Villians Prison Van Escape 1972 London Traffic

[@oddities-whatnot]

Villains in TV shows in the 70s always had that look about them. Now its all shaved heads and muscles. The casting was a lot more realistic back then.

[@johngraham5996]

they always looked rough, now its all pretty boys

[@howardleah8401]

Agreed. Much more natural back then. Characters.

[@MajorT0m]

You had the guys in suits and the pretty boys back then in Professionals, Sweeney etc but they were usually the guy giving the orders, the brain behind the grisly muscley heavies he always hired.

[@justinobrien3593]

Love the old cars and black maria vans and fashion from the 70s I wish I could go back to that majical era 😎

[@johnmanning5568]

majucal?

[@justinobrien3593]

@@johnmanning5568 I would go back in a heartbeat if time machines existed as there is nothing good happening today sadly.

[@johnmanning5568]

@@justinobrien3593 ah! Magical!

[@flipper2392]

@@justinobrien3593 Good if you could stick in that time, I'd hate to go through the last 40 years again, country's gone down the pan.

[@teamblitz1990]

@@justinobrien3593 so do I

[@SuperTed19021]

RIP Bob Hoskins. One of Britain's greatest ever actors.

[@tonygunn6889]

The long good firday

[@karlambler7014]

Where the bloody hell was Bob hoskins

[@robsilvester3068]

Quick clip of him in the bus, then escaping from the bus, he had hair too!!

[@Michael-yd5ry]

The only Cockney born in Ipswich.😂😂😂

[@robsilvester3068]

@@Michael-yd5ry it’s called acting

[@stephenpowell5912]

Classic Movie,Love the way Jaguar cars looked back in the early 1970s ❤

[@lepanhman]

Not a pothole in sight

[@damian-795]

😂😂

[@andrewstratford4753]

Or ulez!!!

[@creightonjason]

Or a dark skinned chap

[@stevedickson5853]

A few other things missing as well, .. so much better back then

[@javedriaz6862]

Not like the shitty 2010s and 20s

[@realfacthunt]

Ah the good old days when you didnt have to worry about CCTV, ANPR, DNA or traffic.

[@None-zc5vg]

It was a different country then, just 50 years ago: it's morphed into something awful, alien even.

[@russellking9762]

too right..you felt like a Londoner when you were in London…you didn’t just feel it you could taste it…wtf happened to our great city??

[@marklatimer7333]

Maybe you should take off the rose tinted specs for a while - I can assure you you still had traffic jams.

[@None-zc5vg]

@@marklatimer7333 Traffic jams, like the rich, are always with us, but you have to live with them. Nowadays we have a truly smashed-up U.K. that's been asset-stripped and loaded with crippling debt, a disfunctional society, the 'working class' impoverished, industry exported, the health service wrecked, the country deliberately flooded with foreign cheap labour, a quisling Parliament that works only to benefit vested interests....

[@marklatimer7333]

@@None-zc5vg I suggest you borrow Mr. Thirst4Life's specs - trust me the 1970's were sh1t as well, Traffic jams worst than now because they were very few by-passes and motorways - power cuts, rampant inflation, strikes, food shortages. My parents would have said the 1940s were sh1te - Outdoor toilets, a life expectancy of 67 if you were lucky, rationing until the mid fifties, no central heating and some bu99er dropping bombs on you every night. Oh, by the way I emigrated so good luck .

[@Spookieham]

Big Jags, proper geezers with shootahs. Perfect

[@michaelroberts7374]

Ford transits for the blags! 😂

[@shipahoy1001]

Love the " PRIVATE" sign on the front of the police van. lol

[@joelc9439]

Hehe yeah! It looks like a mortuary van or a cash van.

[@brianvatcher]

Loved it and loved the shots of Southgate rd and the canal turn used to drink in that pub,still live 5mins away.

[@valvlog4665]

The geo-continuity is absurd, but great to see views of London in 1972.

[@raychambers3646]

Dont forget not everybody knows London streets I've seen it where they go over lambeth bridge and end up at the tower of London!

