@Feisty1967 - Almost like a lost world, isn't it? I rmember this show too, but now live in Canada. Here in Calgary there are over 200 ex-UK coppers working here. Thanks to Blair's 13 year mis-rule of the UK and the politically correct madness he has left behind, even our coppers are beating it!
@bgibb101 It reminds me of cosy Saturday teatimes, sitting down to eat our tea and watching Dixon of Dox Green. Sadly, my dad passed away last October, but my childhood memories always remain.
I wonder what people will think of David Jason (68) as a policeman if he does any more of 'Frost' or, indeed, of John Nettles (65 this year) in 'Midsomer Murders'- a series that is due to continue indefinitely because it's so popular around the world. And Peter Falk last played Columbo when he was 75. They were never 'in uniform', though- I suppose that's, at least part of, the difference.
The show has a poorer reputation than it deserves, probably due to the cosy image of Jack Warner at the beginning and end of each programme. The series did change with the times, though, and from what I remember and from what I've seen since, it was always serious-minded and, occasionally, hard-hitting. Tremendously popular, too.
i remember watching the very last episode back in the 70s...all my family were sad because it was a very popular show on saturday nights...i wish the bbc had not wiped so many of the episodes.
Jack seems to have been promoted by this time; he used to start the show with his mono logue resplendent in full 'Bobby' uniform with tall hat on.Try explaining this show to todays kids.These are the days cops & public could 'clip' a naughty or cheeky kid in the street & parents would back them up ; now youre in court as a child abuser while kids kick decent people to death for no reason & get a tap on the wrist !!
@kenfig You've got rose-tinted glasses and read the Daily Mail far too much for your own good. People have been making the same basic complaint for as long as other people have existed to complain about. Or would you like to go back to the Cold War and no polio vaccine with an average 10-20 years shorter lifespan? How about a repeat of WWII or the Suez Crisis? There is no golden era; there never was and there never will be. But the world isn't going to end so you can stop worrying. KBO!
@icemachine79 Dont make any glib assumptions about me or what i do as you know absolutely nothing about me or what life was actually like without merely reading about it at a time that i did.I was actually around in the 60s and 70s.Also what the hell are you talking about medical advances and World War bloody two for ?
@kenfig Too right, too right. We're living in an insane asylum today. Everything's backwards, upside down and inside out. We need to return to God (common sense) before everything collapses into a heap.
@334286 Well people get more and more politically correct and it breeds more,so that everyone looks over their shoulders through fear of being labeled THIS or labeled THAT or Witch hunted by Matthew Hopkins,Witchfinder General ! Musnt have a Golliwog or it's 'racist' even when black kids loved them as well ; people only think things are bad when theyre TOLD theyre bad so if someone tells people 'The Black & White Minstrels Show' is 'racist' people will get on their high horse and ban it etc !
@kenfig If you ask people when they'd rather be around (who were around in that era), most would choose then rather than now. There was more trust, more respect, decency and more freedom to say and do the right thing rather than what you're told.
I watched it with my mum and dad. Oh how brilliant. More, more, more. Memories are soooo powerful and Dixon of Dock Green is up there with the early Dr Who. Wicked stuff.
Your right he was 81 when the series finished in 1976 but still wearing well! Arnold Ridley and John Laurie of Dads Army fame were born around the same time and still acting into the late 1970s too!
@LeonardHatred2 - You are right. Jack was 81 when he retired from that role. He was 85 when he passed away. I remember when uniformed coppers were like him, and CID were like Gene Hunt. Oh, happy days!
@LeonardHatred2 - You are right. Jack was 81 when he retired from that role. He was 85 when he passed away. I've got a few autographed photos of Jack, including his wonderful autobiography. I remember when uniformed coppers were like him, and CID were like Gene Hunt. Oh, happy days!
It was looking very dated by 1976 but still got respectable viewing figures. 'Juliet Bravo' with Stephanie Turner was a good follow up that achieved good audiences.
I remember watching Dixon of Dock Green as a child, lovely warm memories, eating my tea with mum and dad and watching this show.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
@Feisty1967 - Almost like a lost world, isn't it? I rmember this show too, but now live in Canada. Here in Calgary there are over 200 ex-UK coppers working here. Thanks to Blair's 13 year mis-rule of the UK and the politically correct madness he has left behind, even our coppers are beating it!
bgibb101 1 year ago
@bgibb101 It reminds me of cosy Saturday teatimes, sitting down to eat our tea and watching Dixon of Dox Green. Sadly, my dad passed away last October, but my childhood memories always remain.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
animal nitrate!
miraeja 1 year ago
Fantastic stuff, took me right back.
Thanks for posting.
