Kinvig

Kinvig
The original DVD cover with Kinvig and Miss Griffin
Genre	Science Fiction
Directed by	Brian Simmons
Starring	Tony Haygarth Patsy Rowlands Prunella Gee Colin Jeavons
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	7
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	London Weekend Television
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	4 September (1981-09-04) – 16 October 1981 (1981-10-16)

Kinvig is a sci-fi comedy television series made by London Weekend Television 1981.

Synopsis

Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth) runs an electrical repair shop in the small town of Bingleton. One day his store is visited by Miss Griffin (Prunella Gee), who is from the planet Mercury and in need of Des' help. Kinvig's friend Jim Piper (Colin Jeavons) is a lifelong UFO watcher and is consumed by jealousy when he discovers that Kinvig has encountered extra-terrestrials. It is left intentionally ambiguous whether Kinvig's experiences with aliens are real or the product of an overactive imagination.

The show was produced by LWT, and only ran for one series of seven episodes. It was written by Nigel Kneale (more famous for Quatermass), directed and produced by Les Chatfield, with original music by Nigel Hess.

Reception

Around the time of original transmission, Kinvig was positively reviewed by The Times, the preview stating that "Cast splendid, direction deft".^[1] However, to later TV historians, Kinvig is not considered to be one of Kneale's better productions. The Guinness Book of Classic British TV claims that apart from Jeavons' performance, Kinvig was "a huge disappointment".^[2] Peter Nicholls also criticised the program, saying the scripts "lacked the precision required for decent farce". Nicholls also noted that some viewers objected to Kneale's depiction of science-fiction fans as being the same as UFO enthusiasts, and states Kinvig is notable for its "contemptuous treatment" of the leading characters. ^[3]

Cast

Tony Haygarth as Des Kinvig
Patsy Rowlands as Netta Kinvig
Prunella Gee as Miss Griffin
Colin Jeavons as Jim Piper
Danny Schiller as Sagga
Stephen Bent as Loon
Alan Bodenham as Bat
Simon Williams as Buddo
Patrick Newell as Mr. Horsley
Betty Hardy as Mrs. Snell

References

↑ "Pick of the week's television". The Times. 1981-09-04. p. XII.
↑ The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping, Second Edition. Guinness Publishing Ltd., 1996 ( pg. 398).
↑ Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, Orbit Books, 1993 (pgs. 669,672).

External links

Kinvig at the Internet Movie Database

Works by Nigel Kneale

Bernard Quatermass

Television	The Quatermass Experiment (1953) Quatermass II (1955) Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59) Quatermass (1979) The Quatermass Experiment (2005)

Film	The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Quatermass 2 (1957) Quatermass and the Pit (1967) The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)

Radio	The Quatermass Memoirs (1996)

Other television scripts

Arrow to the Heart (1952)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
The Stone Tape (1972)
Bedtime Stories (1974)
Beasts (1976)
Kinvig (1981)
The Woman in Black (1989)
Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Other film scripts

The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Look Back in Anger (1959)
The Entertainer (1960)
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
First Men in the Moon (1964)
The Witches (1966)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

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