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“The only games worth playing are the dangerous ones.”

The Brothers: Investigations (4.3, BBC, 1974)

"Your father founded this company. Why do you want to sell shares to outsiders?"

"Well, as far as I'm concerned, I don't."

"Then why did you allow it to happen? Hammond's has always been a family business. Well, your father would turn in his grave if he knew what you were doing."

"Then Father should have left me in control of it, instead of deliberately arranging the opposite! He didn't trust me, that's what it amounts to. He thought that I needed Brian and David and Jennifer Kingsley, but once they get together my hands are tied."

#the brothers #BBC #classic tv #1974 #Roderick Graham #N.J. Crisp #Gerard Glaister #Patrick O'connell #Jennifer Wilson #Jean Anderson #Robin chadwick #Richard Easton #Hilary tindall #Derek benfield #Murray hayne #Margaret ashcroft #Jonathan Newth #the double dealing is in full sway already; with Brian and David scheming to bring a new director onto the board (and thus break #Ted's tie breaking monopoly) the elder Hammond brother sets about stacking the odds for himself with good old Bill Riley #he's also bought a snazzy new car and had a sign put on his parking space. nothing says midlife crisis like a personalised car parking #space Eddy.. elsewhere Brian follows up on a minor plot point from the previous series‚ a telegram Ann sent to Nick (bleugh) Fox whilst he #was abroad. I'm particularly impressed with this plot point bc it's a nice attention to a minor detail as well as organically setting up #Brian discovering their affair AND it's a nicely in character thing to do too (the eternal accountant‚ of course Brian would check through #their telephone charges). as the cogs start to whir‚ Brian's work starts to suffer‚ and just as a big contract is being hammered out #less happily (for me) Jenny seems to be getting closer to Mr Martin the bank man. I like him‚ I do‚ but let's face it Jenny and Ted #are end game! still at least it gets them out of the office and we have some nice location stuff going on #the final mystery of the week: the mysterious case of Gabrielle Drake.. she's been conspicuously absent from the series so far #initially away on a film shoot and now simply out of the room or just having left it whenever she's mentioned.. could she have moved on #to pastures new? that would eventually require a storyline to sort out just where Jill had ended up.. here's hoping it was just a schedule #issue and she'll turn up safe and sound...

The Brothers: Return to Nowhere (3.13, BBC, 1974)

"Surely you knew she was in a depressed state?"

"I knew that...she wasn't well. Pamela, they're - they're trying to make out that Ann did this on purpose."

"Reasonable from their point of view. I'm sure they have dozens of cases like this."

"But she wouldn't try to take her own life, she's not that sort of person."

"Well, what sort of person's that?"

#the brothers #classic tv #BBC #Gerard glaister #N. J. Crisp #Philip Dudley #Hilary tindall #Jennifer Wilson #Jean Anderson #Gabrielle Drake #Gillian McCutcheon #Patrick O'connell #Richard Easton #Robin chadwick #Derek benfield #Anna fox #Hilary minster #Bonnie hurren #Edna doré #David pugh #Douglas roe #What a doozy! A quite incredible amount of stuff happens in this 50 minute episode of a boardroom drama slash soap opera about a road #Haulage firm. You wouldn't think it‚ eh? We begin in High Drama‚ as Ann is rushed to hospital after an overdose (the exact nature of which #Is never really buttoned down‚ to the shows credit); here she is entrusted to the healing hands of quite possibly the worst Dr and nurse #Team outside of a horror film. Hilary Minster quite clearly loathes unconscious Ann and her agitated husband‚ and considers her actions no #More than a calculated attention grab (again the show never really nails exactly what happened). Still‚ she pulls through their treatment #And then it's off for her and Brian to recuperate at the seaside; also off on a jaunt are Ted and Jennifer‚ on the holiday of a lifetime #(a seemingly never ending pub crawl through the English countryside) whilst David minds the shop at home. But what's this... Ted has plans #Of a romantic and life changing kind... But what's this also... Old Mrs Hammond‚ with eerily prescient timing‚ has only gone and collapsed #And in the never before seen conservatory slash greenhouse too. Or wait.. Has it been in it before? Maybe she had tea there with Ann once..

Out of the Unknown: Welcome Home (4.6, BBC, 1971)

"Frank, listen to me. I think your homecoming, the excitement, has been too much."

"What are you talking about?"

"It's disorientated you. I should never have let you leave the hospital."

"You think I'm imagining it all?"

"I think you're having hallucinations, Frank."

#Out of the Unknown #welcome home #Single play #Moris Farhi #BBC #1971 #Eric Hills #Anthony Ainley #Jennifer Hilary #Bernard Brown #Gerald Sim #Derek Benfield #David Morrell #Margaret Anderson #Alan Downer #Pamela Craig #David Munro #The overwhelming impact of s4 of OotU (compared to the previous three series) is not‚ as one might expect‚ the change from #Pure science fiction to more supernatural led stories; rather the main difference is that nearly every episode in s4 is an absolute #Brain wreck. Plots that twist and turn and confound‚ left turns that leave you floored‚ endings that knock your feet out from under you.#Well this is no different. A real doozy: Ainley is Frank Bowers‚ a man recently recovered from a car accident. All patched up he discharges #Himself and travels home to see his wife in the countryside; only to find her living happily with a man who claims to be Frank Bowers. What #Follows is a tense cat and mouse about which man is the real Frank‚ and who is the imposter (and more importantly‚ why). Ainley is #Wonderful as a man fighting for his identity‚ while Bernard Brown lends solid support as his icily calm opponent #And Jennifer Hilary is compellingly difficult to read as the wife whose sympathies are inscrutable. The cast is rounded out with old #Favourites Sim and Benfield‚ and the stage is set for an ending which... Well. It's a lot. I'll say that much.#Viewer be warned: this isn't a feelgood adventure story...

The Brothers: Conspirators (3.11, BBC, 1974)

"Now for the past forty-eight hours, you two, without my knowledge and behind my back, have been huddled together like crows over a carcass, plotting your disreputable and, in the end, pathetic moves to take over this company."

"I don't think we have to stay and listen to this!"

"You'll sit down and hear me out! I said sit down, David. Now, I don't know the sordid details and I don't want to. I don't know which one of you fancied himself in my chair; or who preened himself with the thought of 'managing director' across the door. All I know is that both of you - both my brothers - were ready and eager to take advantage of Jenny's problems without a thought but how you could profit by it and kick me in the face at the same time! I came up the hard way and I'm telling you, both of you, to plot and scheme as you may: you will never take this company away from me. I'll burn it to the ground first!"