Well done to whoever wrote this one. A rural churchwarden receives anonymous letters accusing the vicar of rumpy-pumpy. The vicar is Brian Blessed! Being fairly restrained. Frank is called in to investigate. Scandal, you know! Must avoid. He takes his rumpled self to some more intoxicatingly drab interiors, a draughty vicarage, a stately-ish home - inhabited by the churchwarden and his eccentric brother, who wants to raise money for his zoo and folk museum. As usual, nothing is quite what it seems, a lot of biscuits get eaten, there's a bit of motorway blight, a Rubens goes missing, and nothing quite gets resolved.
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Egg and Cress Sandwiches
Prismark1018 July 2021
Frank Marker gets a job and he has come to him by way of Percy Firbank.
Maj-Gen. Felcourt has received some poison pen letters concerning the new vicar Reverend Pratt (Brian Blessed.)
Felcourt and Pratt have had a falling out over a valuable painting bequeathed to the church which Pratt does not like and has also gone missing.
It is Felcourt who has hired Frank through his solicitor's. To make sure that the rumours of sexual impropriety are not true. It seems Pratt's first marriage was annulled and his first wife was unstable.
Frank Marker finds that Reverend Pratt represents the trendy side of Christianity. He wants to put an effort to his flock on the poorer side of life rather than the establishment.
Felcourt has a more eccentric brother, the kind who might easily regard the valuable painting to be rightfully his.
This is a low key story and surprising a nuanced and a low key performance from Blessed. Well at least he does not shout out his script.
Felcourt's eccentric brother was a weak point. The ending also felt subdued.
Maj-Gen. Felcourt has received some poison pen letters concerning the new vicar Reverend Pratt (Brian Blessed.)
Felcourt and Pratt have had a falling out over a valuable painting bequeathed to the church which Pratt does not like and has also gone missing.
It is Felcourt who has hired Frank through his solicitor's. To make sure that the rumours of sexual impropriety are not true. It seems Pratt's first marriage was annulled and his first wife was unstable.
Frank Marker finds that Reverend Pratt represents the trendy side of Christianity. He wants to put an effort to his flock on the poorer side of life rather than the establishment.
Felcourt has a more eccentric brother, the kind who might easily regard the valuable painting to be rightfully his.
This is a low key story and surprising a nuanced and a low key performance from Blessed. Well at least he does not shout out his script.
Felcourt's eccentric brother was a weak point. The ending also felt subdued.
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