Thankyou!

Torchwood!

Ahem. Sorry. I have to keep shouting it, in case it goes away...

hey you clever people, is it possible to connect a vcr to a freeview box so that i can record off the freeview box?

Thanks a bunch

AFAIK, yes. What you can't do is watch one channel and record another, though. It works like a satellite box in that respect.

Argh! They can't do this to me! Can they give no thought to the recappers of the world?!

Awww.

Well, nobody's gonna mind if you're a little late, Micks. You work too hard for us - me - us.

Baseball is vitally important to somebody, I'm sure. And there's a limit to how much sobbing Gobby I can take, I'm afraid. Gobby sobbing. Sobby Gobbing. Gobby Sobby. *Evaporates into endless Spoonerist timeloop*

Episode 183

Greggie and Olivia spend ten minutes reviewing the "fake" pregnancy/miscarriage plot for any viewers who have happened to miss the past month of them doing the same. Meanwhile, Cole wonders aloud if Olivia's baby is his, and totally obsesses about it for the rest of the programme. Even Caitlin gets suspicious. Spawn sets out on a plan to find Cole's previous jilted fiancée, from his alleged con-man days, though how a teenage boy is supposed to accomplish this I don't know. And who cares, frankly. And Greggie sets up the miscarriage plot by telling everybody that Olivia's pregnancy is high risk, whilst she gasps and pants behind him, looking like she's already gone into labour, before wailing that she "can't do this". Yeah, right.

Gobby sobs helplessly that she's been raped, and Paula asks her who has hurt her. At this moment, Thickardo appears, having apparently spent all week in the bathroom. Paula asks him if he "did this". Boy, she's one hell of a trusting girlfriend, isn't she. He says yes, and that he's sorry, and she explodes at him about rape, which confuses him, and then enrages him. He yells at Gobby to tell the truth, but Paula pulls her gun on him and tells him to leave her alone. Mental brainless cop with a weird trust problem. There's your advertisement for Gun Control, right there. Eventually she calls the police, tells Thickardo that she trusts him to wait to be arrested, then takes Gobby off to the hospital. Thickardo sits alone in the dark for a while, then gets up and goes off. Hopefully to steal Paula's gun and shoot her and her ghastly sister.

Tim and Meg spend the episode line dancing. Argh. Eventually they go back to Meg's place, where Tim goes upstairs to send a goodbye E-mail to Ben from Meg. Back in Sunset Beach, Ben is in high spirits - it's good for him to be away from Meg! Annie tries desperately to get rid of him before the hypnotist wakes up, but he thinks she's got a man upstairs, and teases her about going up to find out. Bette and Eddie nearly blow everything by bursting in, waving the newly developed photos in the air, then retire outside to giggle in Eddie's car about how funny it all is. Back inside, TGO jokes with poor Annie until she's practically tearing her hair out, then finally agrees to go. Just as he's walking out of the door, though, the hypnotist stumbles downstairs wearing nothing but her undies, looking highly confused and mumbling about "Mr Evans". Oops.

Do you think we should remind channel 5 that they still have to show the episode that was missed out because of the baseball?

Thankies Micks.

They didn't miss out an episode. They just showed one instead of two. Saturday night's was episode 184, and followed straight on from Friday night's.

As for Saturday night's... I really think they should have found a different line for TGO other than "I'd like to see that." Yeah Ben. We all saw the look on your face when Annie made her little 'confession'...

Sorry Becks. Must write the recap. Must write the recap...

Episode 184

Olivia tells Caitlin and Spawn that she's all confused about the pregnancy, and back-pedals smartly from the previous episode's "I can't do this!" wail. Caitlin looks all knowing, and spends the rest of the episode bonding with her mother over a series of increasingly complex lies. In Greggie's study, meanwhile, Spawn wavers in his dedication to breaking up Caitlin and Cole, until Greggie bribes him with a family heirloom watch that instantly gets Spawn phoning up Cole's last fiancée, whom he has clearly tracked down amazingly fast. He barely left the room for goodness sakes. Oh, and Cole worries about Olivia's baby, and how he has to find out whose it is, then ropes in Bette to set up a meeting so that he can talk to Olivia alone. Give it up, Cole. You are never going to find out who the father is.

