Not the Hammer production, or the pre-“let’s get silly” period Rathbone-Bruce original, but a mid-’80s version with Ian Richardson and Donald ‘Spooner’s Patch’ Churchill as the investigative companions, plus Denholm ‘I like the noughts particularly’ Elliott, Glynis ‘Major! Can’t you see I’m undressing?’ Barber, Brian ‘Dive!’ Blessed, Eleanor ‘Prick!’ Bron, Martin ‘Oh I see, we’re going to be the elastoplast, are we?’ Shaw and Connie ‘She doesn’t mean any arm’ Booth.
