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The Bill (Old school)

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  • MrOneLung said:
    Quick quiz. 

    Whose legs were they that walked along in the opening credits. 

    Ii always thought they were Hollis and Ackland.
  • I've recently imbibed in The Bill (the early years) on UK Play,  Reminds me of old nostalgic/ sentimental London of our yoofs and seems a world away from life today.

    Some very bad things of course but at the same time it seemed a far simpler time and very comforting and relatable. Anyone else watching it?

    Of course same is applied for Fools n horses and Minder.


    Reg Hollis was a wrong un wasn't he? Roy Galloway= good bloke, heart in the right place Ted Roach =LEGEND.

    Also, remembering back to watching The Bill and Juliet Bravo back in my 1980s Orpington upbringing I really thought that glue sniffing was going to be much more of a problematic lifestyle issue than it turned out to eventually be.
    Lost my virginity to a girl who was obsessed with Reg Hollis.

    What that tells you, I have no idea.

    Did she call you Reg?
    Was going to put in the post that, no, she didn't!

    She used to call him 'my Reggie' and had posters of him. 

    Tend to look past these quirks when you're a teenager and they are fit, don't you?

    "When you're a teenager", who am I kidding?  Still wouldn't put me off now.
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,680
    Learn something new everyday - always thought it was Tosh Lions!

    The Jim Carver on the sauce episodes were quality. The yoot on the Jasmin Allen were running riot.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,855
    MrOneLung said:
    Quick quiz. 

    Whose legs were they that walked along in the opening credits. 

    Ii always thought they were Hollis and Ackland.
    Nah it was Yorkie and Viv Martella 
  • Solidgone said:
    I had to take a prop to the studio once. It was down in Morden. I almost walked in whilst they were shooting. Interesting chat with the team that have to get the props. He said it’s surprisingly how helpful people are to lend out to film studios. Never watched the program. 
    I would say it’s closer to South Wimbledon than Morden but probably not much in it. I think you can still see the frontage that was the outside of Sun Hill police station and attached to it is what used to look like an Ambulance bay. 
  • Viv was the  barmaid in OFAH too. ITV wouldn't let her do both though.
  • Viv was the  barmaid in OFAH too. ITV wouldn't let her do both though.
    Wasn’t fools and horses filmed in Bristol ? I think that estate they lived on is down there (& not Peckham)
  • Viv was the  barmaid in OFAH too. ITV wouldn't let her do both though.
    Wasn’t fools and horses filmed in Bristol ? I think that estate they lived on is down there (& not Peckham)

    Correct, Nelson Mandela House is next door to Ashton Gate..
  • Viv was the  barmaid in OFAH too. ITV wouldn't let her do both though.
    Wasn’t fools and horses filmed in Bristol ? I think that estate they lived on is down there (& not Peckham)

    Correct, Nelson Mandela House is next door to Ashton Gate..

    Nelson Mandela House under renovation




  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,007
    It was my favourite programme.
    I was well pissed off when they binned it.
    I never understood why.
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  • Viv was the  barmaid in OFAH too. ITV wouldn't let her do both though.
    Wasn’t fools and horses filmed in Bristol ? I think that estate they lived on is down there (& not Peckham)

    Correct, Nelson Mandela House is next door to Ashton Gate..

    Nelson Mandela House under renovation




    Looks like a Tin pot club, developing 3 sides of the ground and leaving the away end as it is...
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,847
    Boom said:
    Learn something new everyday - always thought it was Tosh Lions!

    The Jim Carver on the sauce episodes were quality. The yoot on the Jasmin Allen were running riot.
    Alright George!

