Whinfrey's Last Case

Episode aired Oct 10, 1979
TV-G
32m

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7.8/10

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Adventure Comedy

In 1913 the British government, hearing that the Germans are planning World War I, ask top agent Whinfrey to intervene, but instead he decides to go on holiday to Cornish fishing village Tor... Read allIn 1913 the British government, hearing that the Germans are planning World War I, ask top agent Whinfrey to intervene, but instead he decides to go on holiday to Cornish fishing village Torpoint. Here he believes he has stumbled upon a smuggling ring, but in fact they are German... Read allIn 1913 the British government, hearing that the Germans are planning World War I, ask top agent Whinfrey to intervene, but instead he decides to go on holiday to Cornish fishing village Torpoint. Here he believes he has stumbled upon a smuggling ring, but in fact they are Germans who are masquerading as locals in an advance invasion party. The British arrive and arre... Read all

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Whinfrey's Last Case

Whinfrey's Last Case is certainly a parody of those Boy's Own adventures and clearly something The Comic Strip Presents........ would emulate a few years later with its Famous Five Parodies.

There is a hint of John Buchan's The 39 Steps about this. Whinfrey has spent the last15 years of his life either brokering peace or starting conflicts. He has had enough.

When military officials visit him in 1913 that the Germans plan to start a war a year earlier. Whinfrey decides to go for a holiday in the Cornish coast instead.

Only when he arrives at the fishing village of Torpoint, it seems he is not wanted. His guest house is full of servants big enough to maintain a vast country estate. They are also acting a little shifty.

Whatever it is Whinfrey is clueless and he stays clueless throughout. He just about manages an escape when the room he is locked in has a multitude of secret escape routes.

It really is a sharp satire of the stiff upper lip, gentleman amateur.

Trivia
Because a strike altered recording dates a number of performers had to drop out and be recast.

Goofs
The caption at the beginning of scene 2 says the year is 1913, while the mantle calendar in scene 3, shortly thereafter, reads TUESDAY 26 JUNE; however, 26 June 1913 was a Thursday.

Quotes
Gerald Winfrey: Truth be told, I was jolly fed up with being a hero. Having to save the country two or three times a week meant I could get nothing done at all.