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Thin and blue and linear

Two series of The Thin Blue Line each of seven episodes ran between 13 November 1995 and 23 December 1996; it was written by  Ben Elton, and starred Rowan Atkinsonn James Dreyfus, Mina Anwar, Rudolph Walker, David Haig and Mark Addy among others, as well as guests such as Ben Elton himself, Stephen Fry, Melvyn Hayes, Trevor Peacock and Alexander Armstrong. We loved it, and tonight, […]

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Theme tune

I enjoyed reading the Wycliffe novels by W.J. Burley, but when I came to watch the TV series, the actors just didn’t fit the characters in my imagination. I couldn’t somehow get over that, and stopped watching; however, I am now watching them again and I’m distanced enough from the books to be able to enjoy […]

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