Des last night was it sponsored by British tobacco

I liked the scene where three separate actors lit up one after each other. It did make me smile all the smoking. It’s hard to imagine all the places that you could smoke back in those days.

I did wonder whether Detective Jays demise to cancer had anything to do with his smoking.
 
It was like that in 1982, certainly in the early 1970s, most men smoked. The interiors of car roofs were brown from tobacco smoke, some house were and pubs. If you went in a bookies for 20 minutes you came home smelling of tobacco, even if you didn't smoke.

The drama now love their period pieces, the incident room was full of manual typewriters and record cards. There was no DNA checking on the bones of the dead, no mobile phones, no internet, it probably hard for anyone under 35 to imagine. So hard to check records of the missing.

The inside of houses and pubs were grotty - lots of grey and light brown - they got it a bit wrong there I thought, because they were probably using houses/pubs undecorated for 30 years or more. Although I got the point that people lived in a less bright/modern world in 1982.

I also noticed nearly all the people were White British - while 2020 set dramas its around 50% for London based settings. This is a pure observation, not a value judgement in any way.
 
Great show brilliant acting and script it but it was comical the amount of smoking going on I half expected the the judge to light up at one point.
I remember thinking the exact same thing! :)
I suppose they use smoking to try to give it a dated feeling now that we are all used to smoking bans.
 
Even right up to the ban I used to hate that smell you had in you after pub / nightclub when you just reeked of fags despite not smoking. Massively different now that many won’t appreciate as they’ve never had it
 
My wife pointed this out last night. It was probaqbly fairly realistic for that environment at that time, but even so seemed a bit unnecessary.
Having said that, i'm not sure a serial killer and policemen with failing home lives smoking will encourage people to take it up...
 
I love the smell of smoke. :D

When I look at modern police investigations today I'm amazed that they were able to catch anyone back in the day. Modern cases are cracked by DNA, data from your phone and PC and CCTV and other video footage. None of that existed a few years ago.
 
I worked as a glass collector as a kid , you could taste the smoke on your skin and clothes totally stank of it when you left for the night
 
It's so weird watching Minder and Professionals/sweeny etc on ITV3

Just everyone smoking in pubs and police interview rooms. The pubs just look honking full of smoke.

I definitely don't miss that👍
 
Old shows certainly show their faults if the generation. I remember watching an old film probably gone with the wind era . A bloke told his mate to get this lass to like him ready for when she old enough to marry .......she was like 13 yrs old or something. 🙈 worrying this was considered ok back then .
Then there’s Dambusters with a dog named after a reference for a black man 🤷‍♂️
 
I have seen a few Battle of Britain programmes recently and the young pilots (say aged 19) are carrying pipes in their top pockets, that's tobacco smoking pipes that we associate with old blokes now. Today the only pipes young men use or for some strange illegal drugs!

Its also strange to seem them drinking pints and jumping into their cars and driving away. I think it showed this last night on DES, with police officers spending a few hours socialising in the pub after work and driving home.

The going to the pub culture straight after work was not uncommon. It was like they didn't want to go home. I was familiar with this when I was a kid. Its frowned on now, but back in the 1970s it was not uncommon to have absent dads.
 
In yrs to come NHS will have nowt to do . People drink less smoke less , theyl only have potentially fatal viruses to deal with .😬
 
Obesity has always been a problem, we follow America. I think people are made more aware now but unfortunately so much of the food on the shelves is processed . At the end of the day it’s up to us to take responsibility for ourselves .
 
Old shows certainly show their faults if the generation. I remember watching an old film probably gone with the wind era . A bloke told his mate to get this lass to like him ready for when she old enough to marry .......she was like 13 yrs old or something. 🙈 worrying this was considered ok back then .
Then there’s Dambusters with a dog named after a reference for a black man 🤷‍♂️
This may come as a shock to you but Dambusters was real. The dog's name was real. Titanic was also real. Well, just the drawing Kate Winslet naked bit...The ship sinking thing was just poetic licence
 
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