As preparations for Loftus' birthday dinner gather momentum, Dick is saddled with an unexpected problem - Rebecca wants a new computer for the hospital. He refuses, regarding them as an expensive luxury.
Dr.Snell proposes that the staff should each contribute £100 to a fund to buy a present for Loftus, an idea which meets with short shrift from Duncan, knee deep in mortgage problems.
At the dinner, Loftus is upset to find most of the attendees are strangers ( including a minor Royal ) and he is sidelined by the social climbing Stuart-Clarks. Then Dick receives a note from the Students Union - acting on an idea given to them by Collier, they have kidnapped Loftus and refuse to hand him back until St. Swithins gets its computer...
The second episode of 'Top' is marginally better than the first, mainly because one has gotten used to seeing 'the terrible trio' as older men. Dick has changed the most. The old model's hobbies were sex, gambling and drinking. Dick circa 1991 looks as though his idea of a fun evening would be sharpening his scalpel! Reviewing 'Sins Of The Father' for 'The Daily Mirror', critic Hilary Kingsley not only panned the new show, but astonishingly described the original as 'one of those sub-'Carry On' shows that blighted '70's T.V.'. I'm sure John Cleese and Graham Chapman ( had he been alive then ) would have taken umbrage at any comparison between their work and the long-running Peter Rogers series of film farces.
Collier's anecdote about how he and his fellow students once stole a pop star's appendix is yet another example of the show's sloppy revisionism - it never happened in the original - and makes no sense when he could have quoted the kidnapping of the Frank Middlemass character from the 'Doctor At Large' episode 'Students At Heart' instead.
Funniest moment - Snell presenting Loftus with a silver tankard, before backing away in an obsequious manner. The old man looks at it sadly, and puts it in a box full of similar tankards!
Dr.Snell proposes that the staff should each contribute £100 to a fund to buy a present for Loftus, an idea which meets with short shrift from Duncan, knee deep in mortgage problems.
At the dinner, Loftus is upset to find most of the attendees are strangers ( including a minor Royal ) and he is sidelined by the social climbing Stuart-Clarks. Then Dick receives a note from the Students Union - acting on an idea given to them by Collier, they have kidnapped Loftus and refuse to hand him back until St. Swithins gets its computer...
The second episode of 'Top' is marginally better than the first, mainly because one has gotten used to seeing 'the terrible trio' as older men. Dick has changed the most. The old model's hobbies were sex, gambling and drinking. Dick circa 1991 looks as though his idea of a fun evening would be sharpening his scalpel! Reviewing 'Sins Of The Father' for 'The Daily Mirror', critic Hilary Kingsley not only panned the new show, but astonishingly described the original as 'one of those sub-'Carry On' shows that blighted '70's T.V.'. I'm sure John Cleese and Graham Chapman ( had he been alive then ) would have taken umbrage at any comparison between their work and the long-running Peter Rogers series of film farces.
Collier's anecdote about how he and his fellow students once stole a pop star's appendix is yet another example of the show's sloppy revisionism - it never happened in the original - and makes no sense when he could have quoted the kidnapping of the Frank Middlemass character from the 'Doctor At Large' episode 'Students At Heart' instead.
Funniest moment - Snell presenting Loftus with a silver tankard, before backing away in an obsequious manner. The old man looks at it sadly, and puts it in a box full of similar tankards!