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A Touch of Cloth

  • TV Series
  • 2012–20142012–2014
  • 1h
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7.8/10
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John Hannah and Suranne Jones in A Touch of Cloth (2012)
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DCI Jack Cloth and DC Anne Oldman are paired to investigate a series of grisly murders done by a devious killer.DCI Jack Cloth and DC Anne Oldman are paired to investigate a series of grisly murders done by a devious killer.DCI Jack Cloth and DC Anne Oldman are paired to investigate a series of grisly murders done by a devious killer.
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  • Stars
    • John Hannah
    • Suranne Jones
    • Navin Chowdhry
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    • Suranne Jones
    • Navin Chowdhry
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    John Hannah
    John Hannah
    • DI Jack Clothas DI Jack Cloth…
    6 episodes6 eps • 2012–2014
    Suranne Jones
    Suranne Jones
    • DI Anne Oldmanas DI Anne Oldman…
    6 episodes6 eps • 2012–2014
    Navin Chowdhry
    Navin Chowdhry
    • DC Asap Qureshias DC Asap Qureshi
    6 episodes6 eps • 2012–2014
    Adrian Bower
    Adrian Bower
    • DC Des Hairihanas DC Des Hairihan
    6 episodes6 eps • 2012–2014
    Julian Rhind-Tutt
    Julian Rhind-Tutt
    • ACC Tom Bossas ACC Tom Boss
    6 episodes6 eps • 2012–2014
    Daisy Beaumont
    Daisy Beaumont
    • Dr. Natasha Sachetas Dr. Natasha Sachet
    6 episodes6 eps • 2012–2014
    Todd Carty
    Todd Carty
    • Selfas Self…
    2 episodes2 eps • 2012–2013
    Karen Gillan
    Karen Gillan
    • Kerry Newbloodas Kerry Newblood
    2 episodes2 eps • 2014
    Tony Pitts
    Tony Pitts
    • Bullockas Bullock
    2 episodes2 eps • 2013
    Montserrat Lombard
    Montserrat Lombard
    • Blueas Blue
    2 episodes2 eps • 2014
    Callum Dixon
    Callum Dixon
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    2 episodes2 eps • 2013
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    2 episodes2 eps • 2013
    Anna Chancellor
    Anna Chancellor
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    2 episodes2 eps • 2013
    Marc Small
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    Joanna Roth
    Joanna Roth
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    Kate Fleetwood
    Kate Fleetwood
    • Kate Clothas Kate Cloth
    2 episodes2 eps • 2012
    Elizabeth Bromby
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    • Trivia
      The title is a parody of A Touch of Frost (1992). "Touching cloth" is a slang description of being in dire need to defecate and the faeces is in contact with underwear.
    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojoUK: Top 10 Cult British Sitcoms (2017)

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    8/10
    Police Squad UK
    Charlie Brooker basically doing for dour British police procedural what Airplane did for hysterical disaster movies. In fact this is so closely modeled on the Zucker spoof principals means that in some ways this is more of a tribute to them than it is to the UK crime shows. It's so niche a tonal combination that it alienated many at the time and it has been consigned to the cult bin. Good. I live in there.

    This takes the form of three "series" composed of a single plot each - much like the ITV Britcop dramas it lampoons - John Hannah and the great Suranne Jones are magnificent as the "straight-faced" leads although Rhind-Tutt's camply pompous Tom Boss never quite works. The wider cast is a minor who's who of British character actors like Brian Cox, Stephen Dillane and Adrian Dunbar and in the last series you even get a pre-Hollywood Karen Gillan which feels genuinely insane. The first and second are notably stronger than the third but I'm secretly quite glad it didn't get the twelve episodes it was initially mooted to have (!)

    The style is a heady cocktail of overwhelmingly relentless sight-gags, puns, format parodies, background jokes, wrong-footers, double entendres - you name it. It's a breathless whirligig of humour - not all of it lands, some of it is dated already, or childishly scatological, or incredibly clever, or baldly hilarious, or absolutely brilliant. It rewards repeated viewings, it's tremendously fun and it's almost exactly my sort of thing so fair play to it for that and it's the sort of thing I'm nearly daily reminded how glad I am that it even got made in the first place.
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    • Release date
      • August 26, 2012 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Инспектор Клот
    • Filming locations
      • The Chimes, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Zeppotron
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      1 hour
    • Color
      • Color

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