Then our hero, the trick cyclist, declaring all that is bad about the Freemasons ...

But do you know, the perpetrator just happened to be a flawed Christian, using other fervent Christian recruits to carry out the murders.  However, what will stay in viewers' minds?  Not anything about how Christianity can be mis-appropriated by weirdos, I bet, but only the Masons.

To go back to the purple robes: plenty of S & C embroidery, but surprisingly on this occasion, not a pinny in sight!

* Michael Cochrane - does he ever play anyone else but a posh baddy?  Not really "bad" this time, but definitely suspect, as a Mason!

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I simply refuse to watch such "dramas" these days.  Also it annoys me intensely how they get matters totally wrong, if you are going to do it, at least do it properly. Just imagine if some of these fools purported to show what happens at a Roman Catholic Mass and had the actor playing the Priest cavorting around the Altar in a Chasuble but getting everything wrong and making a mockery of a divine service? I can imagine the totally justified outrage from RCs across the UK.

I like Michale Cochraine as Sir Henry Simmerson in Sharpe. To me he is the only one who can do justice to that character. As regards to this rather odd programme I had to laugh the whole way through it.

I should point out tha aside from errors relating to the Craft there where many errors in realtion to Christian art. In one scene the heroric Robson Green has a picture of St Sebastian to which he refers to it as St Lawrence? Not to mention a few other things.

Lauredale,

I agree with what you say in realation to the Roman Catholic church. Although I daresay they would argue amongst themselves as to what is the true rite of mass. Is it latin or is it post Vatican II. I have seen many many times on the BBC and ITV a so called reconstruction of an Anglican Eucharist celebration done the wrong way. (Although how you can go wrong is beyond me considering it is all there in the Book of Common Prayer).

"Do not attribute to malice that which can easily be explained by stupidity" (William of Ockham)

Simmerson: well, he was yet another "posh arm-ole" played expertly by Cochrane.  I first came across him in "Wings" (a series about the RFC).  Talk about type-cast!  Maybe he is really a nice bloke in the flesh?

As for the picture, I didn't listen too carefully, immediately knowing it to be St Sebastian.  Just another bit of ignorance by the script writer.

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