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London's Burning (1988)
Britain's Best Firefighting Drama.
As a child in early 1990's Britain, London's Burning was a staple of Sunday night TV. I have just been re-watching the show on DVD and it's still as relevant today as it was 20 years ago when the show was at it's peak.
I highly recommend this show to Firefighting/Fire Brigade enthusiasts around the world as it showed Blue Watch of Blackwall Fire Station dealing with work and personal triumphs and tragedies. The realism of the show was what made it so successful with a big budget being spent on the spectacular, well crafted and well produced "Shouts" that Blue Watch were called to (A "Shout" is a Brigade term for an Emergency call) in the days before Computer Generated Imagery which the later seasons of LB had to suffer from as the budget was cut.
Here's to the crew of Blackwall!
Duck Patrol (1998)
A Good Series But....
This was a good ITV Sitcom which only lasted one series in 1998.
Starring Richard Wilson as PC Roland 'Prof' Rose, An Elderly constable who has been there, done that and bought the T-Shirt.
The series was set around a River Police station and the gentle, mundane goings on. It was a gentle, old fashioned type of comedy in the same vein as the BBC's long running sitcom 'Last Of The Summer Wine' However, ITV obviously thought that it could capitalise on the fact that 'One Foot In The Grave' was on a 5 year break and by putting Richard Wilson in a Police uniform and having him act almost exactly like Victor Meldrew would bring in viewers who were craving more 'One Foot...' Sadly, it didn't work. It seemed to make the public just want 'One Foot In The Grave' to come back and thus, the series was cancelled.
It is notable for having future Doctor Who star David Tennant as Prof's sidekick the geeky PC Simon 'Darwin' Brown and Samantha Beckinsale as WPC Gillian 'Marilyn' Monroe.
This could have gone on to be one of ITV's great sitcoms if it wasn't for Victor Meldrew! ;-)