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With the seeming plethora of "fly on the wall" documentaries that abound on television, spoof police show Operation Good Guys was well timed, if not perfectly executed. Initially well observed and well received, by this third series the ideas were beginning to run dry. The programme still works when lampooning the documentary genre (the voice over and camera techniques are all cannily accurate) and there are some genuinely brilliant moments. The writers, however, appear to have lost confidence in the original idea and have been looking for more and more far-fetched plot devices (desert islands, religious cults) to bolster the material, pitching Operation Good Guys uncomfortably between satire and sitcom. Ignoring the golden rule of spoofing (play it straight, something that Police Squad did to such tremendous effect), much of the humour is too forced, too obvious. For far better television parody look to The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You, and People Like Us. --Phil Udell
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More adventures for DI Beach and DS Raymond Ash in this police spoof.
With the seeming plethora of "fly on the wall" documentaries that abound on television, spoof police show Operation Good Guys was well timed, if not perfectly executed. Initially well observed and well received, by this third series the ideas were beginning to run dry. The programme still works when lampooning the documentary genre (the voice over and camera techniques are all cannily accurate) and there are some genuinely brilliant moments. The writers, however, appear to have lost confidence in the original idea and have been looking for more and more far-fetched plot devices (desert islands, religious cults) to bolster the material, pitching Operation Good Guys uncomfortably between satire and sitcom. Ignoring the golden rule of spoofing (play it straight, something that Police Squad did to such tremendous effect), much of the humour is too forced, too obvious. For far better television parody look to The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You, and People Like Us. --Phil Udell
Synopsis
More adventures for DI Beach and DS Raymond Ash in this police spoof.
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