Z-Cars - 'Centre Of Disturbance' 1964

[@steveflitton8903]

I used to watch these with my parents all those years ago. Pure nostalgia. Brian Blessed used to talk 'normal' back then long before his famous bellowing voice of today. Frank Windsor played my favourite character. I used to love his authoritative attitude to those under him. So much has changed since then. The cars they drove and means of communication for example. Great to watch it again

[@franceshaypenny8481]

Oh I dunno... He sounds pretty bellowing back then too. And clean shaven or bearded, still sexy.

[@franzelias5368]

A clean shaven Brian Blessed!

[@sensiblename295]

Absolutely smashing, another classic I have never seen before. Many thanks.

[@stephensmith9957]

Sad news that Frank Windsor has died. Great actor especially as John Watt in Z Cars and Softly Softly

[@TimW-pe2oq]

Two Bristol Lodekkas in the First five minutes. I'm guessing Crosville. Plus the classic independent operator's Duple bodied Bedford. Love the classic vehicles.

[@neilfranklin5644]

Not classic then

[@indigohammer5732]

Have you ever seen an grown woman naked?

[@stephensmith9957]

Another Gem. Thanks!

[@SuperIliad]

Centre of Disturbance, Season 3, Episode 36, aired 13 May 1964. David Bedard as Colin Metcalf; Brian Blessed as PC Smith; Joseph Brady as PC Weir; Delia Corrie as Mrs. Woolf; Lynn Farleigh as Ann Fazakerley; Michael Forrest as Det. Con. Hicks; Ken Goodlet as (as Kenneth Goodlet) as Peter Boston; Peter Griffin as Michael Connolly; Bob Keegan as Sgt. Blackitt; Sheila Mitchell as Mrs. Connolly; John Moore as Cavanagh; Donald Morley as Shallcross; Graham Rigby, Ambulance Man; Marigold Sharman as Mrs. Shallcross; George Waring as Martin Osborne; Frank Windsor as Det. Sgt. Watt.

[@SuperIliad]

There are elements to this program that show up years later in Hill Street Blues.

[@ArtyEffem]

The two shows couldn't be more different, but what they do have in common is the ability to intersperse moments of quality comedy, without compromising the underlying seriousness.

[@SuperIliad]

@@ArtyEffem I did write "elements." The hubbub; subplots roiling over each other.

[@cuddlybear4108]

Z Cars, this is super stuff, thank you so very much. ❤❤

[@ArtyEffem]

23:40 "There's things happen to Smith and Weir - don't happen to anyone else."

[@simonf8902]

super popular TV in Australia. That theme is stuck in my head.

[@steveprestegard5151]

5:25 Brian Blessed has the loudest voice in the history of human beings.

[@Elcore]

That's not the video audio you're hearing - it's Brian Blessed shouting so loud that the voice of his past self has broken the fabric of time and can be heard by you in the future.

[@edepillim]

The law has much changed since the 60s.Even having an unauthorized firearm can lead to 10 years, discharging a gun in a public place, even with blanks, criminal damage, causing serious public order offences etc. I reckon maybe 10 years inside. Everyone was so obsequious to the upper classes back then. Still quite nostalgic to watch.

[@morganmiller3645]

John Hopkins wrote interesting scenarios.

[@flashstudiosguy]

Sadly, Society has gone from Yuppies making pranks at the Police's expense to Trash calling for the pettiest of things, like MacDonalds being out of McNuggets

[@mikekemp9877]

amazing episode the sign of the happier days when a shooting is met with amazment and disbelief.also highlights the guilt felt by the witnesses for inaction.if you recall this was the time have a go was popularised only to be reversed after a spate of citizens got killed or badly injured doing just that!

[@Hyapatia77]

Contrast this with our American TV at the time, when everybody was shooting everybody else, so natch it was no big to nab a perp. *Sigh*, no change here.

[@franceshaypenny8481]

Well there were quite a lot of gang violence in the sixties then.