    PC George Garfield - The Bill  TVmaze
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    Who would win in a fight between the Cockcroft Estate & the Jasmine Allan? 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Staggered we’ve got this far with no mention of Honey Harman 


  • Beth Cordingly for me
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,847
    Staggered we’ve got this far with no mention of Honey Harman 

    kimtiddy hashtag on Twitter
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    Solidgone said:
    I had to take a prop to the studio once. It was down in Morden. I almost walked in whilst they were shooting. Interesting chat with the team that have to get the props. He said it’s surprisingly how helpful people are to lend out to film studios. Never watched the program. 
    I would say it’s closer to South Wimbledon than Morden but probably not much in it. I think you can still see the frontage that was the outside of Sun Hill police station and attached to it is what used to look like an Ambulance bay. 
    Yep, closer to South Wimbledon tube, jubilee business park I think it’s called, it’s presently (or it was 18-months ago) an Asian TV production company or something, used to walk past it for lunch. Interesting building as was clearly constructed to look bigger than it was...


  • Viv was the  barmaid in OFAH too. ITV wouldn't let her do both though.
    Wasn’t fools and horses filmed in Bristol ? I think that estate they lived on is down there (& not Peckham)

    Correct, Nelson Mandela House is next door to Ashton Gate..

    Nelson Mandela House under renovation




    Looks like a Tin pot club, developing 3 sides of the ground and leaving the away end as it is...
    The first time i went the away end was the one on the left f picture.

    Sorry going back to The Bill now.
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,680
    Off_it said:
    Boom said:
    Learn something new everyday - always thought it was Tosh Lions!

    The Jim Carver on the sauce episodes were quality. The yoot on the Jasmin Allen were running riot.
    Alright George!

    PC George Garfield - The Bill  TVmaze
    Took longer than expected!
  • Fumbluff said:
    Solidgone said:
    I had to take a prop to the studio once. It was down in Morden. I almost walked in whilst they were shooting. Interesting chat with the team that have to get the props. He said it’s surprisingly how helpful people are to lend out to film studios. Never watched the program. 
    I would say it’s closer to South Wimbledon than Morden but probably not much in it. I think you can still see the frontage that was the outside of Sun Hill police station and attached to it is what used to look like an Ambulance bay. 
    Yep, closer to South Wimbledon tube, jubilee business park I think it’s called, it’s presently (or it was 18-months ago) an Asian TV production company or something, used to walk past it for lunch. Interesting building as was clearly constructed to look bigger than it was...


    It was taken over by an Iranian tv network, Marjan, which by all accounts is the most watched Persian language network 
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  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    edited December 2020
    when my parents divorced in 1979, we had a social worker assigned to me & my brothers, it was Trudy Goodwin’s mother (WPC June Ackland)

    And the guy who played the Sergeant (with the big nose: his name escapes me) once came into the liberal club before a game against arsenal and signed a beer mat 
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,455
    Bob Cryer was the sergeant played by Eric Richard.
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,680
    Bob Cryer
  • Staggered we’ve got this far with no mention of Honey Harman 


    Was thinking the same regarding Vicky Hagen.
    And DC Jo Masters had a rack on her.
  • SE7toSG3 said:
    Who would win in a fight between the Cockcroft Estate & the Jasmine Allan? 
    The Larkmead would piss all over both of them........unless Polly Page and Tony Stamp were there to break it all up.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,855
    edited December 2020
    Jasmine Allen, Cockcroft, Larkmead and Harris (?)

    any other estates in The London Borough of Canley covered by Sun Hill ? 
  • Don Beech was a rascal.

    Phil Hunter and Micky Webb were particular favourites of mine but Danny Glaze gets a special mention because of the voluminous ‘fro he sported. 
  • Oh yeah, DS Debbie McAlister did it for me. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,847
    Boom said:
    Off_it said:
    Boom said:
    Learn something new everyday - always thought it was Tosh Lions!

    The Jim Carver on the sauce episodes were quality. The yoot on the Jasmin Allen were running riot.
    Alright George!

    PC George Garfield - The Bill  TVmaze
    Took longer than expected!
    The same smile and everything ...... it's uncanny!
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,246
    Don Beech was a rascal.

    Phil Hunter and Micky Webb were particular favourites of mine but Danny Glaze gets a special mention because of the voluminous ‘fro he sported. 
    I've played 5 a side against DC Mickey Webb on a number of occasions, nice guy average 5 a side player