Dixon Of Dock Green [1956] 1/2

S02E13 1956-09-01 Father In Law

[@ginabideau3748]

I watched this in the 50s too when I was just a wee girl. God be with the days when all seemed well with our world,it seemed so safe back then.

[@Zacharia503]

It seemed safe because you were in a safe family environment. In the real world we had a Cold War, terrorists (or Freedom Fighters, depending on which side you were on) murdering innocent people as well as each other all round the world, strikes, Race Riots (Notting Hill, 1958), and, worst of all, the Nuclear Arms Race. The major powers had enough nuclear weapond to destroy Mankind a hundred times over. In the U.K. the Government banned the sale of Flick- (or Switchblade) knives because of the number of knife crimes: I could go on, but I shouldn't need to. Being an adult was no better then than now.

[@ginabideau3748]

@@Zacharia503 I hear you but I was only 8 yrs of age in 1958. I lived in a country where Catholics were not tolerated in their own country. We had a war in the late 60s fighting for our civil rights which lasted up until the late 90s with over 3,000 lives lost,most of them innocent people. . We,the Catholics adopted The Rev. Kings song,'We Shall Overcome'. Yes we had our troubles and still have despite The Peace Agreement but guess what? No one is listening tom us!

[@Zacharia503]

@@ginabideau3748 Yes; that confrontation spilled over to here. A lot of innocent people died.

[@Liam-yr4uf]

@@Zacharia503 No. People behaved with greater restraint and gentility. It wasn't perfect, but it was in general a much safer place to be compared to modern day Britain.

[@myriaddsystems]

It did didn't it. We could go and play in relative safety... And Jack Warner just mentioned egg and chips, simple pleasures

[@mquinn135]

I watched this until I was about 18 every Saturday night everything stopped. A lifetime ago and yet it seems like yesterday. Thank you for uploading it. Sometimes I wish I could go back these years were great and so uncomplicated. People were more satisfied and life was simpler.

[@simon-oy6um]

Yes ,when there were about 4 cars parked in our street the lamplighter with his bicycle and his hook and the london smogs 😊😊😊

[@nancyalexander780]

I moved to New Zealand many years ago but still reckon you can't beat the old British TV shows and British sense of humour . Thank you for taking me back in time!

[@patsulek1570]

Great Movie. Always liked it. As a kid saw it on chan 9 in Canada. I live in the USA., In the state of Michigan. But never have been prevented from finding these great movies. From one American to the British folks. Thanks for the memory ☺️

[@kennyguitarallen5662]

loved it,old british black and white tv.taken me back as a 10 year old ,Saturday night,mum dad rest of our family glued to the telly.

[@gazza2933]

A TV Classic. Rest In Peace Jack.

[@pauccpaucc3938]

I once met jack warner ,such a nice person I just loved watching Dixon every saturday

[@willdaviesable]

Paucc Paucc How did you meet him?

[@Alan-ss3xp]

My mum’s dad was a policeman. They lived in the Deptford area of south east London. If there was trouble at a neighbouring flat someone would run to my grandad for help. He was a similar build to Dixon.

[@rosannecoffman1933]

Nostalgia for another time and place.

[@Zacharia503]

My Dad was a Policeman from 1936-1966, and he hated Dixon; reckoned it was looking at Policing through rose- tinted specs..... hated it even more when a family acquaintance said that he looked like Sergeant Flint!

[@Tocsin-Bang]

Brilliant I was 8 when this was broadcast. I loved Dixon, a proper old-time copper. A few years later one of my fellow pupils was spotted in a school production I was in, and appeared in one programme.

[@aprilblossom9268]

Oh similar here 😊👍

[@antoniod]

The patter routine Jack Warner does at 22:24 is probably the kind of thing he'd done in Variety.

[@footfault]

Warm episode, thank you! And Warner was able to perform as he did early in his career, when he and Darnell had a cabaret act in the 1930s.

[@TheEchovoices]

THE good old days love Jack Warner miss him so much such a lovely man

[@Zacharia503]

The compulsory retirement age for the Police was (and, I believe, still is) 55. Jack Warner was 60 when this series started....he was 81 when it finished.

