Does anybody remember a TV Police drama something in the 1990s set in a "northern city", which was so obviously Sheffield, due to the Supertram going past their offices all the time.
I have been trying to remember what it was called for ages. Some combination of the words "thin", "blue" and "line", maybe, but that's not it!
Some scenes were priceless, though. I remember one where the cops jumped into their car outside me mum's at the top of Dykes Lane, sped down the hill after the miscreants, and turned the corner onto Wordsworth Avenue!

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JGH

Maybe this is not - strictly speaking - on the same subject, but in Threads (the one about a nuclear bomb landing near Sheffield), all the neighbourhood were trying to flee Sheffield for Manchester and Wales etc. However, they turned left from Hawksley Road into Cheadle Street - which is a dead end road with a massive wall at the end. And it faces east rather than west! Don't suppose they got very far....

Originally posted by BoroughGal
Maybe this is not - strictly speaking - on the same subject, but in Threads
My mum was in that! One of the figures seen against the horizon as the trotted up towards Stanedge Edge or somewhere.

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JGH

a "brothel" in this programme was the house on the corner of shrewbury road and nolfolk road..(back of parkhill flats) i know this as the house is on my window cleanig round.......its 20 quid a clean and i had to miss it out when they were filming:mad: but i can't remember what the programme was called but it defo had "blue" in the title

It was called Out Of The Blue.

I only got that because I remembered John Hannah was in it, so I searched on him - I'm not that sad!

The only other thing I remember about it was they had a United calendar in the office!

I remember the one where a sheep jumped out of a car boot in Edward Street Flats and the miscreant just looked at it and saied it must have been in there when I bought it!

The nick was on Attercliffe Common, I think.

You're right about it being something blue :?:

The people of Dalton were quite uptight. Much of the filming was done there and they thought it reflected badly an the image of their village.

Dalton village???? Are we talking about Dalton in Rotherham

People in dalton upset about their image - jeez talk about kettle and pot

the station was the old Don Valley Training building on Carlisle Street - the building is still there but not sure what it is now..

yeah the station was deffinately on carlisle street i remember them filming.

The bar that they used to meet in was the old changing rooms on the Vulcan fields, on the Arbourthorne estate.

"Out of the Blue" - there was a thread about it a few months back in the TV section.

There was also a film made called "Crimestrike" shown on Channel 4 (just once, I think). I was an extra in a scene filmed in the old Peace Gardens!

Out of the Blue
Wonderful! It had been bugging me for ages. I'll go and track down the thread in the TV section
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JGH

Where, by the way, was Juliet Bravo set? Lordy only knows why it occupies brain space amid the fluff and rubber bands in my memory attic, but all I can recall was that it was a bit Northern in tone, the Sergeant (bluff yet kind) on the desk played bit parts in almost any British productin for about a million years and the lead was Anna Carteret. Ground-breaking feminist stuff at the time (1980s), as lady in charge of lots of traditionalist males. Must have been a BBC job, as in order to get the tension between trad men and modernist woman they had to set it oop north. Everyone knows that civilisation only stretches between White City and Edgeware. Anything further up is still regarded as heathland occupied by ferret-eating, woad-wearing savages. Ho hum.

Do you remember the one where they pulled some guy over and he looked like ur average bad boi. But he shocked police by quoting sections to them and his rights etc. I found that rather funny and the police didn't quite know what to think.

Originally posted by BoroughGal
Maybe this is not - strictly speaking - on the same subject, but in Threads (the one about a nuclear bomb landing near Sheffield), all the neighbourhood were trying to flee Sheffield for Manchester and Wales etc. However, they turned left from Hawksley Road into Cheadle Street - which is a dead end road with a massive wall at the end. And it faces east rather than west! Don't suppose they got very far....

I remember this nuclear film 'Threads' too, we was made to watch it in English at school around 1991.

Found the film very frightening, can still see the mushroom cloud looming over the old eggbox building and can remember seeing urine running down a womans leg as she stood and watched the cloud whilst she was stood on the Moor near Debenhams.

I thought I was the only one that remembered this film!! :clap:

threads is a quality film - i remember it been shown first time and considering how close we were in those times to a nuclear war it **** me up a lot.

