cover episode four of this truly iconic franchise and so then join me as I review the episode that quite literally tells you to mind your own busisness with the episode in question being called simply just "Mine Your Own Business" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when the gang get lost going to someplace and end up at an old mining town somewhere in the desert and after hearting stories of the town haunted decide to solve this mystery once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as the episodes plot is yes pretty thin with the set up being about as basic as you could expect it to be even for this show it is still something that does work for the show as the episode doesn't really put alot of focus on quite a few things and it's plot just so happens to be one of them and to be fair when the set up is this basic in the first place you don't really need that deep of a plot as all you need is the characters to go around doing there usual schtick and that's really it and that's what this episode does give us in spades and while yes it would have been nice if you the episode did give alot more focus to it's plot as we don't even get to find out where the gang are even going to in the first place this is something that isn't needed to make the episode all that enjoyable as this is still a pretty fun and enjoyable episode where it just so happens that the plot of the episode is one of the things that really doesn't get a whole lot of attention but on to it with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is voice acting legend Don Messick as Scooby-Doo , Hank and A Mouse and Scooby-Doo legend Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers and Miner Forty-Niner. Also starring in this episode is voice acting and Scooby-Doo legend Frank Welker as Fred Jones and A Vulture, Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake , Scooby-Doo legend Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley and Hal Smith as Big Ben.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the episodes actors doing a really good job in this episode for the most part as while the main series voice actors are as wonderful as you'd expect them to be where the episode does fall apart from an acting point of view as guest actor as Hal Smith does feel like that he's not even trying to turn in a good performance and while he does only have two scenes in the whole episode they are scenes that are let down by the quality of the acting in them yet when you compare the acting in those two scenes to the acting in the rest of the episode it's night and day with the best actor in the whole entire episode being Don Messick as he not only has to play his regular role of Scooby-Doo but also two one of characters one of which is a main character in the episode and he still has to make them sound completely different from each other and that is something that he does do with ease with it being helped by the fact that while he does does play the episodes villain near the start of the episode alot of the time Casey Kasem playing him with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so bad as it gives nine of this episodes actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that were currently over at Hanna-Barbera Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with the episode almost going out of it's way to create some really good atmosphere just with it's animation as the opening shot of the episode is just oozing with creepy atmosphere that right away puts us the audience on edge and was something that really wasn't expected in this episode with it being a more then welcome surprise as a result of that and while the episode does still have the typical Hannah-Barbera cheapness that all of there shows do have we do also get to see the characters have some really fluid movements to them all of which does make this episodes animation be alot more better then what it really should have been in the first place as this is an episode that really doesn't require alot of good animation as all you need is a basic old west background and your jobs halfway done already and yet the makers of this episode really did go overboard with giving us lots of shits in this episode that look really good and heck there's even a shot of Fred near the end of the episode that looks like it could have been ripped right out of a movie with the episode having alot of really impressive looking backgrounds to it which is something that does hit home the point that the makers of this episode really did put lot of thought and effort into this episodes animation as it's something that really does shine through in the final product. 

One of the more weaker aspects of this episode was it's mystery as while they don't outright tell you who Miner Forty-Niner really is. The episode does have a character that dresses almost exactly like him only without the beard and hat which is something that does make it pretty obvious as to who the villain of the episode is meant to be when the whole point of a mystery is to let us work it for ourselfs and not be ahead of the characters interms of what we know and if we the audience can piece together just from what one of the characters in the episode is wearing then there's no reason as to why Velma the smartest one in the group couldn't do the exact same thing as all that does is make her look dumb as she's not able to see the most obvious thing with this being something that very easily could have been changed just by having the real culprit wear different clothes to Miner-Forty Niner as then there would be some form of a mystery of us the audience to solve which is the whole point of the show in the first place and yet for one reason of another the makers of this show just didn't do that and heck they didn't even give us any clues as to who the culprit is or even why there doing what there doing in the first place which yes does boil to the person wanting to scare people away from the town so that they can buy the guest house with all of the money that they would have made from the oil but none of that is explained in the episode and is instead explained away when the gang tell one of the other characters who it is and why they were trying to scare people away in the first place and while the episode makes it crystal clear who the main villain is you won't get any answers from this review as I want you guys to work it for yourselves.

