It’s good to have fans! You may recall that I shared my thoughts some time ago about a British children’s television programme called “Brody”. Well, a few of my readers did recall the show, and wrote to thank me for the pleasant trip down memory lane … but one of my fans did better than that. He wants to remain anonymous so I’ll just refer to him as “Tim”. A huge fan of the programme, Tim had bought the entire series on video – apparently it was one of the first British television programmes to get a video release … on Betamax, in 1977, which goes some way towards explaining why it has been so hard to find since then.
But … imagine my amazement and joy … apparently there were TWO seasons made, and only the first season was aired! But the second season was released on video along with the first, and Tim bought them both. Fortunately he had kept his old Betamax player in his attic, and when he read my article on the show, he took it out, dusted it off, and played the entire series while recording it on a camcorder aimed at his television. He then wrote to me, asking if I would be interested in having a copy … well I didn’t need asking twice! A saintly man, Tim would not even hear about payment for his trouble – he said that my stories were payment enough – and a few days later a package arrived for me in the mail. With shaking hands, I opened it up, and there in front of me were three DVDs, the first two labelled “Brody – series 1 – episodes 1-8” and “Brody – series 1 – episodes 9-13”, and the third labelled “Brody – series 2 – episodes 1-6”.
I could barely contain my excitement! I rushed inside, practically drooling over my prize (much to Mrs Saxon’s amusement), and, resisting the temptation to leap straight into the unseen series 2, I decided to start right at the beginning, and instead of fast-forwarding through the show, looking for the good parts, I made myself savour it, watching it all the way through.
Well … it was almost as good as I had remembered. Not quite. It turns out that my memory of the show, as I described it in my previous article, had slightly embellished reality in terms of how the upskirt shots were filmed. Memory can play funny tricks on you that way. So, before I move on to my description of series 2, I’ll just correct some of my errors in the first article.
Firstly, I should just mention that the girl who played Claire (Rebecca McMahon, her name was), was actually fourteen at the time the first series was made. This kind of dampens my pleasure at the upskirt shots, somewhat – I know that my stories very occasionally feature protagonists that young, but they’re always “fantasy 14” rather than “reality 14” … by which I mean that they’re not subject to the rules and realities of real-world 14-year-old girls. I won’t bore you by elaborating on that – suffice to say that seeing Rebecca’s panties wasn’t as exciting for me as it would have been if she had been just a couple of years older. There was a feeling that the producers or director (or both) were sexually exploiting an underage girl … which made me rather uncomfortable.
The scene in which Claire crawls into a tunnel was not nearly as long as I had remembered, although the panty-shots (just two of them) were very nice. The scene with her falling down a muddy bank was practically as awesome as I had remembered, but it was kind of spoiled by mud splashing up and hitting the camera lens, blurring the scene a bit. Not before we got a great shot of her panties, though!
Everything else was pretty much as I had described, except for the ledge-crossing scene, which was not quite as exciting as I had recalled. The camera did look up her dress from below, and it was a nice shot, but a) it was from further away than I had remembered, and b) the camera did not zoom in on her crotch.
Aside from that, there really were a lot of panty-shots, though after a while the novelty did wear off a bit and, since they weren’t the sexiest of panties, I did come to the end of the first series feeling slightly disappointed. Yes, it was shamelessly exploitative, but not as much as I had remembered, and in any case it was probably just as well, given Rebecca’s age.
But enough of the bad news. I then watched series 2 … and … OH MY GOD!!! No wonder it never aired! It was everything my wishfully-thinking mind had imagined series 1 had been … and more! I have no idea how to extract clips from a DVD on to a computer or I would try putting some of it on Youtube … except that I’d probably get into copyright trouble or something, so perhaps it’s just as well.
The best thing, or one of the best things, about series 2 was that Rebecca was older – quite possibly sixteen – and BUSTIER! Her breasts had ballooned from about a B-cup (I’m guessing) to what looks to me like a D-cup. She had also, in my opinion, got prettier between series 1 and 2.
