Hairy Jeremy was a short-lived, stop-motion children's animated television program. One episode was released as part of a , entitled Ice to See You.
Overview
The show was about a dimwitted caveman who lived in a stone age setting. He would spend his time coming up with new ideas which usually lend to trouble like creating his own circus and building a motorway, although a few of his ideas were successful like curing a dinosaur's toothache and taking his own picture with a camera.
Each episode lasted about five minutes and in 1994, every episode was released on a VHS tape. One episode was released as part of a Greatest BBC Children's Video entitled Ice to See You. In the episode, Hairy Jeremy refuses to let Chuckles, a dinosaur, into his house to keep warm on a cold winters day, because the dinosaur made fun of him. Chuckles is left to freeze in the snow, but is defrosted as soon as the sun rises much to Jeremy's relief.
Overview
The show was about a dimwitted caveman who lived in a stone age setting. He would spend his time coming up with new ideas which usually lend to trouble like creating his own circus and building a motorway, although a few of his ideas were successful like curing a dinosaur's toothache and taking his own picture with a camera.
Each episode lasted about five minutes and in 1994, every episode was released on a VHS tape. One episode was released as part of a Greatest BBC Children's Video entitled Ice to See You. In the episode, Hairy Jeremy refuses to let Chuckles, a dinosaur, into his house to keep warm on a cold winters day, because the dinosaur made fun of him. Chuckles is left to freeze in the snow, but is defrosted as soon as the sun rises much to Jeremy's relief.
Mary Alexandra Stiefvater (born 31 May 1977 in Chico, California) is an American actress, model, writer and producer.
She was born in Chico, California. and grew up in Stockton. Educated at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater, she also studied abroad at the and Le Centre Parisien d'Études Critiques. After graduation, she moved to England to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Her first break came on The Late Show With David Letterman where she worked consistently for a year and a half doing comedy skits. At the same time she did motion capture work for the character of Mona Sax in Max Payne 2 for Rockstar Games. The collaboration with Rockstar Games continued with Grand Theft Auto; San Andreas and The Warriors.
Later she moved to Los Angeles, where further success came with parts in television shows; The Mentalist, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The Wedding Bells.
Known mainly for independent films including; Driving By Braille, Bear, Loveless in Los Angeles, Speed-Dating, Supergator, she has also appeared in numerous print ads, commercials and the web-series The Rules of The League. Although she does a lot of comedy, it is her dramatic work that has garnered the most attention.
In 2006 she produced the short film, Bad Habits with the production company she helped found, Habit Forming Films. Bad Habits won a Bronze Remie Award at Houston Worldfest International Film Festival. Stiefvater then produced Wedding for One and 11-44, both directed by Kristina Lloyd. The two met in acting class at UCLA and have collaborated on several projects together.
In 2012, her books, In My Contrary Garden and Cocoa For Saturdays were published.
She was born in Chico, California. and grew up in Stockton. Educated at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater, she also studied abroad at the and Le Centre Parisien d'Études Critiques. After graduation, she moved to England to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Her first break came on The Late Show With David Letterman where she worked consistently for a year and a half doing comedy skits. At the same time she did motion capture work for the character of Mona Sax in Max Payne 2 for Rockstar Games. The collaboration with Rockstar Games continued with Grand Theft Auto; San Andreas and The Warriors.
Later she moved to Los Angeles, where further success came with parts in television shows; The Mentalist, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The Wedding Bells.
Known mainly for independent films including; Driving By Braille, Bear, Loveless in Los Angeles, Speed-Dating, Supergator, she has also appeared in numerous print ads, commercials and the web-series The Rules of The League. Although she does a lot of comedy, it is her dramatic work that has garnered the most attention.
In 2006 she produced the short film, Bad Habits with the production company she helped found, Habit Forming Films. Bad Habits won a Bronze Remie Award at Houston Worldfest International Film Festival. Stiefvater then produced Wedding for One and 11-44, both directed by Kristina Lloyd. The two met in acting class at UCLA and have collaborated on several projects together.
In 2012, her books, In My Contrary Garden and Cocoa For Saturdays were published.
The Revolution at Sea Saga is a series of five novels created and written by James L. Nelson, author of The Maddest Idea. It encompasses the year 1775 through 1777, and focuses on the adventures of smuggler, revolutionary, captain, but most of all sailor Isaac Biddlecomb.
Storylines
In By Force of Arms, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb's smuggling ship, the Judea, is destroyed by British soldiers, which results eventually in his and his friend Ezra Rumstick's impressment aboard an English man-o-war, , commanded by the irresponsible and arrogant Lieutenant James Pendexter. Isaac and his friends lead the revolt against the oppressive boatswain and captain of the Icarus.
In The Maddest Idea, Isaac and Rumstick are fitted out with a brand-new, all-American man-o-war: the USS Charlemagne. They're on a mission from George Washington himself to capture a cache of British gunpowder from Bermudian waters. Also a traitor is buried somewhere deep in the American government, who is intent on destroying Isaac Biddlecomb.
