First viewed : Autumn 1987
This one went down like a lead balloon. Roy Last of the Summer Wine Clarke decided to try his hand at a detective show parody and came up with his horror. Pulaski was the name of a fictional cop show similar to ITV's Dempsey and Makepeace where an American ex-priest and his female sidekick righted wrongs. The twist was that we then saw that the actor playing Pulaski , Larry Summers ( David Andrews ) was in reality a drunken arsehole despised by co-star Kate ( Caroline Langrishe ). But in a further twist fans of the show wanted him to solve their cases and the crooks involved expected him to behave like Pulaski too.
It was far too "clever" for its own good and that , coupled with having a detestable leading actor, alienated both viewers and critics alive. I remember Nina Myskow excoriating it. I think I saw just the one episode where he was poncing about in a dress and that was more than enough.
The series was canned after just 8 episodes. Andrews hasn't appeared on British TV since but his film c.v. is actually quite impressive.
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