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Death Dispatch S.2 E.13

posted 11 years ago by iluvnyc
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I found it most amusing (in that most horrific sort of way) that in Death Dispatch (Season 2, Episode 13) Steed and Gale are supposed to be in Buenos Aires, Argentina (culturally one of the most white/European cities in Latin American, especially in 1962 for chrissakes) but the restaurant musicians are playing the Afro-Cuban song Babalu! Although, perhaps not impossible, most improbable according to my Argentine friends who lived there during that decade. Also, the actress speaking Spanish, despite her actual grammar being nearly impeccable, her diction/accent was atrocious. No native speaker would sound like that. What a weird cultural ride this episode is!

[–] onwardsandupwards 11 years ago

Many television shows of the 50's and 60's that feature foreign locations and characters don't hold up to close scrutiny by today's standards as the writing/acting comes off as being either stereotypically broad and lacking actual depth.

From the casting of white actors in ethic roles (Black, Asian or any other non Caucasian race), to cartoonish accents to cliché type behaviour related to ethic groups. Some of it's amusing, most of it is cringeworthy.

[–] vnisanian2001 11 years ago

"Death Dispatch" was the first episode with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, in terms of taping order.

She was 36 when she began, and holy god, she was fine as hell in her late 30's.

[–] darryl-tahirali 11 years ago

"Death Dispatch" was the first episode with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, in terms of taping order.

She was 36 when she began, and holy god, she was fine as hell in her late 30's. - vnisanian2001

And if I'm recalling correctly, in her first scene she had stripped down to her black bra, which must have been a bold move for a television program in the early 1960s. It certainly caught my eye 50 years later.

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