Jan 28, 2022
Bat Out of Hell: Part 5 (1.5, BBC, 1966)
"Look, I probably oughtn't to ask you this, but did you know about Mrs. Stewart and Mark Paxton?"
"Well, I suspected they were more than just friends if that's what you mean, sir."
"Do you know, it never even crossed my mind, not for a minute. Yet now you come to think about it, he was a good looking chap and they were always together. I'm beginning to think I'm a bit of a dimwit!"
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, sir, you just haven't got a suspicious nature."
"But that's just it, I have - as a rule, I'd suspect my own grandmother."
#bat out of hell#francis durbridge#francis durbridge presents#classic tv#bbc#1966#alan bromly#sylvia syms#john thaw#dudley foster#june ellis#emrys jones#stanley meadows#paddy glynn#clive graham#june bland#patrick ellis#john caesar#terence donovan#ali hassan#annnnd i ran out of pictures. thus these two screen grabs from the (rather stylish) opening titles#events come to a head unexpectedly early in this episode‚ with one major strand of the plot over and done with well before the finale#that final revelation is teased out almost beyond the point of sanity; it's a clever writer i suppose that can keep you guessing well#beyond all reasonable time to have sorted the mess out. but finish we do and so bid farewell to Dudley Foster's strangely loveable#taciturn policeman (and his very welsh sergeant; quite unusual to hear so blatant a welsh accent in 60s tv). by the by all previous#mentions of June Bland and her role in this series should have read June Ellis (the perils of two Junes in one series); happily Ellis even#gets to be a sort of hero in the end. a delightful little murder mystery well worth the time of any old tv fan
