Post by jjpor on Dec 14, 2008 23:00:45 GMT
I don't know if anyone outside the UK will have had the opportunity to see this - it's a few years old, I think, but I've just spent my Sunday afternoon watching reruns of it on cable (because I don't waste my weekends - I have a life ;D ), and basically it's a detective series starring Peter Davison as the aforementioned "Last Detective", a character called "Dangerous" Davies, so-called because he is in fact a bit of a harmless wimp, and the last man you'd actually rely on to solve a crime. He has an ex-wife and an unemployed/alcoholic sidekick who is a mine of information because he spends all his time in the public library to save on heating bills. Anyway, naturally, despite being thought of as an incompetent by his superiors and colleagues, "Dangerous" always end up solving the case.
I may have made it sound better above than it actually is; it's a fairly generic, undemanding cop show of the type we seem to have hundreds of here in the UK. Still, it has an appealing comic tone and eccentric supporting characters (including the late, great Ken Campbell, former McCoy associate and himself once in the running to play Seven, as a shifty, compulsively-lying informant). And Davison is a delight to watch; his nice-guy faced with bad situations has more than a touch of Fivey about it, but here he gets more of a chance to show off his comic timing. As I say, undemanding lightweight entertainment, but sometimes you want a bit of that.
I may have made it sound better above than it actually is; it's a fairly generic, undemanding cop show of the type we seem to have hundreds of here in the UK. Still, it has an appealing comic tone and eccentric supporting characters (including the late, great Ken Campbell, former McCoy associate and himself once in the running to play Seven, as a shifty, compulsively-lying informant). And Davison is a delight to watch; his nice-guy faced with bad situations has more than a touch of Fivey about it, but here he gets more of a chance to show off his comic timing. As I say, undemanding lightweight entertainment, but sometimes you want a bit of that.