The Black and Blue Lamp

The Black and Blue Lamp (1988)


  • Genre: Drama, Comedy, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1988-09-07
  • Runtime: 0h 59min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Guy Slater

Summary

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.

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  • Kenneth Cranham

    as Supt. Cherry
  • Karl Johnson

    as PC "Taffy" Hughes
  • Sean Chapman

    as Tom Riley
  • John Woodvine

    as Supt. Hammond
  • Ralph Brown

    as Insp. Drury
  • Nick Stringer

    as Sgt. Brooks
  • Ian Brimble

    as PC Totley
  • Peter Lovstrom

    as PC Sneed
  • Barry Woolgar

    as Insp. Rogers
  • Garrick Hagon

    as Police Surgeon
  • Anthony Smee

    as Mr Bromley Junior
  • Paddy Ryan

    as Mr Bromley Senior
  • Jonathan Chater

    as Fat Boy
  • Kathy Burke

    as Voiceover
  • Christopher Driscoll

    as Voiceover
Production Brenda Reid Producer
Directing Guy Slater Director
Writing Arthur Ellis Writer
Sound Ken Howard Music

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