Im glad im not the only one who recalls John Slater Advertising Special K! ;D¬ board=general thread=7038 post=69759 time=1332418690]Evenin' all....
You may want to move this to the Dixon thread...
Z cars
I can recall John Slater's Det.Sgt. Stone onscreen 'Heart attack' - he was in a reception area (Hotel ?) and covered in sweat he mumbles: 'I'm a Police officer...' next it cut away to another scene
when we returned to Stone a ambulance has arrived & they put him on a strecther & whisk him off...
Next Newtown Nick get a phone call....I think it's Bert Lynch who gets the message & tells Det. Inspr Goss (Derek Waring)
I hope that's accurate...from memory ( sorry I can't recall the episode tile tho')
maybe Det. Sgt. Stone had eaten too much 'Special K' cereal John Slater was always advertising...? ;D
John was apparently really recovering....I can only assume this was an acted performance...whatever he had a break and DID return I'm glad to say
John Slater later sadly died on the same day (I think) as another famous TV Copper John Gregson (Commander George Gideon in 'Gideon's Way') I do recall both were given tributes on the same edition of 'News at Ten'
Later colour Z Cars was still excellent (even if the final series theme arrangement was dreadful)
- Brian Blessed was just "crowing on" about HIS earlier era & alot of incorrect 'Dis-information' re the show's later colour years has been put about since by actors and writers from early on....! (they ought to be arrested !
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Z Cars memories I have are an episode titled:
'Faces' - Bert Lynch spots a face he recognises from a old Missing Persons poster
'Have You Seen Davy Richards ?' - one of the Detectives has been after this villain for years...it ends up him discovering from a grass that Richards is at the bottom of a disused mine shaft...
'Fatac' - P.C. Quilly (I think) is the lone copper faced with a bad smash up involving a lorry carrying chemicals - the trapped driver speaks with him...after a heroic days work all he gets is a 'Boolc*king' from both Police, Fire Service, & Ambulencemen chiefs alike ...some days you can't win !
John Collin was great as Det. Sgt. Cecil Haggar (crumpled mac long before Columbo got one) - in one they are all looking for a sex killer...Except Cecil Haggar who doggedly goes off on his own after a photopgraphy theft of cameras....and tracks down the guy (who of course turns out to be the sex killer)
The Chief Constable is delighted - warmly shakes Haggar's hand & tells the (Red faced with anger) senior Detectives:
'I told you that's what this case needed...a good old fashioned british Bobby on it...!'
A pleased with himself Cecil Haggar beams... ;D
Derek Waring was good as Det. Inspr Goss, later Tommy Boyle was Madden.
I also recall Dudley Foster was in 'Z cars' circa 1962 for a while...while George Sewell was det, Inspr Brogan circa 1967
Barlow & Watt etc made the show of course...but others later continued the good work long after they went all 'Softly Softly' & 'At Large'...
Dixon:
A very young John Thaw is a bent copper in one where a furious Dixon barks at him:
'Get that uniform off...GET IT OFF'
in a later colour one a guy is gunned down in the street - very realistic (a woman drops her shopping & screams in horror) - this gave lie to the bleat of 'Sweeney' fans that it was so much MORE 'Hard hitting' a police series than dear old 'Dixon of Dock green' ever was...
'Firearms Were Issued' - is one I think BBC still have re an enquiry held at the station after a police shooting clears the Police marksman - such enquiries were standard proceedure yonks ago NOT as the media would have us think only post Stockwell...
I can't recall what episodes these come from but an intro &outro by George Dixon remain clear in my mind...
Intro:
'Evenin' all....you know when you've been on the force as long as I have, you get to thinking you have seen it all...
....BUT you never have...!'
and Outro: (** Names I can't recall so I've inserted two 'Likely sounding lads' ! ;D)
'Well there you are...**Perkins got 18 months while **Stanley went down for three years ! - but the morale here is if you see something you think is 'Dodgy' don't hesitate...phone us !
- A Gang of crooks in jail is worth a hundred false alarms...
....Good night all'
I just wish I could remember the two stories that went in between these !
I look forward to ANY BBC DVD's of both these famous Police Series
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