It Must Be the Suit

Out has to be filed under: You telling me your parents let you watch this as a kid!

I used to reply I also watched Target and Gangsters and they were much more violent.

This was the first time I saw Tom Bell and I cannot imagine any other actor playing Frank Ross. Bell had this chiselled face that really fitted his character.

Frank is out of prison and arrives back to a London that has changed in the years he has been inside. Now he wants to find the grass who gave him an eight year stretch for a failed robbery.

Bell perfectly catches Fran's confusion as he steps off the train. When his old friends throw a party for him and have a woman ready for sex, he is still a bit lost. Incidentally writer Trevor Preston loved slightly seedy party scenes in his Thames/Euston shows. They were ripe for some aggro.

By the end of the episode, Frank is sure of himself. It takes a knife fight to show everyone how mean he can be.

I still remember the line by the cab driver in an early scene as some punks walk by. 'If the Martians invaded, what will they think!'