[Bounci]

A short video tonight from the vaults of TV nudes, and this clip comes from the TV series Flickers from 1980. It revolved around fleapit owner Bob Hoskins attempting to cash in on the rise of cinema in the 1920's by making his own movie, with an erratic cast and director, all with hopes of making it big. One of those is Joanna Foster (daughter of Barry, Van Der Valk himself) who in trying to persuade the director to give her a bigger role ropes in lovelorn cameraman Percy (Jim Hooper) to take a photo of her naked. It's intriguing to hear her attitude when Percy queries why a casting director would want to see her naked. "Of course they do when they are being considered for a part in a picture," she says. When Percy mentions that he didn't mention a part in the film, she replies "Well he won't do until he's seen me." Maybe they were more matter of fact about it back then, but they certainly can't say the casting couch was only about recently. As it is, for Joanna Foster this was her only nude scene, having first came to notice in Testament of Youth in 1979 and later went on to appear in 'soaps' Casualty, Family Affairs and Coronation Street (as one of the numerous Susan Barlows). She is still acting, though most of her work is on the stage, where she built her career.