Dick Barton: Episode III - The Tango of Terror

Synopsis

A ruthless Latin lothario has set his sights on your baubles! No gal is safe from the swarthy continental's sultry seductions as he cha-cha's his wicked way into the boudoirs and jewellery boxes of Belgravia. Thank heavens there's a square-jawed British hero on hand to save the dignity and diamonds of our dowagers and debutantes - but will the fancy footwork of the foreign fiend defeat him?

Our Review:

14 December 2001

Phil Willmott and Croydon's tiny Warehouse Theatre have struck a seam of gold with their Dick Barton series. For our younger readers, the star of the BBC's first daily radio serial, private investigator and sometime special agent Dick Barton, appeared in 711 episodes between 1946 and 1951. With his two best mates (Jock Anderson and Snowy White) by his side and a slew of crime-busting gadgets that would make Dick Tracy (or even James Bond) green with envy, Dick managed to get into (and eventually out of) some pretty tight spots. Even in its day, I suspect, the square-jawed public school ex-commando and his working class menials represented an England that never was.

Willmott's first stage take on the character opened in December 1998 to much acclaim, a success which was to be repeated a year later with the second episode. This third endeavour replicates the same format in a style that can best be described as a straight-faced spoof on post-war British attitudes, BBC radio serial...

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