Recent content by Michelle Garvey

This is the female child version of a well known British PSA (they did a male child version as well). The man doing the voice over is in a lot of British adverts and PIFS from this period.

My mother's smoked for years. She has a lot of problems as a result. A lot of money is sucked up by buying them for her but she doesn't care.

This pro-seat belts/child restraints in cars one is really effective - the love between mother and daughter demonstrated by the mother placing the necklace on the wee bairn, the stuffed white bear... then the white flowers in the shape of a bear on the child's coffin.

Lonely Water from 1973, voiced by Donald Pleasence

Children and Ponds is from 1979. It looks hokey and manipulative now because production techniques have changed and the public expects to see something different.

My example for this post is 1979's "Children and Ponds" narrated by Robert Powell. I resent having my heartstrings tugged so blatantly by the use of a long blonde haired cutie pie. Given the manner of her demise, did they cut the part where Frankenstein's Monster encounters her? And, about...

I know that, but the story is in the tradition of the old "radiation/other liquids transform someone" ala Spider-Man.

It's not a put-on. Just an idea i have for a short story.

It's magic/supernatural transformation, not surgical. It would be interesting if any of them played a sport like football.. there'd be a lot of pressure to just transfer them to the cheerleading team, given the time period.

I'm still writing it but my health means i can't be at the computer as much as i'd like. I figure that whether through "an experimental liquid"/radiation or an encounter with a Jerkass Genie/Wizard or The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday, it will be more interesting if the newly created...

Remember the 1960s American sitcom My Three Sons? I was thinking of a gender swap version. In the spirit of the old "exposure to radiation and experiments give you superpowers", i was thinking of this: Their father is an engineer and the sons get exposed to experimental fuel or other magical...