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The role of Eloise de Ricordeau in the BBC television series The Tripods was Charlotteʼs final work, and by far her best known.
The Tripods ran in two series from September 1984 to November 1985. Three series were planned – but despite the work being heavily promoted by the BBC prior to its first broadcast, the third series was cancelled.
Charlotte appeared as Eloise in three episodes of the first series, directed by Graham Theakston and produced by Richard Bates.
Setting
Based on a series of novels by the science fiction author Sam Youd aka John Christopher, The Tripods is set in the 22nd century after an alien invasion of Earth. The Tripods in question are three-legged craft some twenty metres in height, used by the alien occupiers to administer and enforce their rule over the world. A prominent part of their work is the gathering of young adult humans for ʻcappingʼ – the fitting of a scalp implant (the ʻcapʼ) which alters the subjectʼs behaviour, such that their will to question or resist their alien occupiers is removed. The effect of the cap is highly selective – the subjectʼs mental faculties and personality are otherwise unaffected.
Inevitably the mass cappin
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Transcript from the interview with John Shackley, Jim Baker and Ceri Seel, transmitted on 17 September 1984:
Simon Groom- And here are Will, otherwise known as John Shackley, Henry, alias Jim Baker, and Beanpole, who in real life is Ceri Seel. Welcome to the programme.
all three boys - thank you.
Michael Sundin - And if Ceri looks familiar. You might have seen him as William Bagthorpe in the Bagthorpe Saga. Welcome to Blue Peter. Congratulations on getting leading parts. It's such an exciting series.
Simon Groom - Yeah, very well done. Did you know one another before the series, before Tripods?
JB - No, we met at the auditions, it took six months to films so, er, we, know each other pretty well now.
boys - Yeah, yeah.
JS - now and again, you know, don't we Ceri - oh sorry, Jim
Michael Sundin - just as well you got on having to hang around waiting with all those special effects.
JB - yeah that was quite tricky sometimes
JS - yeah, it was
Simon Groom - has any of you ever read the book that the TV series was adapted from?
CS - Well, I - a weird thing was, I read it about seven years ago, in the first year of my school. And as soon as I found out I had the audition I went straight to the library to get the book out and there is this illiterate little
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