Oh, no not the dreaded TV tie-in! I shudder to think what sins it committed, even aside from omitting Pamela, which is a fairly big omission (I didn't even think there were three episodes in any given series she wasn't in.) Which means it's probably S1 (they'd have known how popular she was after that) and if so it can't be eps 1 and 13, as she's in those, or certainly episode 1, and it would be weird for Barbara Murray to be out of the big finale, which in S1's case also heavily involved Susan Weldon. (S2 is the big Bligh showdown, which would be a terrible waste to get in mere tie-in version.) So, spill: plots, which ones did it go for? Did it have the Exports Board in? (And if so, Colin or thingy?)

that if anything, Sir John would be an improvement on whoever's doing the same thing today.

He does, er, get stuff done, you can at least say that for him!