I remember the guy with the pigeons and everythign going white when the bomb dropped


"Bloody hell - they've only gone and done it"

classic quote from a yorkshire man reacting to a nuclear bomb been dropped

Originally posted by bigrods
It was called Out Of The Blue.

I only got that because I remembered John Hannah was in it, so I searched on him - I'm not that sad!

The only other thing I remember about it was they had a United calendar in the office!

out of the blue was filmed in manchester!

Wherever it was filmed, I think it's time there was a Hollywood film version in the mode of Starsky Hutch. It could be entitled simply Blue Movie.

Originally posted by SaxonLeigh
out of the blue was filmed in manchester!
So Dykes Lane Chippy and Bessemer House are in Manchester?

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JGH

Originally posted by SaxonLeigh
out of the blue was filmed in manchester!

no it wasn't..i watched em filming it..well some of it

some of it was filmed around the vulcan pub arbourthorne and as i mentioned earlier some were filmed on nolfolk road. and they are both in sheffield

Originally posted by jgharston
So Dykes Lane Chippy and Bessemer House are in Manchester?

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JGH

do the quiz

http://www.plustv.co.uk/quiz/index.php?sid=35

according to this its manchester!

its says its set in manchester not filmed:rolleyes:

lionel

Originally posted by Internetowl
the station was the old Don Valley Training building on Carlisle Street - the building is still there but not sure what it is now..

The building that was used as the "nick" was Bessemer House, on Carlisle Street. (I used to work there in the 80's) I cant remember the name of the training company that used it after the company I worked for went bust, I'm afraid, but I suspect that IO is correct in saying it was Don ValleyTraining who ran it, then

it did use to house the admin centre for one of the multitude of companies that ripped off the unemployed, who were forced onto those dreaded "ET" (employment training) con schemes.

I enjoyed watching that series, and like others on here, being a native of sheffield was always puzzled about how the film makers could have the subject walk or drive down one street, and turn a corner, onto a street that was on the other side of the city! (although that happened in the film "When Saturday Comes", too)

I remember the filming on Cemetery Road, for the episode where the little boy, a toddler, died in strange circumstances on a bus.

PT

Originally posted by joyphil
Where, by the way, was Juliet Bravo set? Lordy only knows why it occupies brain space amid the fluff and rubber bands in my memory attic, but all I can recall was that it was a bit Northern in tone, the Sergeant (bluff yet kind) on the desk played bit parts in almost any British productin for about a million years and the lead was Anna Carteret. Ground-breaking feminist stuff at the time (1980s), as lady in charge of lots of traditionalist males. Must have been a BBC job, as in order to get the tension between trad men and modernist woman they had to set it oop north. Everyone knows that civilisation only stretches between White City and Edgeware. Anything further up is still regarded as heathland occupied by ferret-eating, woad-wearing savages. Ho hum.

Juliet Bravo was set in a generic northern town, which was sort of somewhere in the leeds/Bradford/ wakefield kind of triangle. (by that, I mean, it was not "quite" any of the towns named, and the setting was almost too rural/ countrified to be the cities of leeds or Bradford) I suppose the way i would describe the setting is almost "James Herriott" meets "Where The Heart Is" -country,

The name given to the fictional town the series was set in was "Hartley".

Stephanie Turner played the lead character of a female (chief?) inspector, Jean Darblay, for the first season or two, and then Anna Carteret took over for the rest of the programme's run, playing Inspector Kate Longton.

PT

Originally posted by BoroughGal
However, they turned left from Hawksley Road into Cheadle Street - which is a dead end road with a massive wall at the end. And it faces east rather than west! Don't suppose they got very far....


I think I can beat that, In the Film ID the football hooligans run down a gennal at the side of the bingo hall on Doncaster Gate, Rotherham. Come out the other end and a London Bus passes them....

Originally posted by kirky
its says its set in manchester not filmed:
Whether set in or filmed in, that quiz is wrong. It was definately filmed in Sheffield, and was set in an un-named large northern city with lots of hills and plenty of nearby countryside and not on the coast. That pretty much eliminates Manchester and probably narrows it down to Leeds or Sheffield.

According to the Internet movie DataBase ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112110/locations ) it was filmed in Sheffield and Scotland.

i remember a bit on it when they were drinking in a pub it was called the old blue ball or something, or words to that affect the pub was near blast lane near park square roundabout, which is now a carpark