Hello and welcome to another edition of Retrospection in the show. We're taking a look at the first episode of the helicopter based action series, Erwolth, that ran from 1984 to 1988. Although, less said about the last series the better. I should go get an engine.
As this is the first episode that has a helicopter, it is really a pilot episode. Oh well done. In case you're wondering, it's not going to get any better than that. Trust me it really isn't.
It really isn't a lot. My name's Colin and I never wear a underwear. Yeah I've heard that back then. Are you wearing some now?
Don't stand up. Whatever you do. Just don't stand up. I can.
Gluten in my seat. That's horrible. And I'm Paul and he said I was a natural. He said I had to touch the stick.
You know, all week I've been thinking you were going to go for the perversion line. Which one was that? The one that says a little perversion never hurt anybody or something. Oh, as long as he doesn't hurt yourself, it's okay.
That is on my list. I wrote three don't actually. Oh, I never decide which way I'm going to go until the moment comes. Yeah, I've heard that about you.
Erwolth, stairs, John, Michael Vincent, a string fellow, Hark. Alex Card is Hark Angel. Ernest Bognin is Dominic Santini. Belinda Boa has Gabrielle, Adam Moore.
Eugene Roche, a Senator William Deeds. Eugene Roche is pretty much in every TV show ever. Like at least one episode of him. Yeah, he looked familiar.
Oh yeah. He did five of Magnum playing Lufa Gillis. So he turns off in a lot of Bellsario stuff, doesn't he? Yeah, but he's also done a statue of Vadier as well.
Alright. Pretty much everything. Deborah Pratt has Morella and David Hemings has stopped to Charles Henry Moffitt. Slum in it.
That's all you can say about David Hemings isn't it? Yes, I mean what else has David Hemings done then? Oh, come on, David Hemings. It was a massive star at one point.
He played Duran Duran in Belvera. Okay. Alright. And other thing.
Oh. And if I was professional, I'd have those other things written down. But I haven't. I've been excited on Duran Duran.
You're always excited on Duran Duran. Never liked Duran, you know? Really? No, not really my bag.
No. I thought of a spandobale person. Did not know that. Mmm.
I'm only something again. I know, there are days when I could think less of you and then, ooh, you surprised me. Strapping there's going to be a keyboard in there, I was like. Okay.
Music is by Sylvester Leveille. Yeah, what do you think about the music? Oh, I mean it's iconic. It's a fantastic film to orchestral in this episode.
Switches to electronic later on. And all the music is electronic at some point. There's a little bit of electronic in this. Yes, yes.
It came across a very John Carpentries at the time. Oh, okay. But there is a keyboard with his nose. I like John Carpentries.
Yeah, it's good. The two fingers go to the plane is what you really kind of are. Sounds very rude and it's a bit easier. I have to say that there is a music here in this episode that I wasn't keen on.
But I'll mention it when we get to it. Okay. So like we said, this is a Donald P. Bellessario production.
He's an old friend of the show. He is. We've discussed him during Quantum Leap, if I remember. That's right.
I read that John Michael Vincent was paid $200,000 an episode, making him the highest paid actor in TV at the time. That seems weird when you think about people like Don Johnson or Philip who would have been paid more than that for my advice. That's what I read. Now in contrast, the entire budget for each episode of Season 4 of Her Wolf that we sometimes refer to as fake Her Wolf is $300,000 an episode.
That is $100,000 more than John Michael Vincent's paycheck. And it shows? Yeah, yeah, it does. Do you have anything else you want to add to me?
A couple of bits and pieces. Apparently the production needed permission from the FAA to fly when the weapons were deployed on the Her Wolf. Even though they weren't real, they still needed permission. I'm surprised they don't need permission for everything they do because someone stumps in this area dangerous.
It's all hell. I was going to mention later that the aerial stuff in this episode is really, really good. Particularly the stuff in the scene in the movie studio. In the chopper.
Yes, really. I wonder whether the weapon is being deployed and they need permission. It's kind of like when you go to a con and you have to carry a gun with a red stopper in the end of it to prove that it's not real. Okay, yeah, maybe.
