First viewed : 2 November 1988
The title of this series was a gift to writers. The Beeb decided to uproot Rockliffe from London and drop him in Dorset to rub up his carrot cruncher colleagues the wrong way. The "Folly" of course was the mistaken belief that we watched Rockliffe's Babies for the hammy ( ironically, Ian Hogg's acting was much better in this ) sergeant rather than the young ensemble cast under his wing.
The new series was much better looking, being all on film rather than VT and its storylines were decent ( I best remember the sad one about two young runaways getting ripped off in their dream destination ) but the viewing figures were very poor compared to the earlier series. Throwing the Babies out with the bathwater is its epitaph.
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