Ronald Lacy as Tearful Ted and Derek Francis as the Police Inspector, two good character actors of the era raise this story.
It's a lot of fun, firstly as Ted turns up at Duck Halt and starts blubbing, something that Catweazle can't understand, a man crying and isn't sympathetic.
" thou blubbering blowfly you'll turn the milk. What wet eyed wiffler is this Touchwood"
Ted's modus operandi, a tramp, obviously alerts Cedric that the thief of the croquet cups was Catweazle and on finding them stashed at Duck Halt initially blames Cat, but Cat's innocence is apparent, and I suppose Cedric can't just return them then and there, it would be tricky to explain where he got them without falsely incriminating Catweazle, so they plan to return them to Kings Farthing that night.
Tearful Ted, now masquerading as a Policeman returns to Kings Farthing too, presumably to rob again as he thinks his booty is safe with Catweazle at Duck Halt .
There's a nice scene where Catweazle meets Ted again, but doesn't recognise him and talks about blasting the thief who filched the silver without realising the thief is with him.
The whole midnight high jinx around Kings Farthing, with the police, His Lordship, Cedric pretending to sleepwalk , and Catweazle all running around almost but not quite meeting each other was well choreographed. In the end all is well as the silver trophies are returned, all except a silver ink well shaped like a crab, that Catweazle stole, or as he tells Cedric , borrowed, just until he flies. We know what we can expect from this series, a lot more humour, and the main characters have now settled down.
Charles and Dotty are whimsical upper class tories, and are fairly clueless, Mrs Gowdie thinks she runs the place, and probably does, Groome is a character like Sam in series 1, scratching his head at what's going on, and inadvertently caught up in Catweazle and Cedric's antics.
9/10
