I recently chanced upon a Sweeney season 1 dvd box set at a car boot sale for a pound so I thought i'd give Regan & Carter a revist after some 40 years or so... I know memories can play tricks but I seemed to remember some tough, gritty hard hitting 1970s TV that would be both nostalgic but also entertaining and quality.. all the things TV supposedly isn't these days... what a let down... my goodness time hasn't been kind.. I don't mean the politically incorrect dialog or the flares, kipper ties and the constant swilling of double scotches and nicotine stained fingers.. I mean the stories / plotlines and the constant stream of laughable incompetent bad guys... hard hitting? Some episodes are like a B grade comedy, 'thin ice' the one with Brian Glover & Alfred marks in is just plain embarrassing... 'night out' is illogical and very badly written... many of the others are poorly written with cardboard cut out characters and predictable telegraphed outcomes...
As a piece of 70s nostalgia the Sweeney is fine, it's interesting to see many familiar 1970s TV faces cropping up in the episodes with bit parts here and there and Thaw and Waterman play their parts well but lets be honest the actual scripts they have to work with are strictly amateur..
5/10
As a piece of 70s nostalgia the Sweeney is fine, it's interesting to see many familiar 1970s TV faces cropping up in the episodes with bit parts here and there and Thaw and Waterman play their parts well but lets be honest the actual scripts they have to work with are strictly amateur..
5/10