TV cock ups

[scooters]

First episode of Romanzo Criminale..an.otherwise top notch chod extravaganza....

 

The gang use a late model 240 estate to nick some typewriters

[Station]

In the MR2 episode of Wheeler Dealers, Mike Brewer finds a mint front wing in a scrap yard, which looks brand new with no corrosion and is freshly painted:

He also tries to haggle the price down by 50%.

 

[morris_ital_lover]

....The program was narrated by Sean Bean, and considering all teh time he spent in The South Essex Regiment under an assumed name, you'd think he'd have put them right

 

MEH, He'd be useless, he doesn't even know what colour the boathouse is at Hereford. As for Northern Ireland documentaries it seems to be totally acceptable to show footage of Tangis and try and claim its footage of 1970s riots or to show clips of the game "Arma2" and try and claim its footage of the IRA shooting down a british army helicopter.

 

Anybody see the "Endeavor" malarky on tonight.... I'm sure there's some beautiful cock ups in there, I have to say I gave up before then end as it all got a bit.... shit. I did notice the excessive proliferation of MK2 jags in it as well as Zodiacs without a single Cowley product in sight.

[ashmicro]

Saw endeavour, though it wasn't bad. Considering it was supposed to be Oxford, the absence of BMC tin was, as you say, baffling. Pikey mark 1 Transit at the end, though.

[chaseracer]

...Sean Bean...

MEH, He'd be useless, he doesn't even know what colour the boathouse is at Hereford.

 

..."Endeavor" malarky... without a single Cowley product in sight...

Apart from at least one Morris Minor...

[AnthonyG]

Saw endeavour, though it wasn't bad. Considering it was supposed to be Oxford, the absence of BMC tin was, as you say, baffling. Pikey mark 1 Transit at the end, though.

 

I thought one of the senior coppers said 'GMC' instead of 'BMC' when talking about where someone's dad worked. Could just be my hearing though.

 

Also I doubt a dodgy back street garage would be selling a brand new (C reg) Jaguar Mk2, although its possible.

[AnthonyG]

In 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit', which is set in the 60's, some youths are hooning around in a scruffy FD Ventora with a primered wing...

 

In that series about a 1970s kid in the West Midlands, with Amanda Holden and Noddy Holder as teachers, one of the people on the 'estate' had a Allegro with a different coloured wing, even given BL's variable build quality at that point its doubtful in what would have been a year old car (the music firmly put it in 73/74 territory).

 

IIRC Nigel Planer played a lazy dad who worked at 'Leyland' who was eternally on strike. Nobody seems to remember that when you were on strike, you didn't get paid , so he wouldn't be able to spend 1974 at the bookies (unless he was very successful at it, of course )

[retrogeezer]

The Grimleys!! What a great programme that was. Brian Conley as Doug 'Dynamo' Digby!

[dollywobbler]

The new series of Endeavour. A bloody good show actually, apart from the fact that the very opening scene of this brand new series shows a split-screen Morris Minor with the 'Morris' combined sidelight/indicator unit only fitted to the 1098cc Minors. Disgraceful. More seriously, there was some nice ol' shite in it, including a Triumph 1300 and a couple of nice old buses.

[quicksilver]

I thought one of the senior coppers said 'GMC' instead of 'BMC' when talking about where someone's dad worked. Could just be my hearing though.

Yeah, I thought I heard GMC too and my dad agrees. Bit of a boo-boo if so.

[M'coli]

^^^ The producers probably had one eye on selling the show to the US, in which case it's lazy - it wouldn't have taken much to get it right in the first place and then over-dub it with GMC for the US.

[richardthestag]

quadrophenia

 

 

 

Straw dogs

not so much of a cock up but it might get your cock up

 

[Captain Mainwaring]

Just about every film set in 1980s Britain features a car fitted with the 'new style font' numberplates.

[quicksilver]

Current viewing has caused this OMG THRED RESURECTION. Watching the first episode of Doc Martin and he's just driven his Lexus LS400 into a bog at about 20mph. The car came to a stop without damage but the airbag went off, he then pushed the airbag out of the way and got out and neither himself nor the car had even a scratch. Why oh why did the airbag deploy?

[Father Ted]

Lexus LS400 ..... Why oh why did the airbag deploy?

 

Obviously didnt get re-called like all the others

[kinkersaab]

Anyone see the weak show that is "Royal bodygaurd" with David jason? Last week he was looking under a brand new Citroen C6 with a mirror thing looking for a bomb, and the camera shots looked more like a 10 yr old fiesta... annoyed muchness.

[retrogeezer]

I watched the first episode of that and had to force myself to see it through to the end.....I'm surprised David Jason signed on the dotted line for it as it is dire.

[gadgetgricey]

Amazed that no-one has mentioned the classic cock up in Diamonds are Forever.

The chase scene in Las Vegas.

 

Bond gets the car on two wheels to drive through a narrow alley, but manages to flip the car midway through to come out the other end on the opposite two wheels.

 

 

- Dave -

[STUNO]

On TV as I write...a sitcom of some sort . Huge crash of thunder followed a moment later by a lightning flash. Several times. Now the electric is off and their candle is lightng the whole interior of the house.

[RoadworkUK]

In a similar vein to the above; how come every club / pub in every film is quiet enough for the lead characters to have a deep and meaningful conversation in?

[Jon]

Up to page 8 and no reference to the Eldorado incident (courtesy of IMCDB):

 

 

A610.....

 

....becomes shonky TR7.

[eddyramrod]

Nobody ever watched Eldorado, that's why!*

 

*Except you and Terry Wogan

[Father Ted]

^^^^

They did something similar in the Italian Job didnt they with the Ferrari that went over the cliff - changed into som Alfa mocked up as a Ferrari IIRC

 

EDIt Lambo not Ferrari. I are an arse

[eddyramrod]

Or Lancia mocked up as Aston Martin, but yeah, that is right, more or less. They do it all the time thinking we won't notice. One of Elvis's movies - Spinout, I think - has Shelley Fabares driving her brand new Ferrari into a river. Except when she gets there, it's a TR4.

[morris_ital_lover]

...in fairness they did actually push the Aston over the cliff it just went down in a fireball which isn't what they wanted so they had to mock up the Lancia. Bizarrely it seems the Aston has survived along with the red e-type.

[mk2_craig]

Producers sometimes use scale models for scenes of destruction, but I'm not very good at spotting them. Apparently later Dukes of Hazzard episodes employed this trick due to the supply of Dodge Chargers starting to dry up by the mid 1980s. The VW camper blown up in Back to the Future looked suspiciously like it might have been a mock-up in that scene, and the Bristol VR bus jumping Tower Bridge in Spiceworld was blatant

 

[Father Ted]

Anyone spot this eror in this weeks episode of Hustle?

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[quicksilver]

Anyone spot this eror in this weeks episode of Hustle?

Yep, I was going to mention it but then I forgot. The odd thing is the POLICE lettering must actually be the right way round on the Astra - normally it's reversed so it would be the right way round in the reversed image if you get what I mean. I remember a bigger cockup in an earlier series: the minibus they got into was a Merc Vito but by the time it arrived at the destination it had somehow turned into a VW Caravelle! How they pulled off that particular trick was never explained...

[morris_ital_lover]

...they are hustlers afterall.

 

One thing I've noticed in general with the appearance of police cars on film and tv is that all sound like they've got the sirens out of the 90s as opposed to the superannoying new ones.

[trigger]

and the Bristol VR bus jumping Tower Bridge in Spiceworld was blatant

 

You've watched Spiceworld?!