We're going to do this thing, but we just want you to know it's not real. So can we do it? We're not going to go and fly off and strafe. Shoot anything.
Yeah. Do you want to talk about John Michael Vincent's problems or do you want to gloss over that? In the sense that it affected the show because it's part of the reason it got cancelled. Also, it was a very expensive show to make.
And also, occasionally throughout the series, you see him with cuts and bruises. Right. And you're like, did you do that filming? Or is that extra curricular activities coming into play there?
Because he crashed cars, he was in baring brawls, all sorts of things. We should say that as you're mentioning that aspect of it, that for anyone that doesn't know, he was addicted to alcohol and drugs. Yeah. Do you think that this was a constant problem from the beginning?
Or do you think he just hit it very well to begin with? And then as it progressed, he stopped charging it as well? Yeah, maybe. Maybe it got worse and worse.
Because he started to tell from his performances. I know. Although I noticed that in later seasons, his stunt double does a lot of work. Yeah.
Yeah. But he's not the most expressive in this to begin with, is he? No. I mean, maybe that's why he wears his sunglasses all the time.
He kind of always looks like he's just squinting anyway, when he's not wearing them. He's hung over so hides what he looks like. Oh, he's not focusing very well on the person that he's talking to. Yeah.
It's a shame. But, you know. This was his last leading role, Erwulf. He's last major.
Did you do films? He did films, but he never had a major leading role in a major movie again. Right. And up to this part, he had, he was quite a well-known cinema actor.
He'd been in films with John Wayne, I think. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't think that's why he was paid so much for this. Yeah. Yeah. I discovered that for German broadcasting, String Father's name was changed to Huckleberry.
Huckleberry Horg? Yeah. Huckleberry Horg. That's just like a cartoon character.
Oh, maybe they just thought that sounds more American. Huckleberry. All right. Yeah.
After the show ended, did you hear about what happened to the helicopter? Didn't it become a emergency rescue helicopter in Germany and then crash? It did. killing all three of the crew members in 1992.
I know during the filming of the series, the pilot was killed. There must have been more than one. I only know of one because he has a, like, you know, in memory of credit on one of the episodes. No, I didn't mean that the most of it was John Michael Vincent's.
You mean how you meant it must be more than one helicopter? Yes, more than one helicopter. There must have been more than one helicopter. Yeah, no, it killed people left right in the centre part.
Loads of it. Every week. Two are pretty back in the 80s, surely. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. But when the Four Seas came out, they weren't allowed to use it. They couldn't use the helicopter because it had been sold.
So, I don't know. Hmm. Deborah Pratt, who plays, is it Mariella? Mariella?
Mariella, yeah. She was actually married to Donald Bellessar at the time. And the other thing that we should mention is that the pilot was re-edited into a movie. Yes, that's right.
With some extra-sweary bits and a bit more violence. Extra-sweary bits and a bit more violence. But the thing is, after watching this pilot, I can't understand where they put the extra action scenes. I don't know, Dominic Santini just gets up and shoots a few things.
I would imagine that it was probably, I don't know, probably, I mean, mostly action. It is towards the end of the episode anyway. Yeah. Some more people being shot.
Graphically, maybe. Yeah. Because when it was released on home video in this country in the UK, I always remember it being an 18. It was rated 18.
That's right. On video tape, yeah. I think that's the version I remember, to be honest. Probably rented it from the video.
Probably. After I'd got into the show, but I had never seen the pilot when it was originally heard. Yeah. Because I remember thinking, I have to chew those breasts in it at some point.
You're just like, for the fast-forwarding, pretty sure that it's all I've rented it for. Didn't we all? helicopter. Shemelly-copter.
Go on, I want to see Burwulf. Maybe that's the one I accidentally rented. Maybe my dad rented the wrong movie. Yeah.
Like the time that my dad rented a flesh-gordon thinking that he'd rented a flesh-gordon for me. That really happened. We got 10 minutes into the movie and they suddenly realized their mistake and turned it off. And I was like, oh, come on, that was getting good.