Evidently the producers thought she was now “fair game”, at any rate, because they were even more exploitative this time around. And while Brody, in the first series, had quite definitely been the star of the show with far more airtime than Claire, in series 2 it was quite the reverse. Brody, although still ostensibly the main character, spent far less time on-screen than Claire.
There were only six episodes filmed, unfortunately – perhaps because the decision not to air the series was taken only midway through filming it. But all six episodes are pure gold, and I’ll describe them all for you. To begin with, to my almost delirious delight, Claire’s dresses and skirts (yes, there were quite a few skirts in this series) were even shorter than they had been in series 1! Seriously, they just barely covered her panties – in fact I’m not sure that some of them weren’t too short even for that – like Uhura’s uniforms in certain episodes of the original Star Trek series. But unlike in Star Trek, we never actually got the right camera angles to prove that. But that’s okay! There were compensations aplenty, as you will see.
Episode 1 – Bramble Farm In Danger. It’s never quite clear why Brody and Claire care quite so much about Bramble Farm, which is under threat from ruthless developers. But care they do, and while on a mission to persuade the evil boss of the ruthless developers to leave the farm alone, they discover, by accident, that the evil dude’s real plan is to turn the farm into a toxic waste dumping ground. There are a couple of upskirt shots along the way – nothing special, just brief flashes of white beneath Claire’s hemline as she stepped over a log or bent down to go under a tree branch.
But then they get discovered, and while Brody makes a run for it (gallant lad), Claire is captured! Incidentally, I should mention that Brody, who was practically the same height as Claire in season 1, was practically a head taller than her in season 2. I don’t think she had grown an inch, except in the area of her chest … and, I suppose, other areas – she had put on some weight, which I didn’t mind at all, since she had kind of a slim, boyish figure in the first series. In series 2 she was all woman. Or at least, all very-nicely-developed-teenager.
So Claire is captured … and tied down to a table! Spread-eagled! I kid you not – her feet were tied to the table’s legs with the ropes running from her ankles over the side of the table a couple of inches from the corners. Another rope, completely unnecessary, was tied around her middle, passing under the middle of the table. Why? I have no idea, except that as she struggled, the rope caused her dress to ride up, exposing her panties (though we had seen them already when a camera at the foot of the table showed her feet being pulled apart as she was tied down. After that we had a few shots of her struggling on the table, panties increasingly on display, intercut with shots of Brody running around trying to effect a rescue. The hemline of the dress did not quite reach the waistband of the panties, but it was a close thing.
After Brody rescues Claire, they have to sneak through a tunnel in order to escape. Unfortunately it was pretty dark, so it was hard to see much, but at one point Claire falls over, a rat crawls on her, and she screams – that was pretty cool, but only a glimpse of panties this time. Unfortunately the rat didn’t run anywhere interesting like inside her dress, but it was on her thigh which was kind of nice.
Not that you care, I’m sure, but once they got to safety, they called the police, who raided the boss’s HQ and found all kinds of incriminating stuff. Sale off, farm saved.
Episode 2 – The Old Man of the Mountain. In this one they are out exploring one day when they come across a locket with a photo of a woman. After some detective work, they find out that the woman died many years ago and the locket belongs to her husband, who is now an old hermit. They go to see him, but he has gone missing, so the kids decide to search for him. Well, to cut a long story short, they find him – he’d fallen over a small cliff and had broken his leg.
This is probably my least favourite episode – and not because of the rather dull storyline. There was actually quite a bit of local history worked into the dialogue … which normally I’d have been somewhat interested in, but I wasn’t watching the show for its historical info! I was hoping for a lot more running around, climbing, falling over (all on Claire’s part, of course), but there was not nearly so much of that here as in other episodes. There were still a few panty-shots, however, the best one being as Claire crouched over the semi-conscious old man, showing us not only her panties but also a nice bit of cleavage.
Episode 3 – Brody’s Present. It’s a brand-new bicycle! Early on in the episode, Claire takes a turn on it, indulging one of my favourite fetishes – girls in miniskirts on bicycles. The panty-shots here rival those in the movie Getting Lucky (1990) – just awesome. But of course, the bicycle is just a means for furthering the plot of this episode, which concerns a trio of criminals who plan to steal the eggs out of a rare eagle’s nest.
