Vintage early Sellers crime comedy with Pete in cockney mode about a gang of copper-impersonating undercover robbers robbing robbed loot from real robbers, much to the consternation of the real robbers and the real coppers, one of which is Lionel Jeffries. Featuring Bernard Cribbins, Nanette Newman, Bill ‘Hancock’ Kerr, John Le Mesurier, Graham ‘Simon Simon’ Stark, Arthur Mullard, Dermot ‘Robin’s Nest’ Kelly, Michael Caine, bits of The League of Gentlemen, Dick Emery, John Junkin and Marianne Stone.
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David Bowie – Five Years
Saturday, 21.20, BBC2Been a shitty week for deaths, one of the saddest being Trevor Bolder of the Spiders of Mars, which adds extra poignancy to this big new documentary. In it they’re going to take five turning points in the career of Dave Bowie of The Dave Bowie Band, and though we don’t think he’s interviewed for it, seemingly everyone who’s ever worked with him is and there are loads of rare clips.
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