Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) Given to Acts of Violence (1985) User Reviews

Solid episode

[coltras35 · 8/10 · 19 March 2022]

Bird man and Haggis what is that? Dempsey and Makepeace are going to find out with the help of some surveillance and undercover work. Dempsey ends up as a pilot for a crook, but during a scuffle with the crook in a De Havilland DH114 Heron 2D at the finale sends him in the air clinging on the bad guy with a parachute. It's an exciting sequence and so is Makepeace's dilemma of flying the plane alone. There's some easy conveniences in the plot, but hey it's a fast-paced piece of entertainment that grabs your attention.

Given to Acts of Violence

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 9 August 2020]

The action packed first series continues. A man is gunned down at night outside a pub. Despite the murder being witnessed, the witness refuses to identify the killer in court. He has obviously been got at.

The culprit is Frank Egan who is back on the streets having beaten the murder rap. Dempsey and Makepeace keeps tabs on him and find out what he is planning next.

Egan has set his sights on an audacious heist to steal Scottish currency that has been used in England and being flown back to Scotland.

Makepeace has to go undercover as a floozy and she finds herself nearly going all the way with a mark who has arrived from America. Dempsey knows how to fly a plane. I presume he served in the air force in Vietnam.

There is an audacious skydiving stunt and Makepeace finds herself stranded on a plane without a pilot.