[@matthewbritton4149]

The year i was born 29.april 1972.wow iam old 50 now💯😉🤣👍

[@markgoddard2560]

In those days two jags together in front of a police transfer van would somewhat given the game away.

[@russellking9762]

Ford Transit vans outside of banks and around cash in transit trucks were another

[@stevegoody3434]

It's no real

[@colinaitken3605]

2 jags Prescott...

[@billpugh58]

And geezers buying tights……..

[@highpath4776]

A Prision van would not have full windows - werent the Bedford SBs used for Police Deployment ? Also took a long time to go from Waterloo The Cut to Kingsway Tunnel ! (would like to see unused footage from the filming , though some clearly was spliced back in !)

[@KeithRingo]

Amazing with that many camera teams and an orchestra watching them but couldn't stop it from happening

[@WhipRunner]

naive boy. they were all in on it.

[@Gaur1983]

Some sweet cars-especially the big Jaguar 420G.

[@vtecpreludevtec]

Gaur1983 triple su s,mate.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

AKA Mk10 Jag

[@MrPomdownunder]

@@Theoriginalbigbrillo thats a 420.. I just bought one !

[@henrikbragge]

For sure ❤️

[@marklatimer7333]

Bryan Marshall looks exactly the same with or without the stocking .

[@stevebowness9435]

🤣🤣💯👏

[@Paul1510WB]

Didn't they have black balaclavas in those days?

[@marklatimer7333]

@@Paul1510WB Donald Neilson did.

[@Paul1510WB]

@@marklatimer7333 True.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Hard to tell when he was wearing one or not !

[@jamestidd7707]

That chap on the radio in the first car played Talbot, the captain of the British submarine in the Spy who loved me. This js an A-Z of actors who played villains, and an early role for Martin Shaw, who played Doyle in the Professionals.

[@ivanahavitoff7308]

Petrol guzzling smog smoke filled London. Glorious.

[@sandgrownun66]

just imagine all that healthy lead filled air for you and your offspring to fill your lungs with. Breathe deep. People would have laughed at something called a Congestion Charge.

[@richsan4923]

There's much more pollution today. Roads were MUCH quieter back then. Traffic is mental in London all day every day even despite the congestion charge.

[@GB-vn1tf]

​@@richsan4923 yeah, but add in the coal being burnt and you'll understand why all the buildings were black until recently when they all got cleaned up. Look for old pictures of the houses of Parliament, they were black.

[@hugoagogo9435]

@@GB-vn1tf Oh there’s plenty of black still in London. But unfortunately not caused by soot.

[@MartinQuinn-g3k]

Better days better country

[@Threetails]

Interesting to see a late MKX and an early XJ in the same shot.

[@eyesofisabelofficial]

Yes indeed an 'F' reg and a 'K' reg . The Jag 420G production just overlapped the Series 1 Daimler Sovereign so they'd be be quite common in the overall scheme of things, especially 1972.

[@brianlarkin5246]

I had a 1973 sovereign years ago for 75 quid needed exhaust system and aed unit 300 quid to sort it handling was brilliant 😎

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

The Jag MK10 was jaguars widest production car to date 😇😇

[@davidmansell5986]

@@brianlarkin5246 Lovely car.

[@dodgydruid]

One thing always cheers my heart, is seeing the 1960 issue "Flak jackets" of which I have a fairly well worn but good nick 1961 made one, you only wore one when "on business" as it was an unwritten code for other players to leave wearers well alone when seen sporting one, 68 issue combat jackets also superb being lined like the 60, you could take a whack from a mallet shaft and not have broken bones with them old army jackets, pair of sturdy jeans and some steel toe boots and you could take on the world :D

[@johnhehir508]

The Jag was a getaway vehicle ,and a Cortina or Granada was the ramming car according to John mcvicar

[@enlightenedchristian3183]

Based on real life?

