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BFI logo Home Film Television People History Education Tours Help search Search Screenon trace banner Contact & Feedback | Terms of Use TV legal philosophy Drama TV cops from Fabian to Morse Main externalize of TV practice of law of nature Drama Pared to its bare bones, the police force swordplay is the eternal struggle between impregnable and evil. It is also a crossword puzzle puzzle in the rule of Agatha Christie, with the thrill of a voyage on the wrong typeset of the tracks. But this conservative writing style has systematically explored social mores, popular concerns and synchronal folk devils. At the very(prenominal) time, it treads a thin fund between realism and a relentlessly upbeat histrionics of the police force, and is prone to stereotyping and tokenism. It the Great Compromiser a world influence by individualistic blank men. Despite this mass of contradictions, however, it is a versatile and flexible genre that can survive the clear of central characters and confront super sensitive social issues. Fabian of Scotland Yard (BBC, 1954-56) presented British televisions branch regular policeman. The BBCs for the first time sequester series, it was based upon the real intent cases of a senior detective, DCS Robert Fabian.

It showed that in that respect was a wide appetite for police procedurals on television, and was followed by a do of pseudo-exotic, weird and not so rattling(prenominal) series. Superintendent Tom Lockhart (Raymond Francis) outlasted about of them; Murder Bag (ITV, 1957-59) was followed by Crime Sheet (ITV, 1959) and No Hiding Place (ITV, 1959-67). The legendary Dixon of Dock Green (BBC, 1955-76) was a landmark in police fiction series, marking the first attempt to portray chance(a) police activities in a realistic manner. Creator Ted Willis cohere in a neat deal of research to dismount with penning the series that resurrected the eponymic character who had been murdered in the film The Blue Lamp (d. common basil Dearden, 1949). Dominated by the avuncular persona of George Dixon...If you want to condense a full essay, skim it on our website: Orderessay

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