Very much American oriented. The description of Met Pol as a Department, it isn't it was a Force, now a Service. Also Kerosene would be called Parrafin.

Gone for ever and thank God because the old days were certainly not great for the working class. Blind nostalgia is wrecking this country's future.

@@zackadesina I was there and for me no doubt the best time , the working class,, still moan today that's even if they bother to get a job, I was one of seven it was fantastic.

@@johnrawlins6147 Good for you and glad you enjoyed being part of a large family with many siblings. I was adopted and both sets of Grandparents from Grimsby and Nottingham were working class stock and worked throughout from their teenage years till retirement. They have told me many horrific stories about how poorer people were treated in the post war era and up to the mid eighties - awful and best relegated to the past.

Pray for God's mercy! I love America. I feel blessed to be an American even in the hard times.

@@johnrawlins6147 me too. Brought up in a damp ancient tied cottage in the late forties through to the sixties. My father was a farm labourer,we were poor but life in the fifties for us was idyllic and would not swap it for a child’s experience of today. I remember watching this on a t.v which was the only luxury we had and it brings back the aura of those happy days growing up.

You mean you want to be young again. For me, it was the 1990s. I miss the London of that era. We all miss the "country" of our youth. I bet someone of 50 in the 1230s was nostalgic for the 1200s!

Yeah! Poor kitten!

It refused a stunt double!

I think the poor cat got roasted

Unfortunately he had insurance on the kitten too.

You're right. The comedy of the last 20 years just isn't funny.

That would be a stretch.

My 1998 classic car was built in 1997, per the metal notice on the door.

I noticed that too. Seems is was aired in Jan 1955, so obviously made a few months earlier

Could've been worse - Adolf Hitler, Atilla the Hun, etc.

@@peachypie8018 ...Jack the ripper Puff the dragon, Tarzan the ape man,

Spotlight's Z list!

Holmes was a private consulting detective not the police or Scotland Yard.

@@christenasmalls6118 correct.

Holmes was fictional. Fabian was a real person.

No-one is more addicted to identity politics than the anti-identitarians.

If a woman marries some chap she's only known for a few days, then very clearly she is a very silly woman indeed. So silly someone should be court appointed to be her legal guardian.

@@keithammleter3824 Not necessarily! My father and mother met in 1944 during WWll when he was on a short leave and were married 10 days later before he went back his unit. They were both 29 at the time. They were devoted to each other. My father was a strong man and I only ever heard him cry once; that during the night of the day of my mother’s sudden death. It woke me up. He was sitting on my mother’s side of the bed and sobbed that how could he be without her now. It shook me to my core as, in my Highland family, it was considered weak for men to cry. Thankfully things have changed for the following generations and men can show their feelings more openly.

@@aliciarobertson4979 : Good to hear your parents' marriage worked out well! Wartime is somewhat of a special case. Many short romances occur - many work out well but many do not. Australia participated in the Vietnam War (big big mistake - the prime thing almost all Vietnamese wanted was to get foreigners out of the country, and the Americans put an incompetent fool [Gen Westmoreland] in charge, who lost the war) and conscription was put into effect. Young males could avoid being drafted by being married, so there was a certain amount of intense seduction and fast marriages. Many did not work out very well. Some countries have arranged marriages - eg in India it is common for parents to meet other parents and decide who is going to marry who, and the couple doesn't meet until it's a done deal. It works out surprisingly well, but in the British Commonwealth generally it's a very bad idea. It happens that my father, Australian born of German parents, met my mother in England when sent there on Army service during WW2. He was 34, she 31. The military took him away to Europe the next day. When he was back in Australia and established in civilian employment, he wrote to her, asking her to come out and marry him. He must have made a good impression as she booked her passage the next day. Like your father, she was pretty upset when he died of heart attack decades later. I always thought my mother was pretty amazing to come half way round the world to a completely different environment and make a success of it. So, you are right perhaps sometimes it works out good. But generally it would be very silly to marry a man you've only just met.

@@keithammleter3824 Yes, your mother was amazing. It is certainly a different environment here, and in many ways a different culture. Like your mother, many from both sides of my family came to Australia from Scotland, although some family went to Canada. However, we chose to become Australians. Since then family members including my children and grandchildren have become serving members in all three branches of the ADF. I was a veteran’s nurse, and later was a medical entitlement officer for Australian service personnel until my retirement. Vietnam veteran’s coped with a horrendous war and we lost too many good men, including many who returned totally broken I also believe that Australians being sent to Vietnam was a mistake but veterans deserved the compassion of their fellow citizens not the condemnation for going to a war into which they were forced. There were 5 losses of young men in Vietnam from the NSW town in which we settled. One was a family friend who was buried overseas and only brought back recently to be reinterred here. Another awarded a VC. They were both regular army but the other boys were conscripts. I believe National Service for two years for all young people would be only good if it were in a ‘peace corps’ situation and that they could NOT be sent to war anywhere during that time. However, I believe that one couldn’t rely on any current government to honour that condition. Now off my soapbox! I understand what you’re saying about those hasty marriages, and about arranged marriages too. You’re correct that generally such a marriage as in this story would indeed be silly. 😊