- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Jane Rackham
The body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods outside Durham. She’s been strangled. In town her friends are happily slapping on the make-up and hitching up their hemlines in preparation for going to Upside Down, a TV show that’s an obvious stand-in for Ready Steady Go but with Neil Morrissey as a lecherous host.
This is the 1960s of Inspector George Gently – a time when sexual equality was in its infancy and a slug of Scotch, a fag and a clout round the head were all a good copper needed to help him solve a crime.
As Gently, Martin Shaw’s accent has finally stopped roaming around the country, while his character’s relationship with sidekick John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby) gives us some warmly humorous moments.
About this programme
1/2. A schoolgirl's killing brings Gently into the alien world of pop and media celebrity when it turns out the victim's best friend is a rising TV star. Bacchus suspects the dead girl's music teacher, since rumours persist that she was having an affair with him. But when it seems everyone has a different opinion of the girl, Gently must uncover these different faces to get to the truth of her murder. Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly) guest stars alongside Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Insp George Gently
- Martin Shaw
- John Bacchus
- Lee Ingleby
- Joe Claverton
- Sean Gilder
- Tony
- Neil Morrissey
- Peter Holdaway
- Vincent Regan
- Hazel Holdaway
- Kate Bracken
- Margaret Holdaway
- Louise Delamere
- Shelley Marshall
- Jade Byrne
- Nugent
- Kieran Bew
- PC Taylor
- Simon Hubbard
- Hogge
- Christopher Coghill
- Christine
- Eva Quinn
- Barry
- Ross McKenzie
- Mary Claverton
- Shannon Tarbet
- Sheila Claverton
- Juliet Cowan
- Amelia Nugent
- Therase Neve
- Jasmine
- Kaye Wragg
- School secretary
- Janine Birkett
Crew
- Director
- Nicholas Renton
- Producer
- Caroline Levy
- Writer
- Peter Flannery
- Writer
- Stewart Harcourt
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