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	Dixon of Dock Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series, which ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series.
		Initially, Dixon continued in the same role as in the film The Blue Lamp, a constable based at the fictitious Dock Green police station, somewhere in the East End of London.
		In 2005, the series was revived for BBC radio, with David Calder as George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford, and Charlie Brooks as Mary Dixon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dixon_of_Dock_Green (420 words)

	Dixon of Dock Green
		Beginning in 1955 and finally ending in 1976, Dixon Of Dock Green was the longest running police series on British television and although its homeliness would later become a benchmark to measure the "realism" of later police series, such as Z Cars and The Bill, it was an enormously popular series.
		Dixon should be seen as belonging to a time when police were generally held in higher esteem by the public than they have been subsequently.
		In Dixon Of Dock Green, Jack Warner as Dixon is a "bobby" on the beat--an ordinary, lowest-ranking policeman on foot patrol.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/dixonofdock/dixonofdock.htm (859 words)

	Telegraph \| Comment \| Dixon lives on
		The revival of Dixon of Dock Green as a six-part series on Radio 4, based on some of the original scripts, deserves a warm welcome.
		Britain was not used to such lawlessness, and it was part of Dixon's function, through the new, all-powerful mass medium, to reassure the public with the image of a policeman who was firmly in charge but also wise and reasoned, whose strength lay in the unshakeable probity of his heart.
		Dixon of Dock Green did not, of course, have to concern himself with ethnic diversity monitoring or whether the short-sighted might be unable to decipher the corporate logo from afar.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/05/03/dl0302.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/05/03/ixportal.html (316 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Radio revives beat for PC Dixon
		Dixon of Dock Green petered out in 1976, hopelessly out of date next to the hard-hitting cop shows of the 70s, but now, half a century since its TV launch, the series is back on air.
		Dixon's biggest concerns used to be an unlicensed dog or a spot of wear on someone's car tyres, maybe even a bank robbery.
		But on this outing, Dixon of Dock Green has a chance to be seen as a self-contained piece of crime fiction.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1507408,00.html (516 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Dixon returns to Dock Green
		Now Dixon of Dock Green is to return after 30 years in a series of six plays for Radio 4.
		The everyday tale of the community copper, PC Dixon, who delivered comforting homilies from beneath the blue lamp at the fictional Dock Green police station, became a national obsession.
		Dixon was last seen in 1976, disappearing into the night whistling his trademark tune, Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1474542,00.html (307 words)

	dixon of dock green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Dixon Of Dock Green, Jack Warner was miraculously raised from the dead to play George Dixon once more - a widower raising an only daughter Mary (Billie Whitelaw in the early episodes, later replaced by Jeannette Hutchinson).
		Dixon focused less on crime and policing and more on the family-like nature of life in the station.
		And George Dixon, a warm, paternal and frequently moralising presence, was the central focus.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /warner.htm (920 words)

	Dixon of Dock Green - Shiny Shelf
		Dixon - both the character and his series - are iconic, yes, but that iconic status has become more important than the actual content of the programme.
		Consequently few people really have an idea of what 'Dixon of Dock Green' was like as a TV series (and it ran uninterrupted until the eve of the Thatcher government, incidentally).
		Dixon himself (David Calder) seems, to modern eyes, a more ambiguous figure than he must have been intended to be at the time.
	www.shinyshelf.co.uk /article/sl/st/1023 (596 words)

	Dixon of Dock Green - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dock Green, somewhere in the East End of London, had very little serious crime and PC George Dixon, played by Jack Warner, tackled ordinary, everyday police work.
		In its heyday, Dixon Of Dock Green attracted audiences of 14 million.
		Dixon personifies more adequately than the helmet symbolises that strain of English policing whidh combines the dignity and authority of the state with the ordinariness and humanity with which it can treat even those who rebel against it.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/dixon-of-dock-green (234 words)

	Memorable Television The TV Shows (1950's) Dixon of Dock Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dixon met his death in that film at the hands of young Dirk Bogarde, however Willis revived the character for a play and then the BBC series.
		Dixon was widowed with a daughter (played initially by Billie Whitelaw and later by Jeannette Hutchinson) and the series focused more on the everyday life in the police station and petty crime rather than the hard hitting stuff other cop shows concentrated on.
		With over 300 episodes to its credit by the time the show finished in 1976 Dixon was solid family viewing, even if it had begun to seem a little dated by then what with Regan and Carter of The Sweeney bringing a new realism to TV Cops.
	www.memorabletv.com /showsaz/dixonofdockgreen.htm (284 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Dixon of Dock Green back on duty
		Jack Warner played the trusty George Dixon on TV Classic BBC TV police drama Dixon of Dock Green is to make a comeback - but this time as a series on Radio 4.
		Set in the East End of London, Dixon of Dock Green focused on the everyday routine tasks of local police, troubled mainly by low-level crime.
		Dixon was a pillar of his community, honest to the core, firm but fair.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4503793.stm (261 words)