[@johnhehir508]

@@enlightenedchristian3183 yes , actually the documentary is the Cortina story ,cortinas had a big space at the front between the radiator grille and would fold up on impact , cushioning the impact

[@johnhehir508]

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[@philipsleddenhouston6764]

Ahh. Martin shaw before the professionals

[@sillysod2481]

would be nice to watch the whole series

[@maclachj1]

Fantastic. I was convinced as a kid the villain face stocking was a guaranteed disguise. It’s like taking your specs off

[@philipsanders7694]

Nice detour from waterloo bridge all the way to waterloo bridge, you don't go through aldwych tunnel to get to the courts, you go around aldwych to fleet st

[@johnmanning5568]

They’re acting! It’s not real!

[@ROCKINGMAN]

Grew up watching TV late 60's to 90's. Better for me back then. Only vaguely aware of this one with all these british actors of the time. Looks great. Loved Martin Shaw and the rest.

[@nomad90125]

Love these old films, Bygone days when both cops and villains were real. Unlike the plastic spastic of today. 🤣

[@bodytransporter1556]

The cops those days were more crooked than the criminal ls

[@russellking9762]

Jack Reagan and the flying squad would have sorted this lot out...then downed 9 pints at the local and and polished off a Luke warm meat pie...staggered home drunk picked up out of the gutter by a trainee female constable given her a 'seeing to' ...all in a day's work...miss ya Guv

[@billpugh58]

This is more like Porridge p, it’s hilariously bad!

[@stevedickson5853]

​@@billpugh58then don't watch then complain

[@SuperTed19021]

Man, I miss Bob Hoskins.

[@johnconway9882]

One of the greatest actors ever IMO

[@izmirubel9821]

At 0 : 35 ist Martin Shaw,Ray Doyle from CI5!!!!!

[@scooby1992]

Yes indeed . A very accomplished British actor also in Judge John Deed , The Chief and George Gently

[@Alien_O1]

And people then would still complain about the country not realising how good they had it.

[@stephenhowell5611]

They still do

[@mistofoles]

William Marloe also played Jill Gascgoine's boss in all five series of THE GENTLE TOUCH 1980-1984 (In the final series sporting a dodgy moustache ).

[@stevebowness9435]

🤣🤣😂💯👏👏

[@2SpaceTraveller2]

Just purchased the complete serie a few months ago A great and one

[@billy2hats502]

What show is it I can't seem to place it

[@davey1965]

@@billy2hats502 It was a TV series called Villains

[@vincenzodipisa3237]

The Met should know it by now…as soon as they see a red Jag they’re done!

[@ALKUKES]

5:04 that door is open or a cameraman hanging

[@angelamagruder5911]

I like watching the shows and some movies done in england from the60s up until 2012!!!!!!!!! Its fascinating to see the changes and ways they have changes and adapted along with new and very old,plus the changes and challenges of new scotland yard!!!!!

[@npickle54]

Why 2012

[@paulhollis8879]

Even New Scotland Yard has been demolished.

[@EnglishLaw]

@@npickle54 That's when the world ended.

[@ponyboycurtis3795]

Was the one who stayed behind a grass and was frightened his pals knew and would kill him or did he just freeze up and completely bottle it? What film was it from does anybody know?

[@charliewatson4248]

Part of the London tram subway

[@Aut0five]

Home Office prison transport had/has a distress siren that is different to the two-tone police siren.

[@highpath4776]

Were the windows normally smaller with some infilled with sheet ali ?

[@teamblitz1990]

Some serious acting talent in there

[@nicklewis2734]

I dunno what it is but they really know how to pick these villains that fit the role…Awesome

[@davidmcmahon5234]

Some great actors in this never seen it some of the best in England no doubt 🧐 about that 😊

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

They were a bit typecast. It was crooks or policemen

[@JosephMcivor-qb4jm]

All Star Villains.. What a line up. Who was the casting Agent?

[@johnrider5701]

How different London looked back then no cyclists on the pavement. No phone zombies. No congestion charge and no potholes...

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

worth watching for the English cars of the day....and the facial hair.

[@stevebowness9435]

🤣😂💯👍👍

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Think I saw a young Bob Hoskins?

[@geraintjones1886]

A young Jim Norton in this, a good few years before he was Bishop Len Brennan in Father Ted.

