User Reviews

From the outset THE SWEENEY had two very distinctive type of episodes . Gritty hard hitting violent episodes and off beat humorous ones . Supersnout is firmly set in the camp of off beat humorous episode and unfortunately this sets it up as being one of the lesser episodes

The episode starts with DI Jack Regan's two passions in life - alcohol and a woman - being interrupted by a phone call from one of his snouts who tell him there's a blag being carried out the next morning and the snout wants to make sure that Regan will let him escape during the robbery and that he will be getting a percentage of the reward money

The problem with the episode is that after the blag is carried out in the pre title sequence neither the director Tom Clegg and writer Ranald Graham have developed the episode enough . You can imagine the production crew having a good laugh as Bill Manyard's chief inspector's plan to catch some jewel thieves suddenly start disintegrating in to farce . Unfortunately the tone should have been set much earlier with George Carter's vain undercover work as a taxi driver being played up more for laughs

Not a bad episode but could have been better. The striptease set-piece is unusually sleazy for an otherwise family friendly show like this. Great to have Bill Maynard along as guest star and he's given an interesting role too.