Jan 29, 2020
The Brothers: The Perfect Day (1.7, BBC, 1972)
"Look, mother - you know as well as I do, that depot is my whole life. I think about it every minute of the day! Oh, that and, uh... looking after you."
#The brothers#classic tv#BBC#1972#Jean Anderson#Glyn Owen#jennifer wilson#richard easton#Robin chadwick#Hilary tindall#Julia goodman#Derek benfield#michael hawkins#Hamilton Dyce#Annette Andre#Terence Brook#Peter longbow#Steve Emerson#Brenda Stephens#Eric paice#Eric price#Paice really sets the model of what a Brothers episode should be. Again he divides our four directors all of whom have plans for a special#Weekend: Ted on a Liverpool run (trying to recapture his glory days?) David romancing Annette Andre's mysterious secretary from a rival#Firm; Brian house hunting with Ann and Jennifer uh.. Doing housework... Of course their stories are drawn together by rumours of a dock#Strike beginning in Liverpool (two months after this episode there would be a real dock strike across the whole of the UK). Cue Ted and#Jennifer working together to try and offset some of the damage from the strike before it has even begun; Ted is beginning to soften towards#Her at much the same rate a glacier softens. Poor Michael Hawkins bows out this ep in what begins as an amicable agreement with Jen but#Which he quickly talks into himself almost getting slapped. And of course we end with the now traditional office set shout down
