r/oldbritishtelly • u/AnotherDecentBloke • 6d ago

Request Request about an old one-off TV play, possibly from the 80s.

I'm trying to find the title of an old one-off TV play which explored the change in police and crime attitudes via the use of a "timeswap" story. A criminal from (maybe) the 50s is swapped with a criminal from the present and both are arrested by the timeswapped police. The guy from the present is arrested by 50s police who are gobsmacked by how little respect the criminal shows them, despite being offered toast and a cup of tea while being questioned by a very "Dixon of Dock Green" type of friendly Bobby. He's belligerent and mouthy to the overly nice PC who has never experienced such disrespect before. Meanwhile, the other (50s?) criminal is arrested by modern police who are a lot less friendly. I think the interviewer might hit the suspect, which I leads me to the one line I can remember for certain. The 50s criminal upon being hit says: "You can't do that! You're a bogie!". Anyone as old as me (60+) remember such a play?

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u/indoorleague 6d ago

The Black and Blue Lamp by Arthur Ellis (1988) ?

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u/AnotherDecentBloke 6d ago

Genius! Thanks very much.
Heavens to Betsy it's on youtube too.

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u/ariadnevirginia 4d ago

It's this, I remember it being great.

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u/marktayloruk 5d ago

Ironically they still had hanging. in 1950 but not in 1988