Wow, thanks for the info Richard. Interesting to know that,

Love to see the locations

You're a star!

THAT'S JUST TO COOL INDEED 😊 CIDEONS WAY ONE SCOOTERS..... pt ll THE ENDING OF IT THAT'S JUST TO AWESOMENESS IT'S THE SAME FACTORY AS ON PINK FLOYD ANIMALS LP...... Weed Me

Bit of artistic licence going on there cos Sid being 13 wouldn't be attending a primary school.

Long gone RIP

I worked with Hurt on Sinful Davey, dir Huston. I suspect someone bought it out to prevent distribution!!! One of those experiences when I discovered my performances were far too convincing... Hurt was a gentleman.

well done 👏🏻

I remember, as a kid in the 60s, being spellbound by Creasey's 'Gideon' books - unputdownable then!

I found a couple of Gideon books in a charity book sale recently. My mum had loads of his books and I’d never read any, now I’m addicted and searching for my next fix!!!

I'm not sure my parents would have even allowed me to watch them. I spent a lot of time with my grandmother and her preference was for romantic films

i also

​

Glad you like it! I remember I was 9 yrs old and John Gregson came to my home town (Rayners Lane) to open a jumble sale. Didn't know who he was at the time. He said to look out for his new TV series starting that night and I rushed home to tell my Mum and Dad. Watched it and was hooked! I will upload some more episodes soon, so look out for them or subscribe to my channel.

I watched it when it first came out

Glad you liked it Steve. Must get around to uploading some more!

very very very good 20 at. 10

Here here!

What about John Gregson?

The loveliest thing was the lack of traffic

@@clareshaughnessy2745 Mostly filming would be done on sundays, backscene filming weekdays from the back of a motorbike or similar

@@highpath4776 that’s really interesting! Are you just a film buff or do you have insider knowledge?

​@@clareshaughnessy2745 I notice a lot of TV filming out and about when I am travelling around the City of London at weekends. ( I forgot too the City of London tends to be empty on Saturdays too, though as you say the amount of the suburban traffic around the film studio areas has increased since the mid 1960s (Borehamwood High Street used to be popular film locations - I just use the locations guides for the likes of The Saint and The Sweeney that are on line then and now picture comparisons).

@@clareshaughnessy2745 The area around the St Katherines Dock / London Dock was interesting, I have not really walked around there, being south london so know more about Butlers Wharf Area, but It appeared in one of the episodes of The Sweeney with the two australian con-men in (George Lazenby and Patrick Mower), as the much more up-market yatch marina. London Dock became the walled up area that was the News Corporation (Sun/murdoch) Printing and Publishing after they moved out of Fleet Street and was always a Fortress to really get into.

Yeah, great old series Lynne. Love the old black & white British thrillers too

so do I, I seem to spend all night watching the old movies, Gideon of the yard with Jack Hawkins is a great film.

I will post more Gideons when I get my PC back. Just moved back from USA so things still packed.

Also lead actor in Special Branch.

He has that chiselled kind of face!

His acting has the same plastic quality.

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

Yes it wad a great show.

Lol so true 😄

Thanks Heather. I will upload more soon.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I remember him as Mike Wallace in The Sandbaggers. This was his first role.

Holy smokes! That was Colin from EE? I thought the name sounded familiar but came here first before looking it up. Nice one picking that up.

Glad you liked it Shahul! My childhood time too and still love the old British classics like this. I will find time to upload some more!

Watched every episode on a channel called talking pictures tv, it broadcasts on freeview and sky tv.

Glad you got to see it 😊

Yes, I remember Monty Berman doing The Saint.

Indeed! That's a big plus with this type of film. I enjoy it for the sheer history but also because I was a lorry driver in those days, often visiting the many London docks as well as other British ports. There was such variety of ships, and seemingly infinite variety of cargoes, all being loaded and unloaded and stored, with hooks and chains and nets and pallets, by crane and by hand; and the lorry loads had to be sheeted and roped with the special dolly hitches to tighten the ropes. All this, that had buzzed with such life for hundreds of years, was run down in the seventies. By now there are much fewer ships in the world, they are mostly similar in type, and everything is out of sight in containers - interesting enough in its way, but by comparison with those times, as dull as ditchwater. Economists and politicians never consider the sheer enjoyment factors when they instigate changes. The only negative was that the dockers pilfered a lot, and their unions had enough power to stymie any attempts to prevent it. As a driver you had to turn a blind eye, and even sometimes receive 'bribes' in kind, otherwise on your next visit you'd be left for hours or days without attention. However, dockers in places like Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, and all Scottish ports were pretty nice people, in contrast to the East-end Londoner dockers, who with few exceptions took pleasure in being unhelpful.

