Del Boy
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Post by Del Boy on Mar 27, 2023 13:40:51 GMT
Started to watch this series last night and certainly remembered a lot of the first episode. The murder scene and aftermath in particular. Don't think I watched the rest of the series back then but will be interested to see if it rings a bell. I'm currently two episodes in and its shaping up very nicely. Really well acted by the leads as many have said. I like the involvement of as Jack Regan called them "The Funnies". Pendleton and Harcourt are a link to the murky side of national security and set up a meet with Jedburgh. The plot is dark and developing at a good pace. I can see why this series won 6 Bafta's.
London looks interesting in this period too. Plenty of scenes in the Shepherds Bush area. Overall the place has a good mix of 70 and 80s cars everywhere.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 27, 2023 19:43:37 GMT
Like you I watched it in bits/pieces in the mid '80's Del but did remember much of it back then... it was when I could watch adult telly without being told not to, too. Yes Shepherd's Bush is in some respects very different in 1985 than now, in others not much so or has different problems Westfield can't mask but it's almost like a rougher version of what was filmed around there in Sweeney! almost a decade earlier and not all of London in the '80's was the land of milk/honey of the Square Mile history seems to myth and say it was. Anyway stick with it Del you should enjoy it quite a lot and it's got may of the elements TKM used in The Sweeney and beyond too.- When a few things calm down my end I'll definitely be giving it a spin again, watched it on DVD around 5 or so years back. I've not seen the 2010 Mel Gibson/Ray Winstone remake movie and don't really intend to and whatever happened to Joanne Whalley Kilmer?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 28, 2023 8:05:07 GMT
Top notch telly
Still stands up
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