Sent working undercover in a massage parlour,Lucy takes to her new life ‘like a duck to water’ rubbing down School for Sex man Derek Aylward and even finding time for a Sapphic moment with fellow masseuse Foxy (soon to become victim No.5). Enter WPC Lucy Sheridan (Mary Millington)-who eager to expand her horizons in the force gets the cheeky coppers hot under the collar with an impromptu striptease. While getting to the bottom of this old black magic,Campbell and Edwards are introduced to Playbird Lena Cunningham (Suzy Mandel) a girl who knows how to get herself noticed-wiggling her backside at oily Alan in order to become Astley’s cover girl successor,and also finding favour with her milkman when she answers the door in a see-through nightie and reminds him ‘I get it everyday’ (she means a bottle of cream.) Campbell puts her under 24 hour surveillance,but while he can’t keep his eyes off her when she’s prancing around naked at Satanic photo opportunities,later when his back is turned she becomes victim No.4 (for those counting two other Playbirds have ended up Deadbirds off-screen).Ĭombining their mucky minds Campbell and Edwards cook up the idea of sending a policewoman ‘undercover’ into the sex industry in order to get her on the next Playbirds cover. Ever willing to give the public want they want,oily man of polyester suits and gold medallions Lake gets a suspicious eye from the police when his latest pictorial turns out to be focused around witchcraft-represented here by a man in a joke-store werewolf mask being pleasured and dialogue like ‘sex, witchcraft and horses,the unholy trinity’. The detectives also have a large hi-tech computer system (by 1970’s standards) which comes up with a few more suspects like Terry Day a photographer with a violent past, Dudley Sutton’s ‘Creeping Jesus’ street preacher,and George Ransome-a‘clean-up’ campaigner,amateur astrologer,and even more amateur pervert (when one character dubs Ransome ‘a simple voyeur’ you half expect someone to quip back ‘there’s nothing simple about voyeurism’). Two detectives-one clueless (Gavin Campbell) the other bad tempered (Glynn Edwards), are on the case,and find a chief suspect in Astley’s boss-a wealthy porn baron and sex magazine publisher played by oily Alan Lake-in a role he clearly didn’t have to look far for real life inspiration.
Pat Astley starts the ball rolling, strutting her stuff around London before being strangled in her kitchen while making a cuppa tea. The downside?-a limping,cloth cap wearing psychopath is on a mission to snuff out Playbirds’ cover girls.
The Playbirds casts the most popular faces from Sullivan’s sex magazines, appropriately as models all vying to be the cover girl of soft porn magazine ‘Playbirds’ (a much plugged real-life Sullivan publication).
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