People trafficking across the channel. This episode was made in 1969 and not 2020. Somewhere the late writer Trevor Preston is having a chuckle.
Special Branch and the Coastguard have a tip off and manage to round everyone up, but one illegal immigrant escapes.
The boat operator is reluctant to talk however an address leads the police to Alex Rushmer. He runs a small organisation that helps refugees and immigrants.
Rushmer used to be in the navy and was friends with someone who might be involved in smuggling illegal immigrants.
The focus on the one that got away, Majid who is from Pakistan demonstrates the plight that these illegal immigrants face. On the run, knowing no English and few people to turn to.
Luckily one stranger gives Majid help although his wife is not happy.
It might seem strange that in the early 1970s there would be people willing to help illegal immigrants. It actually reminds me of a relative who went to London to work in a factory in the 1970s. He turned up a few months later with a couple of illegals in tow. They were his factory colleagues and needed to lie low. He brought them back to his home.
There is some outside location shooting with the raid on the beach. Like previous episodes, it gets bogged down with talking than action. Special Branch is not quiet the action packed series I thought it would be. Maybe that was the later shows.
Special Branch and the Coastguard have a tip off and manage to round everyone up, but one illegal immigrant escapes.
The boat operator is reluctant to talk however an address leads the police to Alex Rushmer. He runs a small organisation that helps refugees and immigrants.
Rushmer used to be in the navy and was friends with someone who might be involved in smuggling illegal immigrants.
The focus on the one that got away, Majid who is from Pakistan demonstrates the plight that these illegal immigrants face. On the run, knowing no English and few people to turn to.
Luckily one stranger gives Majid help although his wife is not happy.
It might seem strange that in the early 1970s there would be people willing to help illegal immigrants. It actually reminds me of a relative who went to London to work in a factory in the 1970s. He turned up a few months later with a couple of illegals in tow. They were his factory colleagues and needed to lie low. He brought them back to his home.
There is some outside location shooting with the raid on the beach. Like previous episodes, it gets bogged down with talking than action. Special Branch is not quiet the action packed series I thought it would be. Maybe that was the later shows.
