Knock At The Door is the third of four Play For Today episodes, and gives us Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek) as former comedian Lenny Bray, with some footage of Davies, himself, on stage when he …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BIG WINNERS (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Big Winners is the second episode of the revived Play For Today, with Sue Johnston and Paul Copley as elderly couple Edith and Arthur Thistle, who’ve clearly been married for a long time and have …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of COOPER AND FRY on CHANNEL 5!
Cooper And Fry is another mismatched cops drama, where in this case, DC Diane Fry’s (Mandip Gill, who I first saw in Doctor Who when it was circling the drain, before the last two series …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NEVER TOO LATE (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Never Too Late sees Channel 5 bringing back Play For Today, the BBC1 strand which ran from 1970 to 1984, where you’d get a series of one-off dramas, some of which even went on to …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE FORSYTES on CHANNEL 5!
The Forsytes opens in London, 1877, when I was knee-height to a grasshopper… Oh, actually that was *19*77, but close enough. It’s the time before Kid’n’Play, when people held house parties with the guests being …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG on CHANNEL 5!
Murder Before Evensong brings the novels of Rev. Richard Coles to the small screen. I haven’t read a book since I was at school, but at that same time, I regularly watched Top of the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE RUMOUR on CHANNEL 5!
The Rumour… but how do rumours get started… They’re started by the jealous people and they get mad about somethin’ they had, and somebody else is holdin’… This is a strange one, as the problem …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MURDER MOST PUZZLING! (aka THE PUZZLE LADY) on Channel 5!
Murder Most Puzzling could also be considered as ‘Murder She Puzzled’, given its similarity with Murder She Wrote, which started when the late, great Angela Lansbury was almost 60. This time, the female in her …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE GAME on CHANNEL 5!
The Game centres around retiring cop Huw Miller (Jason Watkins), who failed to catch a killer known as The Ripton Stalker, back in the day, even though he looks like he couldn’t catch a cold. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE TRIAL on CHANNEL 5!
The Trial is a new one-off drama for Channel 5, which opens with the explanatory text:“When a minor is arrested for a serious crime, parents can be charged as accessories, if unable to show a …
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