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When eight men are killed in an Angolan diamond mine to cover the theft of uncut diamonds the trail leads to South Africa, a non-Interpol country requiring local help to catch the killer. I am enjoying playing "Spot the future star" among the guests, we have Patrick Troughton ( Dr Who ) Alfred Burke ( Public Eye ) and Warren Mitchell ( Alf Garnett ) mentioned on the box, there are may others who I won't name to allow others of my age to play along. The old maxim that You Can't be Tried Twice for the Same Crime determines him "to stop at nothing to take his revenge.
At the top of Shaft 7 at the Murico Diamond mine in Angola, 34 year old Dutchman Martin Bekker (Alfred Burke) is hiding some diamonds on his person.
We watch him and his blackmailed partner, "undesirable" Frederick Pimm, aka Ferenc Pimescu, hiding the paintings on a barge moored at Chelsea Reach. To obtain concrete evidence against her, police continue their surveillance, as she visits another jeweller. Theres a number of familiar guest stars, including Alfred Burke, Patrick Troughton, Warren Mitchell and Donald Pleasence.
Duval goes to North Africa to investigate a series of arms shipments that have been stolen from the Foreign Legion. The series featured guest appearances from Donald Pleasence, Warren Mitchell, Alfred Burke and Patrick Troughton, among many others. With 39 episodes on 5 discs in a very attractive minimalist box which takes up the space of a standard single dvd case, this set is great value for money and very entertaining.But it's surely "impossible" for Cliff to be the killer, since he is a thousand miles away in the race.