Nice, Patrick, but as I'm sure you remember, Dixon of Dock Green's original
incarnation was in a film where he he ended-up shot thoroughly dead.
So even before Elvis, he was the original returned-from-the-living-dead.
As sometimes, the Groan puts it concisely:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1536012,00.html
>>Alfred Hitchcock sum[med] up his views of the police in ways many shared.
"I'm not against the police," the great film-maker once declared. "I'm just
afraid of them." <<
Nostalgia Is Uz
The Dormouse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:05 AM
Subject: snapshot 27 july 05
> LONDON CALLING
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> It seems that
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> cheery image
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> of mr plod
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> the copper
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> on the beat
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> 'what's the time?'
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> 'how do you get to?'
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> is now a bit
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> out of date
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