	DIXON OF DOCK GREEN \| A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
		George Dixon was a policeman of the old school.
		By the early sixties, however, Dixon was beginning to look his age, especially when compared to the new tough realism of Z Cars.
		Dixon of Dock Green was the final representative of a moralistically paternalistic Britain, whose decline had arguably begun in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /dixon.htm (577 words)

	"Dixon of Dock Green" (1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When filler was needed after a season of _"Fabian of the Yard" (1954)_ (qv) ended 'Ted Willis' (qv) wrote six scripts with PC Dixon back in Dock Green.
		The series was steady, authentic, and even down to checking that: a) The helmet is kept on when entering a house, but b) is, out of courtesy, when addressing elderly ladies, and c) is removed and held neatly under the right arm when addressing a bishop.
		A gentle series which meant George Dixon's promotion to sergeant in 1964 was a big change, caused in part by 'Jack Warner' (qv)'s arthritis and by his age.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0047728 (404 words)

	Dixon of Dock Green - Nostalgia Central
		PC George Dixon was the first British copper to walk the beat.
		Jack Warner made sure all details were authentic - For example, a policeman was not supposed to remove his helmet when entering a house, but should take it off when asking an elderly lady about her dog license (and the helmet had to be held under the arm when addressing a bishop!).
		George Dixon was always a benevolent father figure to the local community, and in 1964 was promoted to Sergeant and became desk-bound, too old to pound the beat anymore.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/cops/dixon.htm (424 words)

	Action TV Online - Dixon Of Dock Green episode guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although Dixon was killed twenty-one minutes into the film, Willis could recognize the potential of utilizing this character in a television format, and in early 1955 he approached the BBC with a treatment for a six-part series entitled Dixon Of Dock Green.
		Jack Warner, who had played Dixon in the cinematic version, was cast in the leading role as a kindly, tea-drinking officer who pounded the fictional Dock Green beat protecting the community.
		Dixon of Dock Green was something of a rare breed of police serial, in that it portrayed for the first time the home lives of serving officers as well as the daily grind at the local "nick".
	www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/dixondock01.htm (2160 words)

	screenonline: Dixon of Dock Green (1955-76)
		Part of Dixon's mythical appeal, perhaps, was his resurrection on the small screen.
		Unlike his detective precursors, Dixon was an ordinary beat policeman whose appearance reassured, rather excited.
		But it was his everyday concerns and those of the folk around Dock Green that viewers found fascinating at a time when little was known about the workings of London's Metropolitan Police.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/473251/index.html (350 words)

	screenonline: Dixon of Dock Green (1955-76) Synopsis
		When it turns out that The Captain, prime suspect of a series of local thefts, is innocent, there is puzzlement at Dock Green police station as to the true culprit.
		Meanwhile, Dixon deals with petty crime, in particular a complaint from Maurie Weitzman, a soft-touch moneylender, who complains about a client who never pays his dues.
		Dixon decides to visit Carr at his digs, where he finds his young colleague putting on his police uniform.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/473251/synopsis.html (274 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Dixon of Dull Green plods back
		George Dixon, amiable London police constable with 30 years' experience on the Dock Green beat, is played by one of Britain's finest and most versatile actors, David Calder.
		George Dixon, on the other hand, has to be someone who really does know it all, and here, alas, my theory of unintentional comedy falls down.
		All the good intentions in the world cannot raise the Dixon of Dock Green scripts from their dusty neverland.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/21/brgillian21.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/06/21/ixartright.html (697 words)

	ninme: Misreading Morse
		Dixon of Dock Green, with his comforting working-class accent (“evenin’ awl”) and bicycle clips, is the mythical British policeman: avuncular and wise, tough on the dangerous classes, reassuring for the middle classes, and never remotely uppity towards the ruling classes.
		You wouldn’t catch Dixon of Dock Green expatiating on evolutionary theory with trendy novelists….
		You can’t talk about Dixon of Dock Green on his bicycle and then switch to the sorts of detectives that have novels written about them precisely because they’re so unusual.
	www.ninme.com /archives/2005/11/misreading_mors.html (203 words)

	Where on the web are they? \| Tivo
		Despite an unhappy ending in the film PC Dixon was yet to play an important role in the history of British Television.
		In 1955 the BBC premiered Dixon of Dock Green with Warner reprising his role as the good P.C. for more than 20 years and nearly five hundred episodes.
		Dixon of Dock Green established a genre that continues to this day in the form of such series as The Bill and virtually every British crime drama of the last 40 years owes some debt to this classic series.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_television/43801/2 (485 words)

	George Dixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Dixon (MP), MP for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1885 to 1898
		The main character of the BBC TV police series Dixon of Dock Green
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Dixon (134 words)

	Action TV Online - Dixon Of Dock Green episode guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dixon is determined to find the culprit while Andy Crawford investigates a case involving trading stamps.
		George Dixon meets Janet Armitage (Pauline Yates), daughter of the Mayor of Dock Green, John Armitage (Geoffrