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Showing posts with label Stratford Johns. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Stratford Johns. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2026

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Drinking gin with Matron

I may have got the idea that Matron is too fond of gin from Sheila Hancock, who played Miss Hannigan that way (to Stratford Johns' Daddy...

Monday, February 23, 2026

Barlow and Watt investigate Jack the Ripper

Last night I watched the film Murder by Decree on Talking Pictures TV. I've watched it several times because the cast and premise (Sher...

Friday, February 13, 2026

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

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, March 23, 2024

The Exorcism: The scariest thing I have ever seen on television

Written for Terence Towles Canote's 10th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon . What’s the most frightening thing you’ve seen on ...

Saturday, January 20, 2024

The Princes in the Tower: The final verdict

This is the one I've been waiting for. I've not watched it yet, but if they leave Richard III alone in the interview room with Barlo...

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Stratford Johns listens to the son of Walter Sickert and his Jack the Ripper story

Stratford Johns's Charlie Barlow was the most famous detective on British television from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, appearing su...

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Softly, Softly: Task Force and the history of police on television

This post is written for the 9th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon on Terence Towles Canote's blog A Shroud of Thoughts. It’s ...

Monday, February 06, 2023

Freda Jackson and Stratford Johns in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

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...

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Dixon of Dock Green: Not as cosy as the critics tell us

Stratford Johns's Inspector Barlow began life in Z Cars in 1962. The critics all say that this series had such an impact because, until ...

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