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Post by bigaitch on May 8, 2021 19:56:20 GMT
Fantastic episode with a great plot and a great cast. Some really funny moments too ‘Who says crime doesn’t pay’? ‘It was the Archbishop of Canterbury wasn’t it’?.....
George Cole plays a drunk so well, and Morley’s response to AD being in cahoots with Hanbury is excellent.
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Post by freddiefenton on Aug 2, 2021 22:56:45 GMT
Going out on a limb here and voting Poor for the first time. Maybe I'm being hard on the usual good acting but I found the ending a big let down and all rather rushed. If Hanbury was so big time, I'd expect some of his heavies to come looking for Arthur, rather than just let him flog off the items he was sent.
And the love interest from the widow? She seemed to walk away all too easy for me, just shrugged her shoulders when Arthur said he wasn't interested. Left me wondering what the point of that part of the story was.
Maybe I should watch this episode again and see if my opinion changes.
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Post by swainy on Aug 3, 2021 4:03:58 GMT
Come on, the scene where Arthur is described as being 1st division by Superintendent Copeland is one of the series highlights for me. Morley’s reaction is comedy gold.
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Post by freddiefenton on Aug 3, 2021 5:16:37 GMT
Come on, the scene where Arthur is described as being 1st division by Superintendent Copeland is one of the series highlights for me. Morley’s reaction is comedy gold. I agree, that's a great scene. My disappointment is with the overall storyline, particularly the ending |
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Post by jno on Aug 5, 2021 4:37:06 GMT
Come on, the scene where Arthur is described as being 1st division by Superintendent Copeland is one of the series highlights for me. Morley’s reaction is comedy gold. Agree with swainy, there's lots of great stuff in this one. |
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Post by jjmolloy on Mar 4, 2023 16:16:25 GMT
Arthur did really well in this one, despite being in a state of utter bewilderment and being a hostage to fortune. He's pushed from the Widow Johnson to Tommy Hanbury and doesn't know what's happening. But - all the gear that Tommy had sent to him (all paid for) is worth tens of thousands! Two Land Rovers, IT equipment, satellite dishes etc. Arthur is quids in!  |
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Post by manta on Apr 27, 2023 13:04:17 GMT
I thought this was great and I was laughing like a drain quite a few times. Some folks clearly didn't like the ending "fizzling out" but for me that was the joy - a build up to a first division job - that is completely out of Arthur's league so we know it isn't going to happen - that then has to be blown out of the water - or into the water, in Tommy's case. I liked the two strands of plod - the professionals who really knew what they were doing apart from the fundamental mistake of taking Arthur seriously and then Morley et al who could barely operate a camera but did have the full SP on Arthur. Morley's laugh is comedy gold as Swainy says. Arthur and Tommy are great together - Michael Gambon is very good - and the idea that Tommy was indeed eventually planning to do Arthur in is plausible. Not sure Joanna as an undercover copper would actually be bedding Ray but hey - it's not a police procedural, is it? A nice few interludes as Arthur tries to get his memory back via various edges of the medical profession. And I really loved the scene where the Widow Johnson proposed that Arthur move in with her - we'd been building up to something and there in the Winchester, Arthur really was on the hook but that speech about how he had too much respect for her and then she recognised that he was old school - well I told you I was laughing like a drain. If that scene is not comedy gold then at least comedy silver. Overall it's an Excellent from me.
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Post by AlanH on Feb 21, 2024 8:48:24 GMT
A potentially really good episode which ultimately just ends with far too many plot strands flailing. It feels like Part 1 of a two-part story, only there is no Part 2.
Michael Gambon is fabulous, as is Susan Tracy, though her plot strand as the Widow Johnson ends up going nowhere (you suspect that she has a link to Hambury and has a hidden motive for romancing Arthur but at the end you're left questioning that and she does not reappear). The CID hunt also goes nowhere and isn't followed up on.
Gina McKee is also excellent - no surprise there... Again, disappointing that there's no follow up with her character.
So, excellent but disappointing in the pay off. Consequently, I award it a 'Good'.
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