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Old 30-11-2005, 01:34 PM
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"I'm gonna be calling you guv all day long, it's all I know and it's all you need to know!!!"
Shouting George of the Weeney in the Comic Strip - "Detectives on the edge of a nervous breakdown."

For anyone who hasn't seen that, it's one of the best episodes going of the Comic Strip where a celebrity detective chef is murdered and 70s coppers are called in to investigate. It's a piss-take of the Sweeney, the Professionals and Jason King. I love the scene with Jim Broadbent as the guvnor driving around in circles in his Granada screaming at the top of his lungs, "Guv, guv, guv...." Classic stuff
"I'm a 50 Guv a day man" and "you couldn't handle it could you Spanker" (renaming Jimmy Nail's Spender)
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Old 16-01-2008, 01:17 PM
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I remember Ron Atkinson being appointed Man Utd manager and he said to the press, call me anytime.EXCEPT , when the Sweeney is on. What was the name of the physco in it a couple of times, he really did seem a hard man ???
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George Sweeney, it came to me as I hit the submit button. Proper hard man in the John Bindon mould.
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I saw a mention of the Paradise Club and Sandbaggers as better series and have to agree, whilst the Sweeny is great those two are so much better.

Also would say that Chancer is a superior series.....and to the poster (sorry forgot the name)who added a couple of US TV series to the list I would say they missed the best TV series ever to air even if it is American.....'The Wire'
Now that is a drama series that it will be hard to ever surpass. It is so good the first time I saw it I thought it must be British.
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Old 26-01-2008, 06:17 PM
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have we mentioned to serve them all my days ???
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I loved this series. I thought John Duttine was gorgeous in this.
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Not sure if it`s been mentioned, but what`s your opinions on When The Boat Comes In
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From what we've been exposed to here, "down-under", I've got to stick my oar in (pun intended) for When the Boat Comes In
This is war Wilson, not Sainsburys!
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I've discovered it late (It was past my bedtime first time around) but Public Eye, with the wonderful Alfred Burke, is just astonishing. The good news is the next instalment of the DVD releases is in February.....
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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The 'childrens' tv series Barriers and Alan Plater's adaptation of Barchester Chronicles
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My top 5 are:

Auf Wiedersehen Pet (first two series)
Brideshead Revisited
Doctor Who
Edge of Darkness
I, Claudius
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In no particular order...

Callan
Public Eye
The Owl Service
Man In A Suitcase
The Way We Live Now
State Of Play
Hazell
To Serve Them All Our Days
Sky
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Brett)
Brideshead Revisited
Edge of Darkness

... plus many more. British Television at its best is second to none!

Bats.
I wish I had claws.
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Sweeney
Morse
Avengers
Minder
Sherlock Holmes

Waterman and Thaw get the major honours!!!!!
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A FAMILY AT WAR
SECRET ARMY
TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY
SINGING DETECTIVE
are my selectoins.
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My Top 5 Dramas would be in no particular order:-

Secret Army
Upstairs Downstairs
Bouquet of Barbed Wire/Another Bouquet
Tenko
The Sweeney
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