Bat Out of Hell

This 5-part series from ancient black and white tv times popped up on YouTube recently so I viewed it all asap of course - have seen the gravel-voiced John Thaw in just about everything he ever did, oodles of his more famous roles we have on DVDs - Inspector Morse (sob) and The Sweeney (ha ha) in particular. Here I was shocked to see Mr. Thaw when a mere boy, with his usually curly, wiry hair parted and plastered down, always in a suit and tie, a middle manager (or as he puts it, a glorified errand boy) for a real estate company with a flawlessly glib answer for everything, well, just about everything, what about that airline ticket to Australia? Tireless Thaw has a boss, an older gent with a hot blonde wife who is not looking forward to vacationing in the south of France because her husband has selected such a cheap hotel for them. While they'll be vacationing, she is sending her mink in for repairs but - oops - what's this gold cigarette case with the Bat Out of Hell inscription doing in one of her pockets? And that candy woman with unsweetened malice on her mind? You'll just have to watch and see.