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Juliet Bravo: The Solvent Solution (1983)
Blast from the past
Good episode written by the very capable Wally K Dally . A stirring anti glue sniffing message ( a growing problem at the time ) where Insp Longton wants to raise Local awareness re the dangers of such an addiction & selling glue to under age youngsters.
Good cast include Simon Rouse ,as the pompous & self righteous Safe way manager who gets his come upppance- Thanks to his negligence when a gang of glue sniffers die .
The police cast like Brian Kelleher and Danny Sparks show a bit of their mettle,too.
Anna Carteret grows on me the more I watch her ,(as I previously preferred Stephanie Turner) and reminds me of the reason why I loved the show back then.
Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2000)
Watered down version of a good novel
Trying to get the genius of the novel into a short screen time on television was always going to be difficult. There were so many characters carefully built up in the book , each with their own seemingly plausible alibis , that it must have been tough to truncate this tale down .
Most of the important plot points were there in this adaptation: Roger's murder & the Subsequent reveal how the killer carefully used a dictaphone (& then removed it ) , Mrs Ferrars' suicide & letter, the summer house, the missing wedding ring , the noseiness of female characters ie Miss Sheppard , the true origin of Ursula Boone etc .It had some good actors overall and a sumptuous looking production. But was rather spoiled by the murder of the Footman (not in the novel ) and a far fetched ending with the killer wreaking havoc in a factory. Also, the true personality of Roger Ackroyd was changed ,from a kindly man to an odious one & the removal of 2 important characters of the Housekeeper Miss Russell and Major Blunt ; one had a a plot point with an illegitimate son involved in drugs ,the other a romance with Flora . Because of that there are fewer suspects, which made the Dr's guilt far more obvious .Whilst I loved the fact it tried to keep close to the novel as much as possible ,what transpires on screen is rather a rushed version of the book.
Dynasty: Catch 22 (1989)
Catch 22 or cop out 22 ?
Just re watched the final episode again,tonight after a long time having not seen it . It wasn't meant to be a final episode as such as I don't think the show had been cancelled when it was done . It left 3 cliffhangers - Fallon & Krystina trapped down an underground mine , Alexis & Dex pushed off a balcony and Blake getting shot. No wonder the actors were angry after this ,the way the public were being cheated out of proper conclusion. Well we did get a resolution 2 years later in the Reunion but it pales in comparison to the 9th series.