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ScreenPlay: The Black and Blue Lamp

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of "The Filth" - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule.
This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or the way film and television present them.

Contributors

Music:
Ken Howard
Director:
Alan Horne
Designer:
Michael Young
Script Editor:
Jill Raistrick
Producer:
Brenda Reid
Director:
Guy Slater
Tom Riley:
Sean Chapman
PC Totley:
Ian Brimble
PC Taffy Hughes:
Karl Johnson
Supt Hammond:
John Woodvine
Sgt Brooks:
Nick Stringer
PC Sneed:
Peter Lovstrom
Supt Cherry:
Kenneth Cranham
Insp Drury:
Ralph Brown
Insp Rogers:
Barry Woolgar
Fat boy:
Jonathan Chater
Mr Bromley:
Paddy Ryan
Mr Bromley jr:
Anthony Smee
Source: Radio Times

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