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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 3, 2019 16:45:29 GMT
Thanks Sparky
Allan Pryor was/is a talented writer; though I feel that the episode should have been passed to someone like Trevor Preston, or even Tony Hoare (if he wasn't locked up in Wormwood Scrubs that is!), as both writers always had an harder edge to their writing - perhaps because they "knew" the London Underworld pretty well....
So, would you say Trevor Preston was the best writer on the show?
If not, who gets that honour?
That's a question open to anyone who wants to express an opinion
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Post by Sparky on Mar 3, 2019 16:53:09 GMT
Hard to answer; the Sweeney had a core of writers. Trevor Preston was known for doing the "Hard ones", Troy Kennedy Martin did the "Funny ones", Roger Marshall did the "clever ones" - though many of the other writers brought in, I thought were great.
For me, I think it's either going to be Tony Hoare (though he did more on Minder) or Trevor Preston - as they both knew the London underworld quite well (I think Preston knew both the Krays and Richardsons), Tony Hoare was at one time, a Getaway driver and tied up in London gang circles. So it felt that their stories always had a bit more authenticity about them.
One episode of Tony Hoares was finished off while he was locked up in Prison in 1976 - he wrote it in a Prison Exercise book and bribed a Prison Guard to smuggle it out and take it to Euston Films. (I think it was "In from the Cold").
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Post by Cartman on Mar 3, 2019 17:01:06 GMT
My favourite was Troy Kennedy Martin, with Trevor Preston a close second. Which episodes did Roger Marshall write? I know he did Bad Apple in series 3 which is one of my least favourites.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 3, 2019 17:06:45 GMT
My favourite was Troy Kennedy Martin, with Trevor Preston a close second. Which episodes did Roger Marshall write? I know he did Bad Apple in series 3 which is one of my least favourites. "Hit & Run" was his first one. His brief was to "Kill off Carters wife".....
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Post by Vienna on Mar 3, 2019 17:20:53 GMT
My favourite was Troy Kennedy Martin, with Trevor Preston a close second. Which episodes did Roger Marshall write? I know he did Bad Apple in series 3 which is one of my least favourites. He started, as Sparky says above, with 'Hit and Run', then 'Golden Fleece' and its sequel 'Trojan Bus'. Then came the brilliant 'Taste of Fear', followed by 'Bad Apple', 'On the Run', 'Feet of Clay' and 'Victims'.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Mar 3, 2019 17:21:06 GMT
My favourite was Troy Kennedy Martin, with Trevor Preston a close second. Which episodes did Roger Marshall write? I know he did Bad Apple in series 3 which is one of my least favourites. "Hit & Run" was his first one. His brief was to "Kill off Carters wife".....
Because her agent asked for a retainer... Gene.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 3, 2019 18:12:40 GMT
"Hit & Run" was his first one. His brief was to "Kill off Carters wife".....
Because her agent asked for a retainer... Gene. That's agents for you!
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 3, 2019 21:26:15 GMT
One of my favourites as well.
I've always wondered why Regan and Carter get so wound up with Cooney's driving.
I thought he did a great job.
Anyway, he made it back into the force at Sun Hill about 20 years later!
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Post by Sparky on Mar 4, 2019 11:40:33 GMT
One of my favourites as well. I've always wondered why Regan and Carter get so wound up with Cooney's driving. I thought he did a great job. Totally agree. Coony's driving was spot on and I thought Regan at least would have been full of praise.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 4, 2019 12:30:38 GMT
Cooney won't be too pleased as the housing estate garages off Grant Road/Clapham Junction that he went racing around after the Jag in Stoppo Driver is being redeveloped and built on. Noticed this when I was around that way the other day and so glad we saw it near enough as it was at one of our meets a few years back.
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