For one reason or another the makers of this episode just didn't seem to bother trying all that hard in this episode. As alot of things from the plot to the obvious reveal of the villain just feel underbaked granted if your a little kid then you might find the reveal of who the culprit is to be surprising but it's not something that's hard to miss as it's quite literally right there infront of you the whole time with the episodes being none the better either as the episode doesn't really take that full advantage of the fact that it's mostly set in on an old western town and while The New Scooby-Doo Movies would rectify this by having an episode with The Three Stooges that's a full blown western this episode does none of that and granted that was because of the fat that the town in this episode had been all but deserted for many years they still could gave done something with the western setting even if it's just having Scooby-Doo wear a cowboy hat for a joke it still would have been better then nothing as it does look like that this episode could have taken in a major city or in a hotel and nothing in regards to the plot would need to be changed and when it comes to the plot this episodes plot as wafer thin and enjoyable as it is is still something that could have done with having alot more thought and effort put into it but instead it felt like that the makers of this episode put alot more thought and effort into the episode animation then then they did the plot or the setting as both of those are things that would have been alot more better if they did have some love and care put into them.

Whilst this episode does have alot of bad things going for it one of them is not the fact that they do have Scooby being pretty brave in this episode. As it would have been very easy for the makers of this episode to keep him as being a coward throughout the whole episode but no they actually have him be a vital part of the plan to catch Miner-Forty Niner by having Scooby act as a train and just straight up run into him and while granted the original plan was to have Scooby scare him into a shed that was nearby it was the fact that Scooby wasn't shown panicking or doing anything nuts when he does crash into him and the pair of them are left dangling over an edge in the mines that makes him brave as that is something that would be something that he would have done but nope he just goes straight forward into him and while yes he might still have been feeling brave thanks to having not one but two Scooby Snacks earlier on in the episode which would be a fair point to make he doesn't know how deep the edge of the mine is and while of course we all know that they wont ever kill of Scooby it's the fact that they hinted that they could happen is something that does make this episode stand out in the first place but in saying this tho the episode doesn't really do anything interesting with Scooby outside of having him see Miner-Forty Niner a few times and that's really it when it would been more better to show him and Shaggy looking for and actually finding some clues as that really is something that would help the episode be all the more better then what it really already is in the first place and yet the fact that they don't does say that the makers of this episode didn't have anything interesting for Scooby to do in this episode.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty minuets and fifty four seconds. Which granted is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have in the first place but this episode oddly feel constrained by it's running time as the episode doesn't have the time to give us any clues nor give us any other possible culprits with the episode having more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time and yet in saying this tho the episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot in the first place as the episode is alot more focused on giving us a creepy looking episode then it is in giving us a more well thought out plot as the episode could have done both just by having scenes that develop the episodes plot like by having the gang actually explain where it was they were actually going in the first place which yes is a small thing but the small things go along away with the episode not even taking the time to fully develop it's characters which isn't that really big of a deal as the same thing is true with all of the episodes in this franchise with it not really effecting this episode as the episode does work fine without the characters getting any kind of character development and yet it still would have been nice if the episode did give the guest characters some form of character development as it would have made them be all the more memorable and yet as the episode is more focused on giving us a rather obvious villain then in giving the characters some form of character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the episode having some really funny jokes in it all of which does work as Scooby himself is a really likable character and having him do these goofy things or act in this goofy way is something that is perfectly on character for him with it also being something that does give the episode the moments of humor that it really did need as this is one that could be seen as being a really dark episode with the best joke in the whole entire episode being when Shaggy and Scooby are about to get chased by the villain as Shaggy gets his shirt stuck on a tree branch with him continuing to run away only for the pressure to get much with it then forcing both Scooby and Shaggy onto the tree outside which was a really funny joke with the episode having alot of really good jokes like Scooby mistaking a flour ridden Fred for ghost as an example as again that is something that Scooby-Doo would do and while it is a joke that kids would find funny it works just as well because of the fact that it is a really well written joke and one that both kids and adults can enjoy with the same thing being true for alot of the episodes jokes all of which are just so funny in the first place with the episode being more then worth watching just for the jokes and heck this episode has so many funny jokes that it was hard to say just what the best joke was in the episode as that's how funny that this episodes jokes really were in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst yes this episode is a pretty weak episode in it's own right there is still plenty of fun to be had with this episode be it from the amount of jokes that the episode throws at you to the animation which does really do a good job of making the episode look really creepy but this episode is still a really weak episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score pf exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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Worzel Gummidge "Captain Worzel" Review

