Crocodile Shoes: Boom (BBC-1 19 Dec 1996 with Christopher Fairbank)

UK / BBC One – Big Boy – Red Rooster / 1×50 minute episode / Broadcast 19 December 1996

Writer: Jimmy Nail / Director: Roger Bamford

Series: Crocodile Shoes / Season 2 Episode 6

In Boom, the boss of Paradigm records Pilsbury has been sacked and an investigation under way, it looks like the company owes Jed an awful lot of money, meanwhile journalist Quimby now believes Jed’s story and is digging into the Bowles affair and D.I. MacCluskey begins to realise he has gotten in too deep.

Alan Clarke is keen for Jed to get a record out and Jed is keen to put things on a more permanent setting with Wendy and proposes marriage but Wendy is still struggling to get over the Jed and Lucy thing. Jed realises that an appearance on live TV offers up the perfect chance to set things straight once and for all.

The big finale of the second season sees an all out chase develop as Bowles realises he is running out of time and options. We won’t reveal too much here but things don’t necessarily end the way you think they are going to end especially when Bowles’ hitman Connors decides to kidnap Wendy.

guest cast
ANTHONY MILNER as Ted Quimby
MARCUS HUTTON as Andy Morton
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK as Alan Clarke
SARA STEWART as Lucy
DONALD SUMPTER as Pilsbury
ROBERT MORGAN as Warren Bowles
TREVOR BYFIELD as Connors
KENNETH MacDONALD as D.I. McClusky
ELIZABETH CARLING as Wendy
SAMMY JOHNSON as Archie
MICKEY HUTTON as Tony
ALISON STERLING as Kate – Vicar
PAUL PALANCE as Big Chrissie
STEWART BEVAN as Superior Officer 1
NORMAN ESHLEY as Superior Officer 2
JEFFREY KNOX as Omo
JACK McBRIDE as D.S.S. Man
BRIAN WALSH as Bobby
LES WILDE as Committee Man
ROY PATTISON as Walter Fines
MICKEY HUTTON as Tony
CHRISTOPHER CONNEL as Paul
JON GLOVER as Host
ROBERT GWILYM as Producer