Christopher Marriott OK so it's been over a decade since this article was written but damn does it stand up haha. I JUST discovered "breakout kings" &, am only halfway thru episode 2, yet I'm saying "why the hell did...

If you’ve a few hours to spare and don’t mind YouTube, all eight episodes are available to view below. It’s worth watching, since despite the pacing, it’s an intriguing show and great fun. Plus it’s got Alexandra Bastedo and Brian Blessed in it.David Collier is called urgently to Cyprus. He is soon involved with the mysterious and beautiful Helene who gives him disturbing news. I admit that the story is a little slow in a couple of places and there are one or two scenes that invoke a slight cringe-worthy wince, which can promote the tendency to get up and put the kettle on or cast your eyes over a newspaper just to hold sleep at bay, but take my word for it, it’s well worth staying with it. While it may not be outstanding, it is highly enjoyable and quite intriguing. The show does make a brave stab at showing a Cyprus that isn’t an England in the Mediterranean. Many of the characters speak Greek, there are problems with communication thanks to the language barrier, people eat Greek food, and everyone indulges in ‘Greek activities’. Although the main cast is non-Greek, most of the extras are Greek. It is arguable, however, that the show’s Greek to a level the Greeks would find stereotypical, unrepresentative and more like tourist Greece, but it usually treads just the right side of the line.

They’re also characterised well. Rather than the Americanised versions of the gods in Cupid, Valentine or Hercules, these are Greek gods in every way: there are even some okay to good stabs at Greek accents by everyone from Bastedo to Blessed, with Gryff doing very well thanks to his long stint in The Lotus Eaters as police captain Michael Krasakis. They indulge in most of the common activities of the Greek myths, such as disguising themselves, impersonating others, sending mortals dreams to tell them what they need to do or what’s going on and scaring them witless. he had been following the CyBC archive and a few days earlier they had uploaded a short video of the cast and crew arriving on Cyprus in late 1978. Perhaps in the 70's this kind of silly mystery/drama was appealing on account of it's international nature and the scenery unfamiliar to most people then but today the plot...such as it is...is ridiculous and just silly and the scenery seems Gray and drab.

Synopsis

which was to have a short bit of film in the 8.30pm main news bulletin with the newsreader speaking over it explaining the pictures. Written by Michael J. Bird, who had a thing for dramas set in the Mediterranean and had already given us The Lotus Eaters in ’72 and Who Pays the Ferryman? in ’77, The Aphrodite Inheritance ran for eight episodes and tells a story of greed, betrayal and murder. And Greek mythology. Tannedhaggis Watching first episode and put off already as Rex doesn’t seem to have a GPS on his collar. How is that possible for police dog?

How much further?” enquired the hapless David after an apparently endless drive in Helene’s car through the comparatively featureless Cyprus countryside “We’ve been driving for an hour already”. It seemed longer.The series starred Peter McEnery as a man visiting Cyprus to investigate the death of his brother and subsequently being drawn into a strange conspiracy, with the narrative twists of the serial employing various supernatural and mythological motifs. Other major cast members included Alexandra Bastedo, Brian Blessed, Paul Maxwell and Stefan Gryff.

Hellman .............................................................................. PAUL MAXWELL After Christianity became the dominant religion in the West, the Greek gods could have taken it easy and had a rest. Some suggest they did; others, however, tell a different story. Far more of the story’s best moments stem from the gods. Even when it’s not clear who they are or what they’re doing, their ability to be almost everywhere, always one step ahead of everyone else, manipulating everything and treating everything like a game despite the obvious dangers is far more thrilling, and indeed scary, than the simple fights and intrigues the mortals arrange for themselves – particularly once it becomes clear that they’re not regular people. the TV series entitled "The legacy of Aphrodite". The team members were welcomed at the airport by the Helen .................................................................................. ALEXANDRA BASTEDOHowever Cyprus born TV and film director Agis Paikos says "... the girl in question was not an actress at all but a beauty queen, crowned 'Star Cyprus' in 1976. Gradually, over subsequent episodes, it becomes clearer and clearer that something truly odd is happening, with Basileos able to impersonate Collier’s voice exactly when Hellman’s heavies come for him at night, and Helene disappearing from the middle of a room without even opening a door. The question for the viewer is no longer “Who are these people?” but “Are these really the gods or is this a double bluff? If it isn’t, which ones are they and what do they want?”