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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 3, 2016 11:40:12 GMT
Anyone here a fan of The Sweeney? John Thaw and Dennis Waterman are simply brilliant as Regan and Carter. Backed up with a first class cast, guest stars, great writing and an innovative production style, The Sweeney still makes great viewing today. Right, I'm off to drink whiskey like its Ribina and be sarcastic to villains
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 11:43:21 GMT
Me. I'm a big fan. it's still great to watch on Dave if you get chance
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Post by manmarking on Sept 3, 2016 11:49:09 GMT
Agree 100%. Great stuff.
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Post by partickpotter on Sept 3, 2016 12:10:50 GMT
A big fan.
The program also had the best outro music of any TV show. That haunting tune summing up the way episodes concluded with a melancholic air as events never quite worked out. Something always went wrong.
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Post by thevoid on Sept 3, 2016 12:29:12 GMT
Best theme tune ever.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Sept 3, 2016 12:36:34 GMT
Never happened like that, all fictional, brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 16:04:50 GMT
The Clapham Casanova.
They don't make 'em like that any more. I watched all the episodes that were on YouTube. Superb stuff.
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Post by marwood on Sept 3, 2016 17:28:22 GMT
Love The Sweeney. Bought the entire box set including the pilot and 2 films 10 years ago, at the time i thought id overspent but its the best £40 ive ever shelled out for programmes.
When i get to the end, i just start again. Stoppo driver must be my all time favourite
Its great to spot the stars when they were young - not to mention the sweeney women. Lynda Bellingham, Catherine Schell, Prunella Scales and Janet Ellis come to mind without even thinking
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 3, 2016 17:48:40 GMT
Love The Sweeney. Bought the entire box set including the pilot and 2 films 10 years ago, at the time i thought id overspent but its the best £40 ive ever shelled out for programmes. When i get to the end, i just start again. Stoppo driver must be my all time favourite Its great to spot the stars when they were young - not to mention the sweeney women. Lynda Bellingham, Catherine Schell, Prunella Scales and Janet Ellis come to mind without even thinking I'm the same, Armchair Theartre pilot, both films and all the series on DVD. Sadly, the blu-ray versions are dragging their arses a bit. I'm also like you a continual viewer, I even watch the knackered video masters that ITV4 broadcast just for that patina they possess:D My fave guest stars were Colin Welland and Warren Mitchell, both playing massively against type. Best episode is 'Thou shalt not kill', it's setting amid the concrete brutalist university campus as a bank robbery goes wrong is just great on so many levels.
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Post by elystokie on Sept 3, 2016 19:03:56 GMT
Yup, love it. Minder also.
Met Denis Waterman on a train from Plymouth to Brum, well I went to the first class compartment he was in to ask for his autograph :)
He was with Sheena Easton, her agent and Rula Lenska, they'd just had a bit of a hit with a record I think, be 1980, I was on my way home for my first leave period from the Navy.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Sept 3, 2016 19:05:12 GMT
A big fan. The program also had the best outro music of any TV show. That haunting tune summing up the way episodes concluded with a melancholic air as events never quite worked out. Something always went wrong. When I hear it to this day it triggers an automatic reaction that it's time for bed. The attendant feeling of childhood disappointment.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 3, 2016 19:11:26 GMT
Yup, love it. Minder also. Met Denis Waterman on a train from Plymouth to Brum, well I went to the first class compartment he was in to ask for his autograph He was with Sheena Easton, her agent and Rula Lenska, they'd just had a bit of a hit with a record I think, be 1980, I was on my way home for my first leave period from the Navy. How was Dennis when you asked for his autograph? He was notoriously tetchy back in the day.
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Post by elystokie on Sept 3, 2016 19:25:59 GMT
Yup, love it. Minder also. Met Denis Waterman on a train from Plymouth to Brum, well I went to the first class compartment he was in to ask for his autograph :) He was with Sheena Easton, her agent and Rula Lenska, they'd just had a bit of a hit with a record I think, be 1980, I was on my way home for my first leave period from the Navy. How was Dennis when you asked for his autograph? He was notoriously tetchy back in the day. He was fine, Sheena Easton was a spotty miserable fucker tho', I suppose she might have been tired.
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 3, 2016 19:43:46 GMT
The 2 films are excellent
Have to say though im slightly too young to have caught this first time; was more of a Professionals fan!
Heres a film I would recommend to anyone that likes The Sweeney
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 3, 2016 19:46:43 GMT
Anyone seen this?? - Ive had it sitting on my shelf for a couple of years
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 19:54:45 GMT
Yup, love it. Minder also. Met Denis Waterman on a train from Plymouth to Brum, well I went to the first class compartment he was in to ask for his autograph He was with Sheena Easton, her agent and Rula Lenska, they'd just had a bit of a hit with a record I think, be 1980, I was on my way home for my first leave period from the Navy. Great story. Now it'd be a bunch of "famous" people* from a reality show tweeting and wearing stupid 70"s headphones. *Fuckwits.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 3, 2016 19:56:49 GMT
Anyone seen this?? - Ive had it sitting on my shelf for a couple of years Aaaargh heresy!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2016 7:06:59 GMT
Anyone seen this?? - Ive had it sitting on my shelf for a couple of years I quite enjoyed it, it is a good film.
