Taking the well-travelled outlaw hero format of The Saint and reinventing the hero as a Mickey Spillane-like Yank, this tough-edged but trivial detective series stars the brick-like Richard Bradford as McGill as a former CIA man who owns only a gun and a change of clothes (hence the title) and wanders about foreign locales, using two-fisted methods to protect beautiful women or foil dastardly plots. Ron Grainer's title theme is among the best 60s TV tunes, and the intense, serious Bradford makes a refreshing change after so many breezy, unflappable, eyebrow-cocking heroes, but the mix of postcard backdrops, character villains and drama-school totty is much the same as in The Saint, Danger Man, The Persuaders, and their ilk. Volume One includes: "Man from the Dead", in which McGill tracks his supposedly dead CIA ex-boss, with Angela Brown; and "Brainwash" in which McGill is after the traitor who framed him, with Suzan (Dracula, Prince of Darkness) Farmer. --Kim Newman
Hugely Successful sit-com that ran for 8 years from 1985 to 1992 the sequel to Till Death Do Us Part. Written by Johnny Speight it follows the fortunes (or mis-fortunes) of bigoted pensioner Alf Garnet played brilliantly by Warren Mitchell. We see Alf uprooted from his Wapping home and re-located to a West Ham council flat and follow all the drama and problems he brings upon himself by his very opinionated and controversial views on.. well everything.
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