Justice - S01E12 - A License to Build Your Own Money

[@josephglover4256]

Like looking at another planet compared to now! R.I.P. Britain. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🙏

[@bobmirdiff2043]

Mr Farber is played by the actor David Graham. This was one of his few acting roles on television - However, many will recognise his voice. In the Thunderbirds Puppet Series he voiced Parker, Brains and Gordon Tracy. He is now 96 and is the voice of 'Grandpa Pig' in the children's series Peppa Pig!

[@johnking5174]

6:50 - WOW, the Yorkshire Television catering department certainly did well here for these two, what a superb upper class luncheon. All real food and wine.

[@MoneyStory52]

“I’ve never seen the poetry in poetic justice.”

[@michaelhughes4466]

Easily the best of the dozen episodes I've seen so far, two principled characters at odds over an issue still relevant. Much more interesting than stories about commonplace crooks and the impecunious.

[@johnking5174]

8:05 - That £1 million of land in 1971 when this was made would be valued now at £16 million in 2021 values.

[@johnking5174]

Joss Ackland who played Sir Robert Beste in this episode is still alive as of June 2021. He is 93 years old.

[@dadodydo]

In this episode he plays a pompous ass.

[@meirwise1107]

Margaret Lockwood was class, sheer class.

[@johnking5174]

Joss Ackland who played Sir Robert Beste in this episode is still alive as of June 2021. He is 93 years old.

[@MoneyStory52]

John is always running off leaving Harriet.

[@jubileebaby9787]

Matt Skilbeck

[@Skylark_Jones]

Developers and farming practices over decades have led to Britain being one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, according to the latest State of UK Nature report 2023. That Ackland character is true to life: men in powerful positions who want more money and who don't care what they do or destroy to get it: alas, there are quite a few of them.

[@johnking5174]

However he did plan to employ over 1,000 people with this. In 1971, with unemployment increasing, this was an important plan to consider.

[@johnking5174]

Sir John always mentions about the amount of tax he has to pay in these episodes. Reason being was that by 1971, high earners such as top barristers, QCs were taxed at very high income tax rates. If Sir John for example earned say £50,000 in 1971, he would be subjected to income tax levels of up to 75% along with National Insurance. This is why he took so many high earning cases.

[@seltaeb9691]

My heart bleeds..

[@johnking5174]

@@markcoveryourassets I am always amazed at the high income tax rates back in 1970s Britain. Even for people on the basic salary, meaning anything under £5,000 a year say in 1973, they were taxed at 30%, later increased to 35% by 1976.

[@jenniferpierno6108]

They a lot of whiskey in old British films and TV series

[@seltaeb9691]

Top script. In 50mins you would get now in 3 or 4 drawn out episodes. Shame we don't have the advert breaks. Ads now are crass & mainly venal with gambling adverts & charity adverts who are after your money by lotteries which is gambling & had been banned for decades for good reasons. Afternoons are targeted for mums at home or OAPs with Bingo gambling but addictive gambling. I'm happy with gambling shops or bingo halls which are very social gatherings for many older generations. Gambling ads should be after 9pm.

[@dadodydo]

"Developers" a.k.a. destroyers of the environment, there and everywhere else. A disappointing episode.

[@JohnSmith-wm6io]

The guy who plays the lawyer is a typical pompous type that is typical of all British barristers

[@johnking5174]

The superb Philip Stone, a very well known actor, who appeared in The Shining as the butler. Philip had developed a great talent for playing pompous, arrogant, upper class toffs, but always had a bit of charm, coldness and bite to his performances.

[@seltaeb9691]

He's actually acting this.

[@dadodydo]

A rather unsavory character.

[@monetfaversham6703]

Why are these characters portrayed in such an affectatious manner, so artificial and so unnecessary. Even the villains speak in that same feigned manner.. The attitude of their profession should express something more akin to primordial, something with which an audience should or could relate to. The Granada series, Crown Court was successful in this respect, down to earth and much more in tune with real life behaviour. The characters in Justice are so pompous they end up becoming caricature of themselves so the programme becomes more akin to a comedy which they certainly seem to want to aspire to. The plots likewise are forced therefore to become exaggerated. extreme and implausible