We get a real kick out of the Bergerac episodes. They chug along for 50 minutes until the final chase scene, or fist fight in the water and then abruptly end with gotcha. Then no wrap up. But this one was terrible. Premise was more confusing than normal, by far, guest characters couldn't act, scenes cut out with no explanation, etc.
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Come Out Fighting
Prismark1011 February 2020
Boxing comes to Jersey. Scots boxer Eddie McCord is challenging Frenchman Jacques Laronde for the middleweight title.
Laronde is wild, arrogant and a bit of a thug. He knocks out his sparring partners and breaks the camera of a freelance photographer. McCord could be heading for a severe beating and his wife is worried.
Bergerac is kept busy. McCord is framed for a jewellery theft by one of Laronde's cohorts who pretends to be McCord at the jewellery shop. His wife disappears and McCord also has to deal with racist abuse from the Jersey locals.
A clunker of an episode. Having grown up in a small island, I have no doubt Jersey would have his share of racists. It was the rest of the story that was cack handed.
Laronde does not need his minion to frame McCord and I have no idea why this was done. Even the kidnapping plot was silly. Then McCord decides to take on some thugs alone. Well at least they had the good grace of coming at him one by one. Where did one of them get his chains from?
Laronde is wild, arrogant and a bit of a thug. He knocks out his sparring partners and breaks the camera of a freelance photographer. McCord could be heading for a severe beating and his wife is worried.
Bergerac is kept busy. McCord is framed for a jewellery theft by one of Laronde's cohorts who pretends to be McCord at the jewellery shop. His wife disappears and McCord also has to deal with racist abuse from the Jersey locals.
A clunker of an episode. Having grown up in a small island, I have no doubt Jersey would have his share of racists. It was the rest of the story that was cack handed.
Laronde does not need his minion to frame McCord and I have no idea why this was done. Even the kidnapping plot was silly. Then McCord decides to take on some thugs alone. Well at least they had the good grace of coming at him one by one. Where did one of them get his chains from?
Boxing Match
guswhovian31 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
A heavily publicized boxing match between Jacques Laronde (Oliver Cotton) and Eddie McCord (Tony Osoba) is taking place on Jersey. McCord's wife Donna (Eva Mottley) is worried about him getting injured, so she arranges to be "kidnapped" by O'Brien (Barry Lowe) and Penter (John Peters) so as to stop Eddie fighting in the match. However, O'Brien and Penter decide to kidnap her for real and demand money from Eddie. It's up to Bergerac to save the day.
After the excellent Ice Maiden, the series takes a dip in quality with this badly written episode. Bergerac barely appears, with Eddie and Donna's uninteresting problems taking center stage. There's also the waste of familiar TV faces like Lee Montague, Oliver Cotton, John Abineri, Guy Deghy and Brian McDermott in bit-parts. 2/5
After the excellent Ice Maiden, the series takes a dip in quality with this badly written episode. Bergerac barely appears, with Eddie and Donna's uninteresting problems taking center stage. There's also the waste of familiar TV faces like Lee Montague, Oliver Cotton, John Abineri, Guy Deghy and Brian McDermott in bit-parts. 2/5
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