15/11/1986 Unnatural Causes: Hidden Talents

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An episode from the 1986 anthology series Unnatural Causes titled Hidden Talents and featuring Pat Phoenix final performance. Advert break included. The episode was written by Lynda La Plante.
Re-uploaded as I managed to reduce the background noise through Audacity.

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@The3Storms 9 ай бұрын

Less than a minute in, it’s written by the same woman behind Prime Suspect and the first character i see is the nemesis from the first installment of that work. I’m having a brilliant Halloween, sincere thanks to everyone who made it possible for me to watch it today!!

@123brownjames 2 ай бұрын

Sad that this was Pat Phoenix’s last performance, she was gone too soon 😢

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness - I'm a huge Pat Phoenix fan and have been looking for this on You Tube for ages - thanks SO much! Was this her actual last performance? I think I remember it said in a documentary she was dying when she made this but kept it secret. If true how sad. A brave lady and a wonderful star - and there aren't too many of those around. God bless her - and God bless you for uploading! X

@dominewimbury2039 6 жыл бұрын

glamdolly20 only her agent and a few friends knew. Nobody on this show did. Nor even did her husband Tony Booth who she married a week before her death. The programme is The Unforgettable Pat Phoenix. It's on here somewhere. Will find it. Here it is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJyHg6ij0dmwpoE.html

@afton1955 6 жыл бұрын

glamdolly20 😢, I believe it was.

@LeopardprintBet Жыл бұрын

A total goddess! Such an energy ❤ RIP Pat.

@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын

@@LeopardprintBet Amen, love this lady. I so wish it had been a better script, this didn't do her justice IMO.

@StangerStrange 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. At the moment I have managed to get three episodes of this drama (this being the third) I never expected to see this on here but searched on the off chance thank you for taking the time and trouble of uploading this :)

@CuriousBritishTelly 6 жыл бұрын

James Stanger Great! What other episodes have you got?

@garysummers3771 2 ай бұрын

What happened to baby Jane. Pat phoenix performance is wonderful. Homage to Joan Crawford and bette Davis. She certainly new her theatre and projected her voice wonderfully. if she had gone to Hollywood she would of been a star ...

@peterbamforth6453 4 жыл бұрын

A big thank you for uploading this gem.

@lizziejordan-seeley4786 9 ай бұрын

brilliant - such exceptional performances from all

@tomwilson8607 6 жыл бұрын

tom and pat worked together on the L Shaped room as well,, great film that,.,

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

Good call - I didn't know Tom Bell was in that old movie, sweet to think they reunited for this, her last ever role.

@joannewatts9892 Жыл бұрын

Very nice frame /play , however it needs to have volume turned up 👁️👂

@CuriousBritishTelly Жыл бұрын

Sounds fine at this end.

@joannewatts9892 Жыл бұрын

@@CuriousBritishTelly glad to hear that .

@heatheryovanoff6361 10 ай бұрын

I'm glad it's not just me. I can't fathom out what's going on and there's nowt wrong with my hearing......

@ruth7965 8 ай бұрын

To low to hear, so i put on ear plugs and it was still hard to make out the words. The background noise was loud but the words .. not intelligible.

@nicholamalpas1931 6 ай бұрын

@@ruth7965 Same here, sadly. iI have good hearing but the audio here was very muffled.

@Michelle-cx6jg 9 ай бұрын

Thank you absolutely brilliant you are a star ⭐️

@baroqueman1 Жыл бұрын

A bizarre off-beat black comedy more reminiscent of older dramas such as, eg. the Armchair Theatre series from the 1960s. Pat Phoenix and Tom Bell were excellent in this weird rarity.

@maryfeehan7896 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thank ❤

@rachelg7948 4 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

@joannewatts9892 10 ай бұрын

Pat Peonix was really quite attractive & such a great actress 💕

@joannewatts9892 10 ай бұрын

Phoenix * apologize for the miss spelling , my eyes are scheduled for cataract surgery . Please forgive me .

