"Target" Blow Out (TV Episode 1977) Poster

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(1977)

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Blow Out
Prismark1024 July 2023
Never mind Mary Whitehouse. This one would have had Lord Reith spinning in his grave.

It starts with a man getting gravely injured with a blowtorch accident while robbing some jewels.

It ends with a woman getting disfigured with boiling water thrown over her by her embittered husband.

Detective Superintendent Steve Hackett is looking at a series of jewellery thefts. The gang are highly organised.

However with their blow torch guy Rocky Wall dead. Hackett can now look for clues. Although Rocky had a wife, he also had a girlfriend Angie Dawson.

She is angry at the gang members Harry Skeats and Jessal. Angie plans to get her own back on both of them.

Meanwhile Hackett does a deal with an old lag called Farlow fresh out of jail. He might be able to find a lead about the gang but he wants Hackett to find his estranged wife.

Not as action packed but you do wonder if The Sweeney was ever this casually violent.
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Not terrific but interesting cops and robbers tale
searchanddestroy-16 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
During a jewelry burglary, one of the gangsters is badly burned at the face because of the cutting torch, he used to open the safe, but not in a proper way. His accomplices leave him in front of a hospital and then the police force has a lead to begin the investigation. Even if the hoodlum is D.O.A because of his wound. I like the way the robbers are shown. Not much action during the episode, rather an unexpected way of storytelling. I expected something different, because this episode doesn't look like the previous one I saw yesterday, which was more action packed. In both stories the villains finish in the water...

I will resume with this TV show next week.
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