Brody and Claire do a lot of climbing in this episode, and there are some excellent upskirt shots from directly below Claire. Twice she spreads her legs really wide while getting from one foothold to another, and the second time, the camera is zoomed in so close that Claire’s buttocks and the strip of white material between her legs take up fully half the screen! Quite a brief shot, but on a children’s television programme? Come on! Did the producers really think they would get away with this? I guess we’ll never know … although I suppose I could try to track them down, now that I have the full cast and crew at the end in the credits of each of these episodes. Maybe they have email addresses. I wonder if any of them still work in television???
Episode 4 – Signals at Midnight. This episode starts with one of the best and most erotic sequences in the whole series. You know how when you were little, you used to squat on the edge of a pond looking at the little critters underwater, with your knees against your shoulders and your bottom pressed against your heels? And if you were a girl, and moreover a girl wearing a dress, you were probably completely oblivious to the fact that your panties were in full view of anyone passing in front of you?
Well, that’s of little concern if you’re five years old. But Claire was sixteen – or at least the actress was (although we learned in the last episode, during which Brody turned fifteen, that Claire is supposed to be fourteen still) – and surely too old to be sitting like that, especially with a camera situated just a few feet in front of her. The camera was supposedly watching the frog that Brody and Claire were watching, but it was hard to concentrate on the frog when just behind it was the deliciously-bulging soft mound of Claire’s cotton-shrouded pussy, sandwiched between the tops of her thighs!
Now I don’t imagine this next bit was deliberate – I can’t see how they would have pulled it off if they had tried – but it was certainly fortunate, for the producers, I’m sure, and certainly for us the horny viewers. The frog suddenly jumped – perhaps it took fright – and while I would love for it to have jumped at Claire’s panties, I’m not going to complain about the fact that it instead jumped directly away from her. Why? Because it kicked up a splash of water – which soaked the highly visible gusset of Claire’s panties! Fantastic! Okay, ‘soaked’ is perhaps a little bit of an exaggeration – but only a little bit! Now in any other show the shot would end at this point as we cut to a shot of Claire jumping up, or the frog disappearing underwater, or … well, just about anything, since the focus of the shot has just left. But here’s where the intentions of the director or perhaps the editor are hammered home … because the camera STAYS on Claire’s panties, for FOUR WHOLE SECONDS. That may not seem like a lot, but picture the scene in your head, and actually count out those seconds – that’s actually a heck of a lot of time for the camera to spend looking at nothing but Claire’s wet gusset. And in a children’s programme!!
Anyway that’s all in the first two minutes of the episode, which then goes on to reveal that a security van carrying three million pounds has been robbed, and the robbers are currently thought to be hiding out somewhere in the Lake District.
Next good scene: it is night-time. For the first time ever in this whole show, we get to see inside Claire’s house. It’s late, everyone’s in bed … but Claire is restless and gets up to go and get a drink of water. And what do you think she is wearing? A t-shirt and panties! Not even a long t-shirt, either – it stops about halfway down her panties. She goes to the bathroom, gets her drink, and returns to her bedroom … but then she sees a light outside. Someone on the hillside near her house is signalling with a torch (or flashlight, for my American readers).
So does Claire tell her parents? No. Does she call the police? No. Does she call Brody? No! Does she go outside, without putting any more clothes on, to investigate the light herself? Yes!! Well, almost – she does put on a pair of shoes. But you can imagine my excitement when I saw her creeping out of her front door with her panties still showing beneath her short t-shirt.
Frustratingly, however, for some unknown reason the cameraman (or director) at this point suddenly suffers from a poorly-timed outbreak of morals. The camera continues to follow Claire as she creeps up the hillside towards the light, but she is only kept in frame from the waist up! I found myself yelling at the television, “Pull back! Pull back!” I don’t know what happened – maybe the cameraman fell ill and was replaced by someone with scruples. Bloody scruples!
