[Alpines] TV Sighting: two Alpines!

[Mary and Ron Tebo]

Jim:

This one isn't on the "Alpines on the Silver Screen " list'. I wonder if 
T.J. Higgins still does updates!

Ron Tebo

On Sunday27/03/11 8:26 PM, TIGEROOTES at aol.com wrote:
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> 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.