I think I've travelled on that bus to Southport, back in the late 1970's or early 1980's. This brought back memories that cost a lot of money in therapy sessions to try and forget. I hope Quentin survives.
If Playdays (known as Playbus until December 1989), the British preschool television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on Children's BBC had been written by Clive Barker and directed by David Lynch, it STILL wouldn’t be a patch on this! You sir, are unique - I love it. x
A Playbus horror film sounds fantastic (creepy voice over for promo / trailer) “...So this autumn, prepare yourself for Clive Barker’s Why Bird...and before long...you’ll be asking yourself WHY ME?!”
Thank you Quentin, for disinterring the childhood terrors I had so deeply occluded. Now I cannot sleep but hey ho - great to see one of those ticket issue machines again!
Superlative! It's like On the Buses crossed with Sapphire and Steel. The Tufty Club theme now fill me with unease and dread. I loved every second of it.
That was a freaky, nostalgic trip, meeting strangers (accompanied by parents of course) was always a daunting experience- and not to forget everywhere stank of cigarette smoke.(eyes were stinging afterwards).
It’s an M.R. James nightmare. Unbeknownst to Quentin, the Dirty Divel followed him back from Kathmandu and shape shifted into a bus conductor. Except Robert Aickman has updated the story and Quentin is likely in a remote West Midlands limbo forever teetering between life and death. Comfrey will save him.
Man! Reminded me of the ending to Saphire and Steele from back in the day. I used to smoke player's No6. Where do you get your props? Great short film.
Does anyone remember the little window thing situated at the front seat of the top deck that looked directly down on top of the drivers head? As naughty school kids we’d often place open a page3 news paper on the glass window.
Could you not do the episode ' I married a dustbin' ? Or even the heart breaking ' I fell in love with a corrugated cardboard box after my nylon socks rejected me' ?