May 6, 2021
The Brothers: Hijack (3.5, BBC, 1974)
"Didn't you say you were the foreman, Mr. Riley?"
"Foreman driver, aye."
"And you fell for a gag like that?"
"All right! But hanging around here isn't gonna find our lorry, is it?"
"They've found that."
"Found it? Where?"
"Couple of miles outside Hartley."
"Well, that were quick."
"Don't get excited, Mr. Riley. I said the lorry, not the load."
#The brothers#Philip Dudley#Eric Paice#Classic TV#1974#Jean Anderson#Robin chadwick#Derek benfield#Patrick O'connell#Hilary tindall#Julia goodman#Richard Easton#Jennifer Wilson#Gabrielle Drake#Jonathan Newth#Hugh Sullivan#Brian Grellis#Paul Haley#Frank Jarvis#Yvonne Bonnamy#John Barcroft#Hijack! Hijack! Hijack!#I mean you know it's gonna be a good episode with a title like that. Presumably an expensive episode to mount considering it involves not#Only the titular hijack (ok not that impressive but it involves multiple vehicles and outside broadcasting) but also includes a great deal#Of location work and (and!) a trip on a hovercraft over the channel! For real! They went to France! For about five minutes! I mean who was#In charge of the BBC budget in 1974? I love it. After France is done it's onto the main event; the Hammonds lose a major delivery to#Highway robbers! A major blow for an expanding company.. And why is the peculiarly hostile police inspector (a downright thumpable Hugh#Sullivan) keeping such a beady eye on poor old Bill Riley....
