#character: gavin purcell

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also why is everyone in the skellington book called [place name] [latin word] [adjective]

Derek very evidently names characters like any good lazy D&D player, random name generators and dictionaries. He doesn't seem to see a problem with

Abyssinia

Adam Brate

Adedayo Akinde

Adrasdos

Adrian Sykes

Adrienna Shade

Ajuoga

Alan

Alan (Boyle Solutions)

Alan Brennan

Alena Metz

Alesha Walsh

Alexander Remit

Alexander Slake

Alice Edgley

Aloysius Vespers

Amalia

Amity

Amity's Wife

Anathem Mire

The Ancients

Anguish

Anna

Annie Brennan

Anton Shudder

Arabella Wicked

Argeddion

Argento

Argus

Armiger Fop

Arthur Dagan

Ashione

Ashley Hubbard

Aspen

Assegai

Category:Assistants

Audoen

Auger Darkly

Aurnia

Auron Tenebrae

Aurora Jane

Category:Australians

Avatar

Avaunt

Axelia Lukt

Axle

Azzedine Smoke

Badstreet

Bagatelle

Baritone

Baron Vengeous

Bartholomew

Basher

Batu

The Beast

Bennet Troth

Benzel Travestine

Bernadette Maguire

Bernard Sult

Bertrand Solus

Beryl Edgley

Billy-Ray Sanguine

Binder Firm

Bison Dragonclaw

Black Annis

Boiler

Brennock

Brides of Blood Tears

Bridget

Brobding

Brock

Bruno

Bubba Moon

Burgundy Dalrymple

The Butcher

Byron Grace

Cadaver Cain

Cadaverous Gant

Caelan

Caisson

Caius Caviler

Cameron Light

Cark

Carol Edgley

Carol Edgley (Reflection)

Cassandra Pharos

Caste

Cathy

Cathy (The Button)

