BRIAN GLOVER DOGS ALFRED MARKS IN 'THE SWEENEY: THIN ICE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpEiW8xYmJaUeqpKEIaJKiwkvaY5uxOZx1BGPOtJPv8sfKQm8T3q21eEj_RuXhpCspCLZucx3VemPRyYgVhtByQRvio2woHwqpeabHkhDBzpl0ejUY68Cv9GTxVhVy1i-fknPNICAPLjsAYu67sMHtBTTSy7aHqV22uEK7JPlC5G2rubS9EDV6EiOFy00/s2084/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-24%20at%208.43.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpEiW8xYmJaUeqpKEIaJKiwkvaY5uxOZx1BGPOtJPv8sfKQm8T3q21eEj_RuXhpCspCLZucx3VemPRyYgVhtByQRvio2woHwqpeabHkhDBzpl0ejUY68Cv9GTxVhVy1i-fknPNICAPLjsAYu67sMHtBTTSy7aHqV22uEK7JPlC5G2rubS9EDV6EiOFy00/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-24%20at%208.43.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw and John Flanagan in The Sweeney: Thin Ice Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The third episode of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/sweeney">THE SWEENEY</a> is the first to inject total offbeat dark comedy, where a British master-criminal sits poolside in France, having taken a ship from England to thwart The Flying Squad, and is awaiting his prized dog Archimedes to join him, being even more important than bikini-clad blonde floozy/moll Margaret Nolan (while he's advised by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/DemonCurse.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON</a> possessed Brian Wilde)...</p><p></p><p>Another episode featuring bickering young cop John Flanagan as DS Matt Matthews, and with John Thaw's Regan flirting with gorgeous secretary Bridget Brice when not butting-heads with meticulous police chief Peter Jeffries (while awaiting Dennis Waterman's Carter to reign in his co-agents), the scene-stealer is A<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/07/walking-meatloaf.html">MERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON</a> barfly Brian Glover, bonding with the wrong dog to the chagrin of dog-loving mobster Alfred Marks, who'd have made a terrific recurring villain who, like the entire underrated episode, perfectly combines quirky and formidable.</p><span></span>

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BRIAN GLOVER DOGS ALFRED MARKS IN 'THE SWEENEY: THIN ICE'

John Thaw and John Flanagan in The Sweeney: Thin Ice Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 The third episode of THE SWEENEY is the first to inject tota...

JOHN THAW WITH JOHN FLANNAGAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4CWZpeQLqoR5fhYtQcw-ujBu1hdSCPqIEIV7KXZCvcaNgKk_eauSpVwIw-ss_hYLXJ7Xq-wza3Mk4o2qKGiXoHmMZYW1p-jCuTxyT7AGJy6AT5ZH6eGUafV3hXcTy3ShiTUZzhyZhc0TIopx3cmi9I0Hj9QHpJQXex02rsss-z2lhQ_qFUSmbZT8aL_G/s1784/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-19%20at%203.25.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1784" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4CWZpeQLqoR5fhYtQcw-ujBu1hdSCPqIEIV7KXZCvcaNgKk_eauSpVwIw-ss_hYLXJ7Xq-wza3Mk4o2qKGiXoHmMZYW1p-jCuTxyT7AGJy6AT5ZH6eGUafV3hXcTy3ShiTUZzhyZhc0TIopx3cmi9I0Hj9QHpJQXex02rsss-z2lhQ_qFUSmbZT8aL_G/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-19%20at%203.25.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT Year: 1975 Rates: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Second episode of the British crime series THE SWEENEY decompresses from the thrilling pilot <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/04/ian-hendry-jill-townsend-christen.html">RINGER</a> and is more talky and expository... that's after the bombastic opening where The Flying Squad trashes a street-speeding getaway in process, with money flying everywhere... the opening twist being that a load of cash is unaccounted for: making JACKPOT a kind of Wrong Man Neo Noir, twofold... </p><p></p><p>As John Thaw's tough Jack Regan and his younger partner Dennis Waterman as George Carter have to interrogate jailed crook Ed Devereaux on answers to where the money went... also featuring cranky young cop John Flanagan as Matt Matthews, almost dead-ringer to (while complimenting the perfect casting of) Waterman, appearing in a handful of episodes before finally turning up in the theatrical SWEENEY 2 by this episode's director, Tom Clegg.</p><p><span></span></p>

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JOHN THAW WITH JOHN FLANNAGAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT'

Title: THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT Year: 1975 Rates: **1/2 Second episode of the British crime series THE SWEENEY decompresses from the thrilling p...

CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s2110/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="2110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven investigatory horror DEVILS OF DARKNESS, and a leading character's rich and resilient girlfriend in the science-fiction creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, Carole Gray was the bad of two gorgeous women in Roger Moore's British series THE SAINT...</p><p></p><p>Her character not only danced in DARKNESS (having been a professional dancer way back in THE PRINCESS AND THE SHOWGIRL), but she channeled Valerie Gaunt's lead vamp-girl from Hammer's DRACULA... </p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+ Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven inv...

TV MINISERIES 'HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY' WITH STANLEY BAKER

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qla7LnDbRggENB7Os3YDgAqeOJe0arH7hpEOghBtMo_zlsWIufvESUIsT9RBXWfQ5cgpRZ0xAzAiaXVi5B4nk6KX7XeqjV4wfYSaGiECwmLaRcbqNDx1v9hTB543tvK7wmAm07w4cafsLRRu4xCcMUPcexrn-mE3JLngtDMhhlqvZyt9Yet8BZvkUKMK/s1878/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-09%20at%2012.35.55%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1878" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qla7LnDbRggENB7Os3YDgAqeOJe0arH7hpEOghBtMo_zlsWIufvESUIsT9RBXWfQ5cgpRZ0xAzAiaXVi5B4nk6KX7XeqjV4wfYSaGiECwmLaRcbqNDx1v9hTB543tvK7wmAm07w4cafsLRRu4xCcMUPcexrn-mE3JLngtDMhhlqvZyt9Yet8BZvkUKMK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-09%20at%2012.35.55%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stanley Baker in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY Year: 1975 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1975, the BBC brought HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY... John Ford's 1941 Oscar winning film that somehow beat CITIZEN KANE for best  picture and (more insanely) best director... back home... </p><p></p><p>Here using the novelty of casting only Welsh actors in a miniseries about the hard-working 19th century Welsh people... primarily centering on an initially crippled son with his mine-working father, two brothers, two sisters and a strong mother involved in endless bad luck situations, taking up a total of six hours from six hour-long episodes... </p><span></span>

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TV MINISERIES 'HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY' WITH STANLEY BAKER

Stanley Baker in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY Year: 1975 Rating: **** In 1975, the BBC brought HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY... John Ford's 1941 Os...

FIONA FULLERTON, ERIN GERAGHTY & JULIE DAWN COLE IN 'ANGELS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZsF7qUResYtH-Wf3rUvEp6Yj7AOI6OJOeIM2Wu3uWKkPIFJdOidLAn-_JdZW1ETSmFN-1F0LAMmZB8Hei1e6sfjQEeSImGNKbBAjTItVeMk_Ba5k-UGwBM5Seexm6xJNUdFrrWqm8lyv4LloGjRyThyphenhyphenTC0oVQAzxutuzxKTIheQsYHgFqgjuxFkg4CCgK/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-09%20at%207.16.44%20PM%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZsF7qUResYtH-Wf3rUvEp6Yj7AOI6OJOeIM2Wu3uWKkPIFJdOidLAn-_JdZW1ETSmFN-1F0LAMmZB8Hei1e6sfjQEeSImGNKbBAjTItVeMk_Ba5k-UGwBM5Seexm6xJNUdFrrWqm8lyv4LloGjRyThyphenhyphenTC0oVQAzxutuzxKTIheQsYHgFqgjuxFkg4CCgK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-09%20at%207.16.44%20PM%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Fiona Fullerton in ANGELS Year: 1975-1976 First Season Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1975 British/BBC television series ANGELS is a character-driven story centering on two pairs of student nurses wherein Fiona Fullerton and Erin Geraghty are new to the in-house hospital training program while Clare Clifford and Julie Dawn Cole have been working in the ward for a year... so neither duo are actual nurses quite yet, and each pairing are polar opposites that are individually cast-billed depending on who the episode centers on primarily...<br><br>As the pilot mainly introduces Fiona Fullerton and Erin Garaghty as Patricia and Maureen: the first being progressive, spontaneous, confident, experienced, entitled, proudly egotistical and insanely beautiful while the other's an Irish farm-girl so shy she can hardly lift her head from a curtain of stringy hair... allowing former ADVENTURES OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND star Fullerton to help the Catholic-raised Garaghty be more assertive (either at work or at play) while forced to learn (mostly through head instructor Faith Brook) that she herself doesn't know everything...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

british, british tv, clare clifford, colin higgins, debbie ash, erin geraghty, faith brook, fiona fullerton, julie dawn cole, karl howman, lesley dunlop, seventies

