Post by Dirty Epic on Jul 8, 2015 8:37:30 GMT
Is anyone else a fan of this brilliant Trevor Preston serial. 
Tom Bell is excellent and very believable as Frank Ross a South London villain who’s just been released from a 8-year prison sentence. He and his associates are caught in the act by fastidious copper Inspector Bryce (Norman Rodway) who’s been after Ross for some time. Ross knows he’s been ‘grassed’ and is determined to get revenge but doesn’t know who the grass is nor do any of his associates who’ve also done time in jail. Also while Ross has been in prison his wife has suffered mental illness and his 16-year old son now living with foster parents is in with a bad crowd and going off the rails. An extra complication is Frank rekindles an affair with Anne (Lynn Farleigh) who’s married to one of his closest friends Mitch (Peter Childs).
Ross has an inkling that the grass is one of two criminal factions Lew Wilson (Stanley Meadows) or Tony McGrath (Brian Cox) who operate in his ‘manor’. Neither have had a massive problem with him in the past and it’s a mystery to Ross why they should grass on him. Despite the police being all over him since his release from prison Ross eventually puts the pieces together and discovers who the grass is but not without leaving a trail of mayhem which affects friends, family and many other people connected to him.
The support cast in Out too are excellent – in particular Brian Croucher, John Junkin, Brian Cox, Derrick O’Connor, Bryan Marshall, Peter Blake, Andrew Paul, Katherine Schofield, Stanley Meadows and Lynda La Plante. Not wanting to give too much away for those who may not have seen it I always thought a follow up series was planned which for some reason didn’t happen. Such was the power of this drama at the time ‘Frank Ross is Innocent!’ graffiti appeared all over London and was a one of the ITV shows Channel 4 raided for repeats when it started in the early 1980’s.
For anyone who likes things like The Sweeney I fully recommend getting the DVD if anything it’s kind of a role reverse to that looking at things from the villains point of view. Surprisingly Out hasn’t been shown on television (satellite/terrestrial) since the mid-1990’s. I also wouldn’t mind checking out the locations but I’d keep my wits about me in places like Tulse Hill etc. that I think they filmed in.
Tom Bell is excellent and very believable as Frank Ross a South London villain who’s just been released from a 8-year prison sentence. He and his associates are caught in the act by fastidious copper Inspector Bryce (Norman Rodway) who’s been after Ross for some time. Ross knows he’s been ‘grassed’ and is determined to get revenge but doesn’t know who the grass is nor do any of his associates who’ve also done time in jail. Also while Ross has been in prison his wife has suffered mental illness and his 16-year old son now living with foster parents is in with a bad crowd and going off the rails. An extra complication is Frank rekindles an affair with Anne (Lynn Farleigh) who’s married to one of his closest friends Mitch (Peter Childs).
Ross has an inkling that the grass is one of two criminal factions Lew Wilson (Stanley Meadows) or Tony McGrath (Brian Cox) who operate in his ‘manor’. Neither have had a massive problem with him in the past and it’s a mystery to Ross why they should grass on him. Despite the police being all over him since his release from prison Ross eventually puts the pieces together and discovers who the grass is but not without leaving a trail of mayhem which affects friends, family and many other people connected to him.
The support cast in Out too are excellent – in particular Brian Croucher, John Junkin, Brian Cox, Derrick O’Connor, Bryan Marshall, Peter Blake, Andrew Paul, Katherine Schofield, Stanley Meadows and Lynda La Plante. Not wanting to give too much away for those who may not have seen it I always thought a follow up series was planned which for some reason didn’t happen. Such was the power of this drama at the time ‘Frank Ross is Innocent!’ graffiti appeared all over London and was a one of the ITV shows Channel 4 raided for repeats when it started in the early 1980’s.
For anyone who likes things like The Sweeney I fully recommend getting the DVD if anything it’s kind of a role reverse to that looking at things from the villains point of view. Surprisingly Out hasn’t been shown on television (satellite/terrestrial) since the mid-1990’s. I also wouldn’t mind checking out the locations but I’d keep my wits about me in places like Tulse Hill etc. that I think they filmed in.
