Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I can remember sitting in the lounge room with mum and dad watching "Gideon's Way" with it's familiar whistling theme and painting a picture of the bobby on the beat - you know, back in the days when parents always said "if you get lost, find a policeman"!! Watching the episodes over 45 years later the shows have not let me down and my husband thinks the series is fantastic. I also wonder whether Ruth Rendell got her idea for the Wexford and Burden books from these shows, her first book, "From Doon With Death" came out around 1964 I think. John Gregson is terrific as Commander Gideon, a down to earth copper who never takes things at face value and Alexander Davion is the younger Det. Chief Insp. Keene, full of ideas but often quick to judge. "The Rhyme and the Reason" was particularly good. It dealt with the new phenomena (for 1964) of the Mods and the Rockers. Keene is very dismissive, even the young murder suspect is convinced he won't be treated fairly due to his "Mod" outlook but Gideon believes in him and along with his sister helping, finds the real culprit.They weren't just "by the numbers" police shows but attempted to deal with psychological issues ie "The Tin God" was about a child who refused to believe his father, a desperate escapee, was anything but a hero. Another one "Big Fish, Little Fish" attempted to show what life was like for a little kid growing up in a family of hardened criminals - believe me it wasn't warm and cosy.I know it sounds simplistic but I just love all the episodes - a couple that stand out (apart from the ones I mentioned) are "The Lady Killer" - Keene always seemed to date models and this one took place among the beautiful people of the swinging sixties. "The Nightlifers" was about young people who live for kicks and Keene's girlfriend in this one is Jean Marsh (way before Rose in "Upstairs, Downstairs"). "Subway to Revenge" is about a girl who is very keen on her boss but she can tell he is in danger even if he can't and "The Wall", about a young couple who are very keen to move away from their pokey bedsit and their very creepy neighbour - a really super episode.As well, there were many parts played by actors just starting out who became huge stars - John Hurt, George Cole, Ray Barratt (in Australia), Donald Sutherland and a luminous Carol White who shot to fame the next year as the star of Ken Loach's "Cathy Come Home".Highly Recommended.

With the arrival of the box set of Gideons Way, hopefully more people will get a view of the superb John Gregson. Jack Hawkins played Gideon in a very flaccid film directed by John Ford. As much as I love Jack Hawkins, John Gregson is the definitive George Gideon. The series really does evoke England of the sixties and there is a multitude of famous names cropping up in this series. John Gregson was a superb actor and he is largely forgotten now 30 years after his death in Porlock Weir. With this box set and his appearances in Genevieve and Rooney perhaps now people will realise how good he was. There is a web site showcasing the great man designed by his great nephew http://www.johngregson.org.uk/. John Gregson is George Gideon but George Gideon is the great John Gregson

The 'Gideon's Way' TV series was based on a series of novels by John Creasey. The series was written/published, under the pseudonym of J J Marrick, between 1955 ('Gideon's Day') and 1976 ('Gideon's Drive'). I picked up another Gideon novel at an op shop (thrift shop) which was written and published after after John Creasey's death but was written by someone else using the pseudonym J J Marrick (it was very poor).As with the 60s TV series, 'The Baron', John Creasey is again strangely not credited here as at least the creator of the characters.

Long forgotten police drama series featuring the cases and adventures of honest family man copper Inspector Gideon.All the hallmarks of its production company are there,such as easily digestible stories that had an international appeal and production values that were head and shoulders above the well remembered police series of that day such as 'Z Cars' and 'Dixon Of Dock Green'. Shot entirely on film it was possibly one of the first British police series to escape the studio and use extensive location filming. TV stations have prejudice against shows made in black and white so consequently this has probably not been on TV since its first or second showing?