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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 13, 2020 22:05:48 GMT
Funny we were just talking about the actor who plays the security bloke in this clip, Peter Jonfield, on the 'actors who weren't in The Sweeney' thread.
Saw 'Bellman & True' a while ago, found it a bit too 'quirky'.
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Post by Gene Hunt on May 13, 2020 22:05:58 GMT
Released 1987 but filmed in September 1986.
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Post by Del Boy on May 13, 2020 22:19:56 GMT
As ever I've not seen it so look forward to having a butchers at this.
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Post by Dirty Epic on May 14, 2020 6:51:03 GMT
I'll try and have a watch myself... always good finding out about new stuff whether you like them or not!
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Post by Sparky on May 16, 2020 8:01:35 GMT
Not sure if this has already been posted. I think I may have posted a clip a while back.
Though can't seem to find it elsewhere (unless I am looking in the wrong place...)
Apologies if it has.
This is longer than the version I saw, and includes a bit more on the corruption clean up at Scotland Yard. Notice when Robert Mark enters the yard in the morning, most people stand and salute....
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Post by Three Litre on May 16, 2020 12:34:39 GMT
Are there any fans of the original Star Trek TV series on the forum? I think there were about three series made in the late sixties before the show was cancelled. I noticed this video of William Shatner defending himself against actor George Takei who played mr. Sulu in the series. Takei seems to have made it his life's work to continually have a go at Shatner. Shatner seems really p***ed off with the guy now, going by this video. Yes, thought the original was excellent. I saw it on first airing over here, it replaced Dr Who in '69 after the end of the last Troughton serial. Downhill from there, the later series were not up scratch IMO. This video is interesting, I was aware of the bad feeling. My impression is that Shatner is, rightly or wrongly perceived as standoffish and does nothing without getting paid for it. I remember Nimoy appearing in Star Trek tribute programme a while back with Justin Whatisface but not Shatner.
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Post by Three Litre on May 16, 2020 14:41:47 GMT
Not sure if this has already been posted. I think I may have posted a clip a while back.
Though can't seem to find it elsewhere (unless I am looking in the wrong place...)
Apologies if it has.
This is longer than the version I saw, and includes a bit more on the corruption clean up at Scotland Yard. Notice when Robert Mark enters the yard in the morning, most people stand and salute....
Fascinating piece Sparky. I have great respect for Marks, that was a damn difficult thing to do when most people around him were trying to make his life difficult. The corruption was appalling. Operation Countryman started after Marks left under McNee who probably obstructed it. He was a freemason which is never a good sign.
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Post by Three Litre on May 16, 2020 14:45:51 GMT
Just bought this for my Kindle: - Crossing the Line of Duty: How Corruption, Greed and Sleaze Brought Down the Flying Squad
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Post by Sparky on May 16, 2020 15:09:56 GMT
Not sure if this has already been posted. I think I may have posted a clip a while back.
Though can't seem to find it elsewhere (unless I am looking in the wrong place...)
Apologies if it has.
This is longer than the version I saw, and includes a bit more on the corruption clean up at Scotland Yard. Notice when Robert Mark enters the yard in the morning, most people stand and salute....
Fascinating piece Sparky. I have great respect for Marks, that was a damn difficult thing to do when most people around him were trying to make his life difficult. The corruption was appalling. Operation Countryman started after Marks left under McNee who probably obstructed it. He was a freemason which is never a good sign. I have quite a bit of respect for Robert Marks - he, as you say wanted to clean up Scotland Yard; but was constantly met by obstacles. They did a "World in Action" episode during the late 1970s, with looked at Operation Countryman - and the obstacles they met at the Yard.
I liked the footage of the 1970s "squad", and the insides of Scotland Yard - it show's how accurate the Art Director on the "Sweeney" was. The DI in the piece didn't strike me as a "Jack Regan" or "Gene Hunt" type either.
It shows the climate that the "Sweeney" was made in, and where Ian Kennedy-Martins inspiration came from.
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Post by Three Litre on May 16, 2020 16:14:48 GMT
No, the DI wasn't Regan.
Interesting to see the previous head of CID complaining that they didn't need A10, there were all lovely and honest.
Er ................... not quite. However uncomfortable it is you need independent oversight of such organisations. Six hundred police officers left early because of Marks effort, plus another couple of hundred during Countryman.
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