The Blue Lamp
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The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police procedural film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell and Dirk Bogarde as criminal Tom Riley.
Original UK quad poster by James Boswell
The Harrow Road Police Station, with reproduction blue lamp
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Dixon of Dock Green
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Dixon of Dock Green is a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense a
The Blue Lamp
…The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hang outside British police stations. The film became the inspiration for the 1955–1976 TV series Dixon of Dock Green, in which Warner continued to play PC Dixon until he was 80 years old (even though Dixon is murdered in the original film). The screenplay was written…
Jack Warner as Constable George Dixon