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- Episode aired Feb 15, 1975
- 48m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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Henri Szeps
- Onion Man
- (as Henry Szeps)
Bruce Callender
- Pool Player
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAnthony Steel appeared with Jack Warner in the film The Blue Lamp, the film Dixon of Dock Green was based upon.
- GoofsDixon appears to be a non-French speaker. The Hot Seat (1960) had actually established that he was fairly fluent, having spent some time in France as a youth.
- SoundtracksLieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer): IV - Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved)
(uncredited)
Composed by Gustav Mahler
Performed by Tom McCall
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All of a sudden we are back to an all filmed episode. It features a young Baroness Floella Benjamin. Who still looks the same in 2024.
I expected this story to involve a young black man called Dallas getting arrested and interrogated back at Dock Green police station. He helps out someone who is either drunk or very ill. A passerby phones the police that a black man is mugging a white man who appears to be unconscious.
Instead the episode goes down a totally different and unusual route.
The drunk/ill man goes by the name of John Smith (Anthony Steel) who has flashbacks to jungle warfare in Africa. Both Rhodesia and British mercenaries in Africa were the in thing around that time.
After Dallas helps Smith get into his flat, Smith pulls a gun. It sends Dallas scurrying out of the house and he calls the police as well.
When DI Crawford arrives on the scene. He sees a striped tent with workmen. A sure sign that someone else is also watching this Mr Smith. The men in the tent appear to be Special Branch. They expect a war criminal to come into contact with Smith.
I felt the story meandered a bit. The scenes with the foreign office woman who owned the house that Smith was living in. Surely she would have a fair idea of what was going in Africa.
It did tackle some grey areas. Smith feeling he owed this war criminal for saving his life. I did wonder just how Dixon would tackle race relations in mid 1970s Britain, if Dallas was arrested.
I expected this story to involve a young black man called Dallas getting arrested and interrogated back at Dock Green police station. He helps out someone who is either drunk or very ill. A passerby phones the police that a black man is mugging a white man who appears to be unconscious.
Instead the episode goes down a totally different and unusual route.
The drunk/ill man goes by the name of John Smith (Anthony Steel) who has flashbacks to jungle warfare in Africa. Both Rhodesia and British mercenaries in Africa were the in thing around that time.
After Dallas helps Smith get into his flat, Smith pulls a gun. It sends Dallas scurrying out of the house and he calls the police as well.
When DI Crawford arrives on the scene. He sees a striped tent with workmen. A sure sign that someone else is also watching this Mr Smith. The men in the tent appear to be Special Branch. They expect a war criminal to come into contact with Smith.
I felt the story meandered a bit. The scenes with the foreign office woman who owned the house that Smith was living in. Surely she would have a fair idea of what was going in Africa.
It did tackle some grey areas. Smith feeling he owed this war criminal for saving his life. I did wonder just how Dixon would tackle race relations in mid 1970s Britain, if Dallas was arrested.
- Prismark10
- May 26, 2024
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