Who says Robbie can't play football again just because he's lost his legs? Losing a leg didn't stop Heather Mills taking part in Dancing on Ice or Dancing with the Stars.
As for him receiving disability benefits, they're likely to be cut by Cameron and his cronies in Government if this happened in 2011 and not in the 1970s like in this film.
@JonLovejoy It's on another website though. And the guy who uploaded it said he had a hell of a time trying to track down a copy of it! The Finishing Line terrifies me. This doesn't.
"It's dogey enough to cross a road but a railway is different." Yeah it is, it's called a fucken rail, how do you even miss it's path. Only stupid people get hit by a friggen train.
There's more than one version of this. In one of them, he's walking on an electrified line and falls on the third rail when trying to recover his football boots and gets badly burned. I presume they just used the same footage for the bit at the end.
bad news mrs Heywood, your son will probably play the lead in an alternative version of footloose..but the good news is..me and the fellow officers think you're a milf..
So is this movie set in a weird world where if you see something remotely shocking you lose the ability to speak for the rest of your life? Hmm...how odd.
they need to bring this uptodate in uk n show it to skwl too many deaths ova era by some d**k playin chicken or usin them as shorcuts in the uk train are now getting faster so longer too stop kids think its a car it will stop instenly but it wont. ive nearly seen a kid on the phone usin them as a shocut when a non-stop train whent though the station at 40mph ive neva heard a horn be sound so much lucky the guy did get missed just
"Mrs Heywood"? i'm afraid your son Robbie will only be able to play in League 1 at best...we have informed the Arsenal academy coach that they will be receiving a pair of gola footy boots back to keep for the spare cupboard in the bootroom"
"All we can do is wait; they've promised to phone as soon as they find his other foot. Oops, what a giveaway". I remember seeing this at school in about 1983; my brother, 7 at the time, had nightmares for about a fortnight afterwards; I recall a number of parents complaining about how graphic it was (particularly since the nearest railway line was about 3 miles away...)
Well look on the BRIGHT side. At least this isn't as graphic as "The Finishing Line!" All they show during the scene when Robbie is run over is the train approaching and Sally screaming her head off!
The train driver WASN'T drunk. Trains are very fast vehicles and that's what you even hear in this film; Peter Purves says 'A train could never stop in time to miss them' and that a train 'cannot stop anything like as quickly as a car'.
They still bloody play on the line. Just today I had to go traipsing down there, putting my own self at risk, just cos they decided it was a nice day to run across the track and spray our trains!
We had a railway line behind our school. So they showed it at our school. I haven't seen this since about 1982. Scared the s**t out of me back then. Loved the way the WPC thinks that a cup of tea will make everything ok.
He probably said 'poorly' to Ruth (the mum's name, apparently) thinking she wouldn't hear the most extreme news about her youngest son even though she DOES know what happened to him when she's so eager to hear about Robbie.
Robbie's brother (I think Bert) snatches his football boots and throws them. They land near an electric pylon and Robbie tries to retrieve them with a metal pole but is electrocuted.
Before you ask, no, JonLovejoy DOESN'T have the second version EITHER.
Ah, Robbie... Never seen this version - we had the Cheggers version when I were a nipper. They actually showed it to us 3 times in the space of 18 months, despite there not being a railway for miles. Bastards.
This made me terrified of crossing any railway lines, and I still am even though I'm now 24... which I suppose was its point. Strangely it's actually nowhere near as graphic as my memory had made it, but it gets its point across in much the same way.
Thanks for uploading this... even though I knew I shouldn't have watched it again!
I remember this being shown to me when i was in school aswell, it didnt ring a bell until it showed Robbie playing football. Very sad story indeed, but all the film is doing is giving you a harsh reality check on the dangers than can and actually do happen
I was never around when these were originally shown (im 16) and the stuff then was never as good at getting the message across as the older ones, but now the stuff way too stupid, never shows the consequence of the events
I think that's because of the general stupidity of people now. If you show something in a serious light, they just laugh it off. I like the old PIF's because I can relate to them better.
Been looking on Youtube for years hoping to see this again,first seen this back in the 70's in school assembly,still has the same effect now as it did back then in the good ol days,a rare treat to see it after so long,Thanks for posting,i'm sure many people will say/remember similar stories.
Poor Robbie. :*( I told myself I'd swear off PIFs, since some of them really bummed me out; but I had to have a look at 'Robbie'. After surviving 'The Finishing Line', I was sure I could sit through this one. It's still sad and a bit frightening, but tells a powerful message, and I wish every school in the world would show this film. Thank you for uploading this.