Lew Grade knew what entertainment the public wanted, the government however destroyed ATV and we the public lost out, we can only imagine what other great productions there could have been

They're all catering to the vapid commies running PBS off the US Taxpayer, and making stupid demands, rehashes and modifications...that's why...Downton Abbey writer and producers knew well how to milk that system!

Afraid not Steven. Always liked John Gregson though. Will do some more soon.

+Robin Vaughan Thank you, looking forward to them. btw my favorites are UK comedies and slightly less military pictures , film and tv. I happen to dislike horror/monster films/ tv. I also love old radio shows have only heard a few from the UK, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. BTW I only speak and understand English----kinda, I'm American, please don't hold that against me---too much.

+Steven Grotte Did you ever see a great UK comedy from the 70's called 'Mind your language?' Still funny to this day but could never show it on TV now because of the pc brigade. One of the actresses on there: Francoise Pascal, absolutely beautiful and sex in it, is now a Facebook friend of mine and she is still delightful. :-)

Right, me too.

@@robinvn It's on KZfaq now.

The Professionals

chris rainbow Yes Chris you are right. Think I was about 9yrs old at the time, so would be about 1965-65 and as I said before, John Gregson opened a jumble sale I went to on the Saturday of the first episode. He told everyone there to watch his new drama I remember and so I did and was hooked! I have another ready to upload and I'll try and do it tonight, so if you subscribe, you won't miss it!

will do robin, thanks mate.

Thanks for the info Leigh. You are quite right. I was just going by the order of the DVD. Will have to upload Episode 1 then! :-)

Robin Vaughan Lucky you-you have a DVD of the genuinely first episode of _Gideon’s Way_ (“State Visit”, an especially engrossing episode with Alfie Bass). The few minutes I’ve spent ransacking the www have managed to find only the ninth (“The White Rat”, with the tragically short-lived Virginia Maskell) and your posting of “The Tin God”. I’ve had a bad experience trying to buy what looked to be a decently presented boxed set of _Gideon’s Way_ via the website of what I thought was a reputable publisher, and I still haven’t rescued my money. A bunch of bad amateurs. Never again as far as I’m concerned. Only Amazon from now on. Or KZfaq . . . :-)

Understand what you mean. I will upload some more then.

Robin Vaughan Far be it from me to drop any such hint, Robin . . . But if anyone jumps up and down about “c*pyr*ght” then we can swear that at least one person tried to _buy_ one of what seemed to be the only decently presented boxed sets of _Gideon’s Way_ and was let down by some slapdash employees of and contractors for a certain huge USA-based international publisher.

Lol...no hints detected Leigh! I just wanted to test the water and see if anyone was interested in this great old series and if so, will upload more. Seems ok, so I will put up the first one soon.

That should have been, @17:48...I wonder did this inspire Nick Park's creation of Wallace and Gromit?

Police boxes were still in regular use in 1964

i lived in London at that time. it never occur to me that i could be attacked. now it's another story . no bobbies on the street. i'm glad i enjoyed my time in London then

occurred. sorry. Spanish wine!

@@michaelangood Likewise. the bobbies were great, people courteous, underground spotless...

@@michaelangoodNot me, as brought up at Brentwood in Essex in the 1950’s, make visits to East London in late 1950’s to see Trolleybuses at Aldgate - 68 on 10/02/24 🎂.

MEP.

American programming is made by "teams" of writers few of whom have ever read a book, let alone a classic, grew up with the TV as babysitter and who merely rehash old story-lines, upping the violence, sadism and porn every time. And they have to dodge the Weinsteins too... Old timers had real life experience and came from multiple backgrounds...few ever graduated from "media studies" or film school. I'm objective but not impartial as my great scripts are being eaten by the mice in Mayo... (archived in National Library of Ireland and Library of Congress) until I find a decent agent who doesn't introduce met o Weinsteins or give my original story lines away. It's a dodgy, crooked business...shudda stayed in UK.

@@DeirdreMcNamara If you can't stay in the UK does not mean you can't sell there. Get a UK agent, aim for a UK market.

Ties were part of prisoners uniform at the time