HaggisXtatties 1 year ago
Shame so many episodes wiped.
dramaticguy 2 years ago
that's when coppers were coppers!
bkey88 3 years ago
that opening tune inspired the guitar chorus to Suede's 'Animal Nitrate'
Crackanese 3 years ago 6
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megalomaniac1992 2 years ago
I wonder what people will think of David Jason (68) as a policeman if he does any more of 'Frost' or, indeed, of John Nettles (65 this year) in 'Midsomer Murders'- a series that is due to continue indefinitely because it's so popular around the world. And Peter Falk last played Columbo when he was 75. They were never 'in uniform', though- I suppose that's, at least part of, the difference.
Paul02here 3 years ago
The show has a poorer reputation than it deserves, probably due to the cosy image of Jack Warner at the beginning and end of each programme. The series did change with the times, though, and from what I remember and from what I've seen since, it was always serious-minded and, occasionally, hard-hitting. Tremendously popular, too.
Paul02here 3 years ago
The theme tune is called an Ordinary Copper
croda1960 4 years ago
jack was quite frail.he was just used to serve the introduction and to summarise at the end.
spookyphill 4 years ago
i remember watching the very last episode back in the 70s...all my family were sad because it was a very popular show on saturday nights...i wish the bbc had not wiped so many of the episodes.
bigbreadeaterellis 4 years ago
Jack seems to have been promoted by this time; he used to start the show with his mono logue resplendent in full 'Bobby' uniform with tall hat on.Try explaining this show to todays kids.These are the days cops & public could 'clip' a naughty or cheeky kid in the street & parents would back them up ; now youre in court as a child abuser while kids kick decent people to death for no reason & get a tap on the wrist !!
kenfig 4 years ago 5
@kenfig You've got rose-tinted glasses and read the Daily Mail far too much for your own good. People have been making the same basic complaint for as long as other people have existed to complain about. Or would you like to go back to the Cold War and no polio vaccine with an average 10-20 years shorter lifespan? How about a repeat of WWII or the Suez Crisis? There is no golden era; there never was and there never will be. But the world isn't going to end so you can stop worrying. KBO!
icemachine79 1 year ago
@icemachine79 Dont make any glib assumptions about me or what i do as you know absolutely nothing about me or what life was actually like without merely reading about it at a time that i did.I was actually around in the 60s and 70s.Also what the hell are you talking about medical advances and World War bloody two for ?
kenfig 1 year ago
@kenfig Too right, too right. We're living in an insane asylum today. Everything's backwards, upside down and inside out. We need to return to God (common sense) before everything collapses into a heap.
334286 1 year ago
@334286 Well people get more and more politically correct and it breeds more,so that everyone looks over their shoulders through fear of being labeled THIS or labeled THAT or Witch hunted by Matthew Hopkins,Witchfinder General ! Musnt have a Golliwog or it's 'racist' even when black kids loved them as well ; people only think things are bad when theyre TOLD theyre bad so if someone tells people 'The Black & White Minstrels Show' is 'racist' people will get on their high horse and ban it etc !
kenfig 1 year ago
@kenfig If you ask people when they'd rather be around (who were around in that era), most would choose then rather than now. There was more trust, more respect, decency and more freedom to say and do the right thing rather than what you're told.
334286 1 year ago
I can remember watching this as a kid every saturday night, thanks for the memory.
2909tina 4 years ago
I watched it with my mum and dad. Oh how brilliant. More, more, more. Memories are soooo powerful and Dixon of Dock Green is up there with the early Dr Who. Wicked stuff.
DrWhosmate 4 years ago
Bloody hell - Jack Warner must have been in his eighties at least when this was done.
LeonardHatred2 4 years ago
hehe u know it!!
tvinsider4 4 years ago
Your right he was 81 when the series finished in 1976 but still wearing well! Arnold Ridley and John Laurie of Dads Army fame were born around the same time and still acting into the late 1970s too!
Voxac100b 4 years ago
@LeonardHatred2 I know that even when he made The Blue Lamp in 1950 he was too old to be a serving police constable.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
@LeonardHatred2 - You are right. Jack was 81 when he retired from that role. He was 85 when he passed away. I remember when uniformed coppers were like him, and CID were like Gene Hunt. Oh, happy days!
bgibb101 10 months ago
@LeonardHatred2 - You are right. Jack was 81 when he retired from that role. He was 85 when he passed away. I've got a few autographed photos of Jack, including his wonderful autobiography. I remember when uniformed coppers were like him, and CID were like Gene Hunt. Oh, happy days!
bgibb101 10 months ago
What a memory and then it was cut short. . .please oh please where is the rest of it????
trishignao 4 years ago
Halcyon times indeed.
It was looking very dated by 1976 but still got respectable viewing figures. 'Juliet Bravo' with Stephanie Turner was a good follow up that achieved good audiences.
Ampex196 4 years ago
Good grief, my mum and dad used to watch this!!!!!.
Thanks for the memory.
Sliepnir2006 4 years ago