Dixon Of Dock Green And The Lone Ranger

Those were two of my favourite television programmes in the 1950s. I loved old Jack Warner, not only for his portrayal of Dixon, but also for his role as Mr Hugget in 'Meet the Huggets'.  Dixon of Dock Green came to our screens in 1955 and although it did not have the realism of Z Cars, and The Bill, it was very reassuring as a child to see Dixon solve a crime or comment about the criminal characters; they all seemed to specialize in petty larceny.

Ofcourse growing up brings reality and we witnessed the battle between miners and police in the miners' strike of the 80s - if only on our  television screens. It was not pretty and much removed from Dixon. Were there really a number of policemen waiving fivers at the half starving miners in one almighty taunt? Stranger things have happened and are happening right now!  This is emphatically not a rant at the police, afterall the large majority of them do a fine and admirable job, nevertheless I really cannot understand why a police constable commands c35k a year even after ten years service. That figure is astonishing to me but good luck to them because their job can be dangerous from time to time, or all the time for a few of them, depending upon their locality.

Clayton Moore was The Lone Ranger when I enjoyed the programme . He was partnered by Jay Silverheels as Tonto. All good stuff. I recall seeing it on television just before listening to the football results on the 'wireless'. My wife still calls it the wireless and I like that so much that I call it the wireless to! De dum De dum... here are today's football results Fulham 2 Derby County 0 - ah well what are we going to have for tea mum? Meat sandwiches and jelly.

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