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 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 5:54 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Alan Fivehouse in Europe? He has a Columbo-sized following in the States and also does quite well in the United Kingdom, especially Northern Ireland. How large a following does Fivehouse have in the rest of Europe? Do the Germans, Czechs, Spaniards, Albanians, and Greeks like him?

FSMers please do chime in on this important topic.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 6:56 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

He's never been more popular in our house than he is right now.
Carole's got the DVD's on constantly and I've just bought two CD's of the scores off eBay (but they sound hollow, man).

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 8:21 AM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

Alan who?

I guess that`s answering how famous he is here in Sweden.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 9:16 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Alan who?

I guess that`s answering how famous he is here in Sweden.



I'm surprised you're not a member of the Vi Älskar Alan Femhus Samhället.

 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 11:48 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

I always assumed that the famous Monty Python 'Arthur Two-Sheds Jackson' sketch was inspired by 'Two-Loos' Lautrec, a joke of course about British pre-'50s outdoor lavatories in sheds, but there's a counter claim that the early Fivehouse stories may have been the trigger. I can't remember where I read this, but 'two sheds' was linked to 'five house'.

If so, and it's debatable, that very fact alone that this iconic TV series made a knowing reference thus would indicate a high expectation of audience recognition. Eric Idle is the man to ask.

 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 12:11 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

I read somewhere that Tadlow were looking at the feasibility of re-recording the scores to the 5 feature-length dramas.
Perhaps James could confirm or deny?
Be good to have the missing Goldsmith and Bernstein ones.
I didnt care much for the others by Cordell and Rosenthal.

 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 12:44 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

The various Fivehouse films and their official/unoffical entries had scores by the likes of Goldsmith, John Scott, Georges Delerue, Ron Goodwin, and David Arnold, which makes me wonder just why they ain't "down with the 'House" in The Land of Wallander.

 
 Posted:   Jul 16, 2017 - 3:28 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Let the Fivehouse knockoffs begin!

The first I could manage to locate was this Czech production, Dissolved and Effused (1984) aka "Rozpuštený a Vypuštený", featuring the intrepid "Inspector Trachta."

 
 Posted:   Jul 16, 2017 - 8:06 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Alan who?

I guess that`s answering how famous he is here in Sweden.


Is that any relation to Switzerland?

Interestingly enough, such was Fivehouse's popularity--with the exception of this Sweden--it has become practically required that any and all Alan Fivehouse clones have a beard.

 
 Posted:   Jul 16, 2017 - 1:42 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

I always assumed that the famous Monty Python 'Arthur Two-Sheds Jackson' sketch was inspired by 'Two-Loos' Lautrec, a joke of course about British pre-'50s outdoor lavatories in sheds, but there's a counter claim that the early Fivehouse stories may have been the trigger. I can't remember where I read this, but 'two sheds' was linked to 'five house'.

If so, and it's debatable, that very fact alone that this iconic TV series made a knowing reference thus would indicate a high expectation of audience recognition. Eric Idle is the man to ask.


Eric Idle did a great job of playing the interviewer in that Fivehouse mockumentary in 1985. It was less effective whenever the scenes featuring the 1985-86 cast of Saturday Night Live appeared as bit players, but then SNL and Fivehouse have had a Poitier-Curtis relationship when it came to parody.

 
 Posted:   Jul 16, 2017 - 1:49 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

A Poitier-Curtis relationship?!
That i like.

 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 9:37 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

A Poitier-Curtis relationship?!
That i like.


"For we are all shackled together thusly...and it tastes like...freedom."

~Anonymous Quote

 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2017 - 5:55 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

In Germany, the Fivehouse Five series is specially dubbed for German consumption and is read using a "less literal" version of the script, which brings out the "potty humor" elements so popular with German audiences. In fact, Gunther Müller, the voice actor who dubs for Michael Lonsdale, is almost as big a star as Lonsdale himself is.

Müller also plays Fivehouse in the German radio series.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2017 - 6:08 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

The various Fivehouse films and their official/unoffical entries had scores by the likes of Goldsmith, John Scott, Georges Delerue, Ron Goodwin, and David Arnold.....


Except in Turkey - the original films, when shown by Digiturk (which is rarely) are shorn of their scores and retrofitted with needle-drops from a range of other soundtracks played through a handheld 1974 Grundig cassette recorder while the Turkish actors dub their lines.

Fivehouse's frequent cheese analogies are amusingly replaced by references to baklava, and his trusty sidekick has become famous as Gilberdoglu.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 19, 2017 - 6:26 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I've never heard of him outside the FSM board. Like with Sweden, this character was never shown or had any popularity in Norway.

 
 Posted:   Jul 22, 2017 - 6:35 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

I've never heard of him outside the FSM board. Like with Sweden, this character was never shown or had any popularity in Norway.

Which begs the question: How popular is Kurt Wallander in Norway? Who are the best-known detectives in Scandinavia?

 
 Posted:   Jul 22, 2017 - 10:08 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

The various Fivehouse films and their official/unoffical entries had scores by the likes of Goldsmith, John Scott, Georges Delerue, Ron Goodwin, and David Arnold.....


Except in Turkey - the original films, when shown by Digiturk (which is rarely) are shorn of their scores and retrofitted with needle-drops from a range of other soundtracks played through a handheld 1974 Grundig cassette recorder while the Turkish actors dub their lines.

Fivehouse's frequent cheese analogies are amusingly replaced by references to baklava, and his trusty sidekick has become famous as Gilberdoglu.


How could they? To leave out those beloved cheese references is like leaving out references to Columbo's wife!

They've lost all the Fivehousian context! embarrassment

 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2017 - 11:01 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Alan who?

I guess that`s answering how famous he is here in Sweden.


I'm pretty sure he was at that comic con you (and nobody else) attended.

 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2017 - 12:13 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

The various Fivehouse films and their official/unoffical entries had scores by the likes of Goldsmith, John Scott, Georges Delerue, Ron Goodwin, and David Arnold.....


Except in Turkey - the original films, when shown by Digiturk (which is rarely) are shorn of their scores and retrofitted with needle-drops from a range of other soundtracks played through a handheld 1974 Grundig cassette recorder while the Turkish actors dub their lines.
.


wasnt the music editor Mucrim?! "Help identify this piece" wink
"Yes its reused in a Fivehouse feature."

 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2017 - 12:28 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Say what you will about the Brits, but they "get" Fivehouse!

"We reach."

 
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