Thick as Thieves

This was a comedy with a rather bizarre premise, whose principal actors were better known for dramatic roles, and three out of four of them went on to far bigger and better things.

This show is set in "Cockney" London, whilst John Thaw's attempt at a London accent has more holes than a sieve, anybody who knows Greater London accents will know immediately that Bob Hoskins, and Pat Ashton are from Middlesex, whilst Johnny Briggs is quite obviously from south of the Thames. So nobody is a Cockney, although this is 1974 and in those days Africans were almost invariably played by West Indians.

The scripts are passable, though not laugh out loud by any means. Hairstyles and clothes are drab when not downright ugly, and the few location shots give images of a day before yesterday that few would want to relive. TBH this series is best viewed as a time capsule, its a reminder to those of us who were there in 1974 just how dismal a time it actually was, and a wake up call to today's youngsters not to believe other people's nostalgic memories .