After Regan gets a tip about an upcoming robbery from a trusted informant, the gang kidnaps his daughter to blackmail him into inaction.After Regan gets a tip about an upcoming robbery from a trusted informant, the gang kidnaps his daughter to blackmail him into inaction.After Regan gets a tip about an upcoming robbery from a trusted informant, the gang kidnaps his daughter to blackmail him into inaction.
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Jennifer Thanisch
- Susie Regan
- (as Jenny Thamisch)
Tony Allen
- Bill the Driver
- (uncredited)
Harold Coyne
- Detective
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaTrevor Preston called Susie Regan's teacher Miss Alexander to please his son whose own teacher was Julia Alexander, the girlfriend of actor Michael Elphick.
- GoofsEarly in the episode, Regan is complaining about only being able to afford a holiday in Eastbourne and a second-hand car, but later on, he has an "M" reg Ford Capri, which was new in 1974, when the episode was filmed.
- Quotes
[a woman in a short tennis skirt bends over, showing her knickers. Regan and Stanley Proctor leer at her]
Stanley Proctor: I could be arrested for what you were thinking!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Call the Cops: The Sweeney (2008)
- SoundtracksFast and Slow Shadows
Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by John Scott
Performed by John Scott
from "The World of Johnny Scott" Album
Courtesy of KPM
Featured review
Good One For The Wives
John Thaw's Inspector Regan is the kind of sex symbol that could only derive from the British 1970's... and while resembling the devil-head from the William Shatner roadside-cafe fortune-machine TWILIGHT ZONE episode, he's never at a loss for sexy birds...
Yet sometimes settling for somewhat plain ones, that actually fit him aesthetically and realistically over the bombshells... so here's a middle-ground in ABDUCTION as we meet his first wife, having been divorced before the series began, and young daughter, befitting the titular plot-line of kidnapping...
Like most of the series, there are enigmatic characters and more upfront blunt types: from a pretty blonde neighbor with a secret to future villainous-actor Stuart Wilson as the monotone doctor who took Regan's place with wife Janet Key...
Then leading to a risque twist-ending that befits a series far ahead of its time, and yet, since England's neo noir was always ahead of America... going all the way back to the 1950's... maybe it's par for the course...
Yet the most intriguing scenes occur with Regan's younger partner Dennis Waterman as Carter, who'd soon enough become a similar kind of womanizer as his gov...
But for the first two seasons he's married to an assertive and progressive but not too pushy Stephanie Turner, who, angry about her husband working on a genuine sick day, gives Regan more hell than anyone so far... male or female... ending the first season with a hybrid of suspense and melodrama.
Yet sometimes settling for somewhat plain ones, that actually fit him aesthetically and realistically over the bombshells... so here's a middle-ground in ABDUCTION as we meet his first wife, having been divorced before the series began, and young daughter, befitting the titular plot-line of kidnapping...
Like most of the series, there are enigmatic characters and more upfront blunt types: from a pretty blonde neighbor with a secret to future villainous-actor Stuart Wilson as the monotone doctor who took Regan's place with wife Janet Key...
Then leading to a risque twist-ending that befits a series far ahead of its time, and yet, since England's neo noir was always ahead of America... going all the way back to the 1950's... maybe it's par for the course...
Yet the most intriguing scenes occur with Regan's younger partner Dennis Waterman as Carter, who'd soon enough become a similar kind of womanizer as his gov...
But for the first two seasons he's married to an assertive and progressive but not too pushy Stephanie Turner, who, angry about her husband working on a genuine sick day, gives Regan more hell than anyone so far... male or female... ending the first season with a hybrid of suspense and melodrama.
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- Farringdon Point, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell, London, Greater London, England, UK(Arnold Foss jewellers, Covent Garden)
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