[@NB_2390]

It's currently 60

[@samsum3738]

It ran from 1955 to 1976 . I was 3 years old when it started .

[@Zacharia503]

Thanks.

[@richardrichard5409]

They can still retire at 55, but compulsory at 60.

[@elviramcintosh9878]

Great songs! and wonderful singing! Thanks for sharing it.

[@aryehfinklestein9041]

I just watched JIGSAW ( 1962 ) with Jack Warner as a Detective Inspector. He was quite wonderful - highly recommended. He should have made more movies!

[@TheEchovoices]

he was awesome I watched all the eppies wish there was more

[@kat71580]

I love watching JIGSAW..watch it once a week, good story line, then the famous HUGGETS.. Always enjoy watching Mr. Warner...then the War films., I'd better stop!!

[@jangray395]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eamXi6Whh5l9rrM Jigsaw!

[@jaynehinds3339]

Loved this as a child

[@jaynehinds3339]

@andrew mullarkey same

[@d3193]

At last an episode of Dixon of Dock Green in the correct aspect ratio I never understood why stretching a picture horizontally (making everyone short and fat) was considered acceptable. Thank you. And a good episode too! So much talent from the 1950s here

[@SuperIliad]

“Father in Law,” Season 2, Episode 13, aired 1 September 1956. Jack Warner as P.C. George Dixon, Peter Byrne as Det. Con. Andy Crawford, Arthur Rigby as Station Sgt. Flint, Neil Wilson as PC 'Tubb' Barrell, Jeanette Hutchinson (as Jeannette Hutchinson) as Mary Crawford, Moira Mannion as WP Sgt. Grace Millard, Margaret Allworthy as Peggy, Valerie Gaunt as Pam, Jean Trend as Kathleen, Jefferson Clifford as Billy the Tramp, Diana Beaumont as Muriel, and James Ottaway as Frank Meek.

[@simon-oy6um]

Well thats a memory 😊😊

[@paulpearce1161]

Pure nostalgia of when England was England. Not the mess it is now.

[@andrewclarkson1942]

England wasn't in a mess in 1956? Suez, decolonisation, post war reconstruction, probably bags of PTSD from returned soldiers. I reckon rear view mirrors are always made of rose coloured glass.

[@ianredpath8359]

Paul Pearce Agree!

[@jaynehinds3339]

Paul Pearce I weep 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️😥

[@thomasdavid7364]

@@andrewclarkson1942 It still had English people though

[@adm924s]

@@andrewclarkson1942 i had a friend in the factory in the 80's he said if you didn't like your job you quit and walked down the road and got another. I would think you risked your life defacing a war memorial in the 50's. Did we have thousands of enemies within who wanted to destroy our way of life ? This country will be a soulless shithole in 50 years...

[@joansavage1857]

I enjoyed that so much. Thank you.

[@shirleylangton7967]

A really nice look at the past where weddings were small and intimate.

[@nigelbarrett4091]

The new intro tune by 1960 was sounding very similar to an English folk song-leaning on the fence or some such tune-Owen Brannigan recorded it decades ago.

[@superprick3]

Well the year i was born . Well remember we had only had the TV on for a short while everyday mainly news then off .bring back old memories off those no longer with us . the ones up with the big lad in the skies .

[@stewartsanders315]

Great series 👏

[@ohmeowzer1]

Thank you so much

[@shelleymcafee8197]

I loved this one; Thank-You!

[@ksr7271]

Great! Thanks for uploading. Could you upload more episodes. It is like tonic for people like me from that generation, to escape from the 'now' - atleast for a short time.

[@edwardgarea7650]

A wonderfully made, low-key television show, as compared to frequently over-the-top shows in America. George Dixon actually performs a rap at his daughter’s wedding reception. I knew Valerie Gaunt was the perpetrator, merely from years of watching mysteries. By the way, it’s most interesting to see Valerie Gaunt in an early role - before she became the sexy vampire in Horror of Dracula. I became interested in seeing this after hearing Inspector Barnaby snidely referred to as Dixon of Dock Green in the Midsomer Murders episode, “Written in Blood.”

