covers of books based on british police / detective dramas

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The Chinese Detective 1981

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Juliet Bravo 1980

y do The Chinese Detective and Juliet Bravo not get the same respect as the Sweeney? they were good

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Shoestring 1980

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Bergerac

this is excellent and I'm refreshing regularly.

chinese detective v "lonely guy just thinking baout things"

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Z Cars

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again

The Hardwicks appear to have the "novels based on British cop shows" racket sewn up.

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I like this anecdote from Philip Martin, who wrote several episodes of Z Cars (as well creating Gangsters and writing for Dr Who)

There was an ex-cop who vetted the scripts. His initials were WAR (very apt) and my script would come back with blue pencil all over it. Nor did he confine himself to police procedural matters-he believed it was his duty to protect the image of the police. As the show was live you sometimes had to write dialogue to cover the actor’s movement across the studio. During one of these passages I had two cops sitting in their car watching a pretty girl waltz by. One of the guys comments how attractive she seems. This caused an explosion of blue pencil. ‘Does this writer (me) not realise that the policeman saying this is MARRIED!’

lol those two guys seem to be involved in two entirely separate physical activities xp.

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Public Eye

this was great as well, and seems almost forgotten now

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Bulman 1986

I have to confess, I'd never even heard of this show, but it sounds intriguing

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oh wait, it was a spin off from The XYY Man

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flying panda car

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does The Beiderbecke Affair count as a detective drama? I think it's close enough

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Boon

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Gangsters

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'Z Cars Again', or as it's known in Finland, 'Hello! Again We Z Car-ing!'.

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P.B. Yuill = Gordon Williams (author of the novel Straw Dogs is based on, acquaintance of BS Johnson) and Terry Venables

Some of these (Shoestring, Bulman & McGinty esp.) come off like some UK spinoff of the LiarTownUSA tumblr

beautiful thread, kiu

Bulman was a treat btw

This thread is going to bring out the best in England.

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anybody who likes the Beiderbecke Trilogy should be interested in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lost!

one of those classic "watched it enthralled as a teenager then spent 20 years trying to rediscover what it was" shows

Judy eventually finds her missing husband, she is none too enthusiastic about taking him back and allows him to seek a new life running a fish and chip shop

Real England...

"cross that palm when I come to it" and "dempsey and makepeace - make peace, not war" both seem like they could work on the horrible 70s album title thread as well

This thread is right up my street.

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... that's "The XYY Man", in case of counfusion.

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That almost belongs on the Polish film posters thread.

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I'm somewhat baffled by the existence of that Redcap annual, the synopses on wikipedia don't make it sound particularly child friendly:

Mann encounters hostility from every quarter when he investigates a rape which took place inside an army barracks. Even the victim doesn't want to help him.

Mann's search for a pimp who specialises in blackmailing soldiers leads him to a place that specialises in black market activity. Further investigations lead him to an unconscious woman and a vicious fight.

Mann finds himself in Aden trying to investigate the vicious beating of an Arab worker. Encountering prejudice at every turn, he has to determine whether it was self-defence or systemised brutality

etc. and that's just the first three episodes.

there's a clip of the Aden episode on youtube, the suspect is played by Leonard Rossiter: https://youtu.be/0msCtNbGFlk

The Snout Who Cried Wolf. There's a lot of Sweeney books.

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It must have been tough coming up with new ways to describe a car being driven through a pile of cardboard boxes.

... but there's even more Professionals books.

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how about covers of records?

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this appears to be the German translation of the novelization of "The Gentle Touch", not joking

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Haven't found any Mose, The Bill or a Touch of Frost :-(

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Mo(r)se

largely with Morse and Frost the books precede the TV shows, tho later on their might be some novelizations

lol bank holiday spelling all over the place

i read a bunch of these as a teen, probably more than i actually watched the shows. definitely remember having The Chinese Detective out from the library.

Are Japanese 7" singles allowed?

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Not really a novel as such, but w/e:
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This is Australian but was on British TV... well in Scotland anyway...

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largely with Morse and Frost the books precede the TV shows, tho later on their might be some novelizations

― Noodle Vague, Monday, May 30, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yes I forgot re: Morse

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... nice photo of the gorgeous pouting John Nettles, my mum's favourite.

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Barlow

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The Gentle Touch

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Was just about to post that

Show was based on books tho

did not know about that disch novelisation of the prisoner!

slightly outside the police/detective realm, but...
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Travelling Man theme

can't hotlink to it, but the front and back over of the novelisation are here:http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Travelling-Man-by-Peter-James-Star-paperback-in-stock-in-Australia-0352316063-/191571805619?hash=item2c9a91c5b3:m:mww1qdOqXp9CNLx1hsXJEkg

on the canal beat!

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Duncan Browne? That's a familiar name.

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... don't remember this show at all.

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The Collectors is a British television drama about Her Majesty's Customs and Excise in the fictional Dorset town of Wrelling.

Sounds riveting.

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Travelling Man theme

can't hotlink to it, but the front and back over of the novelisation are here:http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Travelling-Man-by-Peter-James-Star-paperback-in-stock-in-Australia-0352316063-/191571805619?hash=item2c9a91c5b3:m:mww1qdOqXp9CNLx1hsXJEkg

on the canal beat!

― soref, Monday, May 30, 2016 6:43 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This thread is fascinating, soref.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1tXbmwYFs

Seems the books preceded the series tbh

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the series will have ultimately outpaced them by a long way

i have a secret affection for Heartbeat tbh

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Of course...

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Another series set in he exciting world of Her Majety's Custom & Excise!

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More from Tom McGregor,

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iirc Target was famous for getting episodes pulled for being too violent, questions in the House etc.

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Slightly off topic but I have a question about a british police drama I just can't place. Two actors I would recognize but can't remember the names of either. One man, one woman, almost at all times screaming at each other, scarlet with rage, but of course also solving all sorts of crime cases together.

'Between the Lines' was a fucking great show, rewatched recently and it held up well

Thomas Disch wrote the novelization of The Prisoner! Would like to read that. Danger Man was briefly shown in the States as Secret Agent Only remember the theme song, delivered by Johnny Rivers: "Se-cret, Aaaa-junt main, Se-cret, Aaaa-gent main, they've gi-hi-ven you a num-bah, and taken aWAY yo' name!" One of his classics. Saw The Chinese Detective, but again, only remember the theme (taut blue foreboding sax). Cracker and Prime Suspect were great; haven't seen the others (yet).

more fully:

There is a man who leads a life of danger.
To everyone he meets he stays a strangah-er-er.
And every move he makes
Another LIFE he takes.
Some say he won't live to see to-MAH-o-row.

Se-cret, Aaaa-junt main,
Se-cret, Aaaa-junt main,
they've gi-hi-ven you a num-bah,
and taken aWAY yo' name!"

Thomas Disch wrote the novelization of The Prisoner! Would like to read that.

Be careful what you wish for. It's a great book, but it's a continuation/here we go again from the original series.

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... and there's more.

Bizarrely, as can be seen in the preceding post, some of the original images itt have been replaced by new ones! Hate to disappoint people but Billy Bunter In Brazil is NOT based on a British police/detective drama.

There's a lot of Dempsey & Makepeace novels.

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... and there's even an annual.

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... and an activity book"

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Fox? Don't know that one.

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i remember Fox being on but not sure if i ever saw it

god you'd watch Peter Vaughan in anything tho wouldn't you? just an incredible presence

definitely watched Out, i mean Tom Bell is pretty great himself

Yes, "Out" was on somewhere recently, possibly Talking Pictures. Brian Cox is an especially horrible gangster in it.