Yeah. Enjoying that. Yeah, that really happened. Okay.
All right. So we open the scenes from the upcoming episode. Not going to go into them because they do give a lot of way. Don't really like those openings.
No, it was a weird sort of like 80s thing. We've seen that before in other things that we've done. Battle Star Black did it, didn't they? Yeah, quite a few shows did it.
I think Magnum did it too. Yeah. It's like, here's what's going to happen. You know what?
I'm going to watch it. And it's never exciting in the actual episode as a way to cut it together in that little pre-credits moment. Yeah, because they're always a little sneaky with it. Yeah, they move time around a little bit and make it look a little bit more exciting.
As this is the pilot, we don't get the cool opening on the music. No, I was disappointed at that. By the way, talking of pilot episodes. I had a dream about one the other day.
I actually had a dream about creating a pilot episode. And it was about George Farmby as a time traveler. Okay. All right.
And he's propelled into the present day. And as a group of people are trying to get him back to his own time. Not because they're curbing, but because Farmby's outdated beliefs and the fact that he's constantly slurring upsets them. Okay.
He's like, oh, let's turn that F in now again. So if you're saying. And the only way that they can get him back to his own time is to string a series of film clips together from different time periods playing through a time machine backwards and injecting him into it. And it keeps getting stuck and Farmby has to solve something in the film's time period to move on to the next one.
And what's this called? And in my dream, it's in time of title unfortunately. I'm sure it'll be like turned out nice again or something. But there's one where he's like in 1983.
And he's like, you know, he's like playing his band and he's like, you don't have the guts to be what you want to be. You need people like me so you can point your fucking fingers and say, that's the bad guy. And he's in scare face. It was a very weird dream.
Have you eaten some cheese that night before you went to bed? Probably not. All right. Okay.
Anyway, back to it. You tried that. Right the pilot. Oh, yeah.
And it's on the list. Yeah, it's on the list. At the last thing, the list. So we cut to a shot of desert mountains.
The wind howls of desolate greeting. It's empty on curling landscape yet strangely beautiful. The cast credits appear on screen in white as electronic baseline stats to sound. And there's electronic wines.
And we see a green lizard. Yes, we, this lizard pops up quite a bit in a minute, doesn't we? Yeah. Yeah.
It reminds me of the hamster in 12 monkeys. You know the very Gilean gets obsessed with. You can just imagine barely Sario going to get that lizard. Get him.
What they do to him in a minute is just unthinkable. Oh, it's unthinkable. Yeah, but it's not very nice for the lizard. I'll tell you what it is on the laptop.
I think I've seen a little bit too much stir. I was recently done because I kept thinking I was waiting for some CGI creature to eat the lizard. You know, you start off with a small lizard and then something with a big tongue over here comes and eats it up. I was waiting for that to happen.
Oh, the lizard turns out to be a guy in a suit and fights, string fill it up. That would be good. A close up of a black metal shiny object and a shot of a rotor blade moving in the wind. Three men in uniforms with black helmets with black visors approach.
A close up of the shoulder of one of the men reveals a patch that says Erwolf. It has the image of a wolf with back wings. Oh, he's far. If you're a super secret helicopter, having a badge that says your name on it.
It's not helpful, is it? And a logo. Yeah, you got a logo. Who designed the logo?
What are you designing? Oh, I'm saying a logo for Erwolf. What's Erwolf? I don't know.
Don't tell me. I just put a wolf face in some back wings. Okay. It works, huh?
Maybe some hybrid animal that they're creating. Oh, yeah. Wolf with back wings. No, no.
A gloved hand presses a stat up, but the gauges stat to flutter engines begin to growl and rotablates increase in speed. The theme music stats as Erwolf rars into life. Somehow the lizard has crawled onto the wheel of the helicopter. I think we know how we got onto the wheel of the helicopter.
