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Post by Alan Turrell on Mar 19, 2015 14:26:30 GMT
With the sad news that Shaw Taylor has recently died i was wondering how many of Police 5 still survive especially the earlier ones i think it was first shown in the London area around 1962.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 19, 2015 16:03:16 GMT
With the sad news that Shaw Taylor has recently died i was wondering how many of Police 5 still survive especially the earlier ones i think it was first shown in the London area around 1962. There were some nice tributes to Shaw Taylor yesterday evening on both ITV's Meridian Tonight and BBC's South Today. The Police 5 footage shown in both programmes were taken from this YouTube upload. Last night Fred Dinenage repeated the often made claim that the Police 5 originated on Southern Television, but as discussed in missingepisodes.proboards.com/post/60439, it does seem to have been on in London a couple of years earlier. ~iw
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Post by mikejones on Mar 19, 2015 20:35:34 GMT
Police 5 was started by ATV for London and Midlands. In 1968 it went to LWT, and then Central in 82. I never new Southern had its own version. When did TVS get its own version?
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 19, 2015 21:42:14 GMT
Police 5 was started by ATV for London and Midlands. In 1968 it went to LWT, and then Central in 82. I never new Southern had its own version. When did TVS get its own version? Take a look at the posts in the other thread Miscellaneous Archive Queries. Southern seemed to be making the programme as early as 1964. Of the South region programmes, Wessex have 42 TVS episodes catalogued as "Police Five" plus a further 10 "Police 5". I can't see any Southern editions. Whatever the facts the programme is widely believed to have originated in the South, maybe because Shaw lived there? The Noel Edmonds' Houseparty "gotcha" (which is on youTube) was made during the filming of the last TVS edition. Meridian's piece in now online at www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-03-19/looking-back-on-the-life-of-shaw-taylor/. Did any other ITV region (or BBC come to that) broadcast a tribute yesterday? ~iw
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Post by Phil Leach on Apr 8, 2015 11:26:09 GMT
There is a grain of truth in the Southern claims to have been in at the beginning of Police 5 in that they appear to be the only other region to have screened the original ATV London version when it started in 1962. The arrangement didn't last for long, perhaps they realised that crimes being investigated by the Met didn't have enough cross-over to their region. The ATV Midlands version started later in 1962 and was a stand-alone programme before it was taken into ATV Today during 1966, where it remained for the next twenty years (surviving the change to Central News in 1982).
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