In a TV title sequence, former pop heartthrob Adam Faith, in a faded denim jacket and a feathered barnet, grabs an unattended black briefcase off the back seat of a parked limo and scarpers. But what’s this? Faith trips, the briefcase falls open and its payload of lovely lolly is cast to the winds – a low-rent callback to the denouement of Stanley Kubrick’s classic track-heist noir, The Killing.
The predicament of Faith’s character – Ronald “Budgie” Bird – is made more wretched by the show’s theme song, a mournful dirge voiced by a none-more-enervated singer who may or may not be The Kinks’ Ray Davies (the theme was released under the act name Cold Turkey in 1972) – although if it’s not him, it’s a good impression. Davies certainly wrote the tune,…

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