[Alpines] TV Sighting: two Alpines!

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I was working in the shop this afternoon and my girlfriend called me in to 
watch a TV program on RTV (retro TV network).  It was an episode of It Takes 
A Thief and she sighted two Sunbeam Alpines in it.

>From what I saw (joining the show in progress) there was a red Series 5 
with wire wheels and a large (typical) gap from the top of the front tire to 
the fender (common to Series 5's alone) and an early Series Alpine, I base on 
seeing white-needled gauges on its dashboard.

The red car appears briefly at the beginning of the show: later, the early 
Alpine with a Japanese woman driving 'chases' the late series car with 
Alexander Mundy driving for about 6-7 minutes, mid-show.  Oddly, the early car 
doesn't arrive at the end of the 'persuit' until several minutes after the 
late car arrives.  Here is the episode synopsis and other details.

Jim Leach    Pacific tiger Club     Seattle
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Season 2, Episode 9: A Case of Red Turnips

26 November 1968

Mundy is ordered to attend a foreign film festival and steal the only copy 
of an avant-garde motion picture. The movie's director accidentally filmed 
eleven American spies making a drop at a location behind the Iron Curtain and 
if the film is premiered the agents will all soon be captured or dead.