I personally saw the third version at my primary school in March 1996 (some time around after Thursday the 7th and from Monday the 11th) when I was eight in Year 4 in the lower juniors (my year watched it in the UPPER juniors hall and we all sat on the floor which didn't have a carpet.
Though when I watched it, it wasn't part of assembly. I remember we did a wordsearch based on the film after watching it and was even something my year had to do at home.
i have seen this where robbie loses his legs but seeing the little lad with a very burnt face made me feel sick.very graphic
Amandamoo73 1 week ago
Least he got hie priority's right.
A) New football shoes
B) No feet.
What would you choose? Please don't be a poof like Robbie.
Electrocharged 1 month ago
are thoes burns at 5:43?
comentsuscribeonly 2 months ago
0.14 LOL I THOUGHT THAT WAS A BOY
mrliampep5i 3 months ago
hope she slapped the fuck outta the big brother it was all this fault.
princess17306 3 months ago
Good. He looked like a twat anyway.
fuckpants69 3 months ago
2:10 WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!!!!! omg this is supposed to be for kids
comentsuscribeonly 4 months ago
@comentsuscribeonly Maybe censorship was different in England in the late 1970s? Or maybe they were going for realism
wileyk209zback 3 months ago
@rojblake82 NO REALLY WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT OUT
nessnes64 4 months ago
@rojblake82 BAHAHAHA DEAD PEOPLE
nessnes64 5 months ago
@rojblake82 It was funny for me.....
nessnes64 5 months ago
@rojblake82 Well, i found this video funny
nessnes64 5 months ago
Talk about rubbing her nose in it @ 3:04 ! Im sure she would have been just fine after a nice cup of tea!
TheShepster80 5 months ago
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TheShepster80 5 months ago
@rojblake82
Thank you for that informed comment.
JonLovejoy 5 months ago
natural selection, one too stupid to walk over a train track...
Frosty301289 6 months ago
Who says Robbie can't play football again just because he's lost his legs? Losing a leg didn't stop Heather Mills taking part in Dancing on Ice or Dancing with the Stars.
As for him receiving disability benefits, they're likely to be cut by Cameron and his cronies in Government if this happened in 2011 and not in the 1970s like in this film.
cupcakefairy87 7 months ago
@cupcakefairy87 This was crap in many cases people run over by trains die.
rojblake82 5 months ago
Robbie's mum - Martha Christie: Store detective (Youtube that)
CHANNELMICHAEL 7 months ago
No child psychiatrist or PTSD for Bert!
He just needs a nice cup of tea... The seventies were ace!
zekezero12345 8 months ago
Is it a boy or a girl?
RandomAlex7 8 months ago
Robbie's sister..I thought it was a girl.
RandomAlex7 8 months ago
Dig the funky saucepan design.
willpurry 8 months ago
LEAVE THE FUCKING BOOTS AND GET OFF THE RAILWAY LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE
tomdissonance 10 months ago
this scared the crap out of me when I was 8.....
chambreski 10 months ago
i bet that cursed asian woman painting is to blame
alanlovedog 10 months ago
@EmperorMarcusNovius: Disgusting.
JDart1776 1 year ago 3
I did upload 'The Finishing Line' but I received an email to take it down on copyright grounds.
JonLovejoy 1 year ago
@JonLovejoy It's on another website though. And the guy who uploaded it said he had a hell of a time trying to track down a copy of it! The Finishing Line terrifies me. This doesn't.
HurryHarryNoE 1 year ago
"Sorry love- they asked me to bring these emotionally harrowing shoes back."
greenphantom 1 year ago 3
Love the way Peter Purvis refers to ''coppers''. Sally's gone mad and that lady WPC's answer to everything is a bloody cuppa.
MALCBAGGIE 1 year ago
You wouldn't happen to have the other versions by any chance?
JillC2 1 year ago
oh so the little nigga got away....
Bert is now very disturbed
Sally has become a Vegtable
and Robbie has been put in a wheelchair.
charming
IsaacAttack21 1 year ago
fear factor 9/10!
ongchorcool 1 year ago
you fetishize the archetype
valdezmiguel2 1 year ago
Can someone put up Ten Green Bottles, where they go joy riding in a Morris Minor.
fredo1070 1 year ago
Mum was later in 'Yes Prime Minister'.
Dristarg 1 year ago
"He asked me to bring you these."
Yeah, rub it in why don't you, copper?
Wintericecrystal 1 year ago 2
"It's dogey enough to cross a road but a railway is different." Yeah it is, it's called a fucken rail, how do you even miss it's path. Only stupid people get hit by a friggen train.