[@laddspam]

"rap"? The Music Hall Tradition is from way before that :)

[@highpath4776]

@@laddspam Jack "Blue Pencil" Warner. With Elsie and Doris Walters

[@kevinbeck6785]

SATURDAY evening football scores, doctor who, dixon of dock green, generation game oh happy days

[@neilfranklin5644]

That comic song he did is quite a tough twisted, what a fine singer he is .

[@hugorune766]

Im 64, so I do remember watching and enjoying this series long ago... but now, utter shite, oh my how TV has changed

[@thomasdavid7364]

When Britain was British

[@mallenjm252]

Very nice 📽️🎥 Thank you for sharing the nostalgia! 😊

[@jayturner3397]

Was born in '56 but remember this from re runs, when Jack Warner was in hospital in west London the Met used to visit him, his post was still massive, people would actually write in to him as Sgt Dixon asking for advice 😮, fact stranger than fiction 😉

[@efilrekib4446]

When I was a wee lad George Dixon was my absolute hero, I wish todays police were as stand up as him...... Evenin' all..

[@bobrussell3602]

I watched this in the 50s I noticed that with this one P.C. Dixon said 'Good Evening.' My recollection is that back in the 50s (or was it the 60s) He used to say 'Evening All.'

[@maggieterpend2473]

I love dixon

[@mikehopkins4040]

Something so very wrong with England today.what have we done,I could cry.

[@pyewackett5]

I don't think the ordinary folk had much of a say in the matter. The only thing we've always been good for is being pushed around by people who give the impression that they know what's 'best' whilst deliberately running the country into the ground. I hope everyone responsible is hell bound.

[@neil5551]

T HANKS EXCELLENT live as well !

[@otravez3916]

Very nice. Love Billy.

[@Littlealan1959]

TV Police series made after the film THE BLUE LAMP which featured Jack Warner Starring As SGT George Dixon what brilliant film and TV Series this was Very few police movies or tv series can match this

[@doctorshawzy6477]

england before the fall

[@meirwise1107]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!

[@stevebell7806]

Bloody marvelous TV. When British coppers where the envy of the world, ask a policeman. Not like the rubbish today.

[@misterd1949]

Many thanks for the upload ;) Is there a 2/2 some where please?

[@dantdmisamazing7421]

The wedding cake gave the impression of a wife beater.

[@merylinhuet194]

I, watched it with my dad, good memories

[@myriaddsystems]

In all its 405 line splendour and still good to watch

[@sarahatherton9766]

Love old t.v. shows b/w my kids can't watch anything that's not colour

[@edwinreffell6201]

is this the first tv episode? i remember him always beginning "Evenin all". my father bought our first tv in 1957, secondhand. Dixon of Dockgreen was a favourite.

[@mikemorgan7893]

No.

[@Backrun]

didnt realise dixon started this early lol i remember it from 60s lol

[@simon-oy6um]

My father george frampton ,det sgt BEM was detailed off to teach jack warner how to act as a policeman in the movie called the blue lamp partially filmed around the old paddington green police station and he can be seen from the back going up the steps in an early scene ,we used to live at 61 porchester terrace north at the end of orsett terrace now with a different number 😊😊😊

[@martm216]

Didn't have the famous theme tune. Must have been added later.

[@samsum3738]

1960 i think .

[@martm216]

@@samsum3738 thanks

[@Marzy5821]

English society hasn't totally gone, its still similar in some ways ~

[@highpath4776]

The days when ten quid was a lot of money.

[@fritula6200]

I grew up in Communist Jugoslavia: one false move.... and the neighbours watched each other, they went to the police after spying on you... the spies were hoping to be protected by the police, if they spied on THE whole neighbourhood: These spies listened under yr windows while the family was inside pouring out their hearts to each other, or talking the truth what bothered them: The police would come and collect the exact person or persons who spoke up against the Communist regime .... Some returned, others disappeared..... I'm saying this took place in the 1950's and continued right up until Communism fell in 1989: People were taken to local police stations for questioning for scare tatctics, others betean, locked-up, especially those who believed in God & went to Church Services: or the police made-up a false accusation against you even if you did NO wrong: Just to keep the public in FEAR: It's called " conditioning " OR " Grooming"..... putting the fear of God into you: This news would travel through the villages, so everbody lived in FEAR!

