| DIXON OF DOCK GREEN |
DIXON OF DOCK GREEN ULTRA RARE BRITISH SERIES
1955 - 1976 This was British TV's original police series. It was a cozy and faintly sentimental representation of
policing. Despite this, it retained a certain authenticity that other shows lacked. The police officers that I had met
had more in common with Dixon than any other TV character. Jack Warner's perennial character George Dixon
oozed calm authority and respectable self-assurance. Each programme was introduced by the whistled theme tune
after which George Dixon would always begin a spoken introduction direct to camera with the words "Evening all".
He would make dry observations about "villains" and the frailties of human nature. The episode's drama would then
be played out. By the seventies Dixon himself rarely played a huge part in the story; he was pretty old. The
programme would end with Dixon again; this time proposing a moral for the story. He invariably signed off with the
words "'Night all". They don't make shows like this any more. 1961, the series was voted second most popular
programme on British television with an estimated audience of 13.85 million. Sadly only a handful of episodes still
exist.
THREE DISC SET:
Shows Included:
SOUNDS
EYE WITNESS
THE ROTTEN APPLE
A POUND OF FLESH
FATHER IN LAW
HARRY'S BACK
1955 - 1976 This was British TV's original police series. It was a cozy and faintly sentimental representation of
policing. Despite this, it retained a certain authenticity that other shows lacked. The police officers that I had met
had more in common with Dixon than any other TV character. Jack Warner's perennial character George Dixon
oozed calm authority and respectable self-assurance. Each programme was introduced by the whistled theme tune
after which George Dixon would always begin a spoken introduction direct to camera with the words "Evening all".
He would make dry observations about "villains" and the frailties of human nature. The episode's drama would then
be played out. By the seventies Dixon himself rarely played a huge part in the story; he was pretty old. The
programme would end with Dixon again; this time proposing a moral for the story. He invariably signed off with the
words "'Night all". They don't make shows like this any more. 1961, the series was voted second most popular
programme on British television with an estimated audience of 13.85 million. Sadly only a handful of episodes still
exist.
THREE DISC SET:
Shows Included:
SOUNDS
EYE WITNESS
THE ROTTEN APPLE
A POUND OF FLESH
FATHER IN LAW
HARRY'S BACK