Paula wails in the hospital about what has or hasn't happened to Gobby, and Mark turns up trying to find out what's going on. Paula fobs him off with hopeless stories, then tells him about the rape and completely fails to come to Thickardo's defence when he leaps to his own wild conclusions. Thickardo arrives, desperate to talk to Paula, but she won't believe that he's innocent. He's Thickardo for goodness sakes. So long as you're not Ben he's as good as good can be. Grow up you daft woman. She gnashes her teeth a lot and wails, and Mark tries to look tough.

Tim sends his E-mail off to Ben, then spends the rest of the episode trying to bond with Meg. She whimpers and worries and wails at him about what should she do, and who should she do it with, and they talk about Big Bad Ben. This being the same Big Bad Ben who is currently standing in Annie's living room, staring in some considerable confuzzlement at a semi-conscious, semi-dressed hypnotist, who staggers towards him mumbling things about Annie. Eventually she collapses in a chair and passes out, and Ben demands answers. He gets lots, though he doesn't bother believing any. Clearly his favourite is when Annie announces that, spurned by him, she has fallen into the arms of another woman instead. By the look on Ben's face, he likes that idea a lot. Okay, TGO. Concentrate on something else now. Semi-naked hypnotist woman rouses long enough to tell Ben about the post-hypnotic suggestion, before collapsing in a heap again. Ben goes ballistic, blasting his way back next door with Annie in hot pursuit babbling excuses and hoping to avoid a garrotting. Ben tries to get it into her head that tearing his life apart is not the best way to prove that she loves him, but since this is a guy who is arguing that Meg should be in his life, I don't think that his feelings should really be taken into account. An E-mail arrives and he reads it - it's the one that Tim has sent on Meg's behalf. Ben throws his computer out of the window and storms off into the night. Yep, he's gone bonkers again. Just for a change. It was nice that he took his coat with him though. After all, who wants to have their mad brooding insanities ruined by a nasty chill?

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Originally posted by Mickey:
They didn't miss out an episode. They just showed one instead of two. Saturday night's was episode 184, and followed straight on from Friday night's.

As for Saturday night's... I really think they should have found a different line for TGO other than "I'd like to see that." Yeah Ben. We all saw the look on your face when Annie made her little 'confession'...

Sorry Becks. Must write the recap. Must write the recap...

No, I just meant that they might skip the second episode that was meant to show on Sunday (185?) and go straight to the one they are sceduled to show next Saturday (186?) instead of replacing it with the one they didn't show (185?). Does that make sense? Maybe I underestimate channel5...

Ah, didn't think of that. It should be okay though. I doubt that they'd make that mistake.

*Crosses fingers*

Although if they want to miss out the episode when Ben goes line dancing, that's fine with me.

You watch the show! You're not supposed to need the recaps.

They might skip another one - episode 187 - seeing as there were 2 episodes scheduled for last night and only 186 was shown.

I hate it when I'm right

Stupid channel five.

Episode 185



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Episode 186

Caitlin talks to Cole's previous fiancée, a woman so massively annoying that it soon becomes clear that Cole didn't leave her as part of any scam. He left her because he didn't want to marry her. Eventually the fiancée leaves, and Greggie manages to hold back his satisfied smirks as Caitlin sobs in his arms about all that she's heard. Eddie phones up at this point to say that Cole is with "some woman" in a motel, and Greggie goes dashing off to see what's going on. Caitlin goes with him. Mucho Caitlin-squeakage. Oh dear, poor girl, hard luck.

Cole spends the episode arguing in the motel room with Olivia, about babies and fathers and fathers and babies. Olivia half-collapses in apparent pain at one point, but manages to look like she's faking it even when she's probably being sincere. They argue for a bit longer. This scene has absolutely no point other than to lead up to Greggie and Caitlin banging on the door and demanding to know what's going on. Olivia squeaks in desperation and clings to Cole, which obviously is the logical response. I mean, it's not like it would be blindingly easy to lie your way out of this situation or anything. Use your brain, Olivia...

