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Sir John Glutton (Christopher Benjamin) is trying to illegaly seize the land of the local farmers, and to quelch any rebellion in its infancy, he has a few random locals arrested in order to hang tthem - hoping for newly apponted judge Lambsfoot (John Barrard) to be sympathetic to his cause. Now one of the men he had his second-in-command Captain Spiker (David Daker) arrest is Radstock (Ray Mort), father of Swiftnick's girlfriend Emmy (Sarah Webb). So Swiftnick breaks into Glutton's place to break out Radstock - but is arrested instead and also put on trial. Now a jailbreak isn't easy to stage, even for Swiftnick's friend and mentor Dick Turpin (Richard O'Sullivan), so he holds up Judge Lambsfoot's coach when he's on his trip over to the local court and dresses up as him, to turn Glutton's sham trial into a whole other kind of farce - which ultimately culminates in a big brawl and ends with Turpin getting away with Swiftnick and Radstock, leaving Glutton and Spiker once again humiliated.

Now the start of this episode actually shows some tendency towards social commentary, which in itself is rather commendable if handed a bit heavy-handedly - but that said, this episode actually comes to life when Richard O'Sullivan dresses up as the judge, giving a highly amusing performance helped by clever dialogue that has the high and mighty beaten by their own devices. In other words, this one is pretty amusing and has its heart in the right place on top of that.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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