Travelling Man (1984) Series 1 Ep1 First Leg, Leigh Lawson - TV crime thriller, Canals, Narrowboat
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Travelling Man was a thirteen part series/serial written by Roger Marshall, broadcast between 1984 and 1985. After scripting the Survivors episode Parasites (tx 2nd June 1976) Marshall began to mull over the possibility of a series where the central character traversed the country in a narrowboat. Given the slowness of this form of travel, it certainly offers a change of pace from most action/adventure series where high speed car chases are usually the order of the day ….
"First Leg" effectively sets up the premise of the series. Derek Newark essays a memorable cameo as DCS Sullivan, a former colleague who makes it plain that Lomax should move on with all haste. Morag Hood (as Sally Page) plays an unlikely drug addict whose plight forms a key part of the episode. And Lindsay Duncan (as Andrea) forms an instant connection with Lomax which will spill over into the second episode.
Marshall initially offered the series to the BBC, with John Thaw earmarked as the lead character Lomax. They turned it down and several ITV companies also rejected it before it finally found a home at Granada. By that point Leigh Lawson had been cast as Lomax and although only a few years separated Thaw and Lawson, it’s hard to imagine Thaw playing the character as written (or convincing in some of the stunt set pieces). But possibly Marshall tailored the scripts to suit Lawson and had Thaw taken the role, Lomax would have been subtly different.
This opening episode, First Leg, has an echo of the Public Eye episode Welcome to Brighton? (Marshall, the co-creator of Public Eye, wrote all seven episodes in the series’ fourth run which began with this episode). Both Lomax and Public Eye‘s Frank Marker open their respective episodes as inmates awaiting release after serving a prison sentence for a crime they didn’t commit.
It quickly becomes clear that Lomax is a loner like Frank Marker, although they’re very different character types. Marker has long been a loner out of preference but prior to his conviction, Lomax had a wife, a son, a house and a job. All of these have now been taken away from him, which forces him into the life of a solitary (although he still possesses an approachable charm, so it’s easy for him to make friends).
The search for his son, Steve, is one of the motors which drives the series. And it’s also a handy dramatic device, providing Lomax with a good reason to always keep moving (plus when he turns up in a new place there’s invariably some problem that needs to be sorted out). Also bubbling away close to the surface is the mystery of his conviction - Lomax used to be police officer and is rumoured to have walked away with a fortune following an aborted drugs bust. He denies this, but as we’ll see in the second episode not everyone is ready to believe him.
Lomax’s character is quickly delineated - before the opening credits have run in fact. Taking a shower after returning from a prison work party, he’s approached by a prison officer who offers to take special care of him after he’s released. It’s an offer which Lomax declines in a violent fashion, leaving the prison officer on the floor nursing a broken hand. This gives us a short, sharp insight into the man he is - clearly not someone you would wish to cross lightly. An unfortunate drug dealer (played by Peter Faulkner) discovers this later in the episode.
Everything’s working well then - throw in Duncan Browne’s haunting theme and incidentals and you’ve got a series which hits the ground running.
First broadcast 7th November 1984
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The Macclesfield Canal and the Chirk Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal were amongst the many locations used in the dramatisation of the waterway film sequences.
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Brilliant, watched this as a teenager in the 80s and loved it. Been looking for it for years
Thank you so much for uploading this, I can't locate it anywhere else online! Please never delete it!
Pleased you're enjoying the series. I don't intend to delete it myself, but RUclips sometimes decides to remove whole channels for various reasons. Fingers crossed!
Thanks a lot! I like this actor! I've been searching for this serial.
@@FoogouFilms Such a same that so much film continues to be removed from public access.
I look forward to watching this, never ever heard of this at all.
Excellent writing! Thank you.
Oh! what a great show, thank you so much, don't know how I missed it first time round, have subscribed! Thanks again , keep 'em coming and stay lucky
Good to hear, thanks!
Really enjoying watching these
Thanks.
Superb, brought back so many good memories watching it first time around. Never realised the Public Eye connection, another wonderful series, often overlooked and underrated. Many, many thanks.
Leigh Lowson- my favorite actor!!!
Thank you for posting another excellent series
Огромное спасибо за то что выложили сериал! Давно хотелось его посмотреть! Люблю водные путешествия и красивых зрелых мужчин )) Thank you so much for posting the series! I've been wanting to see it for a long time! I love water travel and handsome mature men))
Really good. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Omg, i remember watching this , loved leigh lawson, remember waiting impatiently every week for the next episode.
Could never imagine i would watch it again.
By any chance do you have David Drew's series Footsteps?
Ah, good to hear.
Am afraid that Footsteps is a new one to me.
Floodtide is waiting in the wings for when Travelling Man finishes.
I remember this guy from an episode of Hammer House of Horror. The one with the African carving. I think it was called Charlie Boy.
7 videos listed as unavailable. Is this because I am in the US? Such a good series.
I'm uploading new episodes each Saturday.
It's Mr. Twiggy
0:23. Man, stooping to pick up heavy blocks? Clearly, the prison system is not into safety regulations.
Manual handling courses clearly not compulsory yet. Hi-viz had only just come in, before that that your typical building worker would nonchalantly turn up at site in an old suit!
@@FoogouFilms Grief.
The Old Number One nightclub at 49:14 is now a set of modern apartments located on the Bridgewater canal at Preston Brook near Runcorn.
Thanks for the info.
Yep,
know, l live near it,lt used to be called the Neptune bar
Around 48:00. Now that's what I call justice.
I wonder if she ended up spending that wad of cash liberated from this dealer on rehab!
I hope so, or on the part of Lomax, it would have been all for nowt.
I remember composer Duncan Browne had an excellent and rather quirky chart hit in 1971 called Journey.
I just checked it out, Yes, it's rather good. Don't recall hearing it before. I like that style of acoustic guitar. His vocal reminds me of someone who I just can't put my finger on.
Possibly Colin Blunstone as a solo artist? They're both oh so very 'English' in their delivery.
@@davidfogarty2220 Yes, you nailed it. Just checked out " Say You Dont Mind". He seemed very shy, like Nick Drake - a particular fave of mine, and again oh so English.
Yes Nick Drake was definitely part of that group, Al Stewart also.
@@davidfogarty2220 Indeed.
19:22. Using the same font as that of the one in P.D. James' "Death Of An Expert Witness" from the preceding year, except that the words "Part One" from that show are not capitalized.
You're a font of wisdom, sir (sorry!).
@@FoogouFilms Lol.
Motorway empty 😂😂😂
It would be busier than that at 3am on a Sunday!
😂😂😂 THIS is ssssooooo boring 😴🥱😴🥱...
If it GETS any slower, 😂 🤣 it would rewind itself and fall off a cliff...😮
OMG 😳😳😲🙄 THAT 🤔 shocking 🥶 music😢😢😢😢.
What's it FOR, DAM my ears hurt....
WILL give second episode 😮 a GO.
SEE if it GETS any better 😱😱😱
I'd agree regarding that synthetic panpipe theme, but horses for courses when it comes to the pace of dramas. There's no shortage of fast-paced, action-packed stuff out there.