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Post by Three Litre on Mar 3, 2019 22:15:15 GMT
Hell. What an ending I'm not sure when I'm going to completely get my head around the main character! I like the start too............."Yes, but you're talking about putting Jack Regan on the case" or something similar!
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Post by Sparky on Mar 4, 2019 11:54:09 GMT
The shows Sound Recordest - Tony Dawe appears in this episode - on the steps outside the court following the acquittal. He's on the RH side in a Mauve/Purple shirt holding the Mic and Nagra Recorder!
He's still working today, (as well as running a Turkey farm)
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 29, 2019 22:07:14 GMT
I don't think the Lyons character makes a very good hard man capable on intimidating Clarke, rather the other way round.
Clarke dealt with three guys, can't see him putting up with a weed like Lyons.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 31, 2019 19:46:43 GMT
Came across this book cover for a 1969 novel, nothing to do with The Sweeney but it does bear a striking resemblance to the opening titles-
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 31, 2019 19:50:30 GMT
Handsome, brilliant young conman Andrew Raikes is set to swap the hustle for a life of quiet luxury and independence in the English countryside. Then, barely two months in to his new life, a letter arrives from a man even more cunning and ruthless than himself. Raikes is soon blackmailed into carrying out one final heist: a crime more audacious and dazzling than anything he has attempted before. Can he pull it off? And will he be able to free himself from the clutches of his blackmailer?
Blimey, the plot is exactly the same as well!
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 1, 2019 6:17:30 GMT
Yes this is very, very similar to the plot in the episode.
The main differences between the two is unlike Raikes whose given up the criminal world and looking to manoeuvre himself into a respectable quiet life, Budd hasn’t quite rejected his criminal past albeit he’s distancing himself from Lyon and Clarke perhaps knowing they’re living on borrowed time with the Squad and particularly Regan on their tail. I suppose the blackmailer element comes from Regan basically putting one over Budd in that unless he rolls over on Lyon (and Clarke) he’ll put him in the frame for a job he supposedly ‘drafted’ which went wrong and could do some significant jail time for. The paranoia and reaction of Lyon and Regan’s kidnap of Clarke is also another way it seems to differ from the book too but yes this is startlingly similar.
Perhaps at the time Victor Canning’s novel might have been used as a point of reference by Ranald Graham, perhaps there was an ‘arrangement’ to adapt it with Canning and these similarities are very obvious. If not did they plagiarise it? Suppose every good piece of film, TV, music etc. needs a reference point but if all this was that similar I’d be very surprised Canning didn’t raise some kind of objection to it at the time unless he was on board with it in some way?
Is that book cover a reprint by any chance… perhaps tying things in with the Sweeney episode namesake – seems that way to me.
Good find this Arthur thanks.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 1, 2019 13:13:00 GMT
Dirty, this edition dates from 1970. I thought Three Litre was being sarky but yes now you mention it Dirty, there is a plot resemblance, though the episode was originally titled 'Fool's Mate' according to the script. Canning wrote a lot for tv, one of dozens of British writers who are forgotten.
I prefer the bird on the book cover to Sheila Lyons
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 15, 2019 20:12:34 GMT
Just rewatched Queen's Pawn
It's superb isn't it?
Interesting how Regan is brought in as the maverick enforcer who will do anything to get a conviction, and with the tacit approval of Detective Chief Superintendent Maynon who is using Jack to further his own career ambitions - but will hang him out to dry if it goes wrong. It must have been pretty groundbreaking in 1975.... fabricating evidence, illegally opening private mail, and even arranging a kidnapping. Echoes of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry. A new kind of cop for a new kind of criminal.
Which market is it where Regan pulls a favour from the stall holder to do the kidnapping? I'm guessing Shepherds Bush though could easily be wrong.
As a kid I was fascinated by those stall holders with the patter. Creating unbelieveable seeming bargains.
Back to the episode, Tony Selby is the only weak link - he's just not convincing: too dim witted, not very intimidating, too frivilous and too much of a showman to be the brains behind a successful criminal operation.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Nov 15, 2019 23:43:27 GMT
Just rewatched Queen's Pawn
It's superb isn't it? Which market is it where Regan pulls a favour from the stall holder to do the kidnapping? I'm guessing Shepherds Bush though could easily be wrong. Spot on Lordy. Shepherds Bush Market Gene.
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Post by B16YUG on Nov 17, 2019 17:21:20 GMT
Just rewatched Queen's Pawn
It's superb isn't it? Which market is it where Regan pulls a favour from the stall holder to do the kidnapping? I'm guessing Shepherds Bush though could easily be wrong. Spot on Lordy. Shepherds Bush Market Gene. I love the way the general public used in the back shot are wondering what is being filmed.. And I wonder if Guy Richie got inspiration for Lock Stock from these episode?
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