NCIS Season 13 Episode 11

[Wobblinwheel]

Do you guys get the American TV show "NCIS"? The episode in the title involves a character, "Dr. Mallard", giving as a Christmas gift, a Hornby "Flight of the Mallard" train set. Interestingly, story is set in the 1940's........Even "DCC Ready"!

[LCDR]

  I have waxed (un)lyrical about TV and Cinema before.  Directors and producers are not famous for allowing the facts to get in the way of a good story!

[poliss]

The Mallard, Mallard has in autopsy is a Hornby model. :-)

The Flight of the Mallard set came out in 2009 from memory.

[Wobblinwheel]

After reviewing the episode again, I realize the "flashback" sequences are probably from the 60's, maybe 70's? Not 40's or 50's. What type of decoder would Hornby have supplied in the 60's? Maybe an early analogue version of DCC..........?

[96RAF]

@WW

First Sherlock Holmes, now this.

 

As I am in Cyprus I can download torrent files for this and many other NCIS / CSI / Hawaii 5-0 and similar series (usually recorded from Canadian TV and promptly posted up the night after they are aired).

 

I was about to post this self same story but it slipped my mind and in any event usually in UK the 5-USA Freeview channel which airs these type series never in any seemingly sensible order or with any clue as to which series/episode you are watching so I thought it would fall flat.

 

I also was amused by the fact it was a 4-4-6-8 loco when the number was plainly visible on the side of the loco proudly displayed on Ducky's (Dr Mallard) 'office' shelf and that the loco was named after his famous grandfather, although it wasn't said what he was famous for.

 

Sometimes I cringe when I see the screenplay thought necessary by the Director to 'explain' the plot to the generic idiots watching the programme - shades of Obama's speeches being written so a 10 year old can, but fails, to understand them.

 

Even more amusing was the screenshot of the Xmas present being torn open and the box showing the modern Flight of the Mallard complete with track and the infamous cheap and nasty analogue controller. As for DCC ready - in plain sight.

 

After the loco was 'lost' on the street it was then represented to its owner years later  in suprisingly excellent condition except the tender seemed to have gone AWOL

 

Eyes peeled for the next Hornby flash on TV.

[Wobblinwheel]

Kind of "touching" at the end. Almost had to use my crusty sleeve again. By the way, where WAS that "brother" all this time? Why didn't he look for "Ducky" a long time ago, before he went bonkers?? Another little glitch in the storyline......

[96RAF]

I am not allowed  (by SWMBO) to criticise stuff on the telly as it spoils the program for her.

 

I attempt to argue my case with 'Well the *!#@" story line, bad editing, poor continuity, glaring errors, etc spoils it for me too, but that is not of consequence it seems.

 

Classic examples are obvious damage in car chases, which is never evident in subsequent shots - in the old days you could see the hub caps peeling off and in the next shot they were back in place, or one plane takes off and another lands,  the actor has a bit of applied 'damage' after a scrap and the next time you see them it has moved on his/her face/body, cigarettes and drinks that get smaller/longer, emptier/fuller at whim, - I could go on forever...

 

[Wobblinwheel]

We're not supposed to notice these things, and the sad thing is, 90% don't! Those are people who run for public office, totally clueless, in other words......if it wasn't for them, where would we find "witnesses" to testify in court??

[81F]

 This sort of thing is very common with full sized railways, How many times do you see a Mark 1 in a film set during the 1930/40s or a painted out smokebox door numberplate on anythintg other than an LMS loco!

Mind you this is probably a case of the pot calling the smokebox black as I have just been driving my double chimeied County of Chester in GWR livery around my layout! But then it was a Bit-box bonus built out of five locos!