Tuesday 7 October 2008

My Top Ten Kavanagh QC Stories: No 4 A Family Affair

The Look...
A Family Affair… (First screened in the UK television on 17th January 1995, writer Adrian Hodges.) When a father takes the law into his own hands and snatches his young son, it leads to a custody battle another case for Kavanagh. Allegations of child abuse and professional misjudgements create further complications.
George Costigan is a marvellous actor (anyone seen him in Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, he was incredible in his role, one of his best accomplishments) and has appeared several times with John over the years, I thought his performance in Kavanagh was pure class, and this is one very complicated case.

The scene where Lizzie sets the clock early so she and James can have some love before he goes to work, is beautifully done, and his James's face in the morning when his daughter comments to him is wonderful.
The scene between Michael and Peter, and the teacher are very disturbing, the way the father hits the teacher with a baseball bat, ouch!!

Then we have James, Jeremy, Peter, and Tom watching the sex video in James’s office, but trying not to look as if they are paying attention, very funny.

Lovely to see the singer Toyah making her drama appearance in Kavanagh (though she might have done stuff that I don’t know about), thought she was rather first-rate and had me in stitches.

John Shrapnel who played the judge I thought was exceptional, granted he came to the wrong decision in the end, mind couldn’t blame him the way the father managed to persuade everyone.
Finally the last scene with Peter (played by Peter England) the young lad, I thought was outstanding, and watching him finally breakdown because his father didn’t want anyone to know what he had secretly planned with his son, pure class!!

1 comment:

leila_poole said...

The best sense are the Kavanaghs at home in the is episode, the fact that Lizzie sets the clock earlier so she can have some loving with James makes me laugh! I love this epsiode too!