Orphaned Episodes: Bad Penny Blues (Perfect Scoundrels)
The introduction to this series of posts can be found here . Well my planned series of posts on odd episodes of shows which are floating around the internet and have not been commercially released, has started incredibly badly! I started this with a good dozen episodes of shows which I thought would be eligible. Some turn out to be bits of films pretending to be TV shows, some have actually been released, one turned out to end abruptly ten minutes in when I actually watched it and some are just plain bad. But we press on. In the midst of this I have discovered the phrase 'aspirational television', which was used for one of the shows I have discarded. As far as I can tell this refers to shows like Howard's Way, where you watch rich people worrying about their rather different worries from those of ordinary people. I had no idea this concept existed and will not be inflicting it on you here. The actual subject of this post is the show Perfect Scoundrels which is almost t...