Talk:Monsterpiece Theater
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Classic Stories[edit]
My favourite is Cyranose de Bergerac ;-)
- My favorite is Me Claudius. IIRC, it opens with a shot of Slimy (the worm) slowly crawling across a mosaic while suspenseful music plays...
- -- 67.174.231.120 01:42, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Cleanup[edit]
Entries for 'Ernie Cleans Up', 'Lethal Weapon 3', Monsters of Venice', and 'The 400 Blows' do not make much sense, and require some grammatical cleanup. Ficksquoose 23:21, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Image deletion[edit]
Why is the image of Alistair Cookie being deleted? Is it really soon to go the way of Cookie's pipe-eating ways and his all-cookie diet? If the image is going to be slated for deletion, someone ought to have a good reason for it. Poldy Bloom (talk) 19:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Title Card[edit]
If this is an American show, why does the title card feature a Union Jack inside it? 82.36.28.41 (talk) 15:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- well first because its parodying the opening sequence of masterpiece theater.
- "During the first seasons in the 1970s, the theme music accompanied varying closeup shots of a waving British flag, which panned out into a still image of a British flag on a staff serving as the P in "Masterpiece". In the late 1970s, the opening video switched to views of antique books and other literary artifacts, many of which titles had been dramatized on the program." - Masterpiece (TV Series)
- but to answer a more base part of the question even through masterpiece theater was a american production, its was essential a show that wanted to license British Dramas from the BBC, to the point that the original title was "Best of the BBC". Its also one of the reasons why they hired Alistar Cooke. He was a BBC journalist for a time and also had spent a lot of time in America as a journalist so he seemed like the proper person to help brige the culteral divide accross the pond. Falsebooles123 (talk) 17:31, 12 August 2022 (UTC)