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Vera is a dumpy, short, middle aged detective who possesses a whinny, dodgy Geordie accent and calls everyone 'pet' or 'love.' Her colleagues seem to have been cast on the basis of diversity, and not for their acting abilities. She constantly seems to pick on poor old Kenny, who is presented as a monosyllabic ageing detective, who's not very bright. The ending of each episode, always has Vera solving the crime, leaving her colleagues as nothing more than shadows. None of the other detectives appear to have any idea about solving the crime, indeed, they are so mediocre, it's a surprise they are still employed as part of the police service,

Set in a holiday camp, a bunch of pop artists, are featured singing uninspiring B type songs, and demonstrating that none of them can act. Mike Sarne, one hit wonder, and John Leyton, who had a couple of big hits, try hard, but with a threadbare storyline and awful dialogue, the film degenerates into a lot of manic leaping around without rhyme or reason. Freddie and the Dreamers are embarrassingly bad, since all of them were 'wooden' in the acting department, and their attempts at humour were as funny as a Sunday wet afternoon! A few years after the film was released, most of the singers drifted into obscurity and frankly I'm not surprised.

The storyline revolves around a highly dubious betting scam in horse racing. Enter, Ronald Shiner, playing a bookie, who I was never keen on, because in this film, like so many of his film roles, he is constantly shouting and grinning. His presence on the screen simply grates - and as for Brian Rix, here is once again playing the gormless 'village idiot' character, which is enough to send audiences running to the exit door, long before the film has finished. 'Dry Rot' was a 'popular' farce that ran for many years at the Whitehall Theatre in London, however, it's transfer to the big screen, failed miserably as the dialogue was excruciatingly bad and the slapstick antics were simply cringeworthy. Sid James gives some mild relief in his usual role as a 'dodgy' spiv type character, but even his comedic acting skills can't save this film from being a total dud. 'Dry Rot,' even when it was released in 1961, looked dated, and sadly with the passage of time, it can only be considered a tedious museum piece.