Dixon of dock green meets straw dogs

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2007)

a great British comedy but it might not travel too well internationally.London super-cop nick is promoted and sent to the west country for being too good at his job.he arrives in the village of sandford which is virtually crime free.but he thinks that under the peaceful surface dark forces may be at work.too many freak accidents occur and he thinks they might be murders.i wont say more.
the jokes come thick and fast and you need to be on your toes to catch the visual ones plus all the nods to other films of the same genre i.e. the bear trap round the head in the nod to straw dogs.i liked the police station swear-box where words like sh*t and f**k were spelt with asterisk's but c*nt was spelt in full.
the cast read like a who's who of British acting edward woodward,timothy dalton and jim broadbent to name but a few,and where else could you see veteran actress billie whitelaw toting a machine-gun.
great fun