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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 13:04:51 GMT
It’s called ‘ Pieces’ from 1973! just looked on google earth and found the church but can’t find the house which the episode is centred around. I know sometimes things are spilt up! But surely they wouldn’t travel all the way from Kirby just to use the church in the episode and nothing else near by .. there’s an ambulance featured in episode! Unbelievable how it looks! It resembles a milk float! Lol
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 7, 2020 13:42:18 GMT
'Pieces' features Paul Darrow from 'Blakes 7' 3L-
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Apr 7, 2020 19:23:48 GMT
Post by Three Litre on Apr 7, 2020 19:23:48 GMT
Just watch a couple episodes on YouTube and one is filmed around Hatfield in Hertfordshire! Not to far away from me. I googled the church from the episode and it wasn’t to easy to spot! If ya saw what it looked like you’d understand lol!! Wouldn’t mind going to the locations of this episode in the future! The other episode on you tube is entitled Guns” great episode, has a bit more action in it like the Sweeney! features a guy with a air pistol. Got me reminiscing of the one I had when I was 12, bought it from a second hand shop I used to frequent, for two quid. Twas a Diana SP50, fired 177 calabre pellets but used to love the little fluffy dart ones! Which I used to fire into my dads dart board int garage. happy memories of shooting it on the playing fields and firing it at a old wooden pavilion. Oh how much times have changed ha!! air pistols and rifles seemed quite popular in the 70s. can ya imagine waving a pistol about like that in 2020! You’d have the armed response unit out in no time! Lol! Reminded me of a mate I knew once who held a filling station up’ with a play station gun Thanks for finding this episode GC! I remember that church, its on Bishops Rise (steady!), opposite when I use to exit of the polytechnic complex, around the late 70's early 80's.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 8, 2020 20:59:14 GMT
Filming the final ever Z Cars episode-
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 8, 2020 22:26:30 GMT
Filming the final ever Z Cars episode-
Very interesting AP! They mention the Sweeney as being more up to date, of course it finished the same year. Where did the director get that hair? From Brian May presumably.
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Apr 9, 2020 14:02:58 GMT
Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 9, 2020 14:02:58 GMT
I thought the director was The Sweeney's Douglas Camfield at first, he had big hair as well.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Apr 9, 2020 16:08:40 GMT
It's also quite interesting how different the series became by the 70's even though a few cast members were still with it by then, when I first heard the updated (for its time) theme tune it did seem a surprise but you get used to it.
I suppose when people think of Z cars they think of the grainy black and white series, Brian Blessed, MK3 Zephyr police cars and that original military sounding theme tune with a flute (?) doing the melody.
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Apr 9, 2020 18:28:17 GMT
Post by Cartman on Apr 9, 2020 18:28:17 GMT
The early black and white ones with mark 3 Zephyrs and Brian Blessed are the only ones I remember. I don't recollect ones from the 70s at all.
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Apr 9, 2020 18:31:07 GMT
Post by Three Litre on Apr 9, 2020 18:31:07 GMT
It's also quite interesting how different the series became by the 70's even though a few cast members were still with it by then, when I first heard the updated (for its time) theme tune it did seem a surprise but you get used to it.
I suppose when people think of Z cars they think of the grainy black and white series, Brian Blessed, MK3 Zephyr police cars and that original military sounding theme tune with a flute (?) doing the melody.
Yes, you do. I like the original theme tune, not all keen on the updated ones. That Pieces episode was good, its not The Sweeney but not supposed to be. The sergeant (who looked past retirement) made some good philosophical points about how the young DC was going about things which boiled down stop worrying about failures, do the small stuff, move on. Good points.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 9, 2020 19:22:17 GMT
Z Cars had many epoisodes ( 801 ) as did the spin offs Softly Softly ( 120 ) & Softly Softly Task Force ( 149 ).
UK Gold repeated some but other than the odd ep of Z Cars on BBC2/4 they'd be forgotten, with only the main characters & the theme tune to remember them by.
It's only seeing them appear on youtube that prompted me to watch them & even so it's only recently that I did that. With so many episodes produced in quick sucession the quality must've been hard to maintain, running out of or recycling stories & regular characters becoming over familiar.
Another problem is that, unlike the self contained episodes of The Sweeney, Minder & The Professionals, Z Cars was more of a soap opera format with stories sometimes running from episode to episode. I've been watching 'Softly Softly Task Force' & whilst you can watch episodes out of order, you miss references to previous episodes. This gives the show a continuity that isn't always a good thing, it makes you feel as though you have to watch every episode in order or you might miss something & as not every episode holds your attention you feel like you're plodding through some of the more boring episodes.
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