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 4, 2016 16:24:57 GMT
Quite a good 70s movie, Ive just ordered off Amazon
Obviously its a true & tragic case, quite local
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 4, 2016 16:27:52 GMT
This is a masterpiece too, one of the best British conspiracy/crime thrillers Ive seen , spanning the mid 70s to early 80s. Real heart of darkness in Yorkshire stuff "To The North, Where We Do What We Want"
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Post by marwood on Sept 6, 2016 19:00:12 GMT
I have a work colleague who studies the 1970s from a socio political aspect He Says all film and cultural historians love the sweeney as it is one of the most complete records and visual captures of a Britain and in particular London which no,longer exists. This is because unlike most other TV shows of the era, the Sweeney always shot on location. There are visual parts of London that quite literally only exist on film within its episodes
I got into the Sweeney due to the action and scripts as a kid. I stayed in the 90s for the cars and clothes. (Ive owned a mk1 escort mexico, a mark 2, a mk1 fiesta and a 1960s mini cooper).
Id like to say that i watch it now from a cultural historians point of view, but really its for the women
For me, it is as much a period drama as Pride and Prejudice
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 6, 2016 19:24:45 GMT
I have a work colleague who studies the 1970s from a socio political aspect He Says all film and cultural historians love the sweeney as it is one of the most complete records and visual captures of a Britain and in particular London which no,longer exists. This is because unlike most other TV shows of the era, the Sweeney always shot on location. There are visual parts of London that quite literally only exist on film within its episodes I got into the Sweeney due to the action and scripts as a kid. I stayed in the 90s for the cars and clothes. (Ive owned a mk1 escort mexico, a mark 2, a mk1 fiesra and a 1960s mini cooper). Id like to say that i watch it now from a cultural historians point of view, but really its for the women For me, it is as much a period drama as Pride and Prejudice Those 'Lost' London locations really are something else, in particular the Docklands. London really was shabby at that time.The look of the show owes a bit to Get Carter and Villian, but it's use of visuals were ground breaking too. It's worth looking at The London nobody knows from 1967 with James Mason. It's a documentary not unlike what John Betjamin and Ian Nairn were doing at the time, and has that time capsule feel about it. Whatever happened to the likely lads is widely quoted by historians as it shows a society and landscape changing from the optimistic 60s to the bleaker 70s. I can't get too sociological about it, cos it's really all about fags, slags, blags and jags
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 20:30:44 GMT
Another great film in the same genre
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 6, 2016 20:35:48 GMT
Found some clips
This is quite interesting too
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 6, 2016 20:41:13 GMT
I have a work colleague who studies the 1970s from a socio political aspect He Says all film and cultural historians love the sweeney as it is one of the most complete records and visual captures of a Britain and in particular London which no,longer exists. This is because unlike most other TV shows of the era, the Sweeney always shot on location. There are visual parts of London that quite literally only exist on film within its episodes I got into the Sweeney due to the action and scripts as a kid. I stayed in the 90s for the cars and clothes. (Ive owned a mk1 escort mexico, a mark 2, a mk1 fiesta and a 1960s mini cooper). Id like to say that i watch it now from a cultural historians point of view, but really its for the women For me, it is as much a period drama as Pride and Prejudice Def should have a look at these, all 3 parts in full One of the finest things seen on British TV; I bought the DVD and did them all in one night; proper hooked me Some great actors playing some right evil bastards
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 6, 2016 20:51:45 GMT
Isn't there a sarcastic Stoke City reference in Red Riding?
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 6, 2016 20:57:01 GMT
Isn't there a sarcastic Stoke City reference in Red Riding? Possibly...but don't let that put you off!!
Anyway, Im sure in Football Factory, there were a couple of stoke hooligans who got mullered in a car park?
Listen, in the wider world ANY publicity is good!
When you think about it, how often do you see Stoke as a city ever feature in a drama or tv series??
We've been very neglected - apart from Jeremy Kyle
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 6, 2016 20:59:01 GMT
I really like This is Personal with Alun Armstrong, about the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Though some may think it's too sympathetic to the real life detective who bungled the Ripper investigation.
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 6, 2016 21:05:13 GMT
I really like This is Personal with Alun Armstrong, about the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Though some may think it's too sympathetic to the real life detective who bungled the Ripper investigation. Nice heads up
Ill have a look at this
Another doc here
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Post by trentvale68 on Sept 12, 2016 16:26:33 GMT
Getting back to 70s London, watched Frenzy the other night. Msde in 1972, its one of Hitchcocks most underrated movies. It showcases a London no doubt long since gone, its fascinating just for its depiction of the Capitol of the early 70s And Barry Foster is a right horrible bastard in it, too. Should be able to get it on BBC Catch up as it was only on a couple of nights ago
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