@nicholamalpas1931 6 ай бұрын

@@joannewatts9892 I had cataract surgery. It's brilliant - you'll be amazed! 😊😊

@LouiseGroenewald-hj2vo 4 ай бұрын

My mum called her the Elizabeth Taylor of the working class northwest

@joannewatts9892 4 ай бұрын

@@LouiseGroenewald-hj2vo 💜😹

@-Reagan 3 ай бұрын

If you have any other episodes of Unnatural Causes, please do upload them! I’ll be sure to give you a thumbs up and a grateful comment - just as I am so grateful to see this one, too!

@GeorgeLyall 6 жыл бұрын

Nice to see this curiosity with the legendary Pat Phoenix. Does anyone have her sit-com for Central - "Constant Hot Water"- that they could upload?

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

I would love to see that sitcom, it was the last TV project where Pat was still healthy. I find this drama very sad - she is a dying woman playing a dying woman. I would rather see Pat at her feisty, glamorous best - sparkling, the way we all remember her.

@NICKROBERTS23 6 жыл бұрын

Ditto - would love to see Constant Hot Water - heard so much about it, as I have this drama. Pat Phoenix will never be forgotten.

@GeorgeLyall 5 жыл бұрын

@@glamdolly30 I watched Constant Hot Water as it was broadcast - it was panned by the critics, but I remember laughing out loud as Pat's character Phyllis feigned a collapse onto a chaise longe at one point. It had it's moments and as Pat told Terry Wogan on his show, it was beating Dynasty in the ratings!

@davidhodgson2025 4 жыл бұрын

I really want to see constant hot water

@martinlong2804 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic Acton

@racheldoesacrylic4089 Ай бұрын

old age is horrible ,you stay in bed as there is no where to go and you cant walk far ,eyes go dim ,hearing loss keeps others away from you as its too loud from tv, and people get fed up shouting repeating etc// great to see our old actors we grew up with ,sad we all get old if we are lucky ?? your health is your wealth x

@RiaLake Жыл бұрын

Hard to understand the dialogue at times as the clarity is poor, especially with all the mumbling. Depressing, strange drama and the house interior looks like something out of Steptoe and Son. Pat Phoenix was mesmerising especially in her Baby Jane makeup!

@user-bm4bn5cd1p 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for this really enjoyed seeing great pat phoenix again. Do you have the episode called evensong i think it was written by beryl bainbridge. Thanks

@BurtonRdForever 5 жыл бұрын

Is this the original 1986 advert break? Great upload..

@gilgameshofuruk4060 Жыл бұрын

I remembered the Warnincks advert. It used to get on my wick at the time.

@fnma21 8 ай бұрын

I don't know what's going on. Can't understand the mumbling. What's this about?

@ekcentrik 5 жыл бұрын

Why does the beginning of this show remind me of "Psycho"?

@Angeleyes127 Жыл бұрын

Bad sounding movie with blured music in background!

@JFBridge 7 жыл бұрын

Anything went wrong with the previous upload?

@CuriousBritishTelly 7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Bridge There was a lot of buzz, hiss and background interference on the previous one. I've managed to edit most of that out now with this version.

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for going to the trouble to improve the sound quality, as this is the great Pat Phoenix' last ever role it's an important upload.

@hulltv 4 ай бұрын

any more from this series ?

@planesteve 7 жыл бұрын

Have you got any more episodes??

@CuriousBritishTelly 7 жыл бұрын

stephen white No, just this one. The Prunella Scales episode is up on KZfaq though. And the Nigel Kneale scripted episode is out on DVD later this year!

@davh29 9 ай бұрын

Ladies night is on KZfaq

@gracestrand393 3 ай бұрын

Wow this show demonstrates why some people really shouldn’t have children

@margaretdownie4407 Жыл бұрын

My uncle worked for STV as a sparky, they were making a series and Tom Bell was in it.Seems he wasn't a nice person, and one day my uncle knocked him out. Kept his job tho 😃

@beverlybradley5485 8 ай бұрын

I suppose he was sparked out by that punch 😏

@roly220 3 ай бұрын

Had to give up. Can't understand a word.

@jamesrouillardjas1671 Жыл бұрын

The dialogue is so badly recorded it’s impossible to understand what they’re saying and the captions are rubbish. Too bad. It’s a bit Glass Menagerie l guess…?

@Baskerville22 9 ай бұрын

I give up...after 10 minutes. Couldn't make any sense of it...

@bojack40 3 ай бұрын

Nothing worth having can be got without any effort or commitment.

