howard
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Post by howard on Apr 2, 2012 10:42:29 GMT
Superb. As a huge fan of the Baron anyway, regardless of the DAF interest (mainly in this episode) this is a good as things get to me. If you get a chance to watch the whole episode, you'll enjoy it if you are a fan of the Avengers as this was a particulary odd one! Sad that Sue Lloyd passed away recently, though.
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Post by mattsdafs on Apr 2, 2012 13:56:35 GMT
Very well done Andrew and Angie,very good to watch
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Post by andrewthe33 on Apr 19, 2012 7:39:10 GMT
Glad you all enjoyed our attempts at movie making! Following on, we've bought the entire series of "The Baron" from Amazon, for about £15, including postage (other internet shopping websites are available ) And are watching them as and when we've a spare hour or so. Our interest is 3 fold; 1/They're well-made, unlike much TV today. 2/They're filmed around where we live. 3/(From my point of view) they (sometimes) contain Dafs! I've watched an episode set (supposedly) in Scotland, although in reality most of the filming took place around Wrotham Park, near Potters Bar, in which John Mannering is looking for a big American car that nearly ran him over. In an effort to track down the owners Cordelia (Sue Lloyd) and him visit a number of stately homes in the area. As Cordelia doesn't have a car in Scotland John hires her one, and, surprise surprise, it's the very same Daf Daffodil she drove in the episode already featured! I'll download some Daffy scenes soon... Incidentally, the continuity wasn't too good on some of these scenes; the one I'm hoping to download has the Daf at the entrance to a (supposedly) Scottish stately home, with a red London Transport bus stop sign outside it...
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Post by v8gasser on Apr 21, 2012 6:24:56 GMT
What a fun way to spend a Daf Day ! Thanks !
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Post by andrewthe33 on Feb 26, 2017 20:23:07 GMT
Several years (and one Daf 33!) later, Angela and I went for a drive in attempt to locate some other Daf related scenes from episodes of "The Baron." In series one there was an episode entitled "The Man Outside" which was set in Scotland. The episode starts with a Ford Consul being torched on a country road in rural Scotland, which actually took place on a road in New Barnet used in the episode called "The Maze," but that's enough of that! The Baron sends his assistant to investigate a property connected to the criminals and she parks outside their house.... And this is my Daf 33, parked in the same place (but not photographed from quite the same point!) Incidentally, this is the entrance to the late Barbara Cartland's house (she of the romantic novelette!)
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Post by triumph66 on Feb 26, 2017 20:49:37 GMT
Absolutely brilliant those clips of the Baron (what nostalgia) and your follow up Andrew is fabulous to see. I will look into buying some dvds of the Baron myself as I am a fan of The Saint and the Avengers from that era. I just dig that stuff!
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Post by andrewthe33 on Feb 27, 2017 10:11:33 GMT
This is a clip from later on in the episode, when Mannering drives over to meet Cordelia. This scene is taken from inside Mannering's Bristol and shows Cordelia's Daf Daffodil, parked outside a house. Unfortunately the continuity wasn't as hot as it should have been and there is a red London Transport bus stop smack bang in the middle of the picture! Suffice it to say London Transport Routemasters didn't get as far north as Scotland, even in the 1960s!
Although it's unclear from this image, the roadsign next to the bus stop says "Potters Bar" to the east......
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andrewthe33
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Post by andrewthe33 on May 31, 2018 15:32:53 GMT
(........This thread keeps coming back to haunt me......) Cordelia's Daf 32 ("Daffodil") has the registration number GLX 281 C. I'm currently bidding on "a well known internet auction site" for an AA report on a similar vehicle, with a registration number GLX 277 C. My thoughts are that the Daf importers had a batch registered in their name, and lent them or hired them out to organisations which might give the vehicles favourable publicity. A top 1960's TV programme would be a definite one, and the AA review would certainly attract interest.
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