Category:Cats

Cerise

Ceryen

Cerys

Charivari

Charlie Smith

Child of the Faceless

China Sorrows

China's Assistant

China's Grandmother

Chrissy Brennan

Christophe Nocturnal

Civet

Clagge

Clarabelle

Cleaver

Clement Gale

Clerihew Montgomery

Coda Quell

Colleen Stint

Collup

Colm Muldoon

Conor Delaney

Corrival Deuce

Cothernus Ode

Crab

Craddock Sirroco

Crasher

Crepuscular Vies

Creyfon Signate

Crystal Edgley

Cu na Gealaí Duibhe

Dacanay

Daffyd Maybury

Dai Maybury

Daisy

Damocles Creed

Danny

Darian Vector

Darquesse

Dasher

Daveth Maybury

Davina Marr

Davit Maybury

Davon Maybury

Deacon Maybury

Death Monkey

Dedrich Wahrheit

Delafonte Mien

Desmond Edgley

Destrier

Detective Harris

Devoted

Dexter Vex

Dicer

Dima

Dionysus Pertinax

Doctor Whorl

Donegan Bane

Doran Purcell

Dragunov

Dreylan Scarab

Dubhóg Ni Broin

Duenna

The Dullahan

Dusk

Eachan Meritorious

Eamon Campbell

Eamon Pearce

Ed Stynes

Eddie Sullivan

Edgley Tempest

Edwina

Eliza Scorn

Elsie O'Brien

Elwood Satchel

Emmeline Darkly

Emmett Peregrine

Category:End of the World characters

Category:Energy-Throwers

The Engineer

Ephraim Tungsten

Erskine Ravel

Esryn Vanguard

Etta Faulkner

Evoric Cudgel

Faceless Ones

Father Reynolds

Fergus Edgley

Ferrente Rhadaman

Filament Sclavi

Finbar Wrong

Fintan Muldoon

Flaring

Fletcher Renn

Flint

Forby

Frightening Jones

Gall

Gary Price

Gavin Praetor

Ged

Category:Generals

Geoffrey Scrutinous

Gepard

Gepard Voke

Geraint Mizzle

Gerontius

Ghastly Bespoke

Ghastly Bespoke's father

Ghastly Bespoke's mother

Gladys

Glass

Gleeman Shakespeare

Gordon Edgley

Grace Kelly

Gracious O'Callahan

Graft

Gratio Erato

Gregory Castallan

Gregory Day

Greta Dapple

Griff

Grim

The Grotesquery

Gruesome Krav

Habergeon

Hansard Kray

Hapathy

Harmony

Hayley Skirmish

Hidalgo Bolt

Hieronymus Deadfall

Hoc

Hokum Pete

Hollow Men

Hopeless

Horts

The Hound

Hrishi

Hutchinson

Ian Moore

Ieni

Illori Reticent

Imogen

Infected

Isara

Isidora Splendour

Ivy

Jack Irons

Jackie Earl

Jajo Prave

James Hubbard

Jaron Gallow

Jason Randal

Jasper

Jenan Ispolin

Jeremiah Wallow

Jerry Houlihan

Jerry Ordain

Jethro

The Jitter Girls

Johann Starke

Joost

Kaiven

Kallista Pendragon

Kalvin Accord

Karrik

Kase

Kathryn Ether

Keir Tanner

Keith

Kenny Dunne

Kenspeckle Grouse

Keratin

Kes

Kierre of the Unveiled

Kiln

Kimora

Kitana Kellaway

Korb

Kribu

Krull

Kumo

Laken Cross

Lamour

Lapse

Larks

Larrikin

Lenka Bazaar

Levitt

Liam Muldoon

Lightning Dave

Lillian Agog

Lily

Lord Vile

Lorenzo Mult

Lorien

Luciana

Luke Skywalker

Madame Mist

Madcap Fenton

Magenta

Mahala

Maksy

Mandat

Mantis

Martin Flanery

Master

Maverick Reels

Melancholia St Clair

Melissa Edgley

Mellifluous Golding

Memphis

Mercy Charient

Merriwyn Hyphenate-Bash

Metric

Mevolent

Midnight Blue

Militsa Gnosis

Minion One and Minion Two

Mirk

Misery

Miss Nuncio

Moloch

Moribund

Mortal

Morven

Morwenna Crow

Mr Chou

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Fedgewick

Mr. Jib

Mud

Mulct

Murder Rose

Muriel Hubbard

Myosotis Terra

Myra

Myron Stray

Nathanial Quiver

Nefarian Serpine

Nero

Nestor Tarry

Never

Nixion

Nj Maverick

Noche

Noonan

Nye

Oberon Guile

Oblivious

Obloquy

Octa Gregorian Boona

October Klein

Odetta

Ogre

Oisin

Omen Darkly

Operative

Oscar Nightfall

Owen

Palaver Graves

Parthenios Lilt

Pat Hanratty

Patrick Slattery

Patrick Xebec

Paul Lynch

Paulie

Peg Muldoon

Pennant

Persephone Grief

Pete Green

Petrichor

Phil Lynott

Philomena Random

Ping

Portia

To name a few

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Synopsis: It seems that the investigation at Winterborne school is not yet over. Liz Shaw has just been informed that the body of Christian was only recently discovered near where he had killed himself. At almost the exact same time, a valuable piece of evidence has been stolen. The grimoire of Greatorex has gone missing, leading Liz to believe that things are still happening.

Liz goes to meet Gavin Purcell in prison, but he doesn't have much to add. She also meets with the new head of the school, Margaret Wyndham, who happens to be the twin sister of Miss Taploe, who was killed in the previous incident. Wyndham is concerned about further incidents happening at the school.

Finally, Liz meets with Andrew Powell. He has just recently returned to school and is still trying to get over the traumatizing events. She wishes him well, and he even gives her a Christian cross pendant as a gift. Bad news reaches Liz, however, as she learns that Purcell has been released from prison on the ground of lack of evidence.

