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The episode is set in November 1966.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
Where’s Colin?
Colin can be seen on the bus at around 13 minutes.
Directed by Andy Wilson. Andy also directed the Endeavour episode Cartouche.
Written by Colin Dexter (characters), Russell Lewis (written and devised by). Russell has written all the Endeavour episodes. He also wrote;
Lewis (TV Series) (screenplay – 4 episodes, 2010 – 2012) (story – 1 episode, 2006)
– Fearful Symmetry (2012) … (screenplay)
– Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things (2011) … (screenplay)
– Falling Darkness (2010) … (screenplay)
– The Dead of Winter (2010) … (screenplay)
– Reputation (2006) … (story)
He also wrote the Morse episode, ‘The Way Through the Woods’.
SYNOPSIS
A multiple murderer may be stalking and killing the women of Oxford. When a woman is killed, strangled with a stocking, there is very little evidence of a connection between Vivienne Haldane, the latest victim, and two previous women who were strangled. However, Endeavour believes that all three killings are at the hand of the same man.
Meanwhile, Fred Thursday is about to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary when he encounters a past love in the shape of Luisa Armstrong. They met during the second world war; Fred fighting for his country and Luisa was part of a resistance movement in Italy. Will Fred allow himself to fall in love with Luisa again or is his bond with Winifred too strong?
Love is certainly in the air in this episode when Endeavour goes on a date with Monica. Will this turn into a passionate love affair or will his nascent attraction to Joan get in the way?
REVIEW.
(warning, this review will contain some spoilers)
Sway is third episode of the second series and had to follow two rather good episodes, Trove and Nocturne. Unfortunately, this episode doesn’t live up to it’s series predecessors but is still a fairly enjoyable episode. Sometimes, an episode of Endeavour can oscillate between good, bad, ridiculous and overused tropes but one can be persuaded, when looking at the episode holistically, that it was well worth watching.
The acting, including the non returning character actors are mostly good. I say ‘mostly’ because Adrian Schiller portrayal as Charles Highbank, the gay window dresser, did wobble between caricature and truthfulness. Of course, Russel Lewis did say to DM Barcroft in an interview, “It was the Carry On team, and Norman Wisdom, I had in mind when I was putting it (the episode) together.” If Adrian Schiller was made aware of what Russell Lewis had in mind then I can forgive Adrian. He certainly at times came across as a version of Charles Hawtrey.
The episode swings between horror, love, lost love, the effects of war on those who survived and the work of Cowley Police trying to find the Oxford strangler. All involved do a superb job of keeping all those plotline plates spinning in the air and at no time does one feel that any of those metaphorical plates will come crashing down.
This I feel was no mean feat as at times one did feel that the plethora of so many plotlines did make the episode lurch from one to the other to the detriment of the main storyline; the murders. The audience was given very little information that would have allowed them to identify the killer. Part of the fun in watching detective TV series is trying to determine who the murderer is before it is revealed within the show. (Unless one is watching Columbo of course). All too often within the Endeavour series, and also occasionally in the Morse and Lewis series, the plot is so dense or filled with too many red herrings regarding the murderer, that one has very little chance of identifying the killer.
Chronologically, Sway is only the eighth episode of the Endeavour series but is the fourth episode to have a multiple murderer: Fugue (Series 1, Episode 2) 3 murders; Rocket (Series 1, Episode 3) 3 murders; Home (Series 1, Episode 4) 3 murders. Multiple murderers or serial killers being the most common name for those who kill three or more people over a period of longer than a month, has become a favourite trope of Russell Lewis. Couple the serial killer with the scorned lover and one has a trope double whammy.
Though the person scorned in this is a man it is no better than the trope of a woman scorned, which is another of Russel’s favourite tropes. The scorned lover is a tired, lazy and overused trope that coupled with the murderer trying to frame someone else for the murders is a sure way to turn off viewers. What is worse is that rather than the murderer, Huggins, killing Joey Lisk, the man who slept with his wife, he kills women to frame Lisk. It’s the kind of absurdity that staggers between Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder.
