I’ve not got much time for an introduction to this, so just a quick summary for this 1958 episode of ITV’s Armchair Theatre, The Criminals, in which a bunch of respectable men at the New Year’s Eve party of a small construction company are forced to take part in a bank robbery by a ruthless crook (Stanley Baker, the star of Zulu) who has intimate knowledge of their private lives. Co-written by noted Doctor Who writer Malcolm Hulke, it also starred Peter Swanwick (The Prisoner) and Allan Cuthbertson (Edge of Darkness) with a minor appearance by Angus Lennie.
It’s this week’s Wednesday Play and you can watch it below – as always, if you like it, please buy it!
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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