Public Eye (TV Series) Slip Home in the Dark (1971) User Reviews

Slip Home in the Dark

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 4 December 2020]

A meaty case for Frank Marker. He is approached by two women Polly and her nervous friend Barbara who has recently moved into the area.

Barbara has been getting threats of blackmail. Later her husband Ken also gets similar phone calls. Someone wishes to disrupt their lives and knows something about the couple.

Polly and Barbara go to evening classes run by the tutor Lipton. Frank takes an interest in Lipton and also enrols into his classes.

It is a case of ex cons and prisoner's wives. Frank can smell it and he knows what it is like to start again after leaving prison. Frank immediately senses that Barbara's husband has been inside but he has the chance for a fresh start.

It is a character piece. Not only for Frank but Barbara, Ken and Lipton who feels like a deadbeat as a teacher always willing to help people.

A young wife gets sinister phone calls

[lucyrfisher · 9/10 · 24 October 2018]

Barbara Pitt tells her friend Polly about the silent phone calls that escalated to blackmail threats. The background is an evening class on English literature, Barbara's only escape from a lonely life waiting for husband to return - from work? The settings are superb - a newly built estate of soulless flats, the brutal school where the tutor works. It's 1971 and Polly tries to persuade Barbara to get a job, but "my husband wouldn't like it". Estelle Kohler as Barbara does a good job of falling apart, the handsome teacher's life is not all it seems, Susan Engel is excellent as the slightly feminist friend, and as usual I am baffled by the ending! What a superb series. Could Hazell, Shoestring and Bergerac have existed without it?