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| - Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. The central character was a mature and sympathetic police constable, George Dixon, played by Jack Warner in all of the 432 episodes, from 1955 to 1976. The series contrasted sharply with later programmes such as Z-Cars, reflecting a more aggressive policing culture, but retained a faithful following, being voted second most popular programme on British TV in 1961.
- Dixon of Dock Green was a long-running Police Procedural from The BBC. It ran from 1955 to 1976. Set in the fictional Dock Green police station and area of London, the series focused on Sgt. George Dixon, Old-Fashioned Copper in every sense of the word that doesn't involve Gene Hunt and The Sweeney-style shenanigans. In short: a British Bobby.
- Dixon of Dock Green was an extremely popular British police television series that began in 1955 and ended in 1976. The title character, PC (later Sgt) George Dixon, appeared in a scene towards the end of the final episode of Ashes to Ashes, in which one of Dixon's closing monologues from Dixon of Dock Green was recycled for the final scene of Ashes to Ashes. Like The Black and Blue Lamp, characters in Ashes to Ashes and its predecessor, Life on Mars, were seemingly sent into different eras of policing. Moreover, Dixon's 'resurrection' for Dixon of Dock Green, after having been killed in The Blue Lamp, parallels the stories of the principal characters in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, having been explained in the final episode. Eventually, as the programme entered the 1970s, it was deeme
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| - Dixon of Dock Green was an extremely popular British police television series that began in 1955 and ended in 1976. The title character, PC (later Sgt) George Dixon, appeared in a scene towards the end of the final episode of Ashes to Ashes, in which one of Dixon's closing monologues from Dixon of Dock Green was recycled for the final scene of Ashes to Ashes. Like The Black and Blue Lamp, characters in Ashes to Ashes and its predecessor, Life on Mars, were seemingly sent into different eras of policing. Moreover, Dixon's 'resurrection' for Dixon of Dock Green, after having been killed in The Blue Lamp, parallels the stories of the principal characters in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, having been explained in the final episode. Eventually, as the programme entered the 1970s, it was deemed out of touch with the times, due to the arrival of more realistic police series, showing questionable morality and casual violence by officers, such as The Sweeney.
- Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. The central character was a mature and sympathetic police constable, George Dixon, played by Jack Warner in all of the 432 episodes, from 1955 to 1976. The series contrasted sharply with later programmes such as Z-Cars, reflecting a more aggressive policing culture, but retained a faithful following, being voted second most popular programme on British TV in 1961.
- Dixon of Dock Green was a long-running Police Procedural from The BBC. It ran from 1955 to 1976. Set in the fictional Dock Green police station and area of London, the series focused on Sgt. George Dixon, Old-Fashioned Copper in every sense of the word that doesn't involve Gene Hunt and The Sweeney-style shenanigans. In short: a British Bobby. Although it occasionally dealt with corruption and "bent coppers", the portrayal of the police was overwhelmingly sympathetic (and the criminals usually caught and 'banged up'). This niceness left the show open to criticism and its supremacy as top UK cop show was eventually challenged by the altogether grittier ZCars and downright violent The Sweeney. A key feature of the show was the Framing Device of an opening to-camera narration by Dixon which always began, "Good evening, all," (shortened in popular usage to "Evening, all,") and a closing narration-cum-homily which nearly always ended, "Goodnight, all." The character of George Dixon was originally encountered in the 1950 movie The Blue Lamp, in which he was shot to death (by Dirk Bogarde's young tough). The final moments of the Ashes to Ashes finale (after the end credits have rolled) feature a Dixon homily, so a show in which the coppers were in afterlife limbo paid homage to a show that brought a copper back from the dead.
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