‘Is it Gene Hunt? Is he kicking in a nonce?’
From this week’s Life on Mars in the UK, a line beautifully delivered by John Simm:
Listen to me. I can just about handle you, driving like a pissed-up crackhead and treating women like beanbags, but I'm going to say this once and once only, Gene: stay out of Camberwick Green!
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Genius.
Home too late and (sadly) due to a VCR accident (not of my making) I missed it - but it is sat at my house on the V+ box waiting to be watched at the weekend!
Last Saturday morning I heard on Radio Five Live an article all about the Fortieth anniversary of Trumpton - equally genius - featuring an interview with the god of Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley - none other than Brian Cant!
If you have BBC4, they will air a repeat, but not sure which week (next?). The hospital in 2006 put Sam on an overdose of medication and he begins tripping, and a lot of the story is told in flashback over whether the team put away the wrong man in a 1972 crime. Slightly unusual. I dislike the flashback technique, but the Camberwick Green animation at the beginning is worth it!
If you don’t have digital, then I shouldn’t mention this: Torrents.
Gosh, it has been 40 years since those shows, Rich. Good old Brian Cant! And each time I watched Camberwick Green, it was the same character in the box (I forget the name). Never remembered any others!
If you remember the earlier Camberwick Green promo for Life on Mars, the voiceover sounded vaguely like Cant, but probably not quite as south.