Yeah, the Sunpar guy stood underneath the helicopter, the down draft blowing him over, risking his life to slowly position this lizard onto a wheel with Bellisario going, No, no, hire! Get it on the wheel! Do not let it fall off! The foals off!
You almost stick it back on! It's like salotaping this lizard to the wheel. You know what I'm going to say, this is the 80s. I'm surprised I didn't nail it to the wheel.
Ah, but as the helicopter takes off the lizard falls, so they have to have it fall. Maybe they didn't even have to try. Maybe the lizard just wanted to ride. Maybe I'll maybe have 50 lizards.
The first time they shot it, the helicopter went up and the lizard still cligged into the wheel and sold your foot in the eye and then it went... I'm like, mmm. Get... Lizard too!
They're all waiting in the line. We're getting the next lizard. Yeah, like a casting call. You see what up to that guy?
I don't want to be that guy. I got all these lizards going, no, I've fished my mind. Speak to my agent. There's one lizard who's got a huge mustache.
The other one's looking at him. You're never going to get this part. Never. No, no, no.
No, no, no. Yeah. Erwulf is urban and glides towards us. We've got to a control center.
Senator William Deetsy's complaining about how he was forced to get up at the crack of dawn and drag to the middle of nowhere to look at a lousy helicopter in the background. We can see Erwulf hover into position. So what do we think of the look of Erwulf? I think it looks really, really nice.
In fact, I prefer this to Blue Thunder. Oh, well, now I'm going to take the opposite opinion just because that's what we're going to do. Yeah, I know. Otherwise it's boring, right?
I like the fact that Blue Thunder looks like a military helicopter. I get what you're saying. This doesn't look very military. So it looks too futuristic.
It's what you're saying. It just looks like a helicopter with a bit stuck on it. But I don't know. I like the sleekness of it.
You like the sleekness. I'm very superficial in that respect. Right. Yeah, you like the shiny.
Look at the shiny shining. I say it all this time. You do. You never stop.
Paul Castor's almost called shiny shining. You've been telling. You've been telling. Okay.
The senator's talking to Morella, who's Archangel's assistant. Archangel's stuck in the background dressed in white, watching Erwulf. The senator's complaining there's no cream cheese. Archangel says this is not lousy helicopter.
It's Erwulf. But the senator isn't impressed. Still a beanie with a propeller eating its way through somebody's budget. Beanie with a propeller is a cat from the 1930s.
He showed his age. He showed his age. He showed his age. I guess so.
Yeah. The senator finally sees Erwulf and says it's a mean looking machine who designed it. Archangel reveals that it was designed by the pilot Dr. Moffatt.
All systems go and Erwulf sars over them. Morella explains that Erwulf can fly fast in the speed of sound. It's an aerodynamic lifting body with twin turbo driven rotor system. Which sounds like a helicopter tonight.
Yeah, it's very helicopter-esque. Yeah. Yeah. It can disengage its rotor system and ignite two additional turbines that can push it in 9.9 seconds to over Mach 1 from C level to 60,000 feet.
It's pretty high because your average air line has flies around 30,000 feet. Does it? Yeah. It never flies at high in the episode though.
Not in this one. It's in the middle ones because it gets snow on it. Alright, okay. It freezes and all those systems turn off in one episode.
So I've got a question about this whole jet propulsion thing that it's got that it can switch off its rotors. When they say it switches off its rotors, I presume they don't mean the top ones. Yes. I mean, they don't turn them off.
They just, they freewheel so they're not affected by the turbine. So they just spin because of the speed that's pushing it. The turbine's pushing the helicopter. The rotor is turned round by the wind that's going against it.
So, I see what you're saying. So the propellers have been turned by the wind rushing through them as it's propelled forward. Yes. Right.
Exactly. That was all I needed. Because that always confused me. I was like, shoot me if you just switched off the rotor completely and they weren't moving.
You just, you'd go faster than you'd literally just drop with you. Yeah. I mean, they do, in helicopters when you have an emergency, you do disengage the rotor so that you drop, but you drop slower because the, as you're going down, the wind's coming up. It's still moving the rotor blades around it.
