Edge of Darkness (1985) - Ending

An astonishing ending to the series.

Music by Eric Clapton

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Edge of Darkness ending
• shootout
• Bob Peck
• Joe Don Baker

[harryf200]

You know how it is that you may not want to see a sick or even dead relative,or friend, because you want to remember them as they were when they were happy and healthy? I am feeling in a similar way about the new movie of this story - I want to remember what has been for me the best TV drama ever, and I don't want the memory of the story tainted by a Hollywood adaptation lest it is "dead" compared with the original.

[lndac02]

@harryf200 Harry I could not agree more, some things were never made to be copied or in hollywoods case ripped off. I won't be watching the Mel gibson version..there is only one Ronnie craven and thats Bob peck RIP

[custardaghost]

EoD was one of TV's finest hours - up there with "The Singing Detective" and "Life on Earth". It was so acclaimed, it got repeated on BBC1 within a month. No-one who saw ever forgot it. A total masterpiece.

Then Mel Gibson.

[StuDsv]

Saw the original... brilliant. Saw the "reimaged" USA carp, pathetic. Like most "reimaged" non-ideas these days, it devalued and insulted the original.

[ZZBoomslang]

Whoa, you should put up the whole series!!!!

[Ironbee07]

Grogan is a hypocratic scum. It was a bit of joy when Jedburgh touched the plutonium rods together. Short-timed punishment, but felt a little bit well because of it: "Yeah, you prick, you got what you deserved." But mother nature still hadn't mercy toward irresponsible humanity. And I still don't understand Craven's outrage "I am not on your side?" What does it mean? Somebody?

(By the way, the remake had no guts at all.)

[pstholm]

I was watching the MG movie the other night and it was such a pile of crap I didn't realise it was a remake of the original. If a remake is to be done, make damn sure it is a really good one - otherwise don't!

[donnagibson50]

I joined the Nuclear Industry after this and yes I have swam off Sizewell, 'how sick who knows yet' . There are three dramas that I always refer to as the high water mark of British broadcasting Edge of Darkness, A Very British Coup and to House of Cards. Bob Peck RIP is a fine actor.

[textthing]

I remember seeing this series back when it first aired. Even rewatching it now, nothing can compete with it. The episode with the infiltration of Northmoor has to be one of the greatest hours of TV in recent memory.

[martzino]

Yeah - well the Mel Gibson version was a tribute to this drama - it's recognition of how good the original was - and how it's still poignant - it's a seminal work and everything that comes after it ,makes it greater

[harryf200]

@textthing I guess he has done bad stuff for the samed reason that Michael Caine has agreed to make a few awful movies as well as the good ones - just for the money! I recall MC once being challenged by a TV film critic about one bad movie, to which he replied along the lines of, 'Of course it was dreadful but it paid for my swimming pool.'

[harryf200]

@RedFrankCook Yeah, TKM wrote that, or so I understand. I think it was felt it was consistent with the miraculous, seeming Gaia coinscousness that caused ... was it a bush or spring? ...to appear over night on the spot where the daughter died. (I wonder if that's in the film version, too.)

Thanks for the tip re: Amazon. Sounds a good deal. I'll buy it.