The Sunday Times, November 1, 1987, by Patrick Stoddart
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[...] There is another, and far more delicious clash between 
BBC1 and London Weekend Television and London Weekend 
Television on Friday nights. At 9.0pm, ITV is running 
retreates of *Dempsey and Makepeace* (the one about the 
roughshod American crimebuster and his fancy English rose 
partner) and at 9:30pm, BBC1 is running *Pulaski*, the one 
about the American cator playing a roughshod crime buster 
and his fancy English rose partner, and making the 
television company's life a misery in the process. The 
point, of course, is that *Dempsey and Makepeace* was 
precisely the show that *Pulaski* was devised to send up--a 
task it is performing with considerable elan. I think we 
might tire of David Andrews' sub-Nicholson drawl almost as 
quicky as we do of his permanent drunkenness--a state which 
was not helped by the characters' visit to the Cannes film 
festival in Friday's episode. But there are some lean and 
hungry lines to be found, and I suspect the on-set follies 
are almost as funny to outsiders as they are to people in 
the business, if making television programmes can be called 
a business. Either way, it is now even less possible to 
watch *Dempsey and Makepeace* without corpsing than it was 
before. [...]



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