I used to watch these with my parents all those years ago. Pure nostalgia. Brian Blessed used to talk 'normal' back then long before his famous bellowing voice of today. Frank Windsor played my favourite character. I used to love his authoritative attitude to those under him. So much has changed since then. The cars they drove and means of communication for example. Great to watch it again

@franceshaypenny8481

3 ай бұрын

Oh I dunno... He sounds pretty bellowing back then too. And clean shaven or bearded, still sexy.

A clean shaven Brian Blessed!

Sad news that Frank Windsor has died. Great actor especially as John Watt in Z Cars and Softly Softly

Absolutely smashing, another classic I have never seen before. Many thanks.

Two Bristol Lodekkas in the First five minutes. I'm guessing Crosville. Plus the classic independent operator's Duple bodied Bedford. Love the classic vehicles.

@neilfranklin5644

2 жыл бұрын

Not classic then

@indigohammer5732

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever seen an grown woman naked?

Centre of Disturbance, Season 3, Episode 36, aired 13 May 1964. David Bedard as Colin Metcalf; Brian Blessed as PC Smith; Joseph Brady as PC Weir; Delia Corrie as Mrs. Woolf; Lynn Farleigh as Ann Fazakerley; Michael Forrest as Det. Con. Hicks; Ken Goodlet as (as Kenneth Goodlet) as Peter Boston; Peter Griffin as Michael Connolly; Bob Keegan as Sgt. Blackitt; Sheila Mitchell as Mrs. Connolly; John Moore as Cavanagh; Donald Morley as Shallcross; Graham Rigby, Ambulance Man; Marigold Sharman as Mrs. Shallcross; George Waring as Martin Osborne; Frank Windsor as Det. Sgt. Watt.

There are elements to this program that show up years later in Hill Street Blues.

@ArtyEffem

2 жыл бұрын

The two shows couldn't be more different, but what they do have in common is the ability to intersperse moments of quality comedy, without compromising the underlying seriousness.

@SuperIliad

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArtyEffem I did write "elements." The hubbub; subplots roiling over each other.

23:40 "There's things happen to Smith and Weir - don't happen to anyone else."

Z Cars, this is super stuff, thank you so very much. ❤❤

Another Gem. Thanks!

Sadly, Society has gone from Yuppies making pranks at the Police's expense to Trash calling for the pettiest of things, like MacDonalds being out of McNuggets

The law has much changed since the 60s.Even having an unauthorized firearm can lead to 10 years, discharging a gun in a public place, even with blanks, criminal damage, causing serious public order offences etc. I reckon maybe 10 years inside. Everyone was so obsequious to the upper classes back then. Still quite nostalgic to watch.

John Hopkins wrote interesting scenarios.

amazing episode the sign of the happier days when a shooting is met with amazment and disbelief.also highlights the guilt felt by the witnesses for inaction.if you recall this was the time have a go was popularised only to be reversed after a spate of citizens got killed or badly injured doing just that!

@Hyapatia77

Жыл бұрын

Contrast this with our American TV at the time, when everybody was shooting everybody else, so natch it was no big to nab a perp. *Sigh*, no change here.

@franceshaypenny8481

3 ай бұрын

Well there were quite a lot of gang violence in the sixties then.

@mikekemp9877

3 ай бұрын

@@franceshaypenny8481 rarely used guns

Which witnesses like these no wonder there are so many unsolved crimes.

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Union Jack flag on the screen is upside down. The broad white diaganol goes around the flag clockwise.

@baronmeduse

2 ай бұрын

It's likely deliberate. Iconoclasm and whatnot...

A lovely bunch of barmpots!

5:25 Brian Blessed has the loudest voice in the history of human beings.

Takes me back, on the floor, coal fire ablaze, watching bw tv. We didn't need colour, we knew the colours in our head. It was all about content, unlike the millennium of dumbness. We didn't need warnings before transmissions & help lines at the end.

In reality, the people would be hushed from the shop, ref, questions, the shop keeper moved items in question, people are walking over debris, scene of crime, would be sealed off, immediately, police argument, witnesses are talking to other witnesses, people interviewing should be singular, the trick was in jest, plain clothes officers would only go and arrest a gunman, uniform back up only, in question, things have been written for dramatic effect, not plausible, not plausible, not plausible, one thing the line up, all wearing plasters, good one.!

@ArtyEffem

2 жыл бұрын

The implausibility started with the officers failing to realise immediately what had obviously happened.

@mgdwcb1

11 ай бұрын

And, at the end, they could only think up charges for 'mishandling a gun'. Nothing about the criminal damage to the shop.

Thanks for the video but it is totally ruined by the huge logo. Could you not at least made it black and white? I would have been happy to pay otherwise.

Acting not a patch on Dixon of Dock Green.

I'm still trying to figure out if it's supposed 2b a Comedy, a Farce or simply Lousy Acting....... Anybody know what "Z Cars" are?

@jayturner3397

Жыл бұрын

I believe some of the early episodes went out live 😮

@TheSuperHarrygeorge

Жыл бұрын

The word Z in Z cars was because the cars were Ford Zephyrs .

@susannah1948

Жыл бұрын

It was one of the first crime shows 50+ years ago !!!

Interesting how traumatized the crowd was because the man used a gun. If this had happened in Chicago or Detroit the crowd would have been as traumatized if the guy did the drive by and did not have a few guns.

The actor @23:13 bears an uncanny resemblance to a young LBJ.

A Boris Johnson-esque jolly jape with damaged people left in its wake. The lower orders are so tiresome. Can't they take a joke ?

Brian Blessed. Sorry, he's a prat. Rest of it is terrific.

@marnamintzer2659

Жыл бұрын

Fine actor, good man, and I'd like to see you call him a prat to his face.

Sorry to be a misserable sod but my dad used to watch this when I were a lad. It was shit then and it's shit now

@MrThecarebear

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that "expert" opinion.

@None-zc5vg

2 жыл бұрын

Some episodes were good but others were pathetic, like this one.

@lizdoyle7158

2 жыл бұрын

Goes to show your dad and my dad knew great tv as they both watched z cars 🚓🚓🚓🚓you were a lad so maybe you werent Interested in the series you probaly enjoyed childrens tv 📺z cars was a top tv series as for shit that went down the loo in 1960s too and its the very same in 2022

@CoinOfFaith

2 жыл бұрын

@@lizdoyle7158 Dear Liz, I have to disagree with your assertation that things are the same in 2022. No now things are even worse, just a more refined form of shit. By the way I threw my TV out years ago.

@tangerinedream7211

Жыл бұрын

Was actually cutting edge drama at the time and showed the style/culture of the times, ten years later we got the Sweeny , what do we get now, I'm a third rate celebrity,get me out of here, call that progress.

Onscreen British flag should be 250% larger, please. Better yet, let it cover all the screen. Nothing worth viewing. 😞

@simonmw0nwm13

Жыл бұрын

Don’t talk utter rubbish, this is classic drama!