Bad Apple

[Andy]

A great episode this. I quite like the ones that feel 'low-key' like this or Latin Lady.

[Kenny Dalglish 1979]

Seeing that there was so much controversy in the news involving the real Flying Squad, it must have been brave at the time for the show to tackle police corruption.  Like a forerunner to BBC2's then shocking Law And Order starring Derek Martin.

[Andy]

Cracking series that. I picked up the book cheaply a while back but have yet to read it.

[Arthur Pringle]

TV Times listing for repeat on Jan 19 1981

[Three Litre]

Feb 14, 2018 20:01:53 GMT Kenny Dalglish 1979 said:

Seeing that there was so much controversy in the news involving the real Flying Squad, it must have been brave at the time for the show to tackle police corruption.  Like a forerunner to BBC2's then shocking Law And Order starring Derek Martin.

Kenny, I remember watching Law and Order when they repeated it in 79. Really shocking plot line with everybody being corrupt, sadly a lot of the 70's was like that. 

[Cartman]

Bad Apple is on ITV4 this afternoon Steve, so I'll give it a record and re watch to see if I can get a bit more used to It. 

[Steve Austin]

Mar 4, 2019 10:08:42 GMT Cartman said:

Bad Apple is on ITV4 this afternoon Steve, so I'll give it a record and re watch to see if I can get a bit more used to It. 

Good man.

I'm not saying it's the best episode ever (it is one of my favourites though), just that it takes a lot of flak and I think there are worse episodes, it's certainly more believable than most.  What I don't get in this episode is how Perraut managed to get the lovely Patricia Franklin for a wife, punching surely?    I do like Regan's doorstep manner with her, in his double denim, as he impersonates a gasman.

It's got a couple of my favourite Sweeney tunes in it too; The Robbery by Wally Asp & The Build Up by Alan Tew 

Anyway, enjoy it.

[Three Litre]

Not one of my favourites either. The whole premise of the squad doing A10s work is a bit naff. Plus the fight around the laundry is rubbish.

Some of dialogue is good, certainly Jacks gas man bit. 

“Whiff of the North Sea”?

[Cartman]

I've just done a rewatch as promised and given it a reappraisal. There's a few good points, I liked the outdoor scenes near the river and it was filmed in the summer of 76,so you sense the heat haze and burnt grass so a bit of the indefinable magic of that great year rubs off on the episode.

However, I think some of the dialogue is a bit naff and not up to the normal Sweeney standard "I'm the fuzz" for example. I didn't like the peculiar ginger haired woman at the club and don't think she was credible and thought that the episode was a bit stagey and lacked the pace and energy of a normal Sweeney episode.

I still have to rate it as one of the weak ones. Sorry Steve! 

[Steve Austin]

Mar 5, 2019 8:23:48 GMT Cartman said:

I've just done a rewatch as promised and given it a reappraisal. There's a few good points, I liked the outdoor scenes near the river and it was filmed in the summer of 76,so you sense the heat haze and burnt grass so a bit of the indefinable magic of that great year rubs off on the episode.

However, I think some of the dialogue is a bit naff and not up to the normal Sweeney standard "I'm the fuzz" for example. I didn't like the peculiar ginger haired woman at the club and don't think she was credible and thought that the episode was a bit stagey and lacked the pace and energy of a normal Sweeney episode.

I still have to rate it as one of the weak ones. Sorry Steve! 

No need to apologise Cartman, I didn't write it    Roger Marshall was the author of this one, he wrote both George Sweeney episodes and Victims and so has a good track record overall.  I know what you mean about the outdoor scenes in the summer, you can almost feel the heat.