#Of Robin Chapman's work as a freelance writer. Tbh I was very disappointed and it was the main reason I've put off watching the series for
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Villains: Knocker (1.9, LWT, 1972)
"Vic, we looked for you down the ponds!"
"Nah, we was here, Knocker didn't reckon the park."
"Didn't you?"
"Nah, it was too full of nature."
#Villains#classic tv#LWT#1972#Robin Chapman#Tony Wharmby#bob hoskins#Pam Scotcher#Valerie Holliman#Michael Turner#Peter Childs#Leslie Schofield#Elaine Donnelly#Pamela Vezey#Brian Grellis#Colin Rix#Maurice O'Connell#This was the first episode of Villains I ever saw; included as an extra on Network's Spindoe and Big Breadwinner Hog boxset as an example#Of Robin Chapman's work as a freelance writer. Tbh I was very disappointed and it was the main reason I've put off watching the series for#So long: a coarse crude comedy episode more in the style of the Confessions Of.. Films that were so popular in the 70s than any kind of#Crime drama. Bob Hoskins is our unlikely lothario and the main part of the ep is given over to him attempting to get A Bit of the Other.#Truth be told it isn't quite as bad as I remembered it and there is at least the flimsiest of plots hidden underneath all the nudge nudge#Wink wink dialogue. But it's undoubtedly the weakest episode of the series and one that sits uneasy in this loosely collected canon; a few#Episodes have tried out different styles or dipped their toes into other (still closely related) genres and several have had a sense of#Humour. But this is purely farce and a pretty lowbrow one too. Not sure if it's a positive or a negative but the ep also makes repeated use#Of Dave Clark's excellent (but utterly filthy sounding) cover of Layng Martine Jr.'s Rub It In. Honestly it's a hell of a song but it does#Nothing to keep this from feeling like a distinctly seedy aside in an otherwise excellent series
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