{"id":39149,"date":"2022-12-12T23:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=39149"},"modified":"2022-12-12T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T23:37:41","slug":"christmas-2022-countdown-day-8-the-ebony-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2022-countdown-day-8-the-ebony-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2022 Countdown: Day 8: The Ebony Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30150 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas2018a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Christmas 1984<span style=\"color: #339966;\">, <em>The Ebony Tower,<\/em> written by John Fowles and originally published in 1974, premiered on ITV on the 9th December.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Toyah filmed the 90-minute television drama, which was produced by Granada TV, in the Dordogne region of France during the Summer of 1983. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">She starred alongside Sir Laurence Olivier, Greta Scacchi and Roger Rees. In a 1984 interview, Toyah said of the character she plays: &#8220;<em>The girl I play in The Ebony Tower may be called &#8216;The Freak&#8217;, and she may even look like a freak, but deep down she is the sanest person in the story<\/em>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">View promo shots from the drama<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/et11bb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">and<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/et11aa.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Read an interview with Toyah, published when <em>The Ebony Tower<\/em> aired, by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Outlook magazine<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #339966;\">, and another from around the same time, by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/cosmopolitan-toyah-at-full-throttle-1983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cosmopolitan magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/span>. Read Dreamscape\u2019s 2011<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ebonytowerdvd2011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>DVD<\/strong><\/a> <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ebonytowerdvd2011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>review<\/strong><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">, and view a couple of our<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ebtowad12aa.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">fan adverts<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<span style=\"color: #339966;\"> (Thanks to andy for the screen cap below)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ebonytower13d.jpg\" alt=\"ebonytower13d\" width=\"620\" height=\"305\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1984, The Ebony Tower, written by John Fowles and originally published in 1974, premiered on ITV on the 9th December. Toyah filmed the 90-minute television drama, which was produced by Granada TV, in the Dordogne region of France during the Summer of 1983. She starred alongside Sir Laurence Olivier, Greta Scacchi and Roger Rees. 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