I'd like to add some memories (which may be fallible) to those already accurately summarising the plot of this wonderful drama:
* The 'boy met girl' at the start of the first episode - he saved her from drowning,then told her about his father's strange behaviour. She asked, "Can you drive?", he said, "A little"; and off they went in his Morris Oxford.
* One of the places they stopped at was Grassington, a picturesque Yorkshire Dales village. My family went there soon after on our hols where my brother and I ably re-enacted the scene in its market square.
* On one episode he gets a guitar out and happily sings a song, I think the lyrics were merely "La la ... ".
* His father had been sacked as a senior police officer and (I'm sure this is right) was out to prove his innocence by exposing the gang he was travelling with. At one point the son manages to grab his hand, he implores, "Go home". He continued to chase them, and especially took photographs of the suspects, one of whom was subsequently identified as Kessler by Scottish police.
* Kessler shoots the foreign dignitary at the Edinburgh tattoo, the gang disguise themselves as a doctor and ambulance crew and whisk him away. They didn't bank on our heroes writing down the ambulance number plate and telling sceptical police officers (who I think drove a Triumph Spitfire) who discovered it had been recently sold.
* The last shot is the father tiredly putting his head in his hands, after giving the car keys to his son.
Obviously this series had quite an impact on me, and ran for several weeks including the entire summer holiday-period.
Come on BBC, you know we'd love to see it again!
* The 'boy met girl' at the start of the first episode - he saved her from drowning,then told her about his father's strange behaviour. She asked, "Can you drive?", he said, "A little"; and off they went in his Morris Oxford.
* One of the places they stopped at was Grassington, a picturesque Yorkshire Dales village. My family went there soon after on our hols where my brother and I ably re-enacted the scene in its market square.
* On one episode he gets a guitar out and happily sings a song, I think the lyrics were merely "La la ... ".
* His father had been sacked as a senior police officer and (I'm sure this is right) was out to prove his innocence by exposing the gang he was travelling with. At one point the son manages to grab his hand, he implores, "Go home". He continued to chase them, and especially took photographs of the suspects, one of whom was subsequently identified as Kessler by Scottish police.
* Kessler shoots the foreign dignitary at the Edinburgh tattoo, the gang disguise themselves as a doctor and ambulance crew and whisk him away. They didn't bank on our heroes writing down the ambulance number plate and telling sceptical police officers (who I think drove a Triumph Spitfire) who discovered it had been recently sold.
* The last shot is the father tiredly putting his head in his hands, after giving the car keys to his son.
Obviously this series had quite an impact on me, and ran for several weeks including the entire summer holiday-period.
Come on BBC, you know we'd love to see it again!