Not the very next day, another tragedy occurs. Purcell was found standing near the dead body of one of Powell's new roommates. He is imprisoned once more, but Liz speaks with him and truly believes that he was not responsible. Purcell claims that he saw Christian at the scene of the crime, despite the fact that Christian is dead. To make matters worse, Powell has disappeared.

Liz, together with Wyndham, decide that the best course of action is to purposefully incite the ritual to summon Greatorex. If supernatural happenings are indeed occurring, that would be the best way to put a stop to everything. Luckily, it turns out that Wyndham has Greatorex's grimoire. She took it because she wanted to be the one to solve the mystery. So, they set up a summoning area and have Purcell read the summoning passage from it.

To everyone's shock, the ritual seems to actually have an effect. The lights dim and then, from out of nowhere, Christian appears. Christian beckons Purcell and demands he hand over the book. Purcell is unable to stop himself from doing so. Next to Christian appears Andrew, who has drunken the blood of his murdered roommate. The grimoire is handed over, and then there is a great flash.

Christian and Andrew have passed out, but Purcell stands up. He has a new, deeper voice and proclaims that he is Greatorex, finally resurrected. He starts to advance on Liz, threatening to kill her. Before he can do so, however, Andrew suddenly pounces on him from behind and tosses him into the summoning area. With his power weakened, Wyndham grabs the book and burns it using a candle. Purcell, or Greatorex, cries out in agony and then there is another flash, banishing him from the world entirely.

Purcell's body was sadly destroyed, and Christian is now truly dead, but Andrew has thankfully survived. He is free from Greatorex's influence and can now finally attempt to return to a normal life. Liz is there to encourage him and tell him that, eventually, things will get better.

Thoughts: This is the final movie in the P.R.O.B.E. series, or at least for now it is. This was definitely the shortest of the bunch, which...yeah, that's kind of welcomed.

This really wasn't all that good, leaving the series on kind of a lackluster note. Despite being a direct sequel to the second film, it does not live up to its predecessor's quality. This was rather dull and kind of pointless. It went by too fast for its own good with no real deep story, conflict or characters.

As a whole, this series really doesn't stand up on its own. It is nice to see Liz again, and I can see the intent in giving her her own series, but I don't think visions were realized very well here. They were all rather dull, confusing, and cheaply made. All four films suffered from sound design issues and rather poor writing. The second movie was definitely the best of the four, but even that one was only just okay.

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Some of my Fav Peter Characters

(and how old he was when he played them)

1978 - Tristan Farnon in 'All Creatures Great and Small' (27)

1982 - The Doctor in 'Doctor Who' (31)

1985 - Lance Fortescue in 'Miss Marple' (34)

(Gif by moi.)

1986 - Stephen Daker in 'A Very Peculiar Practice' (35)

1988 - Jeremy Tyler in 'Tales of the Unexpected' (37)

(Gif by moi.)

1989 - Albert Campion in 'Campion' (38)

1995 - Gavin Purcell in 'P.R.O.B.E.' (44)

1998 - Inspector Henry Christmas in 'Mrs Bradley Mysteries' & Stephen Claithorne in 'Jonathan Creek' (47)

(Gifs by me.)

2000 - David Braithwaite in 'At Home with the Braithwaites' (49)

2003 - DC Davies in 'The Last Detective' (52)

2007 - The Doctor in 'Doctor Who: Time Crash' (56)

2009 - Nicky Frazer in 'Midsomer Murders' (58)

(Gif by moi.)

2015 - Herbie in 'Gypsy' (64)

(Gif by moi.)

ig im just thinking about how versatile he is as an actor and how hes changed over the course of his career. (i also love how we got to see his hairline recede in real time)

like ive been talking to people irl (my aunt mainly) and she considers him to be a kind of one-note actor who tends to be type-cast for bumbling, silly comic relief roles but hes so much more than that!

hes played a serial killer with daddy issues, a doctor who really tries to do good despite his trauma and past abuse, a detective who strives for justice in a very unjust world, a scorned husband struggling with alcoholism and depression and thats just naming four of his roles!

i think hes a very talented actor with a wide range of skills and a wicked sense of humour and he should be more talked about.

but then again i am very biased....