FIONA FULLERTON, ERIN GERAGHTY & JULIE DAWN COLE IN 'ANGELS'

Fiona Fullerton in ANGELS Year: 1975-1976 First Season Rating: ****1/2 The 1975 British/BBC television series ANGELS is a character-driven s...

ROGER MOORE & LOIS MAXWELL 'THE SAINT: INTERLUDE IN VENICE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoADP1mZCsa_x_yCpPFlvAPyvdnOpuMlcSCT61HrLgaA6htpy5A5VHb41v5tMeiTVQqmMZB890arZm3TVFwNgej72Pd0vpU58X25QW2JZ209jQeeE0m3Cd6fOD62rN61slygmsPEX4NMySIOdbMaN9OiSFYB3mQsjYUDM40XChFo-q4hW-Q8Pat9uU9M2R/s1296/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-29%20at%202.34.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoADP1mZCsa_x_yCpPFlvAPyvdnOpuMlcSCT61HrLgaA6htpy5A5VHb41v5tMeiTVQqmMZB890arZm3TVFwNgej72Pd0vpU58X25QW2JZ209jQeeE0m3Cd6fOD62rN61slygmsPEX4NMySIOdbMaN9OiSFYB3mQsjYUDM40XChFo-q4hW-Q8Pat9uU9M2R/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-29%20at%202.34.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore in The Saint: Interlude in Venice Year: 1966 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are good episodes and bad in all television shows, old and new, including THE SAINT, the spy thriller about not a secret-agent but philanthropist helping various people throughout the world, ironically played by future secret-agent/007 James Bond actor Roger Moore in his younger days, but he's still cool, classy, sophisticated, humorous... <br><br>And Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny beginning with Sean Connery and continuing into Roger Moore's entire run, is a relatively younger wife of a millionaire whose spoiled daughter (cute and spicy scene-stealer Quinn O'Hara) is accused of killing a womanizing charlatan in INTERLUDE IN VENICE, mostly talking place there (or made to): backed by future 2001 actor William Sylvester, bookending one of the <i>very good</i> episodes with swift direction and enough twists and turns to be like its very own crime programmer. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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ROGER MOORE & LOIS MAXWELL 'THE SAINT: INTERLUDE IN VENICE'

Roger Moore in The Saint: Interlude in Venice Year: 1966 Rating: **** There are good episodes and bad in all television shows, old and new, ...

JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s1982/00.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1982" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s16000/00.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child turned teen turned adult starlet <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jane%20asher">JANE ASHER</a>, right before her big break in Roger Corman's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/06/great-asher.html">MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH</a> and when<i> she was just seventeen</i> on the verge of a long relationship with The Beatles' Paul McCartney, appeared in two second-season episodes of the Roger Moore investigatory British TV-series THE SAINT where in both she plays the daughter of extremely wealthy real estate-dealing moguls...</p><p></p><p>The latter titled THE INVISIBLE MILLIONAIRE as a step-daughter whose dad's fully bandaged from an auto accident after THE NOBLE SPORTSMAN where Asher and another rich dad, Anthony Quayle, both almost die in an their own car crash: each patriarch with lovely yet enigmatic wives surrounded by mysterious scoundrels, and it's the lovely young Jane Asher bringing both someone's-after-dad cases to Moore as Simon Templar, making her technically the most important characters in what are filler episodes of an eclectic hit-or-miss syndicated series. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963 Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child t...

JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s1639/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s16000/3.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical programmer, which is hard to believe since THE SINISTER MAN, never once living up to its name, is extremely episodic... and if this were a pilot for token constable John Bentley, here investigating a dead body in a river alongside a research center harboring scientist Patrick Allen and girlfriend Jacqueline Ellis, the show would have never been picked up...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because the story never picks up despite being filled with eclectic, random elements... from the overall two dead bodies having been karate-chopped to a falsely accused Asian man, there's no palpable suspense or intrigue in an sixty-minute mystery without thrills, and that feels like three hours... the best thing is seeing Jacqueline Ellis for over half that length, but she, like the plot-line, merely stands around going nowhere. </p><p><span></span></p>

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JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2 Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical progra...

JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwG1S4DrMxaw55d2vdne8qN4aKfHhzAdLiWaxuNDUcqECd9ug3LSxCI4RehW9W1rkXgkJz3uzk68kIOnAMVLQaWwmiy72G0S0-pY5EX6DuRGmTHxsNT3SLA73x2kAVEHnw0ThJH9DVfquQhGkSBxT1STWewiIGRvO5ssUEiVC0OndWOsvmVsGwwD1nQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-17%20at%206.20.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an episode of the British anthology <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/08/AOM.html">EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATER</a>, and Jack Hedley, who we follow from a boring desk job at an insurance company, becomes their mobile investigator...  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And with an hour runtime, it's not long until he finds not only the villain in a slithering Patrick Magee, but ingenue <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis">Jacqueline Ellis</a>, a bad girl initially, visiting Jack's home with an angry pistol drawn...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JACQUELINE ELLIS AND JACK HEDLEY IN 'NEVER BACK LOSERS'

Jacqueline Ellis in NEVER BACK LOSERS Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Another b-crime programmer from the early 1960's that was originally an ...

JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s1830/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5KGjyK5sjgW3deqQ9N9VM0kyKr1YoTyRhW2C7mtpGtMx7-hBo07d9jRGxDgnxu2NsaXC31N32QQfVCLNMVHaHhkqiNuAEyRSSajAkFQozO3dkYnbAi45WuYxtNaOEu8oGlM4SQ59hkFb3CTYEcWgMJ4lA5VWg-P7SFLq3TFf2CtOiCukNY27KhlFag/s16000/312084886_5796803600363872_3085006816356760227_n%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When it comes to 1960's British spy television,  Patrick McGoohan is (and was even then) a legend with DANGER MAN, playing agent John Drake, morphed into SECRET AGENT and then THE PRISONER (more a spiritual than literal continuation): and in the first series, actress Jacqueline Ellis... usually cast as the good girl-next-door type for the overall crime genre... is the... um... well...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's a spoiler because her character... the niece of a very rich fella sought by a professional hit man (Hugh McDermott, who'd play Ellis's husband on <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint2.html">THE SAINT</a>) that Drake's impersonating after recognizing and then knocking him out in an airplane... initially seems like the target, and whether she's practicing tennis or urgently warned by the always-intense McGoohan, she's cuter than ever in an excellently tight-knit, no-nonsense episode. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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JACQUELINE ELLIS VACATIONS FOR A NOIRISH 'DANGER MAN'

Patrick McGoohan and Jacqueline Ellis in Danger Man: Vacation Year: 1961 Grade: A+ When it comes to 1960's British spy television,  Patr...

JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s1688/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <u>Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C—</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Second episode of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint.html">THE SAINT</a> where<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> Jacqueline Ellis</a>... the cute British actress who starred in British Film Noirs ranging from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/ellis.html">ACCIDENTAL DEATH</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/blog-post.html">THE TRAITORS</a> and THE <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">HI-JACKERS</a>... is teamed with an older man, holed-up in a posh hotel, attempting to con a rich man...  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case it's Roger Moore's Simon Templar, pretending to be a buyer in search of the titular GOLDEN FROG... and this time the location's South America instead of San Fransisco from an eclectic series that always changed locales... </p><span></span>

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JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

  Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C— Second episode of THE SAINT where Jacqueline El...

JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s1838/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B—</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-next-door beauty with vulnerability and strength battling for a kind of spoiled girl's spunky attempt to better herself out of dire circumstance, usually of the crime nature as she appeared in several British New Wave Noirs like ACCIDENTAL DEATH and THE HI-JACKERS, and two episodes of THE SAINT...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In THE EVER-LOVING SPOUSE, Jacqueline's busy at a San Fransisco hotel, that's holding a rowdy convention of businessmen where she's teamed-up to blackmail a candy company mogul with a contrived-suggestive photograph she rushed him into, posing in scantily-clad clothes for the snap...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B— British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-nex...

ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s1883/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually one that tweaks the 4th wall in having the concept of a film studio wanting to make a motion picture about the series itself, which for the viewer isn't a series at all, often feeling intrusive or contrived but THE SAINT season two's STARRING THE SAINT is one of the iconic British show's best episodes, and features two polar opposite bombshells... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One being Joan's sister, future scandal writer Jackie Collins as a lavish actress and Moore's love interest, and sophisticated secretary Monica Stevenson who... along with has-been actor Alexander Davion seeking the Saint role, troubled director Alfred Burke wanting out of a contract and a frustrated writing team including LOLITA actor Jerry Stovin... continuously weathers her nefarious producer boss, played with sublime menace by Ronald Radd...</p><p><span></span></p>

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ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: **** In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually ...

SHERIDAN FITZGERALD STEALS 'THE SWEENEY: ONE OF YOUR OWN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVYfTi5OExIujRXwcUDDPx77GwAeMaLxHc9UzrCW-UVvKIX03N145hPERHltPO4RJpFrEacOhXNW-tZkCAeVsut-GVdUyDQUMMOgvvKyVqVxFSDA5KRGCHqX44P6DTJWq7HsKzuAitFQOI_quQLMhcZ_1ueEbDnJQTS2kS5JBQ7lnhQU43PIJJpJb8Q/s2032/1.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1382" data-original-width="2032" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVYfTi5OExIujRXwcUDDPx77GwAeMaLxHc9UzrCW-UVvKIX03N145hPERHltPO4RJpFrEacOhXNW-tZkCAeVsut-GVdUyDQUMMOgvvKyVqVxFSDA5KRGCHqX44P6DTJWq7HsKzuAitFQOI_quQLMhcZ_1ueEbDnJQTS2kS5JBQ7lnhQU43PIJJpJb8Q/w400-h272/1.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sheridan Fitzgerald in One Of Your Own 1978 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE SWEENEY would sometimes go outside the crowded and bickering New Scotland Yard box as Regan played by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman's Carter would be sent undercover (which is actually unrealistic given how prominent they are to villains); and Season Four's ONE OF OUR OWN has Carter pulling an Edmond O'Brien from WHITE HEAT, impersonating a prisoner to befriend a newly-arrested career criminal in Michael Elphick's Jimmy Fleet... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's also a touch of KISS OF DEATH since Carter only spends one night in lockup, resulting mostly in a gangland barroom with dark surrounding alleyways, and, donning glasses and a new haircut, Waterman does all the work while womanizing Regan has all the fun; in particular with gorgeous bartender Sheridan Fitzgerald, originally paired with Carter and who, it turns out in a comedic twist, has the entire Sweeney on her cop-groupie hit list. But given the forty-five minute run-time she only conquers three cops while the gangster throwback story drags with too much dialogue, making the promiscuous peripheral shine more brightly than the gritty (but not gritty enough) mainline. </p><span></span>

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SHERIDAN FITZGERALD STEALS 'THE SWEENEY: ONE OF YOUR OWN'

Sheridan Fitzgerald in One Of Your Own 1978 Rates: ***1/2 THE SWEENEY would sometimes go outside the crowded and bickering New Scotland Yard...

LUCASFILM ACTORS GUEST ON 'THE SWEENEY: HEARTS AND MINDS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIXlxt2U4ReWQu8i2EN9_sg_izCfNlYSvHvPFIFv6Ut0mdVs0z7DswGGqUHtcKmUUYxUSU7h5n18M1O3K7c69UTkZZhTFYLGbfEcyWNn_aJsiLqCgLpffEliua6sn8UQ_PHtcaCLVCMw_drzeOiGCctaccPPUxzXl84s1jphxYgLtJQknfwCDQtTtKw/s2028/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="2028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIXlxt2U4ReWQu8i2EN9_sg_izCfNlYSvHvPFIFv6Ut0mdVs0z7DswGGqUHtcKmUUYxUSU7h5n18M1O3K7c69UTkZZhTFYLGbfEcyWNn_aJsiLqCgLpffEliua6sn8UQ_PHtcaCLVCMw_drzeOiGCctaccPPUxzXl84s1jphxYgLtJQknfwCDQtTtKw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney: Hearts & Minds Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A final season SWEENEY episode HEARTS AND MINDS has all the makings of jumping the shark, which means, when a show goes bad by crossing that bridge too far, and in this case it's special guest stars Morecambe and Wise... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A British comedy duo (unknown to Americans) who are very loosely connected to the initial theft of a hot new brand of medicine/pills, stolen from the house of a doctor in a modern marriage with future RETURN OF THE JEDI rebel leader Caroline Blakiston, and, later on, another George Lucas connection turns up in cameo detective Paul Freeman aka shifty French archeologist Belloq from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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LUCASFILM ACTORS GUEST ON 'THE SWEENEY: HEARTS AND MINDS'

