Showing posts with label John Thaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Thaw. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2026

The last episode of Shoestring: The Dangerous Game

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This post is written for the 12th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon  on Terence Towles Canote's blog A Shroud of Thoughts. Clic...
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Friday, February 13, 2026

Britain's two most famous TV policemen on screen together in 1964

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Between 1962, when he first appeared as Charlie Barlow in Z-Cars, and 1976, when he played the character for the last time in  Second Verdic...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

GUEST POST Shut it! Two words of advice from Jack Regan

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Peter Chambers doesn't want any Barney Rubble as he looks forward to owning some television history. tl;dr – Series One of The Sweeney ...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Redcap (1964-6): John Thaw's first starring role

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What would Inspector Morse really have been like in his twenties? For the answer, don't watch Endeavour, watch Redcap. Because this dram...
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Monday, February 06, 2023

Freda Jackson and Stratford Johns in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

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When I saw the cast of this 1961 television play included two Liberal England heroes - Freda Jackson and Stratford Johns - I had to have the...
Monday, December 26, 2022

In which Stratford Johns is a real gent

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From the early Sixties until the rise of John Thaw as Regan of The Sweeney in the Seventies, Stratford Johns as Charlie Barlow was the most ...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

John Thaw and Leonard Rossiter in Redcap

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Redcap was a television series about Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police. It was...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Six of the Best 627

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Peter Carrol reviews Ed Balls' memoirs. "Lib Dem Glee Club is without a doubt, the weirdest event in British politics." M...