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Planet Gazzypops - Bergerac & Star Wars |
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Very few people realize that Bergerac has a number of Star Wars links contained within it. You would think that a cop show set on an island in the Channel would have nothing to do with a group of films made about space. And you'd be right. But here are three very real links that will convince you otherwise... |
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The very first X-Wing fighter to be killed in Star Wars (Porkins - Red 6 to you and me) was played by exactly the same person who achieved even greater greatness as the fey baddie in Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie. Once again, a close personal friend of Charlie's and once again never properly convicted by the Jersey police, Eugene Field (William Hootkins, aka Porkins) was only the first Star Wars-Bergerac hybrid. [Source: Craig Galbraith, see Friends page] |
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But Hootkins was certainly not the first pilot from Star Wars to appear in Bergerac. Celia Imrie (of all people) took time out from being a minor Jim shag-object to get behind the wheel of a Naboo fighter in The Phantom Menace. One of her best performances, she is described in the credits as "Fighter Pilot Bravo 5". She is the one who expresses surprise when the droid ship explodes. |
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And, perhaps most tellingly of all, in Midsomer Murders (look, it's Bergerac but in the Home Counties - John Nettles is in it!) the UFO freak Lloyd Kirby (who ends up murdered, naked, and face down in a corn field as all UFO freaks do) from The Electric Vendetta episode was played by the Kenneth Colley. Colley is the only actor ever to have played an Imperial officer in more than one Star Wars film, and the character he played was Admiral Piett of the Imperial Fleet. If nothing else, I should get a prize for writing one of the longest, rambling anti-climaces on the web. |
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