Timewap 1 year ago
@Timewap yea like me i used to put coins on the track and i only got a shock when a train passed on the next track
nessnes64 1 year ago
Good thing his sister can scream like that or no one would guess she was a...she.
ProdigsProductions 1 year ago
And he still could've played for England in the last World Cup!
ogdroadsong 1 year ago 4
@ogdroadsong
Ha ha ha!
xxeternalbeautyxx 1 year ago
When they gave his Mom Robbies Trainers back i think that didnt upset her.I think it was the fact that they forgot to take his feet out first,lol.
Pulpedtoafiction31 1 year ago
How come a train running over his feet make his face burn?
alylikeshellokitty 1 year ago
@alylikeshellokitty
There's more than one version of this. In one of them, he's walking on an electrified line and falls on the third rail when trying to recover his football boots and gets badly burned. I presume they just used the same footage for the bit at the end.
furby100 1 year ago
i knew what was coming but i put my hands over my eyes!and then for the policewoman to say about the shoes...very horrid!
Amandamoo73 1 year ago
'He's very poorly, he's lost his legs.'
CarpenterStudios 1 year ago 4
hold on, how the fuck did he manage to NOT get his feet clear in time? :D
afuzzyduck 1 year ago
Mum left the handle of the saucepan sticking out as well. Lucky the WPC didn't get soup spilled all over her uniform...
GER1380 1 year ago 2
0_0 I missed a bloody heartbeat when his feet were on the the track ....... :/ x
dollyzekaj1975 1 year ago
"Sorry love, they asked me to bring these back".
Might aswell have rubbed robbie's stump into her face.
MFAtlas 2 years ago 4
bad news mrs Heywood, your son will probably play the lead in an alternative version of footloose..but the good news is..me and the fellow officers think you're a milf..
bhcandaswp 2 years ago 17
Hahahahahahahaha, that was cruel yet extremely funny XD !
ALFWEDARF 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHA, fucking classic
Morrell84 1 year ago
@bhcandaswp
hehehe you lunatic!!!
heathirving 9 months ago
hmmm definitely time for a boot sale.
bhcandaswp 2 years ago 3
is alive but we will ne $6million to rebuild him
hamster700 2 years ago 2
i think Sally got Brain Damage
IsaacAttack21 2 years ago
@IsaacAttack21 shell shock it be
jorash123 1 year ago
So is this movie set in a weird world where if you see something remotely shocking you lose the ability to speak for the rest of your life? Hmm...how odd.
hotelmario510 2 years ago
That was a girl screaming? Jesus, beaten with the ugly stick.
And the tea! "Tell you what, I'll put the kettle on!"
"Of course. Why didn't I think of that. Everything will be fine now."
How do cultures without tea manage? In fact, it's essential to have the whole milk and sugar thing. It's at least 20 minutes displacement activity.
You actually feel like you're taking control when you put the kettle on. I try to explain this to the Chinese but they don't get it.
fiona1933 2 years ago 2
the only soccer hes gonn pay is sensible soccer
hamster700 2 years ago 2
so........ there was two trains?
nessnes64 2 years ago
They need this sorta stuff over here in the US.
(worst is when the victims try to sue the Railroad and win because they can't own up to their stupidity.)
BurlingtonNorthernRy 2 years ago 7
they need to bring this uptodate in uk n show it to skwl too many deaths ova era by some d**k playin chicken or usin them as shorcuts in the uk train are now getting faster so longer too stop kids think its a car it will stop instenly but it wont. ive nearly seen a kid on the phone usin them as a shocut when a non-stop train whent though the station at 40mph ive neva heard a horn be sound so much lucky the guy did get missed just
ppl just need to think
hit or miss
both ruin lives
jorash123 1 year ago
@jorash123 They'd have to update it though. Replace the pub with a Wetherspoons, and replace the 101 with a Sprinter/Pacer/Turbostar for two things.
GeorgeUKCFC 7 months ago
I particularly love how the screeching bint was rendered catatonic. Worst. Police. Disclosure. Ever.
emmascribbles 2 years ago
for anyone thats interested, i now know wat happens in version 2 and 3
2: Robbie's brother throws his boots onto a eletric pylon and robbie tries to retrive them with a metal pole but is electrocuted.