@Baskerville22 3 ай бұрын

@@bojack40 Tell that to the producers of this formless twaddle...

@mikehudson8884 Жыл бұрын

This isn't very nice to see. I know it's only drama but not nice to see Miss Phoenix in this role. She'll remain ever in my mind as that glamorous lady we all know.

@PeterLarne 12 сағат бұрын

They don't make them like pat phoenix anymore

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

Gosh I was so disappointed with this. Lousy story and script - The great Pat Phoenix deserved a better role than this, especially for her last role. very sad. Tom Bell played the same role every time - the creepy, mumbling, sinister weirdo. Doing it again here - still, no doubt it paid off his mortgage!

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

There is that I guess. But as a huge Pat Phoenix fan, I wish she had gone out with a bang not a whimper. It's funny because in the Pat Phoenix documentary (available on KZfaq) Pat's agent talks about this role in hushed tones as if it was so wonderful, just because Lynda La Plante wrote it. Well I don't care who wrote it - it was utter rubbish, has dated badly and the role of sad, bedridden old dear with dodgy sons simply didn't give the magnificent Pat much to get her teeth into! Thank goodness we can enjoy her Coronation Street performances - she was superb as Elsie Tanner right to the end when she got in a black cab heading off to a new life in Portugal with her lover.

@glamdolly30 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely comment! Pat's a bit before my time too. I watched Corrie as a child with my Mum, so knew her as Elsie Tanner from that. I was 17 when she died (too young, at just 62), in 1986 and I immediately went out and bought the most recent of her two autobiographies 'Love, Curiosity, Freckles and Doubt'. It's a great read - I was a huge fan after that and bought the first autobiography 'All My Burning Bridges' which is terrific too. You can get them very cheap, second hand on Amazon. If you're looking for a great book to entertain you on dark Winter's nights you could do a lot worse. (Incidentally I also recommend my own, new book 'Reality Rehab' if you're a fan of the fun, camp and kitsch which I've a feeling you are you'll also find it on Amazon plug plug!) Diana Dors is another of my obsessions - actress from that era fascinate me, they were women, not girls, and proud to be so - always picked themselves up and got on with it, whatever knocks life threw at the, The actress heroine of Reality Rehab is based on those kinds of amazing women! Good luck with your career I think it must be wonderful to be able to sing and entertain people like that - a tough career but a magical one, good for you! X

@BurtonRdForever 5 жыл бұрын

Tom Bell played a hard bitten copper in Prime Suspect (1990) and a cool ex con in out (1978). Dunno about the same role as a bumbling idiot??? Another Great northern actor...

@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын

@@BurtonRdForever Same meat, different gravy!

@heatheryovanoff6361 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for upoloading, but.....What an absolutely strange piece of work. I can't understand what on earth is going on. Who is the woman in the cemetary ? Who's Harold ? I give up. Disappointed. PS There's nothing wrong with my hearing or my wit.....

@louleg23 8 ай бұрын

Oh dear. Three really good actors but this was so hammy and OTT, imo. Not what I was suspecting at all. You can see what it was aiming for but it felt like a trowel was used.... don't know if it was the writing (struggled to hear the dialogue) or simply the direction but at the very least it hasn't aged well.

@surreygirl2075 10 ай бұрын

Tom bell was in a film about a girl at the seaside it was funny 🤣

@louleg23 8 ай бұрын

Wish You Were Here? Good film. Emily Lloyd was great.

@martas9283 10 ай бұрын

Too much in every way

@alberttatlock5237 6 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when you smoke 60 plus a day for 50 year's.

@williamf4544 Жыл бұрын

It happens to us all no matter what you do

@donnaharris4420 9 ай бұрын

That's something Albert would've said for sure

@beebee8018 6 ай бұрын

Pat is horrendous in this awful depressing production (someone said she was very ill and dying in this) well we cannot look at her, she is making us feel sickly with a headache. We have all seen photos of Pat when she was actually in her hospital bed and died the next day but she looked good, nothing like this. Totally overdone. The sound is bad, difficult to make out what they are saying and it is put through the hi fi system so we have no idea what this ghastly thing is supposed to be about. We had to forward to get to the boring end and still have no idea. This is the worst we have ever seen, never again. The other two in this series were weird too but not as bad as this.