Bob Peck

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Thu 10 Apr, 2014 11:27 pm

I was watching an episode of the excellent 'Ripping Yarns' when I thought I saw the late / great Leeds actor Bob Peck playing one of the characters. However I had a look on IMDB and it turned out to be a similar looking actor from Manchester called Kenneth Colley. On checking out images of these two actors I was startled by their resemblence almost to the point of thinking they must be the same person! I've always wanted to see the BBC conspiracy drama starring Bob Peck 'Edge of Darkness' but I've never been able to find it anywhere on video / dvd.

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Thu 10 Apr, 2014 11:45 pm

Jon they have the complete series at Play for £2.39http://tinyurl.com/ohj9aol

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Fri 11 Apr, 2014 1:51 am

buffaloskinner wrote: Jon they have the complete series at Play for £2.39http://tinyurl.com/ohj9aol That's interesting to hear, however I can't use these streaming video on demand services as I'm only on mobile broadband so id find my internet connection would be disconnected despite it being supposedly unlimited... I might try watch it elsewhere. Are there lots of old tv shows available on Play?

morleyhall · Post by **morleyhall** » Fri 11 Apr, 2014 6:46 am

Jon the £2.39 is for a new copy of the series on DVD.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Fri 11 Apr, 2014 7:53 pm

morleyhall wrote: Jon the £2.39 is for a new copy of the series on DVD. That's a bargain and no mistake!

TABBYCAT · Post by **TABBYCAT** » Fri 11 Apr, 2014 10:36 pm

Some scenes filmed at Middleton Railway I seem to recall, with a type 31 loco which was a dummy made of wood!!

morleyhall · Post by **morleyhall** » Sat 12 Apr, 2014 12:06 am

Free postage with play too. I don't remember it on the box, but after reading the Wikipedia page tonight I grabbed a copy for my Dad.

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Mon 30 Jun, 2014 11:06 pm

I've just noticed that 'Edge of Darkness' starring 'Bob Peck' is being shown tonight on BBC4 at 10 o'clock. I guess it will also be on BBC Iplayer as well now, I dont know if they are showing it at the same time every Monday for the whole series or if the episodes will be broadcast every night. I hope to be able watch this series as I've wanted to see it for a long time. I guess the reason its being rebroadcast is due to positive chatter about it on the internet.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Tue 01 Jul, 2014 10:38 am

Hi jonleeds,yes..........excellent stuff that.Think I've a copy of it somewhere in the house too.Always thought Bob Peck was destined for more accolades-sadly,he died all too young.We had some excellent stuff around in the 80/90's.I was watching a copy of Harry's Game the other day.An excellent miniseries made by the now defunct YTV was shot not in Belfast but more around the old back to back streets of Burley ! This 1982 effort is still well worthy of a viewing.

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Fri 04 Jul, 2014 2:29 am

I was only a kid in the 1980s but I used to love 'Boys from the Black Stuff' if I was allowed to stay up late enough. I can remember at one point being banned from watching 'The A-Team' as there was quite a scandal at the time with regards to how violent it was... all a bit scaremongering though really as its all very comic book stuff with nobody ever getting killed. Now the excellent Equalizer with Edward Woodward, aka Robert McCall. That programme did have some nasty storylines which were equally disturbing when the said Equalizer character looked like someone who's previous acting role was in a 'Werthers Original' commercial. Seeing this elderly gent in the show wielding Uzi sub-machine guns and blasting bad guys away even made me feel uneasy around my own grandad as he too was an ex-military man. I could imagine him having a stash of ex-RAF weaponry in his allotment shed, placing a similar advert in the Morley Observer then going out to right all the wrongs around the Borough of Morley as it was then known. For example if someone hadnt paid their subs to Cross Church Street WMC, the committee of the club would get on the phone to my grandad, or if some newcomer tried moving in on Wilf Wade's potted meats trade, yep, they'd phone my grandad... I suppose these were just the idle imaginings of a young mind... Anyway yeah Bob Peck, I watched the first 'Edge of Darkness' and it was very intriguing, however there seems to be a strange relationship depicted between the protagonist and his daughter who is brutally gunned down in the first episode. Especially when the father is seen at one point kissing a vibrator he takes out of his daughters bedside drawer.... bit weird!