It’s Dawn’s birthday and there are fireworks!

It’s Dawn’s birthday and there are fireworks!
It’s Dawn’s birthday and there are fireworks!

There’s a mix-up over Dawn’s surprise birthday present from her mum and it looks like her party could go with a bigger bang than expected! The trouble starts with an attempted robbery at a factory. The alarm goes off and two of the gang of three - Danny and Johnno - are left to leg it on foot when their driver Stuart speeds off. They get away and go to confront Stuart, but he does a runner. Then he’s murdered. And it doesn’t take Pcs Joe Mason and Don Wetherby long to put the robbery and Stuart’s death together, as Stuart worked at the factory that was broken into and knew the safe was stuffed with money. It all becomes dangerous for Dawn’s party when Danny goes to pick up a parcel of explosives, so he and Johnno can have another crack at the safe. He picks up Dawn’s surprise birthday present by mistake – and David collects the explosives instead of Dawn’s gift. Danny and Johnno go the pub to get the dynamite and Joe, Don and Sgt Miller are faced with an explosive situation. Oscar, meanwhile, finds his snooping leads to massive embarrassment when he’s forced to pose naked for an art class. Oh dear...

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.