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Skiboy

SNOW-SKIMMING flag-slaloming Alpine ITC misfire landing on Saturday afternoons like Eddie The Eagle Edwards after a particularly clip show come-hithering jump. Steve ‘Son Of Norman’ Hudis starred as flourescent-togged Bobby Noel, thwarting international criminals on an implausible snow-covered mountain crime spree trajectory by, well, skiing at them. Didn’t catch on even at the high watermark of Toblerone-waving Chairlift Vogue silliness, and viewers promptly held up cards reading ‘0’ and ‘0’. All Look-In could find to say about it was ‘TV’s Newest Series’. Description-defying disco-funk theme song seems to have been inspiration for Daft Punk’s entire career.

4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. THX 1139

    November 29, 2013 at 5:05 pm

    Isn’t “Skiboy!” what Jay-Z shouts at the end of 99 Problems?

  2. Applemask

    March 6, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    Created by Derrick Sherwin, who just three years earlier had created UNIT, relaunched Doctor Who and arguably saved it from cancellation. What a comedown.

    • Richardpd

      July 23, 2023 at 10:18 pm

      Between then Sherwin had produced Paul Temple for the BBC.

  3. Glenn Aylett

    July 23, 2023 at 4:55 pm

    Grace Jones is a singer and model who will divide opinions forever. Her mixture of funk, disco and synth music was always worth a listen, the videos were excellent, but her, should we say, very athletic body and face divide people. One friend likened her to freak of nature , another said she was unconventionally beautiful, and I tend to go with the latter. Also great in Roger’s last outing as 007, where she kicks butt as the Amazonian Mayday, the ultimate in bad Bond girls.

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