Worzel Gummidge fans it has been a really long time since I last reviewed an episode of this show not for a lack of trying tho. As quite literally every single time that i've tried to get this review off the ground something has always come up to prevent me from reviewing do it well now i'm finally able to get back to reviewing episodes of Worzel Gummidge once again and so then join me as I review the episode that sees our beloved scarecrow take the water with the episode in question being called simply just "Captain Worzel" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Worzel thinks that Aunt Sally is being held against her will he and Saucy Nancy attempt to rescue her. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot being filled to the brim with all of the wonder and whims that you expect from his show with the episode being just really charming on the whole with this being where the episodes plot shine through as while yes this plot is something that could be seen as being a bit thin as all it is is Worzel making a mistake when Aunt Sally a wooden doll was going to be sold to be in a Museum it's that kind of simple natured plot that really does allow for the plot to be as good as it is as alot of what makes this episodes be that good is due to the fact that the plot does allow for the characters to be there charming and that is somethin that it wouldn't be able to do if it was a more deep and thought provoking plot as then the episode just wouldn't have the room for things like that but due to the fact that the plot for this episode is as simple as it is it does allow for those things to happen and not every single thig needs to have a deep and thought provoking plot in order for it to work as sometimes all it needs is just a simple plot and that's exactly what this episodes plot is in all of the best ways possible with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge and Laurence Harrington as Cyril. Also starring in this episode is Norman Mitchell as P.C. Parsons , Michael Ripper as Mr. Shepherd , Geoffrey Bayldon as The Crowman , Kate David as The Cashier , Blake Butler as The Boatyard Owner , Dame Barbara Windsor as Saucy Nancy , Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally and Keith Smith as Mr. Pursglove.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episodes acting being as wonderfully good as you'd expect it to be and having been away from the show since late last year just now coming to it it did make me realise just how good the acting not only in this episode but in this show as a whole really was as these actors had truly define who these characters were as people as while yes many of them did appear in the original books alot of them however weren't and were therefor more well known for being in this show with all of this episodes actors really getting the tone and spirit of the show as while yes this was a kids TV show and therefor no one would have blamed these big named stars if they chose to phone in there performance it's the fact that they didn't do that and instead treated it as if they were working on a feature length film with this being due to the fact that the shows director James Hill also made sever theatrical films and helped to foster that kind of environment on set with him always demanding the best of his actors and it's something does shine through in the performances in this episode with the best actor in the whole entire episode being Jon Pertwee as the man is just so good in this show and in this episode as well with him being being able to capture Worzels more child like innocence in one scene and then hit you with something heavy in the exact same scene with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Where this episode either rises to the occasion or falls flat on it's face is with it's characters as they do have to do alot of the heavy lifting in this episode. As the plot of this episode is wafer thin in the first place and therefor the episode does rely alot more on it's characters to be there usual charming selves and that is something that they are in this episode with them all bein just as delightfully charming and funny as you'd want them to be in the episode with the only thing that does hold the characters back a bit is the fact that Saucy Nancy isn't her usual saucy self in this episode as while yes this was due to the fact that in her previous episode she did get married to Worzel's cousin they quickly undo that in this episode by having her explain that he left to go about being a pirate instead of returning to Australia like he has said he would do therefor there was no reason for her to not be her usual self in this episode as while yes she does have some fun banter with Aunt Sally which is as over the top as you'd expect all of the fun wordplay and innuendo that was with the character in her first and even previous episode is now gone all together and yet even so characters like Worzel and Aunt Sally are still really charming and still do bounce off of her really well with all of the characters truly getting a moment to shine in this episode be it from Mr. Shephard arguing with both the landlord and P.C. Parson at the start of the episode to Worzel putting on his cousins head and talking with an Australian accent this episode whilst it's not the best episode of the show by far it is one that does show just how god that these characters could still be even in a fairly decent at best episode of the show.

If you liked the banter that Aunt Sally and Saucy Nancy have had in all of their previous appearances together then your really going to love this episode as they argue with each other all the time in this episode. With them arguing over every little thing and all of the time it is something that does feel true to who they are as characters as while Saucy Nancy does have Worzel's best interests at heart Aunt Sally is only looking out for herself and yet even so it is still fun seeing both of these characters all the while Worzel is just doing the best that he can do to keep both of them happy and much like with her first appearances Saucy Nancy ends up ripping of Worzels arm which granted was done by accident but it is still something that does make this show stand out alot more as alot of the episodes in this show did have Worzel loosing limbs or getting ran over by a combine harvester or in the case of the first episode quite literally almost dying when he falls down a hill at the local tip and while those things are indeed really scary for a kid here in this episode it was played more for laughs which was most likely done as a way to tone down the scariness of the show and while it could be argued that that did work the episode still shows Worzel taking of his head to replace it with his cousins which was something that did scare little kids and while none of that does have a huge impact on the episode was does is showing Aunt Sally and Nancy arguing as it's because of that the Aunt Sally goes on to have a sulk thus leaving her on the narrow boat with her owner in the first place as even Worzel couldn't get her to stop sulking as if he did then she could have explained to him what was going on in the first place this ending the entire episode.

