I appreciate this much more now than when it was originally aired. Mind you, I am a fair bit older as well LOL The cast is stellar and I love Patricia Brake as Ingrid. Superb
This was a perfect 6-parter. Tragic that Beckinsale died of course, but I think it ended well here as it achieved what it set out to do. Modern fiction could learn a lot from this simple, well-executed character development and arc for one of sitcom's greatest characters. The comic irony that the prison sitcom was more upbeat and lackadaisical than the more realistic life on the outside where you are your own worst enemy, is just perfection.
Well, I'm 54 and this is the first time i've seen this programme and it only came up because i was born in Stafford and typed it in the search bar yesterday to see what my home town is like now.
I'm sure someone's already said it, but Fletch must have been really in his head about paying for the wedding or someone as canny as him would have known full well that £500 for a "Peripheral roll" is £500 to play the part of "That's him your honour, that's the mastermind of the whole thing". Repeat offender, on probation, desperate for the money for his daughter's sudden wedding? he's the perfect fall man. Any judge would look as his record, and the circumstances and throw the book, the shelf and the rest of the library at him.
What a pile of rubbish same old comments about best of British if these were the best to offer in the 70s no wonder people had massive family’s cause there was nothing worth watching on Tv
23:40 onwards - the best portrayal of a flashback that I've ever seen. And the best portrayal of somebody suddenly seeing sense. "Err - no, no. Only I can do that."
I love how in 70s an employment officer can guilt trip you about living off women and then tell you you'll take what you can get. Good times when society expected men to support their families