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney: Hearts & Minds Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 A final season SWEENEY episode HEARTS AND MINDS h...

JOHN THAW COLUMBOS DEL HENNEY ON 'THE SWEENEY: JIGSAW'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6uBIsphyzIsTzRRMaWW0K8PGHTIzG3dOFbbsRxIT9LHxIXcM8-5kNKBnTHc72b19OZvM-AX-ELUdbN4ngBJns2LBbImMZbOr_AohlOmNEzvqzKm-glH6pCnwWzQlXDuDeqL_U8Y64QcugliGuWjzPlLqetDiGKk9FnDsodeLVRYxVEMv8EYxt7jbCA/s2024/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-30%20at%2012.53.09%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6uBIsphyzIsTzRRMaWW0K8PGHTIzG3dOFbbsRxIT9LHxIXcM8-5kNKBnTHc72b19OZvM-AX-ELUdbN4ngBJns2LBbImMZbOr_AohlOmNEzvqzKm-glH6pCnwWzQlXDuDeqL_U8Y64QcugliGuWjzPlLqetDiGKk9FnDsodeLVRYxVEMv8EYxt7jbCA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-30%20at%2012.53.09%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dennis Waterman and John Thaw on THE SWEENEY: JIGSAW Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The first of many STRAW DOGS alumni (ranging from TP McKenna to Jim Norton to Ken Hutchison) to appear on THE SWEENEY, and Del Henney makes sure he's in the right place at exactly the right time, singing at a club where John Thaw's Inspector Regan's having a drink, and right as a heist is going down, somewhere else, making him the unlikeliest of suspects, on purpose, as JIGSAW is basically Regan as Columbo, sans the compliments... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Sticking close to Henney's charming con artist Eddie Boyse, holed up with single mom Sheila Gish and pretending to be a dependable fatherly type to her young daughter, either Regan basically stalks Henney from place to place, including a parental school day, or he's trying to talk his woman/victim into revealing how the heist went down, making the entire premise a Howdunnit, and a pretty good one. </p><p><span></span></p>

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JOHN THAW COLUMBOS DEL HENNEY ON 'THE SWEENEY: JIGSAW'

Dennis Waterman and John Thaw on THE SWEENEY: JIGSAW Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2 The first of many STRAW DOGS alumni (ranging from TP McKenna ...

ANNA NYGH LIGHTS UP THE FINAL 'THE SWEENEY: JACK OR KNAVE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia9AqKRh94a7A7EKxjG9todh6KWti_XACUa-N-OiERdP2J0E6lwJumIQDOvqvidDVBwBBNabjvBVgPb8u5A16myjLDu7nEjKkEM48Ld0fqkf4AAu16V5XERGDDQakSUrvRPWChFqiqZZH8AxJC6bK1cKLa5Bixj2XS0hPRLnl0-RY106aNT9TUnDqE5w/s2021/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-31%20at%203.04.33%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="2021" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia9AqKRh94a7A7EKxjG9todh6KWti_XACUa-N-OiERdP2J0E6lwJumIQDOvqvidDVBwBBNabjvBVgPb8u5A16myjLDu7nEjKkEM48Ld0fqkf4AAu16V5XERGDDQakSUrvRPWChFqiqZZH8AxJC6bK1cKLa5Bixj2XS0hPRLnl0-RY106aNT9TUnDqE5w/w400-h274/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-31%20at%203.04.33%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anna Nygh in Jack Or Knave Year: 1978 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The final episode of THE SWEENEY has no finality as the show's never been serialized... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But is another that starts out with a deadly heist, this time of the armored car nature, after which one of the show's most used devices occurs in that John Thaw's rebellious Inspector Jack Regan has to deal with an uptight, by-the-book <i>third partner</i> other than Dennis Waterman's faithful Sergeant Carter, and they butt heads, opinions, motivations and styles along the way...</p><p></p><p>Included within a busy exterior London shopping center-set investigation is punctual chief Garfield Morgan as Haskins and quirky tagalong Richard Griffiths... but perhaps most noticeable to SWEENEY fans is the technically-important culprit from SWEENEY 2, in that Anna Nygh (appearing in both the final movie <i>and</i> episode) turns up, again looking neo gothic punk combined with old-school cigarette-smoking noirish fatale, and, overall, JACK OR KNAVE is not a bad finale but not very great either, finishing with more of a muffled bang yet hardly a whimper. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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ANNA NYGH LIGHTS UP THE FINAL 'THE SWEENEY: JACK OR KNAVE'

