![]() ![]() Hired killers Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar drift through the series, gutting and maiming with glee, while spouting great lines ("obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed"). A young Peter Capaldi is superb as the oddly serene Angel Islington, while Trevor Peacock steals his every scene as the eccentric pigeon-fancier Old Bailey, who wears clothes made out of feathers. ![]() In the course of six episodes, heroes become villains, principals are killed off then resurrected, as all the while Mayhew stares goggle-eyed at a succession of British character actors having an absolute ball.Ĭhief among these is Paterson Joseph – aka Peep Show's Alan Johnson – hamming it up as The Marquis de Carabas, essentially a black Doctor Who but with a hint of Joseph's subsequent Peep Show alter ego. Plotwise, the series, which aired on BBC2 in 1996, is your basic whodunnit: a hunt for, and an escape from, the villains who massacred the family of the injured girl, who goes by the name of The Lady Door (handily abbreviated to Door). ![]()
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