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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Bergerac on U&Drama: Bergerac's back, but now he's a train wreck who's sozzled every night...
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Bergerac was one of the first detective dramas to lure top actors into one-off roles each week.
Early in the first season, she donned a blonde bubble-perm wig and blue eyeshadow to play the drunken mother of a pickpocket who steals a consignment of drugs by mistake. That was 1981, and it's alarming to realise that Damien Molony, who plays Bergerac as the Channel Islands detective series is rebooted, wasn't even born when the original show began. 'You've aged well,' wise-cracking doctor Seamie (Paddy Considine) tells his ex-girlfriend, movie producer Wendy (Mad Men's Christina Hendricks) in the spooky comedy Small Town, Big Story (Sky Atlantic).
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