Friday, 4 September 2015

Hidden Treasure / Buried Treasure (2001 Adrian Shergold)

In his final performance - of a grumpy parent substitute who turns out lovely, the sort of character he made beloved by the British public - John Thaw shouts a lot at newly-discovered granddaughter Dominique Jackson and her father Wil Johnson - but it all ends happily.

The title change is mysterious - our ITV3 copy definitely has the former title. And I don't know if it was a transmission problem but the framing seems odd, like everything's too close to the camera. It's not Shergold's regular Tony Slater-Ling but someone called Lawrence Jones. Peter Bowker wrote it (and the great Occupation).

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