The Sweeney 1975

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The Sweeney 1975

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Here's a clip from The Sweeney that fans of the 1970s Famous Five series will find
interesting. It of course features Jennifer Thanisch playing the part of Jack Regans daughter Susie Regan.

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Good stuff, Petermax. It's great to see those chunky old telephones!

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Here's another actor from the 1970s Famous Five TV series who has appeared in "The Sweeney", this time it is Ronald Fraser. A very well established character actor until his death in 1997, Fraser played the part of Mr Barling in Five Go To Smuggler's Top back in 1977.

Here he is in a short clip from a 1976 Sweeney episode, ”Selected Target”.
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I remember Ronald Fraser playing Mr Barling. He was very good.

I also remember seeing him in an old movie, can't remember the name but I think it had CROOKS in the title. And they were hiding out on an island, dressed as Monks. Barbara Windsor was also in the production.

The reason why I say this, is because it was filmed, (or some of it was) down here in Cornwall, in a little fishing cove called Portloe. The island of course is ficticious.
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The Sweeney, is one of my favourite TV programmes, featuring two of my all time favourite Actors - Dennis Waterman and John Thaw, below is a screencap of Jennifer Thanisch as Susie Regan, from The Sweeney episode Golden Fleece (1975).

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She looks so small and cute there! :D I really like that picture.
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The film that Julie had in mind starring Ronald Fraser was "Crooks in Cloisters" (1963)

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Sadly the You Tube links above are no longer working.
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Sad that the old good series will not aired today. I have never seen the sweeney's in Germany. I know it was doubt, but how I described. :-( Thanks for the picture above intersting.
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The three episodes of The Sweeney, featuring Jennifer Thanisch as Susie Regan.

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:roll:
Have any of you Brits ever found it odd that Jennifer Thanisch's name was often misspelled in the end credits of the episodes she ever guest-starred in??
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