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Post by John Green on Dec 9, 2020 16:29:09 GMT
The subtitles are struggling with the accents.
"been boomer chucked up in your own loddy hijacked have you fred".
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Post by bernardstocks on Dec 14, 2020 11:22:11 GMT
On YouTube yesterday - 'Profit by their example' from February 1964. No well known guests on this one.
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Post by tombeveridge on Dec 14, 2020 11:58:49 GMT
"Profit" must have been broadcast live. Actor John Harvey (Arthur Monks) calls "John Watts" Arthur. Opps! Both actors cover up well. Interested episode on vigilantes.
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Post by bernardstocks on Dec 18, 2020 13:23:54 GMT
It was. All the first three series were live with the outdoor scenes filmed and edited in as appropriate. Apparently Stratford Johns had great difficulty remembering names and the rest of the cast had to be alert and help him out whenever he stumbled. (This was revealed by Frank Windsor on a tribute programme to Z Cars in the 'Where are they now series'.
Frank also stated as a fact something I'd always believed: that the BBC were secretly ashamed of Z Cars and for the first three series described it as a drama documentary. I guess they thought that all these northern types drinking, swearing and womanising didn't fit the then BBC's frightfully proper image!
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Post by tombeveridge on Dec 18, 2020 21:19:54 GMT
ISTR that "Bert Lynch" was criticized in the very first episode for bad table manners at the breakfast table. Hard to imagine today. You've probably seen this already, Bernard, but there is a Late Night Line Up on the making of a Z Cars episode on YouTube. Interesting behind the scenes stuff that brings it home very strongly the pressure involved in getting each episode out in an acceptable state. Can't even begin to imagine the stress levels of a vision mixer in a live podcast, but, as they say "Pressure makes diamonds".
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 18, 2020 22:47:51 GMT
I heard the series put the BBC in the police's bad books for it's depiction of officers being far from Dixon of Dock Green's squeaky clean image.
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Post by bernardstocks on Dec 23, 2020 15:37:54 GMT
Yes, I did see the programme about the making of z cars - very interesting. I can't remember if it was mentioned at the time, but the fact that they were live was the reason for each actor only doing one programme in two or just having a cameo role in the following one. The police may have been upset at the way they were portrayed, but I would take a large bet that Z Cars was closer to the real police force than Dixon. After all, most of the stories were based on real cases and the script writers advised on procedures by a retired superintendent.
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 23, 2020 22:49:59 GMT
Yes, I did see the programme about the making of z cars - very interesting. I can't remember if it was mentioned at the time, but the fact that they were live was the reason for each actor only doing one programme in two or just having a cameo role in the following one. The police may have been upset at the way they were portrayed, but I would take a large bet that Z Cars was closer to the real police force than Dixon. After all, most of the stories were based on real cases and the script writers advised on procedures by a retired superintendent. I heard the Troy Kennedy Martin thought up the idea for the series after listening to police radio transmissions, which was possible with an early FM radio. He heard a very different world to the cozy one of Dixon of Dock Green. |
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Post by bernardstocks on Mar 24, 2021 14:22:11 GMT
All Through The Night Part 1 (1967) has been added to YouTube. Cast includes Nerys Hughes (The Liver Birds) and David Daker (Boon).
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Post by Nigel Lamb on Mar 24, 2021 17:13:28 GMT
All Through The Night was added several months ago with loads of other episodes.
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Post by bernardstocks on Apr 13, 2021 13:48:43 GMT
Friendly Relations, episode from 1972, was put on YouTube two days ago. No well known supporting actors.
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