[@mikekemp9877]

@@franceshaypenny8481 rarely used guns

[@davidandrews190]

GORDON'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!! 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 FLASH!!!!!!!

[@stephenclemmet1926]

Union Jack flag on the screen is upside down. The broad white diaganol goes around the flag clockwise.

[@baronmeduse]

It's likely deliberate. Iconoclasm and whatnot...

[@cudatom9290]

Which witnesses like these no wonder there are so many unsolved crimes.

[@carlnapp4412]

A lovely bunch of barmpots!

[@Rushmore222]

The actor @23:13 bears an uncanny resemblance to a young LBJ.

[@seltaeb3302]

Takes me back, on the floor, coal fire ablaze, watching bw tv. We didn't need colour, we knew the colours in our head. It was all about content, unlike the millennium of dumbness. We didn't need warnings before transmissions & help lines at the end.

[@Bill23799]

Interesting how traumatized the crowd was because the man used a gun. If this had happened in Chicago or Detroit the crowd would have been as traumatized if the guy did the drive by and did not have a few guns.

[@audreyrooney8673]

Acting not a patch on Dixon of Dock Green.

[@Cashpots]

Thanks for the video but it is totally ruined by the huge logo. Could you not at least made it black and white? I would have been happy to pay otherwise.

[@dangerman8625]

In reality, the people would be hushed from the shop, ref, questions, the shop keeper moved items in question, people are walking over debris, scene of crime, would be sealed off, immediately, police argument, witnesses are talking to other witnesses, people interviewing should be singular, the trick was in jest, plain clothes officers would only go and arrest a gunman, uniform back up only, in question, things have been written for dramatic effect, not plausible, not plausible, not plausible, one thing the line up, all wearing plasters, good one.!

[@ArtyEffem]

The implausibility started with the officers failing to realise immediately what had obviously happened.

[@mgdwcb1]

And, at the end, they could only think up charges for 'mishandling a gun'. Nothing about the criminal damage to the shop.

[@leilal8053]

I'm still trying to figure out if it's supposed 2b a Comedy, a Farce or simply Lousy Acting....... Anybody know what "Z Cars" are?

[@jayturner3397]

I believe some of the early episodes went out live 😮

[@TheSuperHarrygeorge]

The word Z in Z cars was because the cars were Ford Zephyrs .

[@susannah1948]

It was one of the first crime shows 50+ years ago !!!

[@colemorrison5214]

A Boris Johnson-esque jolly jape with damaged people left in its wake. The lower orders are so tiresome. Can't they take a joke ?

[@andysaunders3708]

Brian Blessed. Sorry, he's a prat. Rest of it is terrific.

[@marnamintzer2659]

Fine actor, good man, and I'd like to see you call him a prat to his face.

[@CoinOfFaith]

Sorry to be a misserable sod but my dad used to watch this when I were a lad. It was shit then and it's shit now

[@MrThecarebear]

Thanks for that "expert" opinion.

[@None-zc5vg]

Some episodes were good but others were pathetic, like this one.

[@lizdoyle7158]

Goes to show your dad and my dad knew great tv as they both watched z cars 🚓🚓🚓🚓you were a lad so maybe you werent Interested in the series you probaly enjoyed childrens tv 📺z cars was a top tv series as for shit that went down the loo in 1960s too and its the very same in 2022

[@CoinOfFaith]

@@lizdoyle7158 Dear Liz, I have to disagree with your assertation that things are the same in 2022. No now things are even worse, just a more refined form of shit. By the way I threw my TV out years ago.

[@tangerinedream7211]

Was actually cutting edge drama at the time and showed the style/culture of the times, ten years later we got the Sweeny , what do we get now, I'm a third rate celebrity,get me out of here, call that progress.

[@pmullins1495]

Onscreen British flag should be 250% larger, please. Better yet, let it cover all the screen. Nothing worth viewing. 😞

[@simonmw0nwm13]

Don’t talk utter rubbish, this is classic drama!