I was hoping for her to get captured, but no such luck. Instead, she sees the van and a couple of the robbers, then returns to her house when they drive off. She tries to wake her parents, but they irritably tell her she’s been dreaming, and to go back to bed.
Next morning she walks through the woods to Brody’s house, wearing a blouse and an ultra-short skirt. Fortunately, pervy cameraman is back, because at every opportunity, such as when she is climbing over a stile, the camera is well-positioned to capture her panties. Actually I mention the stile specifically because it’s a brilliant moment – I have no idea whether Rebecca (the actress playing Claire) was prompted to do this or not, but as she swings her leg over the top of the fence, she lifts it far higher than necessary, and the camera gets a beautiful shot of her wide-spread legs. It’s a perfect gratuitous panty-shot, very obviously only done for its titillation value. I’m almost surprised they didn’t repeat it in slow motion immediately afterwards.
There are some more flashes of panties throughout the rest of the episode, as Brody and Claire track down the robbers and eventually bring them to justice. But sadly Claire doesn’t get captured or anything, and she doesn’t get messy or wet … and even the panty-shots are kind of been-there, done-that. The first half of the episode was definitely better than the second.
Episode 5 – Claire’s Job. My favourite episode! Well, maybe my favourite – I haven’t really decided yet. It’s certainly the most exploitative. At the beginning of the episode, Claire and Brody are playing ‘cops and robbers’ in the woods (a little old for that, one would have thought), when they happen upon a photo shoot for a fashion magazine. (The model was wearing a nice short dress, but no upskirt action here.) The photographer takes one look at Claire and starts photographing her, paying her all kinds of compliments and telling her she should be a model.
Brody is kind of annoyed about all this, but Claire laps it up, and agrees to accompany the photographer back to his studio for a modelling job. She asks Brody to come along, but he sulkily declines. Yes! With Brody out of the picture, the photographer can have his wicked way with Claire – at least that was what I was thinking as I watched it.
So we cut to Claire and the photographer entering his ‘studio’ – really just the photographer’s flat. The guy (Barry, his name was) now tells Claire that he needs to take some pictures for an underwear advertisement, so he needs to see how she looks in her underwear.
Claire is uncomfortable with this, and there’s a bit of back and forth over the issue, but eventually she is persuaded, and she takes off her dress. Very nice she looked in her undies (pretty skimpy undies, too, for the early 70s) … but I can’t help thinking, this is a children’s programme??? Perhaps it was meant as a cautionary tale to warn teenage girls against going off with strange men who claim to be photographers … but I don’t suppose teenage girls made up much of the audience for this show…
Brody meanwhile has followed her to the city – by bus. No plan for how he’s going to find her, apparently, but by sheer good fortune he happens to see the model from earlier. He runs up to her and after some pleading he gets her to give him the photographer’s address.
Back to Claire. Now the photographer wants her to advertise moisturiser. So he throws a towel around her and tells her to take off her bra and panties. She is a little shocked by this, but does so. Then she poses for him, with the towel wrapped around her, but he is not happy with the look. He says it needs to be ‘racier’ – so he asks her to pull the top of the towel down a bit, to expose more of her chest. She does so, but now it seems the towel is covering too much of her legs. So he gets her to hike up the bottom of the towel to show more thigh. Then he decides she’s still not showing enough chest, so she has to tug the towel down even further … and I can tell you, I was getting more and more excited by the minute! Her breasts were practically spilling over the top of the towel! Goodness knows how many takes they had to do before they perfected the art of exposing as much as possible without showing any part of her areolas. And then he went back to asking her to hike up the towel! Claire was getting quite unhappy by this time, but she kept doing as he asked, until, I swear, a millimetre more and she’d have been showing her pussy.
So now the photographer’s happy, and he snaps away. Back to Brody … but ugh, I can’t even be bothered to talk about him. Back to Claire! So now it’s shampoo she’s advertising, and for that she needs to be NAKED in the photographer’s shower! I was practically falling off my sofa at this point – could it be that we were actually going to have NUDITY in this “children’s” show?