Does the writer of Endeavour, Russell Lewis realise the problems with the murder plotline and this is why in this episode the murders are secondary to all other plotlines; Fred and Win’s 25th wedding anniversary, Endeavour and Monica dating; Fred’s long lost love Luisa and the trouble and strife of working in a large store. Certainly, love, lost and won, was I felt the main plotline of the episode: Flo Huggins falling out of love with Roy; Fred reliving his love for Luisa; Fred trying to maintain his love for Win; Charles Highbank’s regret at not pursuing a love in his youth; Joan falling for Endeavour; Endeavour falling for Monica and Jakes still in love with himself.
However, these rather tired plotlines are saved by all those involved in the making of the episodes. As I wrote above, if one looks at the episode holistically it is all very enjoyable but just don’t start pulling at any loose threads or the whole frame will collapse.
P.S.
Did Huggins bring along his record to Gloria’s home? It wouldn’t have been part of her collection.
P.P.S.
Did Fred tell Win about his relationship with Luisa? Win was at the funeral with Fred. Win must have asked Fred who she was and why he needed to be at her funeral.
Episode Jag Rating – out of 10.
MUSIC.
Due to copyright and/or financial reasons the music used outside the UK may be different.
At the beginning of the episode.
Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor. Lacrimosa dies illa.
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In the original broadcast on British television at around the 38 second mark we heard the song Sway sung by Dean Martin.
However, on the DVD version we get a different piece of music playing starting when the woman is dressing. I believe it was written by Barrington Pheloung. I assume that due to copyright and/or financial reasons they couldn’t use the Dean Martin version.
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36 minutes. Morse is in his flat surveying photos of the women killed.
The music playing is St Matthew Passion, BMV 244 by Johann SebastianBach.
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1 hour and 14 minutes –
After his date with Monica he puts on some music. We only get to hear the music for a few seconds. It may a reprise of St Matthew Passion, BMV 244 by Johann SebastianBach. (see above)
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1 hour and 18 minutes in Gloria Deeks flat, Huggins puts on a record.
Again, in the original TV broadcast it was Sway by Dean Martin that played. However, once again, it is the piece by Barrington Pheloung we hear. (See above)
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1 hour and 24 minutes –
We hear of the death of Luisa. The music is Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor. Lacrimosa dies illa. See above.
ART
At 23 minutes in Bright’s office we see a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
This looks to be a version of Dorothy Wilding’s photograph which was then hand drawn by Beatrice Johnson.
55 minutes –
Pugh, the blind piano tuner is walking past Burridges. He walks over two drawings by the pavement artist.
This is a drawing of The Death of Marat a painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat.
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This is of course a version of one of the five paintings Vincent Van Gogh painted of sunflowers in a vase.
LITERARY REFERENCES.
We have to assume that the character of the blind piano tuner, Talfryn Pugh, is a nod to Blind Pew the Pirate in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson.
Around the one hour and three minute mark. Brian Quinbury is telling Endeavour that he uses a stocking to make his prosthetic more confortable. He then goes on to talk of his time in the war and says, “England’s ways to roam.” This is paraphrasing Rupert Brooke’s poem ‘Soldier.’
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
LOCATIONS.
Within the first minute.
Radcliffe camera.
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Again within the first minute there is a quick shot.
This is New College Lane looking toward New College.
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1 Minute. – The department store.
This is Randalls in Uxbridge. Well part of it is.
The ground floor of Randalls has been used while the post production team used a matte shot or CGI to add everything above the ground floor.
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1 minute –
The bus is going down Catte Street, passing the Bodleian Library.
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3 minutes –
Unknown location.
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5 minutes
This is looking down on All Souls College.
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5 minutes –
Morse and Lewis walking through cloisters.
This is New College.
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8 minutes –
The Cowley police station.
This is Southgate Town Hall, 6 Palmerston Cres, Palmers Green, London N13 4UA.
13 minutes –
Joan and Win help the blind man onto the bus.
The above is filmed on Catte Street.
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19 minutes –
We get an overhead shot.
This shot would have been filmed from the top of University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
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31 minutes.
Thursday visits Luisa Armstrong.
This is King Edward Street, Oxford.
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34 minutes –
Monica and Morse’s flats –
This is Parktown.
