The Black and Blue Lamp
07/09/1988
1h



Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. 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, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Cast


Kenneth Cranham
Supt. Cherry


Karl Johnson
PC "Taffy" Hughes


Sean Chapman
Tom Riley


John Woodvine
Supt. Hammond


Ralph Brown
Insp. Drury


Nick Stringer
Sgt. Brooks


Ian Brimble
PC Totley
Peter Lovstrom
PC Sneed
Barry Woolgar
Insp. Rogers


Garrick Hagon
Police Surgeon
Anthony Smee
Mr Bromley Junior
Paddy Ryan
Mr Bromley Senior
Jonathan Chater
Fat Boy


Kathy Burke
Voiceover
Christopher Driscoll
Voiceover
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