Mountain rescue epic Rockface has landed a prestigious TV drama award OUTDOORSmagic can exclusively reveal
Gone - for now - but not forgotten, BBC Mountain Rescue
soapo-drama Rockface has won a prestigious TV Award.

Yep, on the first weekly anniversary of the programme's last showing,
Rockface has been presented with an OUTDOORSmagic DAFTA prize for
'least believable, but hypnotically magnetic because of the strange
technical balls-ups, drama about a Scottish mountain rescue
team'.
To be honest, Wednesday nights just won't be the same without the
slightly bizarre goings on from Glentunnock, sorry Glentannoch, but
in an effort to ease the withdrawal symptoms, we've put together some
more DAFTA Awards specially for Rockface. And hey, don't worry,
there's a new series in the pipeline 'next year'.
The Rockface DAFTA Awards
Best
Mountain Ringlets A walkover for love-triangle apex Annie Craig.
When Annie isn't shaking those entrancing dark ringlets or climbing
in voluminous Victorian bloomers, she's the love focus for her
husband's decent and soulful brother Ben.
Best
Maggots Not to be confused with best ringlets, the winner is the
bloke found halfway up a rockface by posh tottie and aspirant team
member Caroline with the little critters crawling all over his head wound. And
he'd only been there a few days... Fortunately the kindly maggots had
saved him from infection.
Weirdest
Technical Faux Pas A hotly contested category, since the whole
series revolves around thoroughly unlikely mountain events. Our
choice though - and the competition was fierce - was one for the
conoisseurs, viz, the extraordinary invisible belayer. Caroline -
'Posh Rescue' - is supposedly out alone soloing, erm, except that
she's clearly tied on to a top rope... Nice.
Best
Robbie Williams Lookalike Annie's hubby Peter Craig - the local
bobby - whose painful inability to remember their wedding anniversary
is probably down to a late return from a big stadium gig.
Best
Belay The besandalled monk who, in the final episode manages to
hold a two-man fall with his bare hands. Sadly even with the help of
God he is unable to support two dangling climbers simultaneously -
something the highly trained mountain resuers realise instinctively -
and with blood pouting from his hands as the rope slips we
get...
Best
Touching The Void Moment Gordon does the old Swiss Army knife
trick on Douglas but only after endless barracking from Cal who is
keen to do the right thing and clearly has faith in the monk's
ability to hold one fallen climber with his bleeding hands.
Fortunately Cal survives with minor damage to his kidney, or was it
his pancreas? (see the video clip from episode 5 on the Rockface
site).
Best
Villain The loopy psychopath with the gun who takes Annie and Ben
prisoner when they turn up to investigate a helicopter crash. Billy
Deansgate - named after one of Manchester's main shopping streets -
claims to be stronger than anyone else because he has no regard for
anyone, something he proves when he shoots himself in one of the
series' gorier moments.
Best
Slow Motion Snog Her with the ringlets and him with the best
pained puppy dog expression of hopeless love when they are finally
rescued from the mad villain by armed police. Whatever will become of
them?
Too
Handsome For His Own Good Brilliant Young Climber Award Anyone
but posh, young superflirt Jamie. Not only are Jamie's brilliant
extreme climbs at a conservative guess somewhere around V Diff. but
he's not particularly handsome and has a disturbing oedipal
relationship with his medical mumsy. Tormented by the sudden
departure of his brother during his adolesence, he is SCREWED-UP.
Trouble is, it's hard to give a damn.
Least
Urgent Rescue In episode two, the team are called out to help a
team of students who've very carelessly taken a mass fall. Faced with
the prospect of dealing with a string of casualties, the team amble
amicably across the hills chatting about trivia and enjoying the
scenery. Still, why rush, the students aren't going anywhere...
Best
Rockface Web Site The BBC
Rockface site complete with weekly plot guides, video clips from
each episode and profiles of and interviews with the stars.
Unmissable.
Thank you and goodnight.