And Ben turns up in Kansas to... bloody hell, what is he wearing?! And why isn't his rental car black? I'm disappointed, Ben. Your psychosis is slipping. Meg watches him drive up, and he leaps straight out of the car and sucks her into a kiss that last for about the first ten minutes of the show. Not at all presumptuous or anything, then. Meg begins squeaking, so they seek shelter in her kitchen, which is a good thing as it means we get back to VT. For some reason the Great Outdoors of Kansas is all on grainy film, and it looks like the farm has accidentally wandered in from another show. Meg wants to know why Ben is here, and he reacts with surprise. "Don't you know?" She's supposed to have guessed that you were hypnotised by a nutcase?! Ben explains everything, and Meg looks faintly shell-shocked. Well, you would, really, wouldn't you. They talk about the E-mail supposedly sent by Meg, and realise that Tim must have sent it - just as the man himself walks in. Ben decks him. Tim moans that terrible things will happen to Meg if she stays with Ben. Well, that's true. Happily. Meanwhile, back in Sunset Beach Annie hops on a plane to Kansas, and back in her parent's kitchen Meg worries about what to do next. Well for starters you can leave your #@*$#%* hair alone! Ben announces that he's staying in Kansas to wait for her. Oh goodie.

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Episode 187

It's quite astounding just how little can happen in Sunset Beach sometimes. Olivia hides in the bathroom at the motel, and when Cole lets Caitlin and Greggie into the room, they spend the entire episode talking about who is hiding in the bathroom. Caitlin squeaks a lot, Cole would clearly far rather be having the conversation without Greggie smirking in the background, and Olivia gasps and squeaks so loudly that everybody must know by now that it's her in there. Bathrooms have a horrible habit of echoing at the best of times. Eventually, after discussion of the Frightful Fiancée and her Terrible Tales, Caitlin calls somebody to unlock the bathroom door for her, causing Olivia to literally run around in circles gasping. Fortunately everybody on the other side of the door is too busy arguing, or they'd definitely have heard her that time.

Gobby goes to the police station to make a statement about the Rape That Wasn't. Thickardo is already there, completely failing to convince Paula that nothing happened. Paula The Clueless Cop - really, she makes even Thickardo look talented - proves a complete lack of character judgement by yet again refusing to believe her long-term friend, colleague and lover, in favour of the clearly deranged Sister From Hell. Thickardo gets a moment alone with Gobby, and is close to convincing her to tell the truth, when he mentions "all this" being unfair on Paula. Instantly Gobby turns back into the Sibling Rivalry Monster, and shouts about Thickardo having raped her. Thickardo tells her that the truth will out in the end, and Gobby quivers a bit, and looks pathetic.

And at Surf Central Virginia plays the Good Friend To All again, baking chocolate somethings that she throws all over the kitchen "accidentally" when she hears that Michael is planning a weekend away with Vanessa. Cue another threatening encounter with Bubblewrap, that winds up with Vanessa looking like the bad guy when Michael comes back into the room. How many times are they going to play this game?! There's a subplot about Bubblewrap wanting to interview Gobby, and Virginia sobbing about how hard life was in South Central, where people got attacked all the time. She plays the old "Vanessa just doesn't understand how we used to live" card, but Michael doesn't immediately declare his undying love for her, so she winds up muttering alone in the kitchen. For a change. If Channel 5 had to miss an episode out, couldn't it have been this one?!

Episode 188 to follow, when I get around to it. I'll try to find out what happened in 185, too.

Thanks, Micks.

Did anyone else notice the lack of electricity pylons in Kansas?

Isn't it funny how you only notice them when they aren't there (or maybe you don't).

I never gave a thought to electricity pylons! I'll probably be thinking of nothing else, now, during the next episode.

