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michael_gothardMenace was a series of twenty-three thrillers, each lasting 75 minutes, broadcast on Tuesday evenings. They found their basis in the aspects, perceptions and representations of menace in various settings in and around the villages, townships and cities of the United Kingdom.
The title of the episode in which Michael Gothard appears as Pip, “Nine Bean Rows”, is a quotation from a poem by WB Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
'I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee …'
The episode was broadcast on BBC2, at 9:20 pm on Tuesday 1 December 1970.
Radio Times plot introduction
In the house near the Irish border the atmosphere is already tense with fear. An unexpected arrival makes a crisis inevitable.
Exerpt from an interview with Jordan Lawrence, the creative force behind Menace.
“I'd say ten out of the thirteen are positive winners - but it might prejudice the viewers if I told them which ones. But the best? They're each so different. Apart from the theme of menace running through all of them - and the fact that they're all modern, and set somewhere in the United Kingdom - you just can't compare them.
Thirteen writers wrote them, eleven different directors plumped for whichever ones appealed to him or her. So each has a unique personality stamped all over it. But if you insist, well, I think I'd choose ‘Nine Bean Rows’ by Hugo Charteris. That, and ‘Killing Time.’
‘Bean Rows’ isn't due till December - but believe me, it's an absolute bomb. About a murder in an Irish stately home. With Constance Cummings, who's super …"
Plot synopsis:
Herky (Peter Blythe), ten years a mercenary in Africa, arrives at his mother's home in Ulster. She has remarried and Herky suspects that her new husband, Mick, has misused the money held in trust for his younger brother Pip and himself. He delivers an ultimatum: either he gets his money at once or he kills Mick. Can Mick and Pip deal with Herky before he carries out his threat?
Full article on Startrader
IMDB entry
Unfortunately, according to Lisa Kerrigan at the BFI, this episode appears not to have survived.
.
The title of the episode in which Michael Gothard appears as Pip, “Nine Bean Rows”, is a quotation from a poem by WB Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
'I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee …'
The episode was broadcast on BBC2, at 9:20 pm on Tuesday 1 December 1970.
Radio Times plot introduction
In the house near the Irish border the atmosphere is already tense with fear. An unexpected arrival makes a crisis inevitable.
Exerpt from an interview with Jordan Lawrence, the creative force behind Menace.
“I'd say ten out of the thirteen are positive winners - but it might prejudice the viewers if I told them which ones. But the best? They're each so different. Apart from the theme of menace running through all of them - and the fact that they're all modern, and set somewhere in the United Kingdom - you just can't compare them.
Thirteen writers wrote them, eleven different directors plumped for whichever ones appealed to him or her. So each has a unique personality stamped all over it. But if you insist, well, I think I'd choose ‘Nine Bean Rows’ by Hugo Charteris. That, and ‘Killing Time.’
‘Bean Rows’ isn't due till December - but believe me, it's an absolute bomb. About a murder in an Irish stately home. With Constance Cummings, who's super …"
Plot synopsis:
Herky (Peter Blythe), ten years a mercenary in Africa, arrives at his mother's home in Ulster. She has remarried and Herky suspects that her new husband, Mick, has misused the money held in trust for his younger brother Pip and himself. He delivers an ultimatum: either he gets his money at once or he kills Mick. Can Mick and Pip deal with Herky before he carries out his threat?
Full article on Startrader
IMDB entry
Unfortunately, according to Lisa Kerrigan at the BFI, this episode appears not to have survived.
.