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Post by Gene Hunt on Jul 13, 2015 20:57:06 GMT
Series 2 Episode 4 - Big Brother.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 31, 2015 18:40:50 GMT
TV Times listing TV Times listing from a repeat screening
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Post by Charles Bronson on Aug 5, 2015 23:17:01 GMT
I was watching Big Brother earlier on tonight. I'm not sure if I noticed last time I watched it that Gwen Taylor was in it. She was quite young so it must have been one of her first TV appearances.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 16, 2016 19:33:15 GMT
You may know that the hit man in Big Brother is played by Tom Bell's brother Keith Bell. Whilst looking at images of Tom Bell on Rexfeatures I noticed that he was in an episode of The Protectors called 'Shadbolt', in which he plays a hit man complete with Mauser pistol. Although he didn't write this episode, Big Brother writer Trevor Preston had done a number of Protectors episodes a couple of years previously, maybe Shadbolt was the inspiration for Big Brother's Eddie Swan? Maybe the Mauser used was the self same one used by Keith, it wouldn't be so unlikely that the same armourer was used. itctv.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/the-protectors-season-2-episode-22-shadbolt/
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Post by Del Boy on Nov 16, 2016 21:00:45 GMT
There's defo a touch of Swan in that photo. That "Scotch Boy" Eddie Swan is very realistic in Big Brother I thought. Thats a good character for a meet in the future
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Post by Steve Austin on Nov 16, 2016 21:33:24 GMT
Interesting Arthur, great piece of detective work there.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 20, 2018 13:17:07 GMT
Another great episode with some superb atmospheric locations from a rainy London in early 75, with it’s mixture of Victorian and 60s/70s concrete architecture. Haskins stood up for Jack too, when he was in a tight spot with that annoying journalist.
Overall, I rate series 2 as probably the high point of The Sweeney, not one poor or below standard episode in it.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 24, 2019 11:14:22 GMT
I rewatched Big Brother last night - third or fourth viewing I'd guess
I rate it as one of the better episodes in Series Two
Regan's violent reputation catches up with him when even George is unsure whether to give him the benefit of the doubt when a suspect collapses in custody with a ruptured kidney.
Whilst it's a rock solid 4 out of 10 I can't help but feel it could have ratcheted up the tension more than it did. Little was made of Scottish hitman Eddie Swan and it just sort of petered out when Deacon Jr tells big brother Phil it wasn't Regan that gave him the kicking whilst, simultaneously, Regan and Carter have arrested the pimp responsible for the assault.
Does Gwen Taylor appear in any other episodes? Or is she another of Jack's one off girlfriends?
4/5
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Post by The Saint on Dec 24, 2019 11:23:23 GMT
Does Gwen Taylor appear in any other episodes? Or is she another of Jack's one off girlfriends?
She only appeared in Big Brother. The Saint
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 24, 2019 15:50:40 GMT
Thanks Saint
I was struck by how cozy and domestic they seemed, with the staying in for games of scrabble, and the interactions between them. It all gives the impression they've been together for quite some time.
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