cmncm0101_nothingtoseehere_1417Being invisible should be a crook’s dream… but it’s more of a nightmare…

The Counter Measures team are back in action, and we’ve hit the 1970s. The recent feature length story brought everyone back, and now they’re facing… well, actually, they’re facing pretty similar foes to the ones they fought before, just with a slightly more Seventies background. (The new chronological placement is hammered home remarkably unsubtly early in this episode as the team list various movies from the period as their favourites!) I’d got the impression at the end of the special that the team’s existence (and particularly their lack of being as dead as people expected) was being kept hidden, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Guy Adams’ script flirts with ideas of identity, and one of the major problems involved with trying to make anyone invisible, but never quite fully engages with them. You can pretty much guess how things are going to play out at the end of the episode from quite early on but it’s still fun to listen to Pamela Salem and Simon Williams in particular dealing with the situation, and Adams gives Karen Gledhill’s Allison some neat moments.

Verdict: An enjoyable romp, and as ever the production values are high – Robert Harvey’s sound design is excellent – but it doesn’t quite feel as if the “new” format has quite gelled. 7/10

Paul Simpson