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mariocki · 1 month ago

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New Scotland Yard: Hoax (2.12, LWT, 1972)

"The hoax at school. Letters, threatening to plant bombs all over London - I can understand that, at least I think I can. Then to do it? To put at risk the lives of hundreds of innocent people, to actually do that! What happened?"

"It was you."

"Me?"

"That lecture. 'You don't have to go it alone, there are people who care'. Nobody cares! Same bloody hypocrisy I've heard ever since he died. I felt sick! Everything you said made me sick!"

#new scotland yard #hoax #1972 #lwt #classic tv #stuart douglass #john reardon #john woodvine #john carlisle #betty baskcomb #john ringham #michael kitchen #jack woolgar #colin rix #mark dowse #roger hume #doreen andrew #reginald barratt #robert lister #walter henry #probably most noteworthy to a modern viewer as a very early guest starring role for Kitchen; he's brilliant (as he would always be) here #playing a troubled young man who may be behind a string of bomb threats (SPOILER: he is). he's so successful in the part in fact that when #he faces down Kingdom at the conclusion‚ and is on the receiving end of a pompous sermon‚ it's very difficult not to be entirely on his #side. this ep also features more Carlisle lore: we get to see the mother he previously mentioned‚ and he does indeed live with her #and there's a little exploration of his bad relationship with his fellow sergeants (he having received demotion and thus acting somewhat #above his station at times‚ quelle surprise). i also want to shout out Colin Rix at this point: his det sgt Bates (had to look up his #character name) has been in multiple episodes of this series‚ usually relegated to hanging around in the background or receiving a basic #instruction and then disappearing to do it. he gets proper scenes here‚ with proper dialogue‚ and he's great! clearly the series has not #been using him to his strengths and i hope (but sincerely doubt) that that has all changed from here on in...#even managed to find a picture of him for my post (on the phone above) so that made me happy

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