In The Continental Risque, Isaac joins a fleet of American revolutionaries to sail to the Bahamas in order to take an island full of British militia members.
In Lords of the Ocean Isaac's mission seems clear: to bring Benjamin Franklin to meet Louis XVI. But nothing is as simple as it seems.
In All the Brave Fellows, Biddlecomb has to take command of the newly built frigate Falmouth and escape with her before she is taken by the British.
Patrick O'Brien said of the first book in the Revolution at Sea Saga "Authenticity runs throughout the book, carrying total conviction," and of the author, "...Nelson writes with the eagerness of a young man sailing his first command." He has also been called "one of today's most gifted historical novelists." The Revolution at Sea Saga is an epic mixture of historical fiction and true stories, all set in Eighteenth Century America and Europe, with a backdrop of pure historical knowledge that James L. Nelson has shown himself to be a master at providing.
Storylines
In By Force of Arms, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb's smuggling ship, the Judea, is destroyed by British soldiers, which results eventually in his and his friend Ezra Rumstick's impressment aboard an English man-o-war, , commanded by the irresponsible and arrogant Lieutenant James Pendexter. Isaac and his friends lead the revolt against the oppressive boatswain and captain of the Icarus.
In The Maddest Idea, Isaac and Rumstick are fitted out with a brand-new, all-American man-o-war: the USS Charlemagne. They're on a mission from George Washington himself to capture a cache of British gunpowder from Bermudian waters. Also a traitor is buried somewhere deep in the American government, who is intent on destroying Isaac Biddlecomb.
In The Continental Risque, Isaac joins a fleet of American revolutionaries to sail to the Bahamas in order to take an island full of British militia members.
In Lords of the Ocean Isaac's mission seems clear: to bring Benjamin Franklin to meet Louis XVI. But nothing is as simple as it seems.
In All the Brave Fellows, Biddlecomb has to take command of the newly built frigate Falmouth and escape with her before she is taken by the British.
Patrick O'Brien said of the first book in the Revolution at Sea Saga "Authenticity runs throughout the book, carrying total conviction," and of the author, "...Nelson writes with the eagerness of a young man sailing his first command." He has also been called "one of today's most gifted historical novelists." The Revolution at Sea Saga is an epic mixture of historical fiction and true stories, all set in Eighteenth Century America and Europe, with a backdrop of pure historical knowledge that James L. Nelson has shown himself to be a master at providing.
By Force of Arms is a 1997 novel by maritime author James L. Nelson. It is the story of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and Ezra Rumstick and their anti-British occupations in the year 1775, directly before the American Revolution began. By Force of Arms is the first installment in the Revolution at Sea Saga.
Plot
Isaac Biddlecomb's ship, the Judea, which is carrying a hold full of smuggled molasses, is destroyed by a British frigate. He and his friend Ezra Rumstick are soon after arrested, but they escape and end up aboard the William B. Adams, a merchantman on which they agree to work. But it doesn't last, as they are tricked by the Adams's first mate, Stephen Fry, into being pressed aboard the British man-o-war the Icarus, where they meet Lieutenant James Pendexter, a young, rash, irrisponsible captain who has just been given the Icarus as his first command. Biddlecomb and Rumstick are shocked to see the abuse heaped upon the crew by McDuff, the boatswain, and Edward Longbottom, his boatswain's mate. Isaac Biddlecomb assures his friend that when they arrive in Barbados he will be able to get a note to a friend who lives there, but he is unsuccesful, and the failure of impressing the governer there pushes Captain Pendexter to the brink of insanity, which in turn drives the crew to mutiny, led by Biddlecomb and Rumstick. They take over the ship, and, after being pursued by the H.M.S. Cerberus and various other British men-o-war, they eventually make it back to America, where the Icarus, now in the hands of the revolutionaries, is beaten to a pulp by the British frigate the H.M.S. Rose. But Biddlecomb, Rumstick, and a small percentage of the crew survive, and they return to their country with hope for the future.
Characters
* Isaac Biddlecomb- Twenty-nine-year-old captain of the Judea. He supposedly rose from midshipman to captain in eleven years, a feat not performed by a large amount of sea-going men. He is described in The Maddest Idea (Book Two of the Revolution at Sea Saga) as "...not a man who stood out in a crowd; his height was an unremarkable five foot ten inches, not fat though certainly not thin, dark brown hair tied in a queue and hanging down just past his shoulders." His father was killed in the French and Indian War, his mother having died earlier of natural causes.
* Ezra Rumstick- A fierce, lion-hearted revolutionary. He and Isaac are best friends, and were arrested together in By Force of Arms. He was the one mostly responsible for the actual follow-through of the mutiny on the Icarus, as he beat up the boatswain and threw the boatswain's mate overboard when they finally destroyed his power to remain calm by brutalising a young sailor. He was then put in irons and sentenced to two thousand lashes with the cat o' nine tails, which Biddlecomb was meant to deliver half of, but refused.
