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The Supergrass (1985) Peter Richardson

May 28th 2025

#the supergrass #1985 #peter richardson #adrian edmondson #jennifer saunders #robbie coltrane #nigel planer #keith allen #dawn french #alexei sayle #ronald allen #michael elphick #daniel peacock #patrick durkin #The Comic Strip Presents The Supergrass

Villains: Move In, Move On (1.8, LWT, 1972)

"You're a studious fellow, aren't you?"

"D'you know, my old man wanted me to go into accountancy. Either that, or civil engineering."

"So why didn't you?"

"Well I have. I've sort of combined both, haven't I."

#Villains #classic tv #LWT #1972 #Robert Tronson #Andrew Brown #Robin Chapman #William Marlowe #David Daker #Martin Shaw #Tom Adams #Alun Armstrong #Patrick Durkin #Michael Culver #Jim Norton #Bob Hoskins #Gwyneth Powell #Marion Mathie #Johnny Shannon #Geoffrey Lumsden #Joan Peart #Beryl Cooke #Eight episodes! Eight episodes in and we finally get a look at the robbery which has been at the heart of this series. Our lead is Bill #Marlowe who's been perhaps the most visible of the gang so far. We flit between him in his foreign hideaway after the escape (presumably #Mexico) and back to the planning and execution of the robbery. We get to see more of the gang together (altho Bob Hoskins scenes are still #Filmed in such an awkward way that I can only assume he wasn't available at the time and was spliced in later) whilst in the present we get #To see Marlowe suffer at an expat dinner party full of awful snobs. Classic Chapman fare as he invites us to wonder who is the moral #Villain in this story; the bank robber who worked hard for a small payout or the awful privileged types who condemn him as a leach when #They have contributed nothing to society themselves. A solid episode and its a treat to see the various stars act against one another #For once (as much as I have enjoyed the format so far its just nice to get actors like Marlowe Daker and Shaw all in a room together)

Villains: Alice Sheree (1.5, LWT, 1972)

"Did he ever say anything about marriage?"

"I don't believe anything he says."

"But there's no idea of waiting for him? For his release?"

"I... don't want to see him again. How could I?"

#Villains #classic tv #LWT #1972 #Jim Goddard #Keith Dewhurst #Sharon Duce #Andrew Brown #Patrick Durkin #Stephanie Bidmead #Clive Swift #Ray Smith #Ken Wynne #Margaret Ward #Jonathan Adams #Frederick Peisley #Brinsley Forde #Lisa Proud #Paul Alexander #Ohhh this is a bleak one. Perhaps the saddest episode yet. Once again we're diverted from the core gang to focus on one of the number #Of people involved on the periphery. This time it's poor Alice who's only real crime is being the girlfriend of gang member Big Mike (and #Also holding onto some of his stolen cash for him; it's left deliberately unclear whether Alice knew she had stolen money in her possession #But it seems equally likely that she didn't much care either way). Unlike the other characters that have featured Alice has already served #Her time; the core gang have escaped after a year inside but Alice served 12 months and has been released the normal way. This leads us to #An examination of the aftermath of prison time and the care (or lack thereof) afforded to former prisoners. Trapped with no real prospects #And staying with parents who clearly resent her (Swift and Bidmead in toe curling performances as 2 of the most unlikeable ppl featured in #The series so far (Swift at any rate)) it seems inevitable that Alice will drift back towards Big Mike now that he is once again at liberty #What follows is a tragic tale of one vulnerable woman who is buffeted from situation outside her control to situation outside her control.#Duce is heartbreaking as Alice particularly in the final scenes; nice to see Durkin in a substantial role too. He was a pretty familiar #Presence on TV in the 70s but often in background roles as heavies or henchmen. As for Ray Smith.. Truly horrible here as a nasty villain

Villains: George (1.1, LWT, 1972)

"A man travelled down from Jerusalem to Leytonstone, and fell among thieves. Not gangsters. I never run a razor up and down an open artery just for laughs. No, thieves, us lot. I'm a thief."

#Villains #lwt #classic tv #andrew brown #Ray Jenkins #Tony Wharmby #david daker #hilary dwyer #Bryan Marshall #Jim Norton #John Kane #Tom Adams #William Marlowe #Martin Shaw #Michael Culver #Bob Hoskins #Alun Armstrong #Patrick Durkin #Paul Eddington #Mary Healey #Dennis Blanch #The brain child of erstwhile script editor and producer Andrew Brown the idea with Villain is that the series would follow each member of a #Criminal gang after their escape from prison. A little strange then that Brown would farm this first episode out to Ray Jenkins to write.#Perhaps he realised that it would take the first episode to establish all the background and relationships before the fun could be had of #Exploring different but related characters (a sort of natural extension of the kind of ensemble series Brown had previously been associated #With; The Guardians and Manhunt). So it goes and yes much of ep 1 is heavy exposition and character building. But there are flashes of #Greatness too particularly in the way Jenkins writes gang boss George; a deceptively complex man who appears utterly simple. There are just #Hints at the whirling depths below a stony impenetrable surface but those brief hints are electric. The cast is an embarrassment of riches #Altho some are clearly not present during the escape (there's all of one shot of Bob Hoskins i think which must have been filmed separately #And awkwardly spliced in). Eddington shines in a brief appearance as a bent brief who may or may not have the cash from the gang's bank job

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