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Lawrence_Conway Posts: 7,042
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15/07/20 - 18:33 #27
The last cop show where they could blow the bad guys away without any trouble afterwards.
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carl.waring Posts: 36,219
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15/07/20 - 21:25 #28
Most of the men smoking and have to find a phone to call the station
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Bob Le Terrible Posts: 799
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15/07/20 - 21:26 #29
Chiltons Cane wrote: »
Her hair is dreadful. Like a helmet.
That is the only thing I remember!
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16/07/20 - 07:44 #30
About 15 minutes into the first episode:
Spikings~ " you never know, you two might make quite a good team". It turned out to be a really prophetic line that one.3
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22/07/20 - 09:35 edited 22/07/20 - 09:38 #31
Just discovered this was on ITV4 by accident this morning scrolling through channels and it is on ITV Hub! Something else to watch in the next couple of weeks - a trip down memory lane to one of my favourite shows as a teenager. I loved Michael Brandon. Well I loved them both, but in quite different ways!
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22/07/20 - 12:48 edited 22/07/20 - 12:51 #32
Verence wrote: »
essexpete wrote: »
Surprised it hasn't been on Talking Pictures
Ray Smith who played their boss Spikings was a regular character in Public Eye a series that has been shown on Talking Pictures.
A very good actor who always left his mark. Ray Smith died quite young I think, but I always think of Spikings (as well as the main two) when I see mention of Dempsey & Makepeace.
I am quite enjoying seeing this again. 😎
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22/07/20 - 14:26 #33
Watched the first episode yesterday, Glynis Barber is so pretty, but oh those 80s fashions
I didn't realise that Michael Brandon was previously married to Bionic Woman Lyndsey Wagnor! -
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20/08/20 - 17:43 edited 20/08/20 - 17:44 #34
Finally watched them all.
Surprised at some of the content. Quite violent at times. (Guns up people's noses, fights and so on) I am not personally bothered by it, but considering some of the tame words that were cut out of The Golden Girls recently I was surprised by some of the content that was left in D&M.
Anyway, it was good to watch them all again.
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21/08/20 - 09:17 #35
Hated it when first shown, so have no intention of trying it this time around.
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21/08/20 - 10:36 #36
carl.waring wrote: »
Most of the men smoking and have to find a phone to call the station
Watching it really brings home how different the 80s were to now (and I was around back then - and an original D & M viewer). There's a scene in one ep where Dempsey breaks into someone's house to look for evidence. Makepeace drives off, then hears on the police radio that there's been a break in at that address. She stops at a phone box, finds the landline number in the handily available doorstop-sized phone book and rings it! I remember the phone books in every box, and most people would have been in the book then (we weren't - mum insisted on going ex-directory in the late 70s, after being on the receiving end of some dodgy calls).
When we saw a mobile phone in D & M, it was one of those grey brick-sized things! The computers were primitive though probably state of the art at the time (only 5 years before, police paperwork was still actual paper - the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry being a notorious example).
The smoking is one of those things that it's easy to forget was the norm back then. I remember teachers at school smoking in the classroom, and even in the 90s, being sat in a room at a Job Club induction where everyone lit up when we had a break in proceedings!
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21/08/20 - 10:52 #37
Jimmy Connors wrote: »
Finally watched them all.
Surprised at some of the content. Quite violent at times. (Guns up people's noses, fights and so on) I am not personally bothered by it, but considering some of the tame words that were cut out of The Golden Girls recently I was surprised by some of the content that was left in D&M.
Anyway, it was good to watch them all again.
I'd forgotten how violent it was. I'm not bothered by it - I just find it surprising that in a show that was originally shown from (I think) 8 to 9pm, and had merchandise aimed at kids, they got away with some of the content. Two eps that spring to mind are the one with the serial killer and the one where Makepeace's friend was murdered during a train journey - I can just imagine the reaction of parents sitting down to watch those eps with their kids!
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johartuk Posts: 11,321
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21/08/20 - 11:15 edited 21/08/20 - 11:16 #38
Jimmy Connors wrote: »
Verence wrote: »
essexpete wrote: »
Surprised it hasn't been on Talking Pictures
Ray Smith who played their boss Spikings was a regular character in Public Eye a series that has been shown on Talking Pictures.
A very good actor who always left his mark. Ray Smith died quite young I think, but I always think of Spikings (as well as the main two) when I see mention of Dempsey & Makepeace.
I am quite enjoying seeing this again. 😎
Spikings was a brilliant character. He could easily have been an unpleasant, boorish character, but he was played with more depth than you'd usually get with a character like that. There was also humour added into the mix (I read somewhere that at least some of the scripts for the first series of D & M were originally intended for The Professionals, and it was Michael Brandon who, unhappy with the scripts as they were, tweaked them - the humour being one thing he added). Special mention should also be given to Chas (played by Tony Osoba), who always seemed to be the voice of reason amongst the mayhem!
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22/08/20 - 20:13 #39
You know what? It's amazing, if you are a "Dempsey & Makepeace" fan, you wait years & years for it to get a repeat airing on UK TV & then all of a sudden there will be two UK TV channels airing "Dempsey & Makepeace" within a few short months of each other as Forces TV joins the party in about 2 weeks time.