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35 minutes –
Joey stops to pick up Gloria.
This is Brasenose Lane, Oxford.
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39 minutes –
Morse goes to talk to Joey Lisk.
Unidentified.
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Jakes and Morse visit a Mrs Shears.
Unidentified.
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55 minutes –
After the death of Norman Parkis the police investigate.
This is, I believe, the rear of the Randalls store used as a location for Burridges. If you notice the Odeon sign at the top left and the structure jutting out from the building. Below is a photo of the demolition of Randalls store.
1 hour and 3 minutes –
Morse is interviewing Pugh.
Unidentified.
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1 hour and 8 minutes –
Motorcycle and people running with fireworks.
This is Brasenose Lane.
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1 hour and 15 minutes –
Fred and Win’s anniversary party.
Unidentified. Probably a film set.
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1 hour and 17 minutes –
The police go to look for Roy Huggins at his house.
Unidentified.
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1 hour and 25 minutes.
After the inquest. (We never witness the inquest)
Unidentified.
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After the above scene we see Morse and Fred outside what is supposed to be the Coroner’s Court.
This building behind Morse and Fred is called Old Warden’s Lodge. It is used as library and reading rooms for those attending Merton College. It is on Merton Street, Oxford.
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One hour and 26 minutes –
Endeavour reads the letter left by Luisa.
This is New College.
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One hour and 27 minutes –
The cemetery where they are burying Luisa.
Unidentified.
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The interior shots of the Burridges store were shot at Jacksons Store, Reading.
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From this episode on the crew moved to a new building to create new offices for the police force, interior shots of Thursday’s home and Endeavour’s flat.
This is an old Victorian building in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. It also holds the production offices. A old paper mill is near to this building and is where the sets were built. The Victorian building is called Glen Island House.
The Old Paper Mill and surrounding buildings have now been transformed into homes. The buildings in the above map to the left of the power house are what is left of the paper mill.
PUB LOCATIONS.
10 minutes –
Morse and Thursday have a drink.
This is the Royal Standard of England pub, Forty Green, Buckinghamshire.
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27 minutes –
Some of the staff of Burridges have a drink.
Unidentified.
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48 minutes –
Win and Morse go for a drink.
This is again the Royal Standard of England pub, Forty Green, Buckinghamshire where Morse and Fred had a drink. (see above)
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49 minutes –
Fred and Luisa have a drink.
Unidentified. It may be a film set.
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1 hour and 26 minutes –
Morse and Fred are in a pub.
This is again the Royal Standard of England pub, Forty Green, Buckinghamshire.
Actors who appeared in the Endeavour Episode ‘Sway’ and/or a Morse or Lewis episode.
Michael Thomas as Rufus Haldane
Michael Thomas appeared as the character John McKendrick in the Morse episode, Ghost in the Machine.
Sadly Michael died in March, 2019 at the age of 66.
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Paul Lacoux as Mr. Jellicoe.
Paul Lacoux appeared in the Lewis episode, Beyond Good and Evil as the journalist, Hugo Blayne’
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Brian Lipson as Talfryn Pugh.
Brian Lipson appeared in the Morse episode, Who Killed Harry Field? as the lawyer, McCabe.
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Richard Banks is uncredited in the episode and played a gravedigger. He also appeared in the Endeavour episode Arcadia. Again, Richard was uncredited. He played a neighbour.
CONNECTIONS OTHER THAN ACTORS TO THE LEWIS, ORIGINAL MORSE SERIES AND PREVIOUS ENDEAVOUR EPISODES.
In the opening sequence of the Endeavour episode, Trove, we see Diana Day cutting the ribbon and saying that it is with great pleasure to launch Burridges spring to summer fashion.
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46 Minutes –
Morse passes a billboard.
This is a poster of the beauty queen, Diana Day, whom we met in the episode, Trove.
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At two minutes –
We don’t get to meet DI Chard until the final episode of the series 2, Neverland.
Vince Leigh as DI Hugh Chard.
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58 minutes –
Morse is talking to Gloria about the murdered Norman. She states that he had no family and believes that when he was young he was in Blenheim Vale. Blenheim Vale turns up in the episode Neverland. It’s a borstal where children were abused.
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Thank you to Lesley who noticed a link to the Morse episode Absolute Conviction. In this episode it is mentioned that Gloria Deeks husband is in Farnleigh Prison. Farnleigh Prison is where the three fraudsters are held in the Morse episode.
Miscellaneous.
Is this a pastiche of the billboard in the film, Jaws? Of course Jaws is heavily referenced in the episode, Prey.
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The product being advertised, Grimsby Pilchards may be a reference to Tony Hancock.
In the show The Bowmans he says “You’re never alone with a pilchard.” I will wager that Russell Lewis is a fan of Tony Hancock.
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Within the first minute we see Morse typing.
This amalgamation becomes more apparent in later episodes. We know that the ‘R’ in Bright’s name is Reginald but do we ever find out what the ‘V’ stands for?
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Within the first minute the professor, Rufus Haldane says, “The Greeks called it apeiros. Anaximander of Miletus termed it apeiron.” Anaximander is said to have written about astronomy, geography, and the nature of things. Anaximander set up a gnomon (a shadow-casting rod) at Sparta and used it to demonstrate the equinoxes and solstices and perhaps the hours of the day.
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The name Burridges is taken from the Norman Wisdom film, Trouble in Store. The Burridges store is where Norman works.
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The interior scenes of the department store where filmed at Jacksons Store, Reading, England. It was reported in the local paper at the time,
“READING’s oldest department store was transformed into the set for an episode of the eagerly awaited second series of Endeavour. Camera crews descended upon Jackson’s in King’s Road to film the new four-episode series, which is an ongoing prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse dramas. Cast and crew, including the main star Shaun Evans, used the iconic shop’s empty first floor to film scenes set in a department store on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week for the ITV series which is due to hit our screens early next year. Jackson’s managing director Brian Carter said despite the bedlam of having a film crew milling about the store, it was a welcome distraction from the department store’s closure on Christmas Eve. He added: “They have moved everything around and I don’t think anybody knows whose things belong to who anymore. But we were very happy to have them because it has cheered everyone up a bit. “It has taken people’s minds off what has been happening and it has been a bit of excitement before we close.”
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At almost the two minute mark, we see a passenger on the bus reading the newspaper.
The highlighted sub heading is grammatically incorrect. It should read, ‘Oxford housewife willingly opened door to killer. However, in the very next scene with a close up of the headline,
The sub heading is now grammatically correct.
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On the same bus we see Joan Thursday.
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At around ten minutes Morse goes to Burridges to ask about stockings.
Russell Lewis in an interview with D. M. Barcroft said of the stockings, “By the way — Le Minou Noir was a gift of Camille Gatin’s – Producer on Series II — who, as you probably guessed, is French. I think I’d originally gone for Le Chat Noir as a brand name – but we couldn’t clear it. Though the logo survived.”
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We have to assume that the character of the blind piano tuner, Talfryn Pugh, is a nod to Blind Pew the Pirate in Treasure Island.
15 minutes
Bright is talking to Thursday after Morse has found the secret diary. He says, “Life a drama and themselves it’s star. The damage done. He looks at a photo on his desk.
I’m assuming this is his wife who we will eventually meet in the sixth and seventh series. Mrs Bright was always going out to charity events or bridge nights. Is Bright hinting that he thinks his wife is having an affair.
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24 minutes. Morse and Thursday are in the car. Morse says to Thursday that the engraving on the lighter wasn’t much help. The engraving read, “They asked me how I knew.” Thursday replies, “Smoke gets in your Eyes.” What Morse says is a line from the song Smoke Gets in your Eyes. It’s a 1959 song sung by the platters. Bryan Ferry recording a version of it.
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26 minutes –
Barry Dobbs is harassing Norman. He takes one of the mannequin legs from the basket and says, ‘Look, Jake the Peg Leg.’ It was a song written and sung by Rolf Harris and released in 1965.
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37 minutes –
Morse finds a cufflink while searching the area where Anna Curran Matthews was murdered.
This was a red herring. Huggins placed the cufflink at the scene to throw the police off. However, the police and DI Chard who were present and had searched the scene originally didn’t find it. But, Morse found it.
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At 39 minutes Endeavour visits Joey Lisk.
John Molloy let me know that, “the names of Goldfarb and Ligourin…are the surnames of 2 characters in the 1971 film Klute. The title character, played by Donald Sutherland, is a detective.
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40 minutes –
Morse is talking to Joey Fisk.
Morse says, “It’s spelt with an ‘r’ isn’t? Palmar.” I think this is a reference to Michael Caine’s character in films like the Ipcress File, Harry Palmer. Joey Fisk appears to model himself on the actor Michael Caine.
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1 hour and 2 minutes. –
Fred is talking to Jakes in his office. Fred asks about Mrs Armstrong. Jakes tells him her alibi is that she was having a regular dinner date with Charles the window dresser. Jakes describes him as former merchant navy, ‘Rum, Bum and Corcintina.’ This refers to an autobiography of the Jazz musician, George Melly.
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1 hour 6 minutes –
Morse and Monica kiss.
With the kiss and fireworks going off it reminds of films of the 40s, 50s etc. In particular it reminds of the scene in the Hitchcock film, To Catch a Thief when Cary Grant and Grace Kelly kiss. Knowing Russell Lewis to be a Hitchcock fan it is probably what was on his mind.
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1 hour and 19 minutes inside Gloria Deeks house.
The paperback, Violent Love Stalks the Plains is a real book.
It was published in 1965. Lynton Wright Brent was an American film actor and a writer. He appeared in over 240 films between 1930 and 1950. He wrote many other pilp fiction books.
In the same scene we get a better view of the magazine.
Mary Howard was a real author, though her real name was Mary Mussi, She died in March 1991. She also wrote under the name Josephine Edgar. Edgar was her maiden name. She wrote a book titled, Shadows in the Sun published in 1957, not Shadow of the Sun.
I’m not sure what the magazine is. It may be ‘Woman’ a very popular British magazine.
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At 1 hour and 23 minutes we are in Fred and Win’s house. Joan walks down the stairs and talks to Endeavour.
Joan asks Morse. “Are you dancing?” and Endeavour replies, “Are you asking?”. These lines are a reference to a Liverpool phrase, “Are you dancing?, Are you asking? Well I’m asking. Then I’m dancing.” Of course Shaun Evans is from Liverpool. Glaswegians also use a similar phrase that has different variations.
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Interesting observation by John Molloy that connects to the above piece. John wrote, “. It echoes the voice over during the closing titles/end credits to the BBC TV sit-com The Liver Birds which goes something like this: “You dancing, You asking, I’m asking, I’m dancing.” The Liver Birds, set in Liverpool, began it’s run on the BBC in the 1970s so the link is possibly anachronistic. Apart from the following.
The theme song to The Liver Birds was performed by the Liverpool trio The Scaffold the constituent members of which were Roger McGough, Mike McGear and John Gorman. In Sway John Gorman is the name suggested to Bright by Fred Thursday in Burridges premises when Bright says that the investigation into the murder of Norman should be conducted by another detective.” Thanks John.
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1 hour and 18 minutes –
Strange shows the wedding rings he found in Huggins bedside cabinet.
We know Huggins killed four women and accidently killed his wife Flo. Did the fifth wedding ring belong to his wife? Why would he remove his wife’s ring? She is interred behind the bath panel. Did his wife take off the ring after she told Roy Huggins she wanted him to get out of the house?
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In an interview with D M Barcroft, Russell Lewis said, “It was the Carry On team, and Norman Wisdom, I had in mind when I was putting it (the episode) together.” This is echoed in a few ways within the episode. Gina Bramhill as Gloria Deeks come over as a kind of Barbara Windsor character.
Barbara Windsor, star of many Carry On films.
Barbara Windsor’s real name was Barbara Ann Deeks.
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I haven’t figured out the significance of the pavement artist other than maybe he was just a red herring. I know it must refer to a film or TV series as Russell Lewis wouldn’t put that character in without a reason.
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Robert Stoker kindly passed on the following information. The Remembrance Day poppies worn by various characters have green plastic stalks. In the early-to-mid 1960s the stalks of the poppies were bare metal wire.
