Dial 999 (TV Series) The Great Gold Robbery (1958) User Reviews

The Great Gold Robbery

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 3 February 2022]

DI Maguire is with the Flying Squad. He is investigating a robbery on the Edinburgh to London mail train.

A footprint found where the mail drop was collected brings a link to an attack on a man who works at London airport.

The gang who robbed the mail train are planning their next job. A warehouse robbery at the airport that is due to have some valuables from South Africa.

The gang's leader have planned it with precision. Maguire suspects what is going on and attempts to thwart the gang.

You have to hand it to Maguire, he investigated one robbery and found another about to take place.

He is certainly someone who does not sleep on the job. There is a nice bit of fisticufss at the end.

Never knowing when enough is enough.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 25 March 2023]

A group of thieves spring a dating robbery, holding up to London to Edinburgh mail train, pinching a valuable amount of mail, their next mission, something a lot bigger.

Another very enjoyable thirty minutes, it plays out like a 50's B movie, with The Police battling a gang of hardened thieves.

You have to hand it to Maguire, he's either psychic or he's the most perceptive Copper ever to have walked The Streets of London, although maybe Lady Luck was on his side during this investigating.

More action sequences than is normally the case on the show.

Ford and Bluey were very interesting characters, that was a right old rogue's gallery of faces, all sharply dressed, suited and booted, gentlemen villains so to speak. I felt sorry for Bluey, poor Guy was duffed up, picked on, and thrown to The Wolves.

Poor Bluey.

7/10.