Oct 28, 2019
Special Branch: Visitor From Moscow (1.13, Thames, 1969)
"I'm only asking you to work together, you know, you don't have to fall in love with the man."
"Well actually I quite like him, he's a very likeable fellow!"
#special branch#Special branch rewatch#Visitor from Moscow#1969#classic tv#derren nesbitt#Fulton mackay#Morris Perry#Keith Washington#Alan browning#jack shepherd#Claire nielson#Raymond Westwell#Alan haines#Ronald magill#Helena Ross#john donovan#Terence conoley#Dennis vance#Paul wheeler#After flagging a little in the middle this first series picks up again considerably towards the end. The last couple have been very#Strong and it continues here. Helped along of course by one of my very favourites in Alan Browning. He and Jordan have a lovely#Rapport as opposite numbers from East and West. The plot itself concerns visiting dignitaries and a potential revenge act from intense#Hippy type Shepherd. It all gets a bit muddled and confusing at the end and never really seems to go anywhere but the journey up to that#Point is a lot of fun. DC Morrissey seems to have been relegated to more of a background character and whilst I've been waiting for a#Glimpse of Jen Wilson returning we're at the penultimate episode and no sign of her so i must sadly conclude that she left with Eden#Perhaps she has gone to the home office too. Maybe become secretary to Minister John Barron. Or left this kind of work entirely to go into#Road haulage somewhere..