Hard-edged realistic and powerful Spearhead has been favourably compared to Soldier Soldier for its unflinching depiction of life in the British Army. Martyn Jacobs Eamon Boland Roy Holder and Stafford Gordon star in this tough and gripping drama series where the Royal Wessex Rangers have been posted to frontline NATO duties in Germany
The final series of this tough and gripping drama series about life in the British Army. Set at the end of a 2 year posting in Hong Kong 6 Platoon battle against refugees from China desperate to escape the communist regime . Whilst the officers see 'catching illegals' as a sport the squaddies question the morality of their actions.
The Master Blackmailer is a two-hour 1991 Granada TV adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, which for the most part sticks close to the details of the original. Holmes (Jeremy Brett) takes on the reputed king of all blackmailers, Milverton (Robert Hardy), who has made a fortune extorting money from the famous and the blue-blooded and who routinely ruins others' lives when not pleased. Unable to talk Milverton into turning over letters belonging to Lady Eva Brackenwell, Holmes decides to steal them, going undercover as a plumber and even romancing Milverton's housemaid, Agatha (Sophie Thompson), to gain better access in the house. (The ethical Watson, played by Edward Hardwicke, is upset to hear of Holmes's deception of an innocent woman.) The story builds to a surprisingly violent finale, but the real hook is Brett's performance as the disguised detective and the startling suggestion that Holmes's close contact with Agatha truly moved the bachelor sleuth. --Tom Keogh
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