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"Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw!"


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Foster3D wrote in "Main Chat & News":

In 2004, there was the terrific British ITV swashbuckling series set in the extremely early English Civil War period (1642). It was engagingly and enrapturousley entitled: "Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw!" The fairly famous female fencing star was Miss Lucinda Dryzek, who was keenly conceived to be Kiera Knightley's character as a young child in "Pirates of the Caribbean". In the swashbuckling series she is supposed to be Lady Dee Dee, but, alternativley, she has an alter ego
egregiously and entertainingly designated to be a masked highwayman.

Some of the swashbuckling shots from the series seem to be somewhat good. It was fabuously and fittingly filmed in and around the ancient city of Prague...




The show has also recently been shown in Australia and on Nickoldoleon (presumably in the US).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444574/

Sign up for the IMDb Message Boards and read Foster3D's review there as well.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444574/board/thread/33847701

Sadly, the show's official website is kaput, so the series is most likely cancelled, but continues in reruns here and there.

Children's ITV page
http://www.citv.co.uk/page.asp?partid=13

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"Britcanuck",

Basically, the bright brisk series swashbuckler was never seen in the States. The Producers politely and plantitively tried to sell the swashbuckling series by negotiating at the native "NATPE" conference in 2004, but it brought no buyers in N. America.

I saw or have seen some or several exciting extensive extended clips, and I have seen some swashbuckling stills, but this is, tragically, the only reliable resource I have really readily been remotely able to have. I did solicit and write suscintly to several satellite and cable systems to say that the series stylishly possessed many assumed amazing aspects which would willfully find favor in film and in the territory of TV today.

They were precisely proffered with the prospective point that Miss Lucinda Dryzek was a child star in "Pirates of the Caribbean" (She keenly played Keira Knightly's crucial character as a child.), I especially and engagingly entertained this issue in my insuiniated inscribed issuances at Disney: since Disney was patently responsible for the proposed production of Pirates; Disney has a famous and fabulous reputation for handily helping and having a role in seeing to it that the child stars it selects or selected, should somehow will be a success; solicitiously since it seems to have a sort of sembalence in selectively maintaining their reputation for intense infaliability in finding fortunate fantastic talent far into the future; thus, it should see to it that this series somehow succeeds or has some sort of success.

I also assiciously asked "Nick" (All Nick's inscrutiable and immense incarnations) if they would or could consciously consider selecting the series, since we see that their UK subsidary was still showing the series. I basically went down the list of all the cable and satellite subscriber setups to solicit or somehow see if anyone would warrant the wonderful series a chance, but I still saw no select reply or revealed response to my remarks.

My main or major means of argument made point of the fact that the terrific series also used the swashbuckling situation which we winsomely see so soundly successful in two of the most terrifically and talentedly successful recent film series: "Pirates of the Caribbean", and "Kill Bill", and this was perfectly prospectively, primarily, and profoundly the case because of with their tremendous and terrifically talented use of swashbuckling swordwielding situations. Thus, the tangent is that if you want to follow the pattern of the most successful film series, then it is critical to consider a cut-and-thrust sort of series that basically borrows the brightest and most significant and salient fantastic features found revealed and regaled in the recent most successful films--swashbuckling, but, better yet, basically a girl swashbuckler, as per--Kill Bill!


I also said that the other supremely salient situation with "Teenage Outlaw" was the case that the series was significantly set or superbly or supremely situated with the younger "Unexpected Hero" situation. Specifically and similarily set to the swashbuckling "Kill Bill" set-up, but with a profoundly younger girl geared into the general genteel en-gaging mix, but this assertive arrangement is actually better because it broadly fits more finely with the other facet which the public finds particularily popular today--child heroes.


That which we will see was the prime principle point of the "Harry Potter" and "LOTR" (Lord of the Rings) series, with the horde of hairy, hirsute, heeled hobbits, who we will warrant were essentially established as supreme situated surrogates for children. Tolkien takes the timely theme that the Hobbits were representational or represented real children. Thus, the trusty theme the prudent Producers provided in "Teenage Outlaw" perfectly fit into the proper popular thematic trends which we will find are prudently and prospectively popular today.

So, it seems that film and TV is so supremely and decidedly derrivative, so much so or such that the tacit demands should be that the general theme of a genuninely girl swashbuckler surely seems to sound like it fits in with what we should see perhaps being broadly brought to the public's attentive and assidiously attentive attention. Thus, I thought my thinking made some sembalence of sense?

YouTube currently has, or had, a hilarious clip ticklishly taken from the terrific series, and I fortunately found a fantastically nice critical clear clip at a podcast site found from a former member of the critical collected crew: Bill Broomfield. There are still some nice set of stills still found from a rightful remote Russian site, and some superb stills still set at the Czech co-production site.

Unfortunately, it is ultimately understood that the untimely closing of the particular prime production (UK site) site silenced several select clips showing some scintilating swashbuckling sword fights, but this is the way things woefully work?

If you need any aid in this, please ask?

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"BritCanuck",

Basically, I am betokenly befuddled here? As you so nicely noted, I necessarily mentioned some, well several, swashbuckling films firmly or forthwit dated to directly describe or display the English Civil War" period, but I failed to finally or firmly make a measly mention of the only English Civil War TV swashbuckling series. I will ignore "Children of New Forrest" (Several series were shot) and "By the Sword Divided" even if they do have some sort of swashbuckling or swordwielding females involved, but I still do not know if I should mention "The Gay Cavalier" from 1957? I thought I should say something about it in my other licentiously long listings of TV swashbucklers seen in the Fifties and Sixties, or should I say something about it here?
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Anything about swordswomen that you can contribute is always welcome here. Image
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