3: when he is crossing the track he accidently steps on a electric third rail is is electricuted
I have not seen them but i found out on wikipeadia
IsaacAttack21 2 years ago
I have seen them a long time ago, plus im a train driver and they are still shown in some school's
blackpig24601 2 years ago
"Mrs Heywood"? i'm afraid your son Robbie will only be able to play in League 1 at best...we have informed the Arsenal academy coach that they will be receiving a pair of gola footy boots back to keep for the spare cupboard in the bootroom"
bhcandaswp 2 years ago 4
"All we can do is wait; they've promised to phone as soon as they find his other foot. Oops, what a giveaway". I remember seeing this at school in about 1983; my brother, 7 at the time, had nightmares for about a fortnight afterwards; I recall a number of parents complaining about how graphic it was (particularly since the nearest railway line was about 3 miles away...)
danbo1984 2 years ago
Well look on the BRIGHT side. At least this isn't as graphic as "The Finishing Line!" All they show during the scene when Robbie is run over is the train approaching and Sally screaming her head off!
wileyk209zback 2 years ago
bert is such a dick head
IsaacAttack21 2 years ago 3
I'd have loved if he'd run over there and ANOTHER train had run him over.
hotelmario510 2 years ago
3:00 - "Sorry love, they asked me to bring these back".
Honestly, if I was Robbie's mother, I would have slapped the idiot policeman.
jemmabond 2 years ago 6
In the very last shot, he's left looking like a cross between the Milky Bar Kid and Davros
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 5
I remeber watching the version with the pylon. Hard hittimg stuff, we knew it was old in 1997 but better than the crap nowadays
Mytimekid 2 years ago
Did Sally die?
IsaacAttack21 2 years ago
He would have been alright if the train driver wasnt pissed!!
Sterlingjob 2 years ago
The train driver WASN'T drunk. Trains are very fast vehicles and that's what you even hear in this film; Peter Purves says 'A train could never stop in time to miss them' and that a train 'cannot stop anything like as quickly as a car'.
shermanvermin76 2 years ago
what a script
sinistersue 2 years ago
Why does Robbie's mum SWEAR in this? This is a CHILDREN'S film. This is why people ask 'What the HECK', 'What the DEVIL' or even 'What the DICKENS?'
She even should have asked 'What ON EARTH happened?'
shermanvermin76 2 years ago
Apparently, they were going for realism. I guess the UK wasn't as sensitive about language compared to America.
wileyk209zback 2 years ago
thats cool. thanks anyway
leachlicker 2 years ago
I remember the version where the lads leg hits the 3rd rail, didnt stop kids playing on the line tho did it
Morrell84 2 years ago
They still bloody play on the line. Just today I had to go traipsing down there, putting my own self at risk, just cos they decided it was a nice day to run across the track and spray our trains!
theignorantpeasant 2 years ago
I just saw "The Finishing Line." It was very disgusting. I think "Robbie" is WAY more child-friendly, in my honest opinion.
wiley207 2 years ago 5
sally became a vegetable
MCRrox1996 2 years ago 2
yep
SpamNapkin 2 years ago
We had a railway line behind our school. So they showed it at our school. I haven't seen this since about 1982. Scared the s**t out of me back then. Loved the way the WPC thinks that a cup of tea will make everything ok.
steponitbill 2 years ago
Classic things about British films, cup of tea makes everything better :)
Also, the PC says he's "poorly". I thought poorly was having a cold, not losing your bloody legs!
Industro 2 years ago
He probably said 'poorly' to Ruth (the mum's name, apparently) thinking she wouldn't hear the most extreme news about her youngest son even though she DOES know what happened to him when she's so eager to hear about Robbie.
shermanvermin76 2 years ago
Robbie was lucky that he just lost his legs. Because it could've been worse. He could have been KILLED.
wiley207 3 years ago 21
He didn't lose his legs, just his feet!
mistofoles 2 years ago
He does get killed in the THIRD version.
shermanvermin76 2 years ago 2
where can i find the third version?
leachlicker 2 years ago
I don't KNOW where you can find the third version; JonLovejoy only has this FIRST version where Robbie loses both feet.
shermanvermin76 2 years ago
then wat happens in the second version?
IsaacAttack21 2 years ago
Robbie's brother (I think Bert) snatches his football boots and throws them. They land near an electric pylon and Robbie tries to retrieve them with a metal pole but is electrocuted.
Before you ask, no, JonLovejoy DOESN'T have the second version EITHER.
shermanvermin76 2 years ago
thanks!
hav u seen it?
IsaacAttack21 2 years ago
what happens in the third one?
IsaacAttack21 2 years ago
I thought you already read above from myself what happens to Robbie in the third version.
To answer your question, no, I have NEVER seen version two.
shermanvermin76 2 years ago
@wiley207 from his sisters fucking screaming
nessnes64 1 year ago 4
@nessnes64 lol!