It slows you descent. Okay. All right. Yeah.
That's, that's playing gunship on the Commodore 65 by the way. I was going to ask you. You press one of the, you press one of the F keys disengages the rotor to make it descent nicer. I thought I don't remember your career.
Did you have some, some strange, you know, clandestine career in, in the earth? Yeah. I was in Burwells. Ah.
We used to fly nude. It's a what though, in the summer, those leather seats. Oh, yeah. You wouldn't want to have to.
Yeah. Oh, no, no. Oh, no. The crew consists of an in-flight system specialist in the data command center to monitor temperatures, pressure and all computer systems.
The other crew member is a countermeasure specialist that can suppress and neutralize any threats to Erwolff and he also has duplicate flight controls. All right. So let's talk about how inconsistent this is. Okay.
Who controls what? In this episode, the pilot tells the system specialist to engage the part and later we see Hark tell Dom to do that. But we also see Hark just doing himself. So there are times when one person is flying off and they're still able to engage the weapons.
So I don't think these extra people are needed. Yeah, I was going to say maybe when the, it takes, it takes the pressure off the pilot to do it all himself, but under extreme circumstances they can, he can control it all if need be. You know, maybe there's an emergency system that he can engage from his seat, which controls everything. Yeah.
Ideally, you wouldn't have to. No. All right. Because they remind me of the now, Harley on employed spy.
Go on. In spy movies, there's a person telling the spy to turn left. It's a hundred meters on the left. But with all these smart devices, they're not needed anymore.
So I see like an, an HR office at a spy sat at a table and he's like, well, they used to rely on me. I told him which wire to cut what weapon they should use. Now it just says Alexa, how fair to the target. Hey, Google, what's the quickest way of diffusing this bomb?
Siri, turn off the lights and then the lights go off, plunging the guy in Douglas and you just hear a quiet. Oh, bokeh. Anyway, back to where we'll. All right.
Finally, the flight commander who according to Morel, there's a spot for positive flight control as opposed to negative flight control. Hey, go left. I got left. Maybe just really negative person.
I mean, that's what it's really. Yeah. I hate this control stick. I hate this helicopter.
I hate you. I hate these missiles and weapons, all apparently 14 weapon options you would hate. I think I've only come. There's only three, isn't there?
14, according to Morel, maybe they're just like the one or two that they only use every week. Yeah, but he's the same tubes. The same tubes. Yes, that's a technical term.
Those three tubes that drop down from underneath and then go back up. Yeah. Actually, it's got 30 millimeter cannons and nuclear's tipped strike missiles. Yeah, yeah.
I heard that lie about nuclear tipped. You really want to put the Michael Vincent in charge of that. That's not a nuclear tip strike missiles. No, probably not.
That's a good trouble. Yeah. In other words, there's a map one chopper that can kick ass. I've heard that before.
Yeah. Bye. Me. Saying it to yourself in the mirror.
Yeah. You just studied the mirror guy. You are a back, looking down guy. You are a back, one chopper that can kick ass.
You've got to get that little guy going somewhere, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Get your turbines going. Oh, yeah. When they get going, they don't get going anymore.
You're old. No. No, right. No, it's like a rowing bow.
It is. We want to all. We're on a leak. We cut an elite.
An elite. We take vegetables into the bathroom far. Oh, wouldn't you like to know? No.
We got to Earl flying. Well, the third Academy of the game, was a big fan. I'm gonna go say that. Well, the first game of the game, the first game of the game.
Yeah. I've heard that. Yeah. No, no, no.
You've heard that, no, no, no, no, no. Well, now, I'm gonna say yeah. I'm gonna go say yeah. Oh, no.
No. No. No. No.
No. No. No, he's gonna say that. Oh.
No, no. No. No, no. No.
No. No. No. No, no.
No. That's what we're talking about. Yeah, that's what I do about day. Sad.