[@RubsfromRamsey]

He must have been the oldest PC on the force as he was in mid 50s when he made Dixon. It must have been live as you see some of the actors fluff their lines sometimes :)

[@Harmonical1]

Well, given that one of the women said she was 23 and looked 50, I'll bet he was about 37! People looked so perishin' old in them days.

[@RubsfromRamsey]

songsmith100 lol

[@rodericksloan1255]

songsmith100 Do not be stupid ya moron.

[@Harmonical1]

roderick sloan Are you talking to me about my comment or RubsfromRamsey? If you are, don't fucking call me a moron because I was making a joke about how old everybody looked then - obviously!

[@Harmonical1]

roderick sloan I don't understand all this Google+1 shit - just realised that I was just being notified of your comment on RubsofRamsey's original comment. Cannot see why you are calling him stupid though. But who cares!

[@generalpublic3744]

This episode was aired the year I was born, so forgive me if I don't recall it!

[@perceivingacting]

Sean Connery was in a Dixon of Dock Green episode? Which one?

[@richardrichard5409]

I think Jack Warner was already 61 here.

[@colinhoward74]

How many know what the wedding car was ? It was an Armstrong Siddley Sapphire

[@stevengrotte2987]

Note to self, just seen this episode.

[@jnixon4364]

magic

[@donaldkrump7564]

The tune he is whistling at the beginning is wrong. Because I used to whistle it with my grandad in the early 1960s

[@fredneecher1746]

Maybe you were whistling it wrong.

[@peterobbo7512]

Bet Dock Green's a bit different nowadays innit.

[@martinbirmingham4450]

I thought PC Dixon appeared slightly camp when he knocked out those two numbers in his singalong.

[@edgware9]

Jack Warner had a musical background along with his two sisters Elsie and Doris waters

[@samsum3738]

This must be a first . Dixon slightly camp . Oh dear .

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

Blimey! Just recognised Hammer Scream Queen Valerie Gaunt.

[@michael_mouse]

... when coppers were worth talking to... ah, I remember it well... not like today's tattooed thugs unfortunately

[@grindupBaker]

Meet The Huggets

[@weedme4932]

JUST TO COOL 😊 Weed Me

[@tridbant]

Here to all those comments implying a better life in these featured days compared to today. Sometimes I think they grew up in a different dimension than me. BTW I’m 66. Oh, this series was good. Nothing is certain in this life but death, taxes and the existence in every generation of fuddy-daddies who carp on about things not being what they used to be. This centuries-spanning collection of gripes seems to suggest that the golden era of stability and contentment these geezers long to return to may never have existed in the first place. Still, the here similarity of their views ought to console them - somethings never change.

[@watermainz]

Is this right before English became English?

[@jacksugden8190]

Year I was born, those old coppers there couldn’t take on today’s violet thugs with their knives.

[@OoYesIKnowOoYesIKnow]

7:30 Negative old fashioned writing.

[@jimobasa525]

Um, what do you expect in 1956 - 58 years ago? I've been around a whole and I know 1960's and 1970's coppers were a much more pleasant bunch walking their beat than today's hooligans driving around in cars

[@OoYesIKnowOoYesIKnow]

It is interesting that the senior police man is using discretion whereas, these days there is a fear of commitment in case of unknowingly breaking some other law, which gets folk in trouble; best leave everything to the Courts. . In the olden days there was not so much notion of dying young from a disease and therefore wanting to be doing things, before hand, a materialist notion; the consumer. . In the last twenty years there are more desperate people doing crimes, which is just ''modern life'', I guess. . . Great to see this historic record video. . Note: I know nothing ! o0o

[@rodericksloan1255]

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