Through a chain of comedy events, this TV series follows the daily life of Detective Inspector Rabbit who has a new job to work with his partner, Strauss. With the help of the female officer Mabel Wisbech, three of them try to solve the crimes and murders that occur.
The gags, it seems in hindsight, were all about disability, prostitutes and mud, and all done with a certain frenetic foul-mouthiness substituting for actual humour.
It may simply be a question of Year of the Rabbit finding its feet, for relationships between the characters to develop beyond the mere exchange of insults, and for the plot, which extends across the series, to take hold.
It's Ripper Street with knob gags in, and Keeley Hawes as an evil crime boss to come. What, unless of course it isn't your sort of thing, is not to like?
