Gently and Bacchus hunt for the murderer of a woman whose body is discovered in a local church.Gently and Bacchus hunt for the murderer of a woman whose body is discovered in a local church.Gently and Bacchus hunt for the murderer of a woman whose body is discovered in a local church.
Diarmaid Murtagh
- Frank Allingham
- (as Diarmuid Murtagh)
Aisling Holian
- Mary
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Rakes Club is obviously a thinly-disguised version of the Playboy Club with Foxes rather than Bunnies wearing analogous provocative costumes. The plot is set in the early 60's as the first of the Playboy clubs opened in Chicago in 1960.
- GoofsIn the final scene the murderer is executed. Murder by stabbing became non-capital in Britain in 1957, several years before the series is set.
- Quotes
Patrick Donovan: [Referring to Blaise] She made the perfect fox.
John Bacchus: So what makes the perfect fox, Mr. Donovan?
Patrick Donovan: Well, let's be frank... Number one it's the body.
- ConnectionsReferences Juke Box Jury (1961)
- SoundtracksWe Shall Overcome
Traditional protest song, musical and lyrical adaptation by Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan and Pete Seeger
Performed by the God Squad
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Religious people portrayed as zealots
This episode is about a woman found dead and laid on a altar like table in a church. She was murdered. She was portrayed as a nurse but that was not her job she was a prostitute.
There are several suspects but the writer went after the people that were against this type of lifestyle and women's health issues like abortion and birth control pills.
1. It had several women/cocktail waitresses dressed like call girls to temp the customers in the restaurant .
2. It has people protesting abortion and their ideas were mocked and their belief in God. Mrs Bishop the religious zealot was made to be target as being a suspect.
In the end the killer is not who they thought it was. Gently does use honest language that says a "baby" is killed regarding abortion not like series in the US where they say "fetus/product of conception" etc.
I do like a lot of things about the Gently series, he is honest and tough. His partner Bacchus is smart and a jerk at times.
What don't like in this episode the women are dressed to sexy and that the killer is not injured. The police have guns but Gently won't let them use them when the killers escapes or runs away. He tells the police not to shoot that the person is unarmed. This makes no sense to me letting killers get away and not injuring them because they are unarmed.
There are lots of good values in this series but like anything else it has propaganda and inaccuracies about people that believe in God that don't know how to make the sign of the Cross and how they act out their lives.
There are several suspects but the writer went after the people that were against this type of lifestyle and women's health issues like abortion and birth control pills.
1. It had several women/cocktail waitresses dressed like call girls to temp the customers in the restaurant .
2. It has people protesting abortion and their ideas were mocked and their belief in God. Mrs Bishop the religious zealot was made to be target as being a suspect.
In the end the killer is not who they thought it was. Gently does use honest language that says a "baby" is killed regarding abortion not like series in the US where they say "fetus/product of conception" etc.
I do like a lot of things about the Gently series, he is honest and tough. His partner Bacchus is smart and a jerk at times.
What don't like in this episode the women are dressed to sexy and that the killer is not injured. The police have guns but Gently won't let them use them when the killers escapes or runs away. He tells the police not to shoot that the person is unarmed. This makes no sense to me letting killers get away and not injuring them because they are unarmed.
There are lots of good values in this series but like anything else it has propaganda and inaccuracies about people that believe in God that don't know how to make the sign of the Cross and how they act out their lives.
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- ctyankee1
- Jul 22, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 16 : 9
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