[@dodgydruid]

I remember them old Bedford coaches the nicks used, when on the run from borstal I was lifted by West End old bill and remanded by Bow St magistrates to Brixton under a dodgy name making me much much older than the 13 years I actually was, spent a week in there cushy as hell and was taken under the wing of some mental Belfast nutter then fingerprints came back and I was hoiked into a Prison transit and returned to Redhill but the screws were cool buying me a pack of 20 B&H which was like heaven back then... I got out of there 2 more times before they beat ideas of escape outta me, worked me way out to the open houses from the max security "ICU" and I was back home at 16 and aside another remand up north in Risley and 6 months in the military nick I kept me nose clean ever since lol

[@malcolmwhite6588]

OMG!- if your story is true (you can’t tell on the Internet these days ) you should write a book about your early life-Give it a catchy title like “dodgy Druid and the old bill”! and then I’ll know it’s you and I’ll buy a copy

[@michaelwalton-ii1ch]

then you woke up

[@Plumduff3303]

Same thing happened to me on my way to a chip shop in prestatyn

[@marklatimer7333]

Me too, it was bl00dy inconvenient I can tell you.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Great stuff .

[@SEANPOL203]

Those were the days when, I was zero years old

[@PeteCswampy]

anyone who was anyone is in this caper its just missing Jack and George. classic. boys from blackstuff irish guy is in it too

[@johndean958]

Love the cars.

[@Glenn1967ful]

Jags, Rovers, Ford Zodiacs, the cars people with money or getaway drivers loved for the power. These days it would all be German stuff and SUVs,

[@thomastom888]

Film ??? Looks good and full old school famous actors

[@spitfire4206]

3.5 v8 series 1 p6 police car very nice

[@merseyrailer7780]

You’ve got to commend the hours or weeks of work that went into coordinating and filming that sequence.

[@PeteCswampy]

Mk3 Cortina at 3:38 xl?

[@rogerfrancis65]

Lovely Rover P5 too

[@highdownmartin]

I had a 3 l coop in white all over. Beautiful car. They’ve got real presence!

[@pcoldlight5631]

That's a who's who of famous faces !

[@GRAHAMAUS]

Pretty sure it's called "Villains", not Villians.

[@richardprice7763]

The Jag Mk10/420G makes the XJ6 look small!

[@andrewallen9993]

I still own 4 of the cars shown in this video!

[@chrisquirke5235]

It's not a stroke without a jag and a scatter

[@IllusivePrime]

5:03 That's deffinitley not going to look susspicious to the prisson van.

[@patmays7344]

Magic!! Even a mk 1 escort. Ha.

[@jerrywarren6959]

Lewis Collins the professionals and bob hoskins the long good Friday in this

[@johnmanning5568]

Lewis Collins? Where? Do you mean Martin Shaw?

[@didnot6961]

I’d like to know what film 🎥 this is from

[@EnglishLaw]

TV show called Villains

[@video99couk]

Alas I don't think I saw a single Hillman Avenger even though they were very popular at the time. I suppose most of the cars were older.

[@kyleclancy1265]

What film is this?

[@sandybroon1962]

Ooh a mk 10 jaguar, nice😊

[@keiko909]

is that burnside?...

[@steve.s6741]

What’s the film called

[@jetmec]

Brilliant do you have the full series ?

[@Aut0five]

yes. but youtube pulled them last time i uploded.

[@sandgrownun66]

It's actually spelt "Villains".

[@dodgydruid]

Cor the 141 bus one of the longest routes in London travelling a slow slow run from my manor Grove Park all the way up to Wood Green to turn around at the very same bus garage used in "On the buses" as I remember doing the pilgrimage on my red bus rover back in the 70's. London was such a different place to live back then, you all got on together and did your thing not like today where millions of idiots all playing the very sad game of fawning at the feet of them with a penny more and sneering and spitting at them with a penny less. One old London saying was to have a penny more than you could spend and be content.

[@paul1964uk]

@5:30 Why does an American-style siren come on (and from where)? It sounds quick anachronistic (post broadcast overdubbing?) because in 1972 the police used a two-tone siren which we only hear start up at 6:35-6:38.

