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"A very grave situation." Milligan was hilarious. Monty Python owe their success to him.

In the days when crime was a kid nicking an apple from a grocery store, or someone riding a bike on a pavement. they had so little to do if a serious crime occurred they were there in a jiffy. Now you report an incident to the police and they don’t really want to know. We have to do our own detective work.

Part of the London tram subway

Tommy from Dr Who clever Lupton 😂😂

The guy peeing him self is in the tv. Series the Bill

Yours and Daniels Mom

They might have been a trusted guardian bk in the 60s 70s & part of the 80s. But now they are just a fragment of your imagination. Due to the government. Where once there was a local policeman or station, available for all to ask a question to. They have all been put into bigger towns or city's. People felt safe with a local bobby on the beat. Camera's have replaced them, once a policeman could have helped you in a minute or two. Now it could be up to 30 minutes, b4 they get to you. Crikey you could be dead b4 they attend you. The British bobby. Once has helpful as possible, but due to cutting cost, you can't rely on them anymore....

The Pye Pocketfone little radios were a great improvement.

Thank-you for this! I have been looking for it for ages, having seen part of it on a Hitchhiker's doco. Love Adams' mind! And great seeing Simon Jones.

Where do they keep the Time Machine i would be on my way back.

I am 73 and live in a Chicago suburb. In the 50s and 60s - we still had the night duty cops “door shake” all the downtown business doors after closing. Not any more. We had a famous local Harley trike traffic cop in downtown in the 50s and 60s in the day time - every kid knew him and ditto the local businesses. We only have cops in our downtown for street fairs and street concerts. You can’t flag down an officer because other than a Monday-Friday daytime traffic ticket writer - there aren’t any. We have 2 Community Support white colored vehicles - we never see them downtown. Sporadically the officers might meet the nightly commuter trains - but more for crossing safety. They patrol the main train station - for the mentally unbalanced transients. Now on a semi-irregular basis - a team of 2 cops might do a walking circuit of downtown in the afternoon. Always friendly. This is a town of 51,000 now and we have a fleet of about 20 police cars, 2 pickups and a SWAT truck. Some of those units have armed officers bolstering unarmed high school Security officers at the 2 high schools. (When I grew up here - we had a population of 19,000 to 21,000. When I was a kid - we had 2 or 3 police cars, the Harley trike cop - to do all. Older squad cars - went to a reserve group - which directed traffic at village churches on Sundays. The reserves were 2 or 3 older guys who also worked parade traffic control - usually WW II veterans - almost never armed. No patrolling - just visibility. You knew almost all the officers by name. And always waved at them!) A neighboring smaller, more affluent town keeps a unit parked in their business district Monday thru Friday daytime - on a visible corner. Their population is about 11,000. Formerly the most junior officer - did meter patrol. Now 3 hour free parking downtown - but the junior cop still has to do foot patrol in the daytime but only Monday through Friday. A junior high school nearby has 2 officers on school security on school days - who can literally walk over to respond - if needed. One of my friend’s hubby is there 5 days a week. On school holidays - he walks the downtown beat or does accident response.

They all looked like big lads as well weren’t going to argue with them 😄.

Better days, better London, better people, better generation, last of the real gangsters not these black kids and their wannabes calling themselves gangsters when they couldn't punch a hole in a wet paper bag.

Trusted 😂😂😂

Now the british police is covering the sexuals crimes of the muslims pakistanese communauty ! British police is racist against the white communauty. British police is also wokist !

Oh what a wonderfully unholy union of comedians. I luv Spike.

I was scared of Coppers, I did do anything wrong in the 70s as a teen, they were big Men 6ft plus ! and gave you a clip if you went astray ! Today little ladies and skinny little lads ? Thugs not afraid of them and they have no real POWER !

The yrs, 1960s I baby boomers, aged 6s yrs, old I agreed perfected timed, yes, also dreadful, timed, too

The start of this countries downfall. We have more police per head of population now than in the late 50's. Yet crime is out of control.

The League Of Gentlemen may have taken inspiration from this. Milligan’s influence is almost viral.

0:32 shows the investment police made in the pursuit vehicles of the day! Front hub generator, so mr plod could pursue at high speed with little noise or rolling resistance, with lights ablaze.

Brilliant

Gone from constabulary law enforcment to police commissar political revenue extracting

I actually remember when the police cars had a bell on the front instead of a siren!!

We still need foot patrols and lots of them.

im 80 i remember the hard life but at least it was normal so were the people

If only we had the crime then now!

Not very realistic, noone was shouting abuse at em 😂

Hard to think good policing existed

Did police cars back then have any lights or sirens??

This is how we operated in the Royal Military Police in the 80's. We had a two man patrol that covered a 9-5 Police station in a local town, a Long Range Patrol that covered Hamburg, Hanover, Lubecke and any UK Govt building or military establishments in the are. Then we had a local patrol. For the garrison we were in and the local towns. In the duty room we had a desk nco, duty Sergeant and a German interpretor. We often did joint patrols with the German Police. We had black MK5 Cortinas back then.

That looks like Chester, a wonderful city

A fascinating insight into a time when British policing actually worked. Odd that there was no mention of female officers.

Good old Pye radios, ever defective, rack in my nick read Defective radios and some wag had scribbled for defective constables😀

Not quite the nasties they are today

I rember the days of foot patrol, checking the shop doors during night's. I didn't get my basic drivers course for 2 and half yrs and that was a week long course, now they get an hour assessment after a few months and allowed to drive area cars. Tea spots for "intelligence gathering " and community relations, walking the beat you also saw more than sat in a car.

Ford Anglias! t must have been a trial at times carting off big burly crims. A friend had an Anglia. It was a tiny car, not much room inside.

The auditor is a typical pen pusher.

That Chief Inspector at the end wears a very distinctive set of medal ribbons A man with plenty of real world experience

Coppers' caps without the Sillitoe check round them always look odd to me.

Amazing how many people blame the police and politicians instead of the criminals themselves !!!

When policemen were exactly that.

2024 in the UK the police protect the criminals and arrest the innocent victims of crime. Police by consent no longer exists.

How life then moved at a slower pace. No angry people, no mobile phones. Everyone looks contented

It's like watching an episode of Z cars .

I remember when you could buy a decent second hand Ford Anglia for £45

When they say beat they actually mean beating people up

21:16 CC Henry Watson, an accountant before he became a copper. Quite surprizing that all those playing parts were coppers, I thought they were actors given how comfortable they appeared before the camera reading lines from a pre-prepared script.

I remember wagging junior school on a few occasions in the 50's, I had my school uniform on and I saw a policeman and in order for him to not see me I quickly evaded him by taking a different route, it was not out of the question then for the police constables to come striaght to you to ask why you were not at school, I was 7 in 1959.