Of course not. But through the frosted glass, which obscured the details of Claire’s body from knee-height to shoulder-height, we could see that she was indeed completely naked, and there was the photographer, pointing his camera into the shower and snapping away! All right, we couldn’t see Claire’s body in all its glory, but that actor who played the cameraman certainly could! And she was SIXTEEN! I don’t know whether a scandal would have erupted had this show actually aired back in ‘73, but it absolutely would if it came out today.
All right, back to Brody. Having been unsuccessful in his first attempt to rescue Claire, he now attempts to climb up the outside of the flat. I have to say – this was actually quite an impressive bit of stuntwork. It really looked like Brody (or someone who looked like him) was actually climbing up the outside of the building, à la Alain Robert (the Human Spider), without any safety equipment. The ground was even in the shot and there was no safety net or anything. I don’t suppose they could do that these days, either.
They really dragged out that climb, though. Five minutes at least, it seemed like Brody was climbing that damn building, almost falling several times, before he eventually made it to the window of the photographer’s flat. No idea how he knew which one to aim for, from the outside, since all he had was the address, but realism was never really a hallmark of this show.
So he sneaks in. By this time, Barry the photographer has got Claire into a skimpy little babydoll negligee and a pair of matching lace panties, and after taking a couple of photos he’s beginning to move in on her. He tries to kiss her … she tries to fight him off … and that’s when Brody rushes in.
I might have surmised that at this point the good stuff was over … but no! Believe it or not, the best was yet to come! You see, Brody pushes Barry off the bed, grabs Claire, and the two of them make a run for it with Barry in hot pursuit. Brody and Claire run out of the flat, down the stairs, and out on to the street … with Claire still wearing this ridiculously skimpy negligee! (And panties.)
And so begins a nice long chase sequence, which constitutes one of the most erotic scenes I’ve ever seen in a television programme – certainly in one meant (ostensibly) for kids! The negligee was tied together just below Claire’s breasts, and it gaped plenty below that, which meant that whenever she was running towards the camera (which was a lot) her panties were in full view. From the back, only the bottom half of her panties was usually visible.
Now, I haven’t a clue why the photographer was chasing them. It makes no sense, if you think about it. But chase them he did, and after running down several crowded streets and un-crowded dark alleys … oh my GOD! … Brody and Claire climbed down a manhole cover and took refuge in the sewers!
When that happened, not that you probably want to know this, but I promptly exploded into a tissue. Which was a shame, because what happened next was the best part of the entire episode. Claire had gone first, although fortunately a cameraman was already down there to film, from directly beneath her, her panty-clad bottom descending the ladder. When she was almost at the bottom, she lost her grip on the rung she was holding, and fell backwards with a shriek, landing on her back in about eight inches of dirty water.
When she got up, for the next shot, her entire outfit was completely see-through! Unfortunately the lighting wasn’t great – probably better than it would have been in a sewer ordinarily, but still not great – but I could definitely see the outline of her nipples through her negligee. Awesome!!
Cut to Brody, and back to Claire, and unfortunately she was now much drier. Damn continuity errors – couldn’t they have re-soaked her before each take? Oh well. Anyway Barry came down the ladder shortly after them, and there was a brief chase through the tunnels, but eventually Brody and Claire climbed up another ladder and managed to catch a bus, which drove off before Barry could catch up.
And this was brilliant – Brody was wearing a denim jacket this whole time, but did he ever offer it to Claire? No!! Fantastic! Anyway they made it back home, and that was the end of the episode.
Episode 6 – Trouble at School. It was with mixed feelings that I started this one, because I knew that once it was over, I would have no more awesome Claire scenes to discover. I hoped that this would be a really good episode, and not an anticlimax after the brilliance of Episode 5.
I need not have worried. This episode was set almost entirely at Claire’s and Brody’s school, and Claire was wearing her school uniform, with a fantastically tiny pleated skirt that was at least six inches shorter than the skirts of any of the other schoolgirls, barely covering her buttocks. Nobody seemed to notice this – not the other girls, not the teachers, nobody. But in just the first five minutes we were treated to seven separate panty-shots as she ran up stairs, sat down at her desk, got up from her desk, bent over to pick something up, etc.
