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A Question of Intelligence
Prismark103 June 2017
With the success of Only Fools and Horses, it was only a matter of time that Nicholas Lyndhurst would get to head his own comedy series.

In this first episode he plays Peter Chapman a lowly paid Electronics Professor at the local Polytechnic. Suddenly he is sacked without explanation and told to report to a recruitment agency.

That agency is MI5 and they want him to teach the inept spies how to use the gadgets properly.

Chapman always has a quip, he cannot tell his wife that he is a spy and his code name is Piglet because the better ones such as Puma or Panther have been taken.

Apart from the biting remarks, Chapman is also a bungler, probably reflecting the popularity of The Naked Gun film at the time. However his botch up leads to a rather quick promotion.
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5/10
A Question of Intelligence
studioAT13 April 2024
People of course know Nicholas Lyndhurst from 'Only Fools and Horses' - a show that continues to be a massive part of the British comedy landscape to this day. A show I must say he deserves more recognition for the success of than he gets.

You might also know him from other shows such as 'Goodnight Sweetheart', 'After You've Gone' and of course his scene stealing turns in the rebooted 'Frasier', a show that I hope will give him some cred in the US.

People don't really know this show though, which is a shame. Yes, spy spoofs are ten a penny, and this one isn't amazing, but when you look at what a master Lyndhurst is in the sitcom genre, you can only sit back and watch talent at work.

Well worth seeking out.
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