by Spuffler » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:04 am
I bought a couple of dvds of No Hiding Place. Boy, were they dated!! It's hard to realise just how amateur policing was in those days; but also quite fascinating to watch and compare with today. Things like the Chief Super having a chauffeur!!! Of course, no e-mail, no computers, so much was done by virtue of the memory capacity of the policemen involved. But also, crimes were generally simpler - crooks were less sophisticated, as well as police methods, so you could say, "horses for courses". By and large, if criminals weren't caught in the act, they were damned hard to nail down, with very rudimentary forensic capability, and most police work done by simple plods!
I wonder if anyone remembers the earlier series Murder Bag? And Crime Sheet? And series like that of Edgar Lustgarten? Ten Just Men? We had a very different TV diet in those days!