Basically the plot of this episode was that an older boy named Steven has taken a fancy to Claire, and she rather likes him too. But when he asks her to go behind the bike sheds with him, she rebuffs him because he already has a girlfriend, Janet, who is in Claire’s class. Annoyed, Steven nevertheless tells his friends that he kissed Claire behind the bike sheds, and news of this reaches Janet’s ears.
Cue catfight scene! The school’s playground is a large square area of grass on a gradual slope, at the bottom of which is a wet, muddy area. By happy chance, the altercation between the two girls takes place just a few feet from this muddy area, leading me to wildly hope that they will end up in the mud. You’d better believe I was crossing all fingers and toes at this point!
The catfight was brilliant – the girls go down quickly, pulling at each other’s hair and rolling over and over, until even Janet’s skirt is up around her waist. The fight is impeccably choreographed – first Janet is on top for a while, letting the audience get a good look at her (rather unsexy, it has to be said) yellow panties, and then they roll over at some unseen cue, and we get to admire Claire’s much skimpier white panties. This is repeated at least THREE times before they push each other apart, and get to their feet.
At this point I thought to myself “Oh no! It can’t be over!” – even though the fight had lasted for a good couple of minutes already and attracted a large audience. But thankfully it was not over – Janet charged into Claire, and the two of them fell – in slow motion, yay! – into the mud. And it was beautifully deep, squishy mud, too, in which they rolled over and over, getting completely plastered. Janet’s skirt unfortunately got pretty well plastered around and between her legs now, so we didn’t get another look at her panties (no great loss, really), but Claire’s microskirt was soon up around her waist again, and those skimpy white panties were soon brown with mud! The best part was when Janet finally got the upper hand, and sat astride Claire, pulling her hair while Claire squealed and grappled with Janet’s arms – while the cameraman watched from over Janet’s left shoulder, staying far enough back for us to see Claire’s panties squishing about in the mud as she writhes and kicks her legs ineffectually. You can imagine I was in seventh heaven at this point – you see, the mud was pretty deep, and when I say Claire’s panties were squishing about IN the mud, that’s exactly what I mean – the mud was at least halfway up her gusset as she lay there, and as she squeezed her thighs together and then parted them, it oozed up over the top of her pussy and then slid off again. It was phenomenal!
And then … oh … my … god. As if this scene was not already erotic enough, we then cut to a close-up – not of the hair pulling, or of Janet’s face, or Claire’s face … but of Claire’s panties squishing around in the mud! I am NOT KIDDING! The shot was from directly between Claire’s legs, looking down at her panties from an angle of roughly forty-five degrees I’d say, and those panties were practically filling the screen! It was THE most amazing thing I have ever seen in any television programme, EVER. I can’t even find enough superlatives to describe it.
Seven seconds. That’s how long the camera was on Claire’s muddy panties, squishing around in the mud. Seven seconds! Of course, Tim’s tape had been pretty worn out at this point, with annoying fuzzy horizontal bars obscuring the action for part of the time. But that was true of a lot of the series – Tim had warned me about it and I was prepared for it. It spoiled my enjoyment only a little.
Cut to the faces of the two girls – Claire slaps mud on Janet’s cheek, and Janet shakes it off. Then … cut back to the close-up of Claire’s panties! No WAY, I’m thinking!! And this time the damage to the tape is less bad, and I get a better look – and it becomes almost embarrassingly apparent that the director has asked Claire not to keep her thighs so close together … because now her thighs are spread apart, and the gloopy mud is lapping against her gusset as her leg movements are now restricted to lifting and pressing down each thigh in turn. Twelve seconds this time! Unbelievable.
Then the spoilsports arrive – a couple of male teachers, who drag the girls to their feet and demand to know what’s going on. But they are not interested in the girls’ babbled stories, and they tell both girls to go inside, clean up, and report to the principal.