[@mistofoles]

It's the panic alarm in the prison van, if you look closely, you see one of the guards activate it.

[@mikemartin2957]

It's used that siren to distinguish it from the regular Police two- tone, burglar alarms or even the Winkworth Bell which was still used by the Police as late as 1967

[@mikekemp9877]

@@mikemartin2957 it was used into the late 70s n the gp hillman hunter cars.they were unmarked intended for inspectors transport or any general purpose.the bell was sounded by a standard doorbell type button on the passenger side dash.i did a stint in one in 1977 xmas time when we added a bomb car to investigate bomb threats to the relief temporarily.we only had one call and to be honest pressing the bell to get through traffic sounded so embarrassing so feeble was it that we tended not to use it!

[@buxvan]

I got pulled over by a magenta Hillman Hunter with its bell ringing at me in 1979 while riding my mobylette moped. Probably for no L plate or some boring reason. Perhaps I was one of the last to be Belled at !

[@mikemartin2957]

@@mikekemp9877 yes I have seen episodes of the Sweeney circa 1974to 77 & yes you can hear the bell on some Police cars & vans ! In one episode from 1975 Bill , Regan's driver asks Jack; "do you want the 2 tone or bell on?*

[@roncheetham673]

surely that should read VILLAINS ??

[@Glenn1967ful]

Jags, Rovers, Ford Zodiacs, barely a foreign car around,.

[@johnmcardle9816]

I met my future wife at St. Georges Circus 55 years ago .

[@bodytransporter1556]

You still not married her?

[@NYLONDRM]

What film is this clip from?

[@EnglishLaw]

TV show called Villains

[@raychambers3646]

They went past the school I attended, happy days?

[@ÓGlasáin]

RIP Bob Hoskins

[@Scott-up3bq]

How England has changed

[@Wayne-fn1sw]

Mixed race England lol

[@duncanpoundcake]

Ah the 1970s. When villains looked like propah villains.

[@IanEdmed]

Why were driving in circles

[@CycolacFan]

Police in the Rover must have been finishing their sandwiches…

[@rob_1359]

How the prison officers didn't realise they were being rumbled by some 'geezers' when being followed by 2 Jags and a Merc I don't know 😂 Standard baddie motors for a 'blag'

[@siatelecomsltdLondon]

These vehicles, they don't make them like they used too.

[@rickyj5547]

All star cast of British actors

[@stevedickson5853]

..and cars

[@bobcomment8589]

Good film

[@majorlaff8682]

Villians Prison Van Escape 1972 London Traffic Villians?

[@Aut0five]

the name of the prog.

[@Freddie-x4s]

Mildred won't be happy George if you've forgotten the milk

[@nickfensome8855]

Is this an episode of the sweeney as that gold mk4 Ford zodiac was used in couple of episodes if not please tell me what this film or program is as would love the whole thing

[@carolebarker2195]

It's from a tv series called "Villains" from 1972. I think it's on dvd.

[@TheCrusty68]

Tommy from Dr Who clever Lupton 😂😂

[@nbrado]

I knew the dad from TIME BANDITS was a BAD DUDE!

[@cliffhigson7581]

Bryan Marshall died in June this year (2019)

[@pwareham61]

Great Actor

[@t.b.g.504]

Very good in The Spy Who Loved Me, and The Long Good Friday.

[@carolebarker2195]

@@t.b.g.504 He was in "Warship" too, and "Alfie".

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

I saw Bryan Marshall in a Heartbeat episode recently

[@martingibb517]

Beautiful Jags

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

With a very young David Daker

[@PeteCswampy]

another one!! Harris from long good friday

[@D9742-y5z]

🤔 so why wasn't the police car Infront to make all the traffic move out the way 😂

[@jamiegregs1192]

put tights over are head know one will recognise us, and if the police turn up just close your eyes and they can't see you😂🤣😂😎😎😎

[@scooby1992]

Didnt have to worry about DNA or CCTV back then either

[@PeteCswampy]

i see the barman from get carter!

[@andynixon2820]

Alun Armstrong .

[@MaxMax-th7uz]

In 2022 the prison guards would be on there i phones. !