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🏳️‍🌈 what’s their sexual orientation? have they ever experimented outside of that [for more binary orientations such as heterosexual/homosexual]?

(seeing as you havent given me a particular character, ig ill just go through all of them sviusfvis)

albert campion - closeted gay. he knows he cant be open with his sexuality given the time period and the attitudes toward gay people, especially in the upper class.

david braithwaite - mainly straight (heteroflexible). i feel like he probably had a fling or two in college.

dc davies - he doesnt really think that much about sex anymore tbf; hes focussed on his career and just like day-to-day stuff but id say he's probably demisexual.

fifth doctor - pan/demi. i mean, hes a time-travelling alien. why be picky about something like gender?

gavin purcell - absolutely unapologetically gay. next question.

henry christmas - demi/heteroflexible. it doesnt matter to him whats between your legs tbf. hell work with what hes got.

herbie - more on the het side of things (due to his desire to have a family) but he doesnt mind what gender you identify as. if he cares about you, he cares about you, and thats the end of it.

jeremy tyler - closeted bi. willingly climbing into bed with another naked man is very sus behaviour. 🤔🤔

lance fortescue - lance is an interesting one. id say hes pansexual but homoromantic. he has no trouble chatting up/sleeping with women for manipulation purposes but, if hes really going to fall for someone, theyll probably be a man (or at least male-presenting).

nicky frazer - pan/demi. hes so desperate at this point, hell take anything. please someone get his dick wet for the love of god.

stephen claithorne - heteroflexible/demi. he absolutely has an issue with finding some men attractive and this, of course, would clash with his faith. and yet…

stephen daker - another hard one (esp bc i havent sat through all of avpp) but i get the vibe that, due to his past abusive marriage, hed be more emotionally available towards men. he finds women attractive for sure but he can really open up and be vulnerable around men. it also helps that hes absolutely a bottom.

tristan farnon - pan through and through. women are great, guys are great. eating pussy is rad as hell but so is sucking a good dick. ofc he has to be lowkey about sleeping with/dating men bc gossip spreads fast in small towns but that doesnt stop him.

i hope you didnt expect any of them to be wholly straight. if you did, you sure came to the wrong blog soidujfiuashv

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Synopsis: Liz Shaw of P.R.O.B.E. is called in to help the investigation of the murder of a man named Wittaker. He was killed by a blow to the skull, which is not entirely unusual. The reason Liz was called was because of the murder of Whittaker's dog, who was eviscerated and appears to have had its remains set up like some sort of ritual or sacrifice.

Wittaker was the former headmaster of Winterborne, a nearby public school, so Liz and Detective Burke of the regular police go to the school to speak with the current headmaster, Gavin Purcell. He did not know Wittaker very well, so does not have much to contribute, nor does anyone else at the school.

Meanwhile three young students, Christian, Andrew and Luke, are playing football on the school grounds. After they meet up with another student named Georgie, who has a severe speech impediment, they go walking through the woods. There, they find the eviscerated corpse of another dog set up in the same ritualistic fashion. This turns out to be Badger, a dog belonging to a woman working at the school named Barbara Taploe.

With two strange killings of dogs, both with connections to the school, Liz decides to step up her investigation. This starts when Burke brings her to meet with Andrew, who called the police for help. The previous night, he saw Luke get out of bed and start wandering the halls. Luke then disappeared and Andrew claims he saw a 'ghost' in the attic which knocked him out. Now that morning's come, Luke is still missing.

Liz grills Purcell for information, but he continues to state that he knows nothing. Luke shows up soon after, none the worse for the wear, but Liz still isn't convinced that nothing is happening. She is proven right not long after. Today is Luke's birthday, but as his two friends bring a cake to his room, they find Luke strangled to death on his bed with Purcell standing over him.

