{"id":367,"date":"2009-12-23T13:17:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofah.webhostingireland.ie\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T10:38:44","slug":"the-longest-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/the-longest-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: right; margin:5px 0 5px 5px;\">\n<amp-auto-ads type=\"adsense\"\r\n              data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\">\r\n<\/amp-auto-ads>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The Longest Night Episode Review<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Brief:<\/strong> Just as Del and family are out buying their weekly  French stick, Tom the security guard approaches them, it&#8217;s obviously due to  being a prized customer. Then it all goes pear-shaped. A burglar; little Lennox,  makes a daring raid on the local supermarket, what&#8217;s worse &#8211; Del sold him a duff  watch down the local market&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transmitted: 14.09.1986<br \/>\nDuration: 30 minutes<br \/>\nViewing Figures: 16.7 million<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p><div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ofah2-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5593259115\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Del, Rodney, and Albert are mistakenly apprehended as shoplifters by an  overzealous security guard at the Top Buy Supermarket. And things get worse when  they&#8217;re taken to the manager&#8217;s office and realise that they&#8217;ve lost their  receipt for the goods.<\/div>\n<div>Shortly after, Tom the security guard brings a cocky shoplifter, Lennox  Gilbey, into the manager&#8217;s office, where he promptly pulls out a gun and demands  money from the safe.<\/div>\n<div>Unluckily for Lennox the safe is on a time-lock and due to the dodgy watch  he&#8217;s wearing, he&#8217;s 15 minutes later than he planned &#8211; and the safe doesn&#8217;t open  until 8am the next morning.<\/div>\n<div>After being held hostage throughout the night, Del realises that he sold  the dodgy watch to Lennox, and that he also knew him as a kid. By preying on his  guilty conscience, Del persuades Lennox to reveal that the plan was hatched by  Tom and the supermarket manager to get at the \u00a360,000 stored in the safe.<\/div>\n<div>The three accomplices beg Del not to go to the police, and instead, he  arranges for Lennox to get a job as security guard at the supermarket after  Tom&#8217;s retirement, and then makes sure he wins a \u00a31,000 prize as the millionth  customer in the store.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/longest.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/longest4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/longest5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/longest2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>Episode Observations<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Longest Night, Lennox Gilby (the robber) has odd shoes on!<\/li>\n<li>In the Longest Night, how did the Trotters, Tom and the manager, and  Lennox, who was he gunman, survive 14 hours without going to the toilet. Surely  at the end when they all left after they found it was a set up to get some cash,  they were bursting.<\/li>\n<li>In the Longest Night, Tom Clarke the Head Of Security in the supermarket  is played by John Bardon better known now as Jim Branning in Eastenders.<\/li>\n<li>In the Longest Night, Vas Blackwood who plays Lennox gilby is the same  man who plays Rory Breaker in lockstock and Two smoking Barrels.<\/li>\n<li>In the Longest Night, during the scene when Lennox is shoplifting, watch  carefully when he opens a can of beer &#8211; inside his jacket he has the &#8220;long stick  things&#8221;. The next few shots then show this item to be missing from his jacket  and then we are shown him picking the item from the shelf and putting it in his  jacket!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>The Longest Night Script<\/h2>\n<div>The script will be downloadable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/files\/The%20Longest%20Night.txt\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Did You Know?<\/h2>\n<div>The idea for the script was based on a true story about a robber  who wnet into a supermarket, and pulled off a con with securitymanager and store  manager.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/the-longest-night\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"\" class=\"alignright wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>The Longest Night Episode Review Brief: Just as Del and family are out buying their weekly French stick, Tom the security guard approaches them, it&#8217;s obviously due to being a prized customer. 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A burglar; little Lennox, makes a daring raid on the local supermarket, what&#8217;s worse &#8211; Del sold him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","category-series-5"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Longest Night<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Longest Night Episode Review Brief: Just as Del and family are out buying their weekly French stick, Tom the security guard approaches them, it&#039;s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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