Checked with a couple of episode guides. Apparently not much happened in episode 185 (gosh, there's a surprise). Cole and Olivia talked for a bit about the baby's paternity, so I guess we can all imagine how that conversation went. Or didn't, rather. Ben flew to Kansas (musical interludes, and complilations of his scenes with Meg?!) and Caitlin met the Boring Fiancée. We heard most of their conversation in the next episode, though, so they can't have said much in the one we missed. Or so I'd guess.

Episode 188

More from the rape case nonsense. Thickardo tries unsuccessfully (again) to (again) convince Paula (again) that he didn't rape Gobby. Paula scowls a lot and pouts a lot and her accent fluctuates a lot, like it usually does when she's being terribly serious. Gobby hears what will happen to Thickardo if he's found guilty, and starts to panic, but still doesn't tell the truth. She tries to make out that she's scared to give evidence because it won't be very nice, and eventually Mark takes her home for a pep talk and a cup of tea. Or possibly a tea talk and a cup of pep, I wasn't really listening by that point.

Olivia does a bunk out of the bathroom window and nips off to see Bette, who is next door listening in on the arguments with some listening device she's presumably borrowed from Eddie, her new best friend. They talk a bit about the plans to split up Caitlin and Cole, and Bette comes up with the Line Of The Week: "Cole's as smart as he is sexy." Boy, that's really not very smart. Back in the motel room, Caitlin wails incessantly, completely refuses to listen to Cole, or to give him the chance to speak to her alone, and generally acts like she's desperate to end the relationship. Cole tries to stop her leaving, but Olivia turns up to collect her, doing her Queen Bitch act, and they swan off together in a lift. Greggie accuses Cole of breaking Caitlin's heart, which is a bit like Jack The Ripper accusing Fred West of being mean to women. And then they stare at each other for a while.

And in "Ludlow, Kansas", as the captions love to keep reminding us, Ben turns up at the farm for another chat with Meg. This time he meets Hank for the first time. Hank The Plank, the farmer with the World's Least Probable Haircut. He does his mid-western drawl a lot, and calls Ben "son", and generally acts just like those guys in weird films, where out-of-towners disappear in small mid-western places where locals all call them "son", before chopping them up and feeding them to the pigs. Or something. Still, this is Hank, so he's not terribly threatening, despite his best efforts to look dangerous with a small hatchet. I can sympathise with his suspicions, in a way. I mean, I wouldn't trust a man wearing that cream sweatshirt, either. Inside the house, meanwhile, Meg is worrying aloud to her mother about whether or not Ben can ever love her, and whether he will ever let her "inside his deepest places." Um... I don't know exactly what Ben's deepest places are, but I can't imagine anybody wanting to get inside them. For starters it's bound to be messy. Anyway, Ben takes her out for a walk, and they talk about being in love, and being from different worlds, and all that sort of thing. Meg is confused, as usual. So's Annie, who has just arrived in town in the back of a chicken truck, all covered with feathers and looking desperate. She wants to make things alright with Ben. Poor dear. Clearly she hasn't seen him in that sweatshirt.

/\ haven't seen the above eps yet, got them taped! but i fear the mess up with the bbc clocks change failure to auto change the video clocks may have messed it up! soon find out i guess.
good to know ya info is there tho mickey, comes in handy if i miss one!

Thank you for your recent e-mail regarding Sunset Beach.

We can confirm that an episode has been missed; this was following a recent schedule change.

On Saturday night 22nd October, there was an original plan to have two episodes of Sunset Beach; these were Episodes 180 and 181.? World Series Baseball, the preceding programme, overran and so only one episode was broadcast.? This was Episode 180.

The next planned episode was supposed to be on Friday 28th October.? However, a number of listings sources stated that there would be two episodes.? This was not the case; we believe the error happened because of schedule changes surrounding the finish of World Series Baseball earlier in the week.? One episode was broadcast, as we intended; this was Episode 182.

This means that Episode 181 has been accidentally missed out.? We apologise for the confusion this situation may have caused.

We plan to broadcast the missing episode on Friday 4th November; this will be preceded by an announcement to explain it is the missing episode.

Thank you for your interest in Five.

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