Purcell is arrested and interrogated by Burke, but Purcell simply claims that he found Luke already dead and had nothing to do with his death. When Liz steps in to interrogate him herself, she presses him for information about the original founder of the school, Sir Isaac Greatorex. Liz has learned that Greatorex used to be involved in dark magic and had formed a cult.

When Liz reveals that coroners discovered the bloodletting wound under Luke's arm, as well as the fact that both dogs had been drained of blood, Purcell finally confesses. He reveals that he is following Greatorex's cult, as was Wittaker. When Wittaker threatened to reveal what they were doing, Purcell had him killed. Luke's and the dogs' deaths were rituals as part of the cult.

Burke is satisfied that they have solved the cult and found their murderer. Liz, however, still feels as if they are missing a piece of the puzzle. As she continues to investigate, Georgie approaches her. He has bravely decided to tell her something that he's told no-one else. Wittaker and Purcell used to involve him in certain dealings to do with their cult, which left him traumatized and unable to speak properly. Most importantly, though, he reveals that there was a third unidentified man involved, who always wore a mask.

Before Liz can go back to interrogate Purcell some more, she stops by the boys' room. Inside, however, she finds only the murdered body of Taploe. When she tells Purcell that Taploe is dead, Purcell finally reveals the actual truth. He had been covering up for this third person, who is the real leader. To everyone's surprise, this person is actually Christian. Christian had been placed under Purcell's care when he was orphaned, and Purcell ended up instilling his beliefs into the young boy. Now, somehow, Christian has gotten it into his head that he is the reincarnation of Greatorex.

Since Andrew is nowhere to be found, Liz and Burke can only assume that Christian has taken him somewhere. With Purcell's help, they realize that it's a pedestrian bridge over a nearby highway. This is significant, as it was the former location of the gallows where Greatorex was hanged. They rush there just in time to find Christian with Andrew tied up. Christian is holding a broken bottle to the other boy's neck.

Liz tries and fails to convince Christian to stop this madness, nor is she able to convince him that he's not Greatorex. Then, Liz tells Christian that he has to stop since this 'ritual' won't work, according to the cult's rules. Christian had used the sacred dagger to kill Taploe and doesn't have it anymore. The crazed Christian realizes this is true, so he drops the bottle and sullenly walks away.

Purcell is there too, having helped Liz understand the rules of the cult. He apologizes to Christian, explaining to him that being a part of Greatorex's cult was only meant to be a game. Distraught over this news, Christian then jumps off the bridge to the traffic below, killing himself. Thankfully, though, this puts an end to the cult. Andrew is safe, Purcell is taken away, and Burke even ends up deciding to join P.R.O.B.E., despite his earlier skepticisms.

Thoughts: It's the second movie in the P.R.O.B.E. series, and it's a big improvement over the first. We both agree on this.

As a story, this one was much improved. First and foremost, it was a whole lot easier to follow. There were no times where we were left confused and wondering what the heck was going on. That said, this does not mean it was a simplistic story. It was well written and quite deep, with lots of interesting backstory to back it up.

The characters were fun. Purcell was played by Peter Davison, whom I'm sure you all know as the fifth Doctor. It was hard to tell at times whether he was insane or not, and also whether he was 'evil' or not. He was such a mystery and it was fun unwrapping him. Christian made for a great antagonist, especially since neither of us figured out that he was truly behind everything until it was revealed. That makes the mark of a good twist.

The story also featured a landmark for the Doctor Who universe. Christian and Andrew were in a relationship and were shown kissing on-screen many times. This is the first time a true homosexual relationship was portrayed in the Doctor Who world. It made things a lot more interesting when Christian went crazy at the end and nearly ended up killing his own boyfriend.

The only problem with this movie has to do with the audio. The budget apparently didn't allow for road closures. Almost every outdoors shot had loud cars zooming by constantly in the background, making it hard to hear the dialogue. There was also a very loud squeaky staircase in the school. Ironically, the scene on the pedestrian bridge right ABOVE the highway had just fine audio mixing.