Season 3 • Episode 5
LatestRetirement has given Mr Rose the time not only to cultivate a cottage garden in Eastbourne but also to write his memoirs. And it’s the impending publication of those memoirs that brings a number of figures crawling out of the woodwork and back into his life: criminals and former colleagues alike, who know that his vast personal library of case files holds a wealth of incriminating detail.
Acting
William Mervyn's velvet-gloved menace as the unflappable Mr. Rose.
Writing
Philip Mackie's crisp, class-conscious dialogue.
Production
Gloomy Eastbourne locations that breathe postwar melancholy.
Creator
Philip Mackie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
William Mervyn was already 60 when cast, making Rose's retirement age-authentic for 1967.
The series captured Britain's anxiety about the collapsing class system, using crime as metaphor for social exposure.
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