The next part makes NO sense, but I don’t mind a bit. We find Claire alone in the girls’ toilets – maybe she and Janet have been sent to separate places to clean up, which I suppose would be sensible, given their enmity – and she is wearing only her muddy bra and panties, while washing the rest of her clothes in a basin. We get to see her from a couple of different angles, and then the scene cuts … to her leaving the bathroom, fully clothed and clean! HUH??? The only concession to realism here is that Claire’s hair looks kind of damp, but otherwise … HUH??? Did she have a change of clothes in there with her? I am baffled. But it’s okay – I’m already willing to bear the director’s love child at this point, so I forgive him.
Claire goes up the stairs, revealing that her panties, too, are perfectly clean – and here’s where my “change of clothes” hypothesis gains weight, because I’m very sure that this is a different pair of panties. Still white, but definitely fuller-cut. Bummer, I think to myself.
Cut to Janet and Claire in the principal’s study. He gives them a lecture about fighting and ‘ladylike behaviour’, and then, to my utter astonishment, he says to Janet, “Touch your toes!” I immediately knew what was coming, because the headmaster of my school used to say the same thing when he was about to administer a spanking with a slipper. But I couldn’t quite believe that Janet was about to get a slippering … and yet, of course, my eyes were absolutely glued to the screen.
So Janet bends over, and the principal spanks her! Not with a slipper, but with his hand! Six times! Unfortunately Janet’s skirt amply covered her buttocks during the spanking, even though she was bent well over. But I was just quivering with excitement, waiting for Claire’s turn. I hardly dared to hope…
“Now you,” says the principal to Claire, and Claire, looking sulky, bends over and touches her toes. Remember, this skirt (and whether it was the one she had got muddy in, or another, it was the same length) is barely long enough to cover her buttocks in the first place. When she bends over, it rises high over her bottom, presenting her panties in all their glory. Oh how I wished these panties had been the skimpier ones she had been wearing earlier! But it was still amazing to see the principal spanking her panty-clad buttocks with his bare hand. Oh man!
Cut to Claire in class, gingerly sitting down because her bottom hurts. Janet is looking daggers at her. Then we cut to the refectory. Janet, while passing the table where Brody and Claire are sitting together, pretends to trip, and tips her plate of stew (it looks like) down Claire’s front. As sploshing scenes go, it’s not too bad, but it kind of pales into insignificance compared with the mud-fight scene from earlier.
Anyway Claire is about to get up and retaliate, but Brody reminds her that she must not get into any more trouble (oh yes, the principal had warned them not to step out of line again or face a suspension). So Claire merely runs out of the room, looking tearful, as Janet laughs.
Brody goes after Claire, and finds her on the roof of one of the school buildings. He tells her she’s not supposed to be up here, but she says she does not care. They chat for a while – kind of a boring few minutes, really – and then Janet arrives to have it out with Claire again. For a moment it looks like they’re about to have another catfight, but then Janet leans against a wooden railing, and it breaks.
It was quite well-done, actually – it happened so suddenly that my heart practically jumped into my mouth. We’d seen how high the building was, and I really thought that Janet was going to fall to her death, which would have been a rather horrible way for the director to even the score between her and Claire. Fortunately he had nothing like that in mind.
Brody and Claire rush to the edge of the building, and see Janet hanging on for dear life by one hand to a piece of pipe. She’s terrified – good job by the actress here. Brody grabs her wrist, and Claire manages to catch hold of her other hand, and together they pull her up to safety (with a very nice panty-shot as Claire leans over the edge of the building). Their enmity forgotten, the two girls hug and cry, and that’s the end of the episode … and of the entire show.
I’ll see if I can track down any of the people involved with this programme, and see if I can persuade them to get it released on DVD. I don’t suppose there’s much chance, but I can at least try. I love my new DVDs, but I’ve not had good experiences with the longevity of recordable DVDs in the past, and it would be nice to have them on a more permanent medium. Also the picture quality is not great at the best of times, and in a lot of my favourite parts, Tim’s old Betamax tapes were rather the worse for wear. And, of course, it would be nice if other people could have a chance to see this awesome show!