Those Who Loot We Shoot (22 Mar. 1993)

Director:

Martin Shardlow

Writers:

Lou Jones, Maurice Sellar

Stars:

Frankie Howerd, Nicholas Courtney, Joanna Dunham

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Frankie Howerd	...	Pvt. Percy Potts
Nicholas Courtney	...	Lt. Col. Robert Witherton
Joanna Dunham	...	Petty Officer Joan Bottomley
Shaun Curry	...	Sgt. Maj. McRuckus
James Chase	...	Batman MacKensey
Michael Attwell	...	Pvt. Norman Pain
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Neville Barber
David Cleeve	...	Soldier
Peggy Ann Clifford	...	Tealady (as Peggyann Clifford)
Beryl Cooke
Charles Pemberton
Gordon Peters
Joyce Windsor

Storyline

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 March 1993 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Should have shot the cast and writers....

Looking as if they filmed the rehearsal rather than the finished item, this meanders along far too slowly till the rather obvious conclusion.

Ordered by his superior to pick some items up from his bombed home, Frankie is arrested as a suspected looter. With the firing squad as his final destination. The aforementioned superior officer has amnesia due to a heavy book falling on his head....look, I don't make the plots up, just review them! Anyway, Frankie has to escape from his cell and restore the memory to clear himself. Cue spot of cross-dressing and yet another knock on the head and all well that ends well.

But just with no laughs along the way that is. Jokes well past their sell-by dates arrive in slow succession. I was expecting the old joke of Frankie's from better comedy days, "Don't kill me! I plead for my life!" "You're a miserable pleader." Actually, that would have been more welcome than the fare on display here.

Very poor indeed.