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23/08/20 - 10:34 #40
Really enjoyed these repeats as I haven't seen Dempsey and Makepeace since the eighties. Interesting that some of the scripts were left over from The Professionals, but you can see elements of it in Dempsey and Makepeace with the fast cars( Fords still being used), the buddy dialogue and the humour. Also Spikings has elements of George Cowley in his character with his brusque nature and no nonsense attitude.
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23/08/20 - 17:10 #41
Jimmy Connors wrote: »
Verence wrote: »
essexpete wrote: »
Surprised it hasn't been on Talking Pictures
Ray Smith who played their boss Spikings was a regular character in Public Eye a series that has been shown on Talking Pictures.
A very good actor who always left his mark. Ray Smith died quite young I think, but I always think of Spikings (as well as the main two) when I see mention of Dempsey & Makepeace.
I am quite enjoying seeing this again. 😎
Aged 55 according to Wiki, no age at all, heart attack apparently.
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23/08/20 - 17:15 #42
Seemed to have lost its way a little with the second series - I gave up on the feature length episode, just too slow.
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Glenn A Posts: 24,560
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23/08/20 - 17:31 #43
berisford wrote: »
Seemed to have lost its way a little with the second series - I gave up on the feature length episode, just too slow.
That was the weak link and seemed to go nowhere, but the one where they rumble someone trying to wreck the economy with fake banknotes is a classic.
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23/08/20 - 23:11 #44
berisford wrote: »
Seemed to have lost its way a little with the second series - I gave up on the feature length episode, just too slow.
I'm currently watching series 3 eps - that was a really strong season. I just finished watching Extreme Prejudice (S3, Ep5), which has an outstanding performance from Clive Mantle as a criminal with learning difficulties. Also features Dempsey taking an interesting approach to interviewing a suspect!
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24/08/20 - 09:59 #45
i_love_tv wrote: »
You know what? It's amazing, if you are a "Dempsey & Makepeace" fan, you wait years & years for it to get a repeat airing on UK TV & then all of a sudden there will be two UK TV channels airing "Dempsey & Makepeace" within a few short months of each other as Forces TV joins the party in about 2 weeks time.
Interesting, presumably it’ll be evening showings, wonder if they’ve got uncut prints or the same ones that just ended on ITV4?
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24/08/20 - 11:21 #46
I might have to tune into this. As a child I was desperate to be Makepeace. She was my idol, and the hair was very 80s and blummin brilliant.
I also grew up as a small child to Sapphire and Steel.
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24/08/20 - 12:46 edited 24/08/20 - 12:47 #47
Glenn A wrote: »
berisford wrote: »
Seemed to have lost its way a little with the second series - I gave up on the feature length episode, just too slow.
That was the weak link and seemed to go nowhere, but the one where they rumble someone trying to wreck the economy with fake banknotes is a classic.
Ha, I remember that from a 1940's Margery Allingham crime novel with her detective Albert Campion.
I don't remember the D&M episode though, although I do remember liking the series back in the day. I watched a few episodes from this rerun, but I think my tastes have changed too much, so I gave up.
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Kevin1960 Posts: 6,259
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25/08/20 - 09:24 #48
Dempsey & Makepeace starts again next Tuesday, 1st September. This time it's on Forces TV at 10pm. I wonder if the scissors will be out.
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01/09/20 - 23:41 #49
Anyone had a look and compared tonight’s showing of the pilot to ITV4s? One thing to note is that I watched the ITV4 showings via ITV hub on Sky as they had no ad breaks, and some episodes were 47-49 mins, so there’ll still be cuts on Forces TV unless they reduce the ad breaks, as they’ve given it a one hour slot.
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02/09/20 - 06:54 #50
johartuk wrote: »
berisford wrote: »
Seemed to have lost its way a little with the second series - I gave up on the feature length episode, just too slow.
I'm currently watching series 3 eps - that was a really strong season. I just finished watching Extreme Prejudice (S3, Ep5), which has an outstanding performance from Clive Mantle as a criminal with learning difficulties. Also features Dempsey taking an interesting approach to interviewing a suspect!
That episode also features Clive's Robin of Sherwood co-star Mark 'Nasir' Ryan. Bit of a coincidence that Robin of Sherwood had a rerun at the same time as D&M.
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04/09/20 - 19:49 #51
Well in answer to my question I've watched the Forces showing of the pilot and found at least two scenes shown which were cut in the ITV4 version. After Joey is shot, back at the station the scene where Dempsey walks along the corridor calling Coltrane a bastard was (not surprisingly, since it was shown in the afternoon) removed, as after you see the police car outside it cuts to Dempsey entering the office whilst his boss says "Dempsey, your brains fallen out". Secondly one of the fight sequences was shortened on ITV, after Dempsey finds the tin of caviar and is attacked, his attacker hits him with a length of rope before Dempsey punches him five times. On ITV he punches him four times. Havent found other specific cuts yet but the running time indicates at least two minutes missing from ITV compared to Forces.
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