Theogmeo123 1 year ago
@wiley207 death wouldve been better then that
Thinker297 9 months ago
How many accidents has that conductor been involved with? o_o
Darq0001 3 years ago
Lmao the 80's wog at 4.20, classic. Used to love this at school.
marzipan260 3 years ago
p.s Robbies mum looked quite hot..i suspect a nice arse hiding under that 70's get up.
camelknicks 3 years ago 3
Classic ! its Viv off Emmerdale as the WPC !
camelknicks 3 years ago
modern trains are to quiet.
Stick to steam, its lounder, nicer, and slower,
you can hear it and you have more time to get away
andyg3 3 years ago
Ah, Robbie... Never seen this version - we had the Cheggers version when I were a nipper. They actually showed it to us 3 times in the space of 18 months, despite there not being a railway for miles. Bastards.
neondiscogod 3 years ago
the mum is fit!
dangelo5 3 years ago
wow i remember this, is that phil daniels from eastenders working on the railway line at 3:30 ?
adam10185 3 years ago
Why the hell would the hospital ASK that footless Robbie's shoes be returned to his mom?
I swear, with some clever editing, some funny music, and a laugh track, this could pass for a Monty Python skit.
BubbleRum 3 years ago 4
This made me terrified of crossing any railway lines, and I still am even though I'm now 24... which I suppose was its point. Strangely it's actually nowhere near as graphic as my memory had made it, but it gets its point across in much the same way.
Thanks for uploading this... even though I knew I shouldn't have watched it again!
DavidXNewton 3 years ago
I remember this being shown to me when i was in school aswell, it didnt ring a bell until it showed Robbie playing football. Very sad story indeed, but all the film is doing is giving you a harsh reality check on the dangers than can and actually do happen
xxrobfalconxx 3 years ago
this is terribly sad and frightening,even for me at 35!the bit where it shows you the train just after showing robbie fall had me shivering.
Amandamoo73 3 years ago
I was never around when these were originally shown (im 16) and the stuff then was never as good at getting the message across as the older ones, but now the stuff way too stupid, never shows the consequence of the events
kman743666 3 years ago
I think that's because of the general stupidity of people now. If you show something in a serious light, they just laugh it off. I like the old PIF's because I can relate to them better.
ALFWEDARF 3 years ago
She offers to make a coffee but goes outside?
Dean3000plus 3 years ago
Was Sally in hospital due to shock? Thats why you can see her screaming when she sees poor robbie hit by the train.
JoeRoss1993 3 years ago
Thanks for posting! Brings alot of memories back.(good & bad)!!!
0011795 3 years ago
Shame we can't make films like this now to educate our feral chav brats . . . but the nanny state would never allow it.
rubis945 3 years ago 4
Been looking on Youtube for years hoping to see this again,first seen this back in the 70's in school assembly,still has the same effect now as it did back then in the good ol days,a rare treat to see it after so long,Thanks for posting,i'm sure many people will say/remember similar stories.
tads1970 3 years ago 2
Poor Robbie. :*( I told myself I'd swear off PIFs, since some of them really bummed me out; but I had to have a look at 'Robbie'. After surviving 'The Finishing Line', I was sure I could sit through this one. It's still sad and a bit frightening, but tells a powerful message, and I wish every school in the world would show this film. Thank you for uploading this.
LuvvyDuck 3 years ago
thanks for the upload!
i still remember sitting in assembly and watching this when i was 5 years old. hard hitting and it's stayed with me till this day.
take me back when britain was staight up and no bullshit! look at the country now....
skillionaire 3 years ago 3
I personally saw the third version at my primary school in March 1996 (some time around after Thursday the 7th and from Monday the 11th) when I was eight in Year 4 in the lower juniors (my year watched it in the UPPER juniors hall and we all sat on the floor which didn't have a carpet.
Though when I watched it, it wasn't part of assembly. I remember we did a wordsearch based on the film after watching it and was even something my year had to do at home.
shermanvermin76 2 years ago
I'm sorry for your loss, I'll make some tea!
Oh, and here are his shoes, which he can never wear again. Woah! Heavy.
Star841 3 years ago 19
@Star841 i could not stop loling at your comment XD
mrdoom666 1 year ago
@Star841 yeah that is creepy
mila1082 1 year ago
pretty harrowing.
I can remember being shown this at school back in 1980 and the whole class was very quiet for the rest of the morning.
armalyte 3 years ago 2
also when will killing time be released on here. i just also want to see a modern P.I.F about railways.
JoeRoss1993 3 years ago