Gillian Heys takes to the stand, but seems to be a very timid witness.Gillian Heys takes to the stand, but seems to be a very timid witness.Gillian Heys takes to the stand, but seems to be a very timid witness.
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- TriviaAlthough this was the eighth story originally broadcast on ITV in 1972, it was actually the ninth story filmed. So when the series was re broadcast in the UK by Talking Pictures TV in early 2023, they chose to show the series in production order rather than the original broadcast order, making this the ninth story when re-shown.
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Some uncomfortable scenes, good episode again.
Gillian Heys is put on the stand and faces a challenging series of questions from her own council, and a pretty harsh grilling from Prosecution council.
It's quite hard to watch this without thinking of several of the predators that operated in the 1970's, I'm sure I don't need to name them, we all know them, it just seemed that the default attitude of the time was the believe the authority figure, was it even feasible to consider a councillor could lie, the very idea.
So attitudes and changing times apart, it was a very good middle episode, I was keen to see Gillian, and she was exactly as expected, I'm now less convinced that it's a put up job between them, but who knows.
Jane Carr was very good I thought, you got a real sense of discomfort and torment, hard to imagine how awful a situation for someone to find themselves in, having to divulge such personal and upsetting details, The Judge was a little harsh I thought.
8/10.
It's quite hard to watch this without thinking of several of the predators that operated in the 1970's, I'm sure I don't need to name them, we all know them, it just seemed that the default attitude of the time was the believe the authority figure, was it even feasible to consider a councillor could lie, the very idea.
So attitudes and changing times apart, it was a very good middle episode, I was keen to see Gillian, and she was exactly as expected, I'm now less convinced that it's a put up job between them, but who knows.
Jane Carr was very good I thought, you got a real sense of discomfort and torment, hard to imagine how awful a situation for someone to find themselves in, having to divulge such personal and upsetting details, The Judge was a little harsh I thought.
8/10.
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- Sleepin_Dragon
- Mar 9, 2023
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