* Lieutenant James Pendexter- The twenty-one-year-old, weak-willed and gullible captain of the H.M.S. Icarus. He is easily manipulated by his first mate Smeaton and his boatswain McDuff. He is the nephew of Samuel Graves, who is explained to have given Pendexter command of the Icarus, because of filial relation, and not because of any experience on Pendexter's part.
* Virginia Stanton- The daughter of William Stanton, the man who took Isaac Biddlecomb in after the death of his parents. After several years, she begins to realise that she has feelings for Isaac other than sisterly ones, just as he begins to suspect the same thing about himself.
* William Stanton- The father of Virginia Stanton, who commanded the vessel on which Isaac Biddlecomb's father travelled to meet the enemy in the French and Indian War, which he never returned from, after which, Stanton took Isaac in as his own son. He has no objection to Biddlecomb's and his Virginia's romantic feelings toward each other, he just seems a little surprised at it, claiming that he had never suspected it.
* "Bloody" Wilson- A sailor aboard the H.M.S. Icarus. He is the first one to behave in any manner of friendliness to Biddlecomb, and also the first one to think of mutiny as any kind of a good idea. he is killed in the final battle between the Icarus and the Rose.
Plot
Isaac Biddlecomb's ship, the Judea, which is carrying a hold full of smuggled molasses, is destroyed by a British frigate. He and his friend Ezra Rumstick are soon after arrested, but they escape and end up aboard the William B. Adams, a merchantman on which they agree to work. But it doesn't last, as they are tricked by the Adams's first mate, Stephen Fry, into being pressed aboard the British man-o-war the Icarus, where they meet Lieutenant James Pendexter, a young, rash, irrisponsible captain who has just been given the Icarus as his first command. Biddlecomb and Rumstick are shocked to see the abuse heaped upon the crew by McDuff, the boatswain, and Edward Longbottom, his boatswain's mate. Isaac Biddlecomb assures his friend that when they arrive in Barbados he will be able to get a note to a friend who lives there, but he is unsuccesful, and the failure of impressing the governer there pushes Captain Pendexter to the brink of insanity, which in turn drives the crew to mutiny, led by Biddlecomb and Rumstick. They take over the ship, and, after being pursued by the H.M.S. Cerberus and various other British men-o-war, they eventually make it back to America, where the Icarus, now in the hands of the revolutionaries, is beaten to a pulp by the British frigate the H.M.S. Rose. But Biddlecomb, Rumstick, and a small percentage of the crew survive, and they return to their country with hope for the future.
Characters
* Isaac Biddlecomb- Twenty-nine-year-old captain of the Judea. He supposedly rose from midshipman to captain in eleven years, a feat not performed by a large amount of sea-going men. He is described in The Maddest Idea (Book Two of the Revolution at Sea Saga) as "...not a man who stood out in a crowd; his height was an unremarkable five foot ten inches, not fat though certainly not thin, dark brown hair tied in a queue and hanging down just past his shoulders." His father was killed in the French and Indian War, his mother having died earlier of natural causes.
* Ezra Rumstick- A fierce, lion-hearted revolutionary. He and Isaac are best friends, and were arrested together in By Force of Arms. He was the one mostly responsible for the actual follow-through of the mutiny on the Icarus, as he beat up the boatswain and threw the boatswain's mate overboard when they finally destroyed his power to remain calm by brutalising a young sailor. He was then put in irons and sentenced to two thousand lashes with the cat o' nine tails, which Biddlecomb was meant to deliver half of, but refused.
* Lieutenant James Pendexter- The twenty-one-year-old, weak-willed and gullible captain of the H.M.S. Icarus. He is easily manipulated by his first mate Smeaton and his boatswain McDuff. He is the nephew of Samuel Graves, who is explained to have given Pendexter command of the Icarus, because of filial relation, and not because of any experience on Pendexter's part.
* Virginia Stanton- The daughter of William Stanton, the man who took Isaac Biddlecomb in after the death of his parents. After several years, she begins to realise that she has feelings for Isaac other than sisterly ones, just as he begins to suspect the same thing about himself.
* William Stanton- The father of Virginia Stanton, who commanded the vessel on which Isaac Biddlecomb's father travelled to meet the enemy in the French and Indian War, which he never returned from, after which, Stanton took Isaac in as his own son. He has no objection to Biddlecomb's and his Virginia's romantic feelings toward each other, he just seems a little surprised at it, claiming that he had never suspected it.
* "Bloody" Wilson- A sailor aboard the H.M.S. Icarus. He is the first one to behave in any manner of friendliness to Biddlecomb, and also the first one to think of mutiny as any kind of a good idea. he is killed in the final battle between the Icarus and the Rose.