Deep and Crisp and Stolen is a 1964 British television play by Dave Freeman directed by Ronald Marriott. It was a Christmas season "special" featuring many cameos from British television stars of the time and aired on 21 December 1964.
A gang of thieves rob a West End department store on Christmas Eve.
According to BFI Screenoline "the audience-pleasing focus of the play being the guest appearance of Detective Chief-Superintendent Lockhart (played by Raymond Francis), the hero of ITV's popular police drama No Hiding Place (1959-67)." [1] The play was described by the Western Daily Press as a "cracking good comedy." [2]
The Birmingham Evening Mail called it "hardly the hilarious thing it seemed intended to be." [3] The Guardian said it was "mostly rubbish". [4] The Daily Telegraph declared it was "a very entertaining piece of nonsense." [5] The show was the seventeenth most popular program of the year on British television with an audience of 7.46 million. [6]
Deep and Crisp and Stolen is a 1964 British television play by Dave Freeman directed by Ronald Marriott. It was a Christmas season "special" featuring many cameos from British television stars of the time and aired on 21 December 1964.
A gang of thieves rob a West End department store on Christmas Eve.
According to BFI Screenoline "the audience-pleasing focus of the play being the guest appearance of Detective Chief-Superintendent Lockhart (played by Raymond Francis), the hero of ITV's popular police drama No Hiding Place (1959-67)." [1] The play was described by the Western Daily Press as a "cracking good comedy." [2]
The Birmingham Evening Mail called it "hardly the hilarious thing it seemed intended to be." [3] The Guardian said it was "mostly rubbish". [4] The Daily Telegraph declared it was "a very entertaining piece of nonsense." [5] The show was the seventeenth most popular program of the year on British television with an audience of 7.46 million. [6]