A ‘Spearhead’ too realistic
“Jackal,” the episode of “Spearhead” screening on SPTV tonight (a scene is illustrated above), caused a stir among executives at Belfast’s Ulster TV. Orisinally scheduled to be screened on August 8 last year, Ulster TV station officials suddenly re-
alised that the politicallycharged Protestant Apprentice Boys’ march was scheduled to take place on August 13. “Jackal” follows the B Company platoon of the Royal Wessex Rangers, led by Colour Sergeant Jackson (Michael Billing-
ton), sent into a small Ulster town during a tense political rally. The soldiers battle rocks and stones hurled by young school children and in a sweep through side streets find a young boy hiding an abandoned warehouse.
Was he one of the demonstrators? Did he have any part in the violence that erupted? The soldiers, tired, tense and frightened, try to get the young boy to talk. For the Ulster TV executives “Jackal” was so realistic that, in an
eerie way, it almost looked like the documentary footage of the Belfast rally, made before the event took place; and a decision was made not to screen this episode in Northern Ireland.
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