Orphaned Episodes: Stuntman (Duncan Dares)
The introduction to this series of posts can be found here . You can see this orphaned episode here . Peter Duncan is an actor with a varied career, including a time as the Chief Scout, who gained a reputation for being active, outgoing and daring during his stint on Blue Peter. This reputation was what led to his own series, Duncan Dares. Not to beat about the bush, I really didn't like this show when it was originally on, largely because outdoor adventure type things have never appealed to me. I might have missed something interesting because in this one Peter Duncan is taken through various stunts in his role of a James Bond type character. It's all about the stunts and it's fascinating. It's also heavily about health and safety and I think probably very old fashioned now. I'm fairly certain that if you need to burst into flames on a TV show this would be done with CGI and you wouldn't actually be set on fire, like Duncan is. It also strikes me how expensiv...