written by Alan Fennell
directed by David Lane
Straker and Foster are trapped when the Skydiver is stranded deep underwater.
A change of pace and location for an aquatic flavoured episode that focuses on a small number of people trapped with both air and rescue options running out. There is at first a fairly generic feel to proceedings that are hardly new even for 1969 but as the situation develops both writer Alan Fennell and director David Lane add enough variation to make this one of the more serious episodes of a series that it is sometime difficult to take very seriously. By the time the final two are gasping for air at the last minute you are gripped by it all. And, let’s face, it, there has been little evidence of that happening in this show before.
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| Straker was starting to regret having rissoles for tea |
