Nov 25, 2019
Special Branch: Jailbait (4.3, Thames, 1974)
"So this recent disturbance was an escape?"
"Well, escape attempt. Your son and another man."
"But if it failed?"
"Quite. Well the other man was a criminal, a bank robber. For, uh, certain reasons, we have to know whether the escape attempt was politically motivated or simply an underworld breakout."
"You're very open."
"Well that's why I had to ask you about yourself. About your loyalties."
"I might have lied."
"You might. I don't think you have."
#special branch#Special branch rewatch#classic tv#1974#george sewell#patrick mower#paul eddington#Frederick jaeger#Colette O'Neil#Paul Shelley#Olaf Pooley#Barry keegan#John quentin#stephen greif#Jon croft#Walter sparrow#Cyril Appleton#Paul antrim#Clive morton#Charles Morgan#Arnold Peters#Fredric Abbott#michael chapman#William brayne#Again this episode makes for an interesting what if. Thematically and in terms of the overall plot its very SBv1 with Eddington's spook#Manipulating things from afar just as Moxon would have. But the handling and the style is different: much more basic coppering from Craven#And Haggerty with interviews to conduct and witnesses to threaten. Speaking of which theres a particularly brutal case of collateral#Damage in this ep which is pretty quickly forgotten about. A large and talented cast means nobody in particular gets to dominate but its#Lovely to see Greif pop up again as a Lahndahn villain with a sideline in porno mustaches. Also some not entirely unsympathetic lgbt rep#But beware some typically depressing attitudes and offensive language