What could be seen as being a shocking move is the fact that even tho the episode does build up The Crowman as being someone who will play a big role in this episode. He does infact only appear in about two maybe three scenes all together both at the start of and near the end of the episode and that's really it which for someone who is meant to be a main character in the show and is someone who Worzel both fears and admires isn't really alot of time for this character maybe the makers of this episode just couldn't figure out a way to include the character in a meaningful way or maybe Geoffrey Bayldon was busy filming something else at the time and couldn't really commit to being in the episode alot more then he was either way it is odd that the character isn't in the episode alot more especially since he is always the one that's getting Worzel out of trouble even if it's something that does anger him alot of the time with character of Mr. Shephard instead getting alot more screen time which is something that does make alot of sense as he is owner of Aunt Sally afterall and he is the one that is trying to sell her but at the same time tho it would have been fun seeing both the The Crowman and Mr. Shephard interact in the episode as the two characters very rarely if ever interact in the show and it's something that could have provided some great comedy for the episode as both characters do have there moments of being really funny and yet for one reason or another despite The Crowman having his ways of knowing that Worzel got himself into trouble at the end of this episode he blames Aunt Sally when she did nothing wrong in the episode at all.

With Mr. Shephard basically being a main character in the episode we do get alot of scenes with him and the boatyard owner. Which was something that the episode could have dine without as while they were needed to get across the plot of the episode and to set up why Aunt Sally is on this one particular spot on the narrow boat in the first place alot of there scenes are just them repeating the same pieces of information and just going over the same joke as both Mr. Shephard and the boatyard owner both have things that go missing in the episode as the boatyard owner has Saucy Nancy walking about and Mr. Shephard has Aunt Sally doing her usual thing and yet both of those characters just don't do anything that's entertaining with each other other outside of there first interaction where the boatyard owner after asking Mr. Shephard if he knows how to drive a narrow boat then finds out that alot of Shephards relatives worked on boats something Mr. Shephard has obviously made up with the boatyard owner basically calling him out on that which was a fun interaction and it's the only time that one of there scenes together was actually entertaining to watch as alot of the time there scenes together even tho they are needed for the episode just feel like there lacking where as Mr. Shephards scene with Mr. Pursglove was a highly entertaining scene as even tho he believed that he would be getting money for Aunt Sally it infact turns out that Mr. Pursglove had no intention of paying him and was going to let Aunt Sally stay u his museum for the honor of it and that's really it which was a really entertaining thing to find out as the only thing that Mr. Shephard wants for his Aunt Sally is some decent money for her due to the fact that she's an antique.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty six minuets and four seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have in the first place with the episode really having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet even so the episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely in one respect as the episode doesn't take the time that it really could have done to fully develop it's plot as the episode doesn't really take the time to explain things like why The Crowman doesn't catch up to Worzel in this episode despite the fact that earlier episodes of this show did exactly that something that could easily have been explained by showing The Crowman struggling to keep up with Mr. Shephards car and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode put alot more focus on giving us these wacky situations with Worzel , Aunt Sally and Saucy Nancy when that is time that could have been spent on giving us a more well thought plot but to be fair this episode however to be fair tho the episode doesn't really take the time to give it's characters any kind of character development and while that might be seen as being a bad thing here it's not as this show doesn't really give it's characters character development in the first place with this episode being more focused funny and giving it's characters funny things to say and do then it is giving it's character development which in this case is something that does work really well for the episode as this episode is one that doesn't really demand that the characters get any kind of character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that' actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode having alot of really good jokes in it with this being more due to the fact that the episode did put alot of focus of giving us some really funny jokes and it is something that does pay off in the final episode as it does allow for all of these really funny actors to be just as funny as we the audience know that they can be with the best joke in the whole entire episode being when Aunt Sally and Saucy Nancy are arguing as they each force Worzel to sit up and stand up which might not sound funny but the thing that makes it funny is the fact that we get to see Jon Pertwee make some really funny faces all of which are more funnier then what they really should have been with it being something that does hit home the fact that Jon Pertwee can be a really funny man as he doesn't always need funny things to say to make him funny as he can get a laugh out of people just by doing things like putting on a shockingly good Australian accent or by pulling a funny face both of which are things that he does in this episode and both of which are really funny with this episode having alot of really jokes in it all of which work due to the fact that they feel true to who these characters are as people as well as bein really funny in there own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst yes there are better and more funnier episodes of this show this episode is one that is still really funny as it allows it's characters to just be these funny characters and not have alot of focus on drama or have that deep of a plot which is something that really does work for this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.