The Times, October 10, 1987,by Andrew Hislop
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[...] Despite its easy-going amusements, *Pulaski* was the 
more disheartening programme--especially since it was 
devised by a writer of the talents of Roy Clarke. Switching 
between the on and off screen lives of actors who play 
*Dempsey and Makepeace*-type roles, *Pulaski* sets itself up 
to debunk and transcend a limiting genre of packaged mid-
atlantic programmes only to slip back into their values.

Last week, Pulaski stepped into the real world and 
encountered a kitsch martial arts psychopath straight out of 
*The Enforcer*. This week a token critique of the industry 
was continued with a plot about a man whose new empire 
included American evangelical TV and *Pulaski*. But the 
dominating cosiness of the genre's mythology and received 
images again blurred fact and fiction, confirming, perhaps, 
that the programme's trickery is not much more than a 
reflection of our obsession with the merging fantasy world 
of our television stars and the characters they play. [...]



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