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#1 2010-08-05 06:54:37
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Our Friends In The North
Anyone who likes the 50s Soho footage should check out the early Soho scenes of this BBC series, when Daniel Craig leaves Newcastle in 1964 and ends up working in a caff.
Tea seems to be ordered there all right.
#2 2010-08-05 10:05:00
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That was a great series, not many people seem to have caught it when I bring it up in conversation.
That vision of swinging gangster London with the underbelly of seedy Super 8 porno movies with Daniel Craig's girlfriend is really evocative of what it Soho was before the bent vice squard and cops were sorted out. Well, at least how I imagine it.
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#3 2010-08-05 10:12:49
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Interest was lost as the best actors - with the exception of David Bradley - disappeared: mainly after Benny Barrett is busted for attempted murder.
#4 2010-08-05 10:27:54
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one of my favourite (british) tv series ever, was shown in finnish telly in mid-nineties and hasn't been shown again ever since (if i'm correct). i'd very much love to see it again, don't remember any details anymore (my early to mid nineties used to be - er - wild).
#5 2010-08-05 10:39:31
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There was another good series in the 90's, The Long Firm, also with Mark Strong as a gay Soho gangster in the 1960's. The episode when he goes to Nigeria with the MP and they get done over by a Nigerian running a scam is brilliant.
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#6 2010-08-05 11:53:37
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#7 2010-08-05 13:24:06
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That's strange, I seem to remember the series from the the mid to late 90's.
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#8 2010-08-05 13:27:25
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i've missed that one completely, not sure whether it was shown on finnish telly anyway.
#9 2010-08-05 13:54:24
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It was very good, think of the gangster part of Our Friends Up North, crossed with one Kray twin and turned into a series. Thoroughly entertaining.
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#10 2010-08-05 13:58:58
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on dvd anywhere? i must check it out.
#11 2010-08-05 15:22:22
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#12 2010-08-05 15:25:18
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Chris Ecclestone is seen reading the scarce Pan edition of 'On The Road' in the first episode of OFITN.
#13 2010-08-06 14:05:58
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Some horrific 'geordie' accents though.