The Senator asks Archangel, what's he going to do with it? You're going to keep it hidden for so long and you start testing it in the field, it will leak to Congress within a week, and they won't take kindly to the firm developing secret tactical weapons. Archangel says the firm would like to turn the weapon over to the Department of Defense and let them take credit for it. But they would reimburse the firm for development costs and give them the first five earwalls that are produced.
Give it to me in dollars and cents, there's the Senator. Oh, a billion dollars, give it a few cents, replies Archangel. We caught to the controllers and Archangel explains what the exercise will be like that it will penetrate the typical Soviet defense zone. The type used around military command posts, the demonstration will use real Soviet hardware and manned by people who know how to use it.
It's not a simulation, those guns are loaded. I was confused by this, I mean, so I was thinking is that what we're going to find back at least people then? Yeah, it is, it sounds dangerous. You're going to lose a lot of people either way.
You're either going to lose a billion dollar helicopter or a lot of staff, and who volunteers for this? Exactly, exactly. I wouldn't want to be on the ground. No.
No. We want you to shoot down a new billion dollar helicopter. Oh, what's it going to do? I was going to try and kill you.
No, I think I'll be out there. You wouldn't see me for dust. No, straight H. Yeah.
But it doesn't actually fire back at the main way, does it? It just buzzes them. It was things up. It was things up.
It was things up. I mean, I don't kill anyone, does it? No, no, no. Yeah.
That's true. So, Erloff has given a green light and moves into position. It drops below the mounting range to avoid radar, Moffets visor lowers, and he hits the turbos. He blows past the first defense, is covering them in dirt.
Two Russian helicopters hovering to position. Moffets sores between them. One fires a heat seeker, but Erloff releases its sunburst defenses, drawing the missile away. These are animated, aren't they?
The missiles? No, the flashes that fly through the sky. Oh, yeah, they always air in Erloff. They're always like this weird, drawn-on type.
No, the missile is just someone holding a missile in front of a blue screen, isn't it? Yeah, but when they're like, it's saring. It is just a orange missile shaped drawing. Yeah, that's sort of cool.
Yeah. And I think the guns are just lights. Just lights. That makes sense.
Yeah. I guess they do it with CGI flashes, wouldn't they? Yes, they will. Wouldn't look as good, though.
Oh, I wonder if they'll do a remake of Erloff. It's one of the ones that never gets brought up, isn't it? They're always talking about remakes of night rider and remakes of all the other ones, but they never know anybody ever mentions Erloff anymore. It's kind of been forgotten.
Yeah. Interesting. Well, we'll bring it back. This podcast, we'll bring it back into the public consciousness.
That's what we'll do. Suddenly Moffets sees wires across the canyon, has to pull up into radar range. He's detected at missiles at large. The countermeasures officer tries to jam the signal.
Missiles closing on Erloff. Moffets switches off to Frostner to re-engage as the rotor, the missiles close in. As Erloff flies deeper behind the mountain range, there is a huge explosion. They blow in him away, exclaims to the senator.
Not quite, replies at Erloff. They turn and see Erloff lower and hover outside the window at the control center. I'm guessing that the idea is Erloff's very quiet. Yeah.
Yeah, although they never say like, engage Whisper Mode, like they're doing move on to. No. But in the fourth season of Erloff, someone does say, engage Whisper Mode, so they've invented that. Right.
But it's never mentioned in this... It's brought up in the series that no one cares, in the season that no one cares. Yeah. I thought that wouldn't they...
How could you not notice a dirty grey helicopter rising up in front of where these people are standing? Isn't that a cinematic trope of helicopters in films? It's a trope, yeah. And he's in a lot of movies, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah. It is, yeah. You don't hear helicopters unless you can see. The senator congratulates Moffets over the radio and says he's like to shake his hand.
Moffet replies that the senator already has on Project Moffius, which was a project to drop a little plasticine going to any territory. I wonder where you were going. Yeah, a drill going. Moffat?
Does he ever explain what they thought? Oh, did I miss it? No. No, no.
