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south" target="_blank">South by south" target="_blank">South East is a 1991 British six-part detective series broadcast on ITV written and directed by Anthony Horowitz and starring Dursley McLinden, Colin Dale and Monique van de Ven. It is based on, or was novelised into, the third book of the Diamond Brothers series, south" target="_blank">South by south" target="_blank">South East (1991). The series was broadcast as part of the CITV block on Tuesday afternoons at around 4:30pm. The plot and title is a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film, North by Northwest.




Synopsis


Tim Diamond, the world's most incompetent private detective, lives in a flat above his office in Camden Town with his teenage brother Nick. One day, a mysterious client, by the name of Jake McGuffin, enters their office, and explains that he is an MI6 agent, working with the Dutch secret service to stop a contract-killer called Charon from murdering a Russian diplomat and re-starting The Cold War. He claims that he's being chased by two henchmen and needs to make a call. Since their phone had been cut off, he offers Tim fifty pounds for his overcoat so that he can make it to a telephone box without being seen.
Later on, Nick, the sharper of the two brothers, spots that McGuffin had left his hotel room key on the desk. The two brothers rush down the alley to the telephone box and find McGuffin has been shot. As a loud train passes on the flyover, McGuffin mutters his final words to Tim.
Their investigation into Charon leads them wanted by the police for armed bank robbery, handcuffed and held at gunpoint by a guesthouse owner, machine-gunned by a bi-plane in a cornfield, chased by two armed henchmen and being hunted by the world's deadliest assassin.




Production


south" target="_blank">South by south" target="_blank">South East was intended as a sequel to the 1988 film Just Ask for Diamond, based on the first Diamond Brothers novel published two years prior, The Falcon's Malteser (1986). There had been a second novel published the following year, Public Enemy Number Two (1987), however it was considered that some of the plot was too violent and impractical to film. It is not clear whether the series is a direct adaptation of the book south" target="_blank">South by south" target="_blank">South-East (1991), or vice versa. The series was produced by Red Rooster Films and IDTV, being sponsored by TVS and AVRO.
Ron Burrage, a Hitchcock lookalike, made an inconspicuous appearances in every episode. The exterior of Tim's office and flat was filmed above Chalk Farm station on The London Underground, near Camden Town. In a Radio Times article, Jenny Agutter stated she was invited to play her role, as she had given a 'very favourable review' of Just Ask For Diamond.




Distribution


south" target="_blank">South by south" target="_blank">South East was neither released on home video nor rebroadcast after it aired in 1991. Evidence of the series was confirmed by a BFI record of the series as well as a brief mention from Horowitz in the third edition of The Falcon's Malteser. It was considered lost media until images were found online, and later videos began to surface on YouTube. Perhaps why it was never shown again was the poor direction of the series; in an online article of The Telegraph Horowitz stated, “I was a hopeless director, I was no good at all.”




Episode list






Cast


Dursley McLinden - Tim Diamond
Colin Dale - Nick Diamond
Monique van de Ven - Charon
Jenny Agutter - Bank Manager
Anna Massey - Mrs. Bodega
Michael Gough - Mr. Waverly
Ron Burrage - Discreet appearance by
Michael Feast - Chief Inspector Snape
Gordon Winter - Boyle
Michael Howe - Jake McGuffin
Leo Wringer - Ed
Tim Faulkner - Taxi Driver (Red)
Frans de Wit - Bulldog
Rodney Beddal - Scarface
Boris Isarov - Boris Kusenov
David Goudge - Ted
Ed Bauer - Mr. Marvano
John Bluthal - Mr. Webber
Peter Copley - Mr. Ferguson
Nigel Pegram - Police Commissioner
Edward Hibbert - Sotheby's Assistant
Marcia Warren - Mrs. Jackson
Jonathan Coleman - Mr. Blondini
Thom Hoffman - Hugo Rushmore
Jos Fluhr - Dr. Monika Bloem
John Quentin - Auctioneer
Sally Faber - Television reporter




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