Very highly recommended. In my view, probably the best television the BBC has produced for many years.
I loved the tone which was on the surface often a playful jaunty nostalgiafest, but not far below was the grim claustrophobic reality of emotionally repressed, class dominated, homophobic Britain in the 1960s and 70s. The third episode in particular involved a clever and subtle shift in tone that left you thinking "
Wait ... what?" as the full might of the establishment asserts itself.
I'd also strongly recommend watching
Tom Mangold's Panorama on the scandal, which was destroyed by the BBC in 1979 and never shown. Thanks to an illicitly kept copy by Mangold, it was shown in a slightly edited format yesterday on BBC4 and brought up to date with some interesting recent developments. Best watched after the drama.
And also worth watching, but only after the drama, is this seven minutes of
Peter Cook that manages to satirise a judgement that was itself almost beyond satire.