Laughable TV car chases

[richbraith]

Further to my above post & apologies for taking this thread off topic a little.....I had a little look on the Tube of You at Londons Burning Crashes....This one seems like it is from the makers of casualty.....Great racing lines taken by the appliance drivers...& the barrel rolling fire engine......LOLZ...

 

 

 

 

& Another Classic......Watch out for that parked Transit, with a convenient ramp just placed out of sight.....LOLZ!

 

And a Renner 14 sneaks in again!  I swear these were once ubiquitous...any old TV show, music video from the 80s features one.  They even pop up now and again on my local 'Memory Lane' FB site.

[richbraith]

I remember Casualty filming one of their epic disaster-fests near me, on the North York Moors railway crossing at Grosmont.  That crossing is at the bottom of a steep hill....presumably that's the nearest such crossing they could find near Bristol.  So some wrong'uns pinch a Cortina off a rough estate in the south-west of England, a massive police chase ensues culminating in the car getting stuck on a level crossing and being hit by a train about 300 miles north-east just a few minutes later.  Skills!

[wuvvum]

*PrinceCharmings 'horse ride', in Shrek, sorta punctures the balloon lol

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[JeeExEll]

There's an early episode of The Professionals where a red XJ6 crashes over the edge of a quarry and the baddie driver's head falls off half way down the cliff.

Will try to find it later or maybe someone else remembers it.

[anonymous user]

Yep I remember that one, Doyle has luckily just escaped from the boot

[gadgetgricey]

Car crashes/chases are bad enough but what really annoys is some e of the sound effects.

 

Since when does a car driving up a gravel driveway or on grass screech to a halt as though its on tarmac....

[Felly Magic]

I did remember an episode of the A Team when the van crashes through a billboard, for the stunt they used a late 60s/early 70's Ford Econoline with the slopey front & round headlamps

[willswitchengage]

Why Blockbusters aren't filmed in England

 

[Negative Creep]

Car crashes/chases are bad enough but what really annoys is some e of the sound effects.

 

Since when does a car driving up a gravel driveway or on grass screech to a halt as though its on tarmac....

 

 

Once you start noticing stock sound effects you can never un-notice them. For example, these crash sounds are everywhere

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0rgLgNKmM

 

[155V6]

you know something is gonna crash in some british drama when you realise they've just driven onto "that test track" the one with 4 lane wide country roads with no markings and its always that corner with abit of a gradient just after/before

I remember an episode of The Bill,the road turned into the banking at Brooklands 

[Felly Magic]

A lot of these 'crashes' are filmed at places like Millbrook, even the over the top Aston roll in one of the James Bond films. Bickers International from Bentwaters were often behind the stunts as well. I remember a really iffy crash in the Professionals, at the end of the episode, the former agent who has been having flashbacks crashes into a building just off a runway, car explodes on impact. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

...and whilst we're haveing a moanfest- since when did ALL the police inetrceptors, cars when seen from the helecopter, make that noise?

[Felly Magic]

Bickers website even shows a prang outside 'The Vic' and the Casualty Olympian bus clearly going up a badly disguised ramp. http://www.bickers.co.uk/

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Not a chase but laughable. From the long forgotten Geordie based series 'Finney' (1994), a black XJS is used.

 

To kill the baddie, sat in the back, a bullet is fired into one of the rear buttresses whereupon petrol starts to come from the bullet hole.     .

 

Cue the stand in fucked XJS scrapper with a replica bodykit made from bin liners and cardboard. 

[0ldCh0d]

Range Rover mates with Jeep, after chase..........Note.....The Ryder Ford Cargo, with dubbed on air horn sound..& very crappy hiding place from Jeep..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZnLzZEL2as

[AlabamaShrimp]

That an RHD Jeep? Conversion or did they sell them here in 1980?

[0ldCh0d]

That an RHD Jeep? Conversion or did they sell them here in 1980?

 

Ha.....I thought the same thing, i have/had never seen a Jeep as early as that..

[AMC Rebel]

They were sold here in RHD - there are a few around but very few now left.  Like a lot of shite, I've had my eye out for one for ages - this was still the AMC jeep era (just).

 

AMC sold quite a bit of RHD chod here, so did a lot of US manufacturers, my '56 Chevy is a RHD that came here new.

 

My moan is people who are apparently so visually challenged they upload Youtube vids (and ahem er bongo films) using the wrong flamin aspect ratio.  That Spender clip is ruined.

[0ldCh0d]

Here is a chase......Fuck knows what they are saying though..With added bonus 70's bongo film music..

 

[anonymous user]

In the man who haunted himself, not a chase as such, but Roger Moore going berserk in his P5, shortly before crashing passed the same Sunbeam Alpine several times.

[Junkman]

Here is a chase......Fuck knows what they are saying though..With added bonus 70's bongo film music..

 

 

From the legendary German telly series "Auf Achse" with Franz Meersdonk (Manfred Krug (RIP)) and Günther Willers (Rüdiger Kirschstein).

The two actors were selected because they were the only ones that fit the roles AND had HGV licences.

Most of the driving, including stunts, was done by them, often in exotic locations were medical help wasn't nearby.

 

The dialogue* in the clip:

 

Franz Meersdonk:

 

Criminals!

Come on, let's uncouple!

 

Villain #1:

 

That Shithead gains on us!

Does he try it on the right?

 

Villain#2:

 

Oh God faster, can't you drive faster?

Faster!

Come on, drive faster!

 

Villain #1:

 

Impossible, it doesn't go any faster.

 

Franz Meersdonk:

 

You wait! I'm going to get you!

You Slaphead, you!

 

Villain#2:

 

Look out!

 

Franz Meersdonk:

 

Ey, where is the pewter?

What did you do to Willers?

You don't know me yet, you!

 

Villain#2:

 

Aaaah!

Aaaah!

 

Man entering Meersdonk's lorry:

 

Now we will soon come to know what we want to know!

 

Franz Meersdonk:

 

Where Willers is I want to know!

 

 

Villain#2:

 

<name not understood> has the pewter!

[chaseracer]

Gripping* stuff! 

[richbraith]

Not a chase but laughable. From the long forgotten Geordie based series 'Finney' (1994), a black XJS is used.

 

To kill the baddie, sat in the back, a bullet is fired into one of the rear buttresses whereupon petrol starts to come from the bullet hole.     .

 

Cue the stand in fucked XJS scrapper with a replica bodykit made from bin liners and cardboard. 

I loved that series!  Had all but forgotten it.  

[AMC Rebel]

 

Franz Meersdonk:

 

You wait! I'm going to get you!

You Slaphead, you!

 

 

 

Powerful insults in this stuff eh?  Must've been on after the watershed.

 

Edit - what I learned from this clip -

 

1. If your crap driving has put your tractor unit in the ditch and you don't have enough traction to reverse out, simply opening the cab door and looking at the wheels will restore the grip you need.
2. If you are a criminal mastermind who has nearly triumphed over the forces of law and order, do not use a fucked Daf 33 as a getaway car.
3. That XJS was fookin slow, or the bloke stopped for a piss on the way (or more likely a ftp).

 

Great stuff though - the Golf cop car was pretty good.  Seeing the massive DAF TURBO stuff made me wonder if it was product placement, but if DAF did pay anything they must surely have been a bit miffed at the role of the 33?

[Bren]

There's an early episode of The Professionals where a red XJ6 crashes over the edge of a quarry and the baddie driver's head falls off half way down the cliff.

Will try to find it later or maybe someone else remembers it.

I remember it well! Also thunderbolt and lightfoot when buick riviera drives off the road - clint eastwood has turned into a mannequin.