It's a mysterious project that obviously... I wonder whether I missed something, but I'm glad I didn't. Well, the senator remembers the project, but something is wrong. That was a long time ago, he says.
Moffat replies, yes, the firm has shown great confidence in my ability to change. Well, I'm sure that trust is well-founded replies to Senator. Not really says Moffat. Erkinjo on some of the control tower people realise what is going on a split second before Moffat opens fire on them.
Moffat unleashes the guns and the missiles, lowering the commands into bits. We see Erkinjo and Morella trying to get out. But we finished with Shot to the Blind unconscious as fire rages around them. Moffat's visor lowers and he flies earwulf away.
There's a shot of that down blizzard, which dissolves into shots of an eagle soaring through the ear and a cell always being played. I was waiting for the lizard to give it the finger as it was right over the fire away. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Not what was it? He said two fingers down the blank. Yes. There's the lizard.
The lizard played the piano with two fingers. I hope that anyone survive what that helicopter does to that command centre. Especially considering we just learned it as nuclear tipped strike. Literally ripped it apart.
Maybe Erkinjo's white suit is made of a special tool. Is that what it is? A nuclear tipped missile? Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It does. Okay, with that.
The text appears on screen saying three months later, we see Stringfill Hawk muddily playing the cello in the middle of nowhere next to a lake the wind below him. Yeah, he's a man at one with nature and his instrument. Yeah. You've been there next to a lake playing your instrument?
We've all been there Colin. You weren't there with me. No, probably. Yeah, I would be weird.
That wasn't like a duo. There's strictly a one man bound situation. Very much so. I'll bang me on drum.
Thank you very much. And so you're sure. Because nobody else is going to bang it for you. I'll blow me on trumpet.
No. If you would, you could. Wait, no, if you could, you would. I was down again.
It doesn't matter. If you could, you would, you should. I did. I put me back out these days.
That's true. Yeah. There's a dog sitting next to him called Ted. Oh, is that what the dogs call?
That's just your first-year-old dog. Yeah. You can disappear through a lot of the show and then comes back in various episodes, but Stringfill Hawk is not a very good dog parent. He's not.
And this dog has got picked up some filthy habits that we find out. Oh, no, he's trained that dog to do this. Yeah. Well, there is a line that implies he's trained it, isn't that?
Yeah, I think he has. We have a Shocks free Stringfill playing and the Eagle flying and this goes out for quite a while. It's a bit long. A bit long.
Yes. So the Eagle catches a fish and Stringfill starts playing. He is a helicopter approaching and sees it skimming low over the trees. Hawk doesn't look happy to see it.
The dog stirs at him. Yep. So he's Hawk. He heads back to the cabin as a helicopter lands.
We see the pilot, a woman dressed in white get out. Archangel Falzer, it's perfect, she says. A marin of you. Nothing is perfect.
But why is that Archangel? What could be wrong with this? She says, we're here. He's a bama laugh, doesn't he?
Oh yeah. Choco Fest. Inside we hear classical music playing. So he's gone in and put the stereo on or was the stereo playing and he just left it playing all the time.
He's a very musical kind of guy. He leaves it on 24-7 doesn't he? Oh, OK. Archangel is a pilot, enter.
Without knocking. I noticed they just enter. No manners whatsoever. No.
No. No. No. Archangel now has an army in a sling and one black lens on his glasses.
Do you know what? It's funny because I remember the black lens on the glasses and obviously because I came into a wolf and never saw the pilot until later when I watched the movie. Why had it? Oh, you just thought it was like his thing, like a bono type thing, but only half.
One white glove for Michael Jackson, one black lens for Archangel. Do you know what? I actually thought, and this is a real thing, I actually thought that maybe it was something to do with the actor, that maybe the actor had eye problems. Oh, OK.
They just came part of his character as well. I mean, if they were going to do that, they would have made string for the hawk and alcoholic while they were at it. I would have solved a lot of problems. This is how gullible I was in the 80s.
I'm not like that now. Oh, no, of course not. No. Hark is making a drink Archangel introduces assistant Gabrielle to Hark.