Anna Nygh in Jack Or Knave Year: 1978 Rating: *** The final episode of THE SWEENEY has no finality as the show's never been serialized.....

DI DREVIS STEALS 'THE SWEENEY: BAIT' WITH GEORGE SEWELL

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0jXjWphc5SC6h1l0fop99zqdTxhM6IBM3_h3xu7hb6IJtI9CWWWF7PABwJJ4wnuFRAFYhrRKzO5MySiTxI-i7GehV7OxCi8qK6r3KRaAZjaNvbAbm1LrJIxFbvsVfeNDD6RCOpp5iasLxlZQP3xml5sHZafE4JOAHmhy4qx17SOtcZWjmzVJfF0ZfmQ/s1988/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-31%20at%205.03.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="1988" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0jXjWphc5SC6h1l0fop99zqdTxhM6IBM3_h3xu7hb6IJtI9CWWWF7PABwJJ4wnuFRAFYhrRKzO5MySiTxI-i7GehV7OxCi8qK6r3KRaAZjaNvbAbm1LrJIxFbvsVfeNDD6RCOpp5iasLxlZQP3xml5sHZafE4JOAHmhy4qx17SOtcZWjmzVJfF0ZfmQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-31%20at%205.03.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Di Trevis and George Sewell on THE SWEENEY: BAIT Year: 1978 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the best episodes of the otherwise comparably subpar fourth/final season of THE SWEENEY features crime-genre staple George Sewell in BAIT working with girlfriend/femme fatale Di Trevis... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A versatile stage actress, she's able to be attractive one minute and a gun-toting hag the next, starting off vulnerable and injured inside an ambulance before frantically turning tables on the cop inside...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXh9Q68XY_enbqtvq56WDhzKillBf5lghg_Ntap2idR0i82qaRVEPSHwF9BhA0ZCw8wdVVoJBxs5eFog1hnq4v6n3SSImbZbjtu_gV7SUf1ZqOw7enQNHGnS7YzAuQTXmjxv4HJcUe2ZKEG_kEsM-Nb7TzIDnw9opxYICVTIgEmFqZgGarZUVcvgnmQ/s2032/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1159" data-original-width="2032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXh9Q68XY_enbqtvq56WDhzKillBf5lghg_Ntap2idR0i82qaRVEPSHwF9BhA0ZCw8wdVVoJBxs5eFog1hnq4v6n3SSImbZbjtu_gV7SUf1ZqOw7enQNHGnS7YzAuQTXmjxv4HJcUe2ZKEG_kEsM-Nb7TzIDnw9opxYICVTIgEmFqZgGarZUVcvgnmQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Di Trevis on THE SWEENEY: BAIT</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A hybrid of OF MICE AND MEN with Sewell the stocky tough guy partnered with tall and dopey Edward Peel, fitfully named Lennie, in an inevitable factory's office payroll-robbery much like the film noir THE KILLERS... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Where Di's Lynn Hurst works as a misleadingly awkward, clumsy secretary while the BAIT title refers to her young child, staked-out by SWEENEY leads John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, who (at one point questioning gorgeous toy store salesgirl Judy Buxton), are more like guest stars on their own show. </p><p><span></span></p>

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DI DREVIS STEALS 'THE SWEENEY: BAIT' WITH GEORGE SEWELL

Di Trevis and George Sewell on THE SWEENEY: BAIT Year: 1978 Rating: **** One of the best episodes of the otherwise comparably subpar fourth/...

JOHN THAW AND MYRA FRANCES ON 'THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCzeHztwGIU8x1Zmpfm-bnNryyNSJTWEiHiu-DEf7oBzEXWy5-OZo35-xpyAO-J8GSHIB3PBFmi6A8jj16WjcCbxzhO5ZA7K-h2Ya2YvIPFCMyyctgPLtJofjUPTUF4Hkuuhpyu8aWYri8SJwMra2o2pHiOa9qeYynPy3V-6RT-jiXfIeq9RJQPgJow/s2025/count1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="2025" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCzeHztwGIU8x1Zmpfm-bnNryyNSJTWEiHiu-DEf7oBzEXWy5-OZo35-xpyAO-J8GSHIB3PBFmi6A8jj16WjcCbxzhO5ZA7K-h2Ya2YvIPFCMyyctgPLtJofjUPTUF4Hkuuhpyu8aWYri8SJwMra2o2pHiOa9qeYynPy3V-6RT-jiXfIeq9RJQPgJow/s16000/count1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Myra Frances</u><u> on The Sweeney Year: 1975 Rating: ***** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY has our London boys joined by a well-dressed/educated tech guy, naïvely grabbing the front car seat where <i>only</i> John Thaw's Det. Insp. Jack Regan: And as the central crime involves banks robbed by an inside man using underground wiring, the plot thickens when Myra Frances is introduced as... well... at first the flirtatious Regan thinks she's merely the annoying new guy's old college friend... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But Thaw thaws out to Det. Sgt. David Keel (Robert Swann) before he's shot in a warehouse and laid out, bleeding badly, exposed in the open: And with every attempt Regan and Dennis Waterman's Det. Sgt. George Carter make to locate the hidden shooter, another bullet's intentionally fired into another non-vital yet painful spot... </p><p><span></span></p>

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JOHN THAW AND MYRA FRANCES ON 'THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY'

Myra Frances on The Sweeney Year: 1975 Rating: ***** THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY has our London boys joined by a well-dressed/educated tech gu...

GENE RODDENBERRY'S BRITISH-TV SCIENCE-HORROR OF 'SPECTRE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjncDMj2GBudnneTqnuPAOq8fbEicH9TYBp6nBEDx1_vkjPsAr8kZXy3C1AGsW2RXk4C-kFwlYMYvnxPNjmv28MENBoXBznirTEJaOpskvg19poRY8_lYIWPLHFoPdgv2jX2454YHOX188X--CUI76gWzLWOZWu7G4AMv12Um0NEdRdDphZGgtvx-zD6Q=s2274" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="2274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjncDMj2GBudnneTqnuPAOq8fbEicH9TYBp6nBEDx1_vkjPsAr8kZXy3C1AGsW2RXk4C-kFwlYMYvnxPNjmv28MENBoXBznirTEJaOpskvg19poRY8_lYIWPLHFoPdgv2jX2454YHOX188X--CUI76gWzLWOZWu7G4AMv12Um0NEdRdDphZGgtvx-zD6Q=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gene Roddenberry's SPECTRE Year: 1977 Rating: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Gene Roddenberry had a string of failed but always intriguing TV-pilots (from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/07/ohohhhThisIsPlanetEarth.html">PLANET EARTH</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/08/Qtapes.html">THE QUESTOR TAPES</a>) in-between the STAR TREK series and movies, and SPECTRE is the most unique and downright bizarre... so much so it's a British production instead of American but with two American actors at the helm... <br></p><p></p><p>Enter Robert Culp and Gig Young as a kind of science-fiction Holmes and Watson... The first is a renowned criminologist now so heavily into Black Magic that when his former partner in faithful yet boozing Dr. Ham Hamilton reconnects, Culp's William Sebastian is sitting on his mansion floor reading Tarot Cards like a regular guy plays Solitaire...</p><p><span></span></p>

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GENE RODDENBERRY'S BRITISH-TV SCIENCE-HORROR OF 'SPECTRE'

Gene Roddenberry's SPECTRE Year: 1977 Rating: *** Gene Roddenberry had a string of failed but always intriguing TV-pilots (from PLANET E...