Thursday, May 17, 2012

Naive Avengersthon - 80. How To Succeed... At Murder

I rather enjoyed this one, with its super-efficient secretaries taking over businesses through a combination of professionalism and murder, in furtherance of a female world domination plan. A plan run by Henrietta and her gimp Henry (Artro Morris returning from Conspiracy of Silence); she is not seen until halfway through the episode, and even when her true nature is revealed, there's further misdirection about who's behind her - intriguing stuff.

Christopher Benjamin has a bizarre role as J.J. Hooter, a perfume expert with a very sensitive nose, who Mrs Peel consults during the investigation.

There's a really funny bit in the final shoot-out which regrettably I can't recount because it would spoil the Henrietta reveal.

Previously and also seen: Jerome Willis and Angela Browne both returning from Intercrime, David Garth from The Big Thinker.