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Gone Fishing "When we can get away!"

[ygwerin1 · 8/10 · 13 September 2021]

The likely lads eventually get away from their Stalag for the weekend fishing that is after Neville, can manage to blast them out of their pits after the night before.

On the way they stopped to pick up a what they took for a hitchhiker, a character Colin Latham played by an incredibly youthful Ray Winston.

Oz has apparently taken over from Neville in whining and whinging about "his lot" and how "even his mates don't like him".

Barry reckons that he is growing a beard and deciding at stopping shaving, but will he actually persevere with it?

The Beko building site is suffering a spate of vandalism and graffiti, which results in vigilante brickies and run in with the old bill.

The Fugitive

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 13 January 2021]

It's the weekend and most of the lads go away for a fishing trip.

Leaving Oz behind. He opted not to go but is now upset for being left behind. He ends up confronting some vandals outside the hut.

Wayne also stays behind, he is more interested in forming another romantic attachment with a girl who works in a post office.

On the way, the lads pick up a hitchhiker. Colin who claims to be a student from England.

Later on they see Colin living rough and bring him back to the building site. Colin quickly disappears when he sees some policemen who have arrived at the building site about the vandalism.

I find it hard to believe that Oz would not go fishing with the lads. It was probably a case that at the scripting stage. You were never going to fit everyone in the car and pick up a hitchhiker.

There are some sharp one liners and it also again demonstrates Dennis's caring and trusting side. He gives Colin his hotel room key to have a shower and some sleep.

Barry picks Dennis up about his trusting nature on someone who is a stranger. Only for later on, Barry leaves keys in his motorbike and someone tries to attempts to steal it.

It is a nice enough episode, a few good laughs but nothing major. With the casting of Ray Winstone as Colin. It was easy to guess that he would be more likely to have gone awol from the army.