Diamond Geezer

First, Diamond Geezer is the proper name for this series, the change to "Rough Diamond" for distribution was a mistake. Diamond Geezer is funnier and in the spirit of the series. Second, I think the bad reviews discount its appeal to children and adolescents. This is fantastic after-school family fare! A lot of the plots (and most of the dialog) are goofy and predictable but there's always a fun twist to the stories and little interesting touches to the characters. Third, it probably was produced in the wrong decade. It does come across like it was written in the '70s or '80s but had been shelved and resurrected. If you're looking for John LeCarre, move along. But if you'd like a little I Spy mixed with To Catch a Thief...

this show is just great. i have followed sir David Jason career for about 10 years. being from the states we miss a lot of the great shows from the u.k. i have seen and bought entire series of darling buds, only fools and horses, a touch of frost, open all hrs, porridge, have seen sir David in many roles and it seems that whatever he does is just masterful, i wish there were more of this show, i hope that he ( sir David ) will have more to do in the business, the u.k. has one of the finest actors i have seen. the one that wrote before me saying that this wasn't that good must not have seen the many shows and faces and characters that sir David has done.he has done comedy great to playing an excellent cop in touch of frost to this playing a criminal i think this is just great. thank you David Jason and hopefully more to come from you...

I started to watch the Pilot on Brit Box, but the sound track was TERRIBLE. It was as if some moron without the foggiest clue how to mix a soundtrack, put all the dialog on the LEFT Channel, with no regard to where the speaker was on the screen It was so annoying that it was not worth the aggravation, so. I turned it off after 15 minutes. If you have anything other than a monaural sound system, you might want to skip this.

Having enjoyed David Jason's magnificent comedic (and serious acting) talents in Only fools and horses, The darling bud's of May, Open all hours, A touch of Frost etc., it is sad too see him trying to rescue these messy scripts from total failure. The plots for all three episodes in this series have been sketchy and implausible. Having an all new cast in each episode means there are no regular characters to get to know (and like), and a lot of time is wasted introducing all these new characters in each episode. Des is supposed to be a master of disguise, but the failure of the make-up department is very obvious. They have a tough job – David Jason will always look like David Jason, but they could have done much better. Overall, this series is shoddy workmanship. I feel sorry for him, he deserves MUCH better material than this. In some scenes, you can almost see him thinking "why did I agree to do this..." BBC, please do something – commission some good scripts and lure sir David away from the low standards of ITV!

David Jason I think was gr8 as Dez in the first show (pilot episode). then he brought out a second series featuring 3 new episodes which I thought was brilliant. just days before ITV advertised the new season I was talking about the show to my family, and we all said we wanted him to star in a new series again. I want him to come back in a brand new series of diamond geezer and bring back the father and son bond storyline and partnership and incorporate it into the new series, however maybe he is getting a bit old now to do the running around (as he did in the previous episodes). Maybe he will surprise us, and bring out a new series. We don't know?