Crackerjack

A brave police officer told how he 'went off like a crackerjack' and became engulfed in flames when a flare hit him outside Villa Park.

Airing between the 1950s and 1980s, a number of generations will remember rushing home to catch Crackerjack on their screens.

It opens in media res, with a crackerjack, 20-minute sequence of Jack and his partner, Harry (Jeff Daniels, who would go to play Harry a few months later), resolving a tense hostage situation in an elevator engineered by Hopper’s madman villain.

For generations of British schoolchildren, if it was Friday, five to five, and you were not a maverick and watching ITV then it could only mean one thing: Crackerjack.

More unexpected are Crackerjack Sugarman, Beatrice's older brother who died in the war, and Corduroy Jackson Jackson, a young actor whose death BoJack inadvertently caused.

But verisimilitude can do a lot to make up for volume, and does a crackerjack job of reproducing the process living organisms followed in the 1940s to cease all biological functions and begin the process of decomposition and putrefaction.

The show has great rhythm, bouncing back and forth between slow-builds to zippy moments, fluctuating from crackerjack wordplay to over-the-top vulgarity.

Functional Screw nutcracker with walnuts A Crackerjack nutcracker, which uses a ratchet Nuts were historically opened using a hammer and anvil, often made of stone.