Fur coats are big business, and a gang are targeting shops, stealing their stocks, and then rebranding them, but a silent alarm system, The Mechanical Watchman is alerting The Police.
What an interesting episode, I had no idea that such a wonderful instrument existed, how fascinating to read the trivia and learn more Boud The Mechanical Watchman, I imagine that led to many an arrest.
Writer Ken Taylor did a fine job here, it's an imaginative storyline, he penned the screenplay for Joan Hickson's Sleeping Murder, so a writer with a degree of talent.
This is one of the more memorable episodes I'd say, I really enjoyed it. Fur coats of course have a very different standing now, in 1959 they were regarded as the ultimate luxury, I remember as a child my grandmother having one, she used to say it made her feel like a Million Dollars.
I liked the way in which Maguire accidentally tipped off the actual miscreant of exactly how The Police are being alerted so quickly.
A good cast here, Arthur Lowe is unmistakable, but uncredited. Delphi Lawrence was very good, one of those actors that just seemed to work so hard, her, Derren Nesbitt and Frank Thornton seemed to pop up in many different parts.
This was so interesting.
8/10.