User Reviews

What do previous commentators expect? Do they want Carter to be screaming and wailing. He's English. It's the Seventies.

Interesting episode. They kill off Carter's wife and yes, he's depressed about it but those scenes are very rushed. You get the feeling that someone was merely written off the show and they just wanted to rid of it on the series, and this episode, which centers on Regan then locating the woman who was the intended target. As usual, the episode starts slow with a lot of dialogue and gets slowly better. But in all, the title and the tragedy all seems contrived.

Dennis Waterman became a heartthrob as Carter in The Sweeney.

So the producers must have thought that it was no use for him being tied down with a nagging wife.

So it's so long Stephanie Turner as Alison, see you in Juliet Bravo.

Alison is deliberately run down but it is case of mistaken identity. The victim was meant to be another schoolteacher. She knew too much about her side visits to France on behalf of her boyfriend.

It was a shame Alison borrowed her coat. Even more of a shame that the school did not have a staff car park.

Then again it was not unusual in those days for teachers to park on the side streets. I could tell you of the time when the Education Minister once visited our school, the ministerial car left with some additional scratches.

Not the most emotional of episodes. Regan consoles Carter with a bottle of the strong stuff. Then it is a case of finding a lead on the hit and run as well as the missing teacher.

A villainous turn from Patrick Troughton whereas Michael Sheard plays the good guy.