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The name of the character who thought of himself as Michael Caine, Joey Lisk is unusual. The only connection I can make is the acronym of the serial killer, Long Island Serial Killer. The Long Island serial killer is an unidentified suspected serial killer who is believed to have murdered 10 to 16 people over a period of nearly 20 years, mostly prostitutes, and left their bodies in areas on the South Shore of Long Island, New York.
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The character, Norman Parkis is I believe a reference to Norman Wisdom, a British comedy actor.
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Is the character of Roy Huggins an allusion to the writer of the same name who created the show The Fugitive?
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Charles Highbank, the window dresser, is probably a reference to the Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey.
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Endeavour looks at Joey Lisk’s notebook that has Luisa Armstrong’s address in it.
Though it states her address number is ’42’ when we see Luisa’s flat it’s numbered ‘9’.
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One of my subscribers wrote to me sometime ago and mentioned the following, “The character of “Joey Lisk” is, smokes French cigarettes, the same as the character Michael Caine plays in “The Ipcress File”, Another link to Caine is the character of Detective Inspector Chard, who is mentioned but never seen, gets his name from the Stanley Baker character in “Zulu”, the film that made Caine a star. One of the murder victims is called “Vivien” and another one is surnamed “Merchant” – the actress Vivien Merchant having made her film debut opposite Caine in “Alfie.” The film Alfie was released in 1966 when this episode is set.
Vivien Merchant with Michael Caine.
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One hour and fifteen minutes –
At Fred and Win’s anniversary dinner Fred makes a speech. He starts with the line, “A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.” This is a line from Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera “The Pirates of Penzance.” It is sung by the Policemen.
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I’m sure you all noticed this creepy doll in the episode. Apparently it was nicknamed Cruella by locals of Jackson’s store which was used for the interior shots of Burridges,
Thank you to Catherine Wilkins who forwarded the information below on Jacksons Store.
A BBC story about the selling of the doll. ‘Cruella’ mannequin from Reading’s Jacksons Corner store sold’. Click HERE to read the story.
Click HERE to see pictures of the inside of Jacksons.
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The store detective is called Jellicoe. He is probably named after Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO, SGM, DL (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935)[1] was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. Thank to Tome for the info.
FRED THURSDAY’S WORDS OF WISDOM.
13 minutes – Morse and Endeavour are in the pub.
Fred says to Morse, “There’s more to life than coppering. At least there should be.”
THE MURDERED, THEIR MURDERER/S AND THEIR METHODS.
Though Roy Huggins kills five people we only witness the killing of three within the episode. Anna Curran Matthews and Isobel Merchant are killed before the events of the episode. He strangled them all with a stocking.
Huggins third victim is Vivien Haldane.
Huggins fourth victim Mrs Shears.
Huggins fifth victim, Norman Parkis.
Huggins killed the women to try and frame Joey Lisk. Lisk had an affair with Huggins wife, Flo. Huggins found out about the affair and confronted his wife. He struck her and she fell to the floor hitting her head on the fire surround and died. Huggins hoped that the police would believe all the killings were committed by Joey Lisk.
CAST
Shaun Evans as DC Endeavour Morse
Vivienne Haldane. Actor not mentioned.
James Bradshaw as Dr. Max DeBryn
Anton Lesser as Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday
Michael Thomas as Rufus Haldane
Max Wrottesley as Joey Lisk
Gina Bramhill as Gloria Deeks
Cécile Paoli as Luisa Armstrong
Matthew Wilson as Norman Parkis
Paul Lacoux as Mr. Jellicoe
Brian Lipson as Talfryn Pugh
Jack Laskey as DS Peter Jakes
Shvorne Marks as Monica Hicks
James Doherty as Mr. Lee
Tim McMullan as Mr. Brian Quinbury
Joe Bannister as Alan Burridge
Adrian Schiller as Charles Highbank
Rob Jarvis as Roy Huggins
Caroline O’Neill as Win Thursday
Jack Bannon as Sam Thursday
Sean Rigby as James Grout
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Here is my Pinterest page https://www.pinterest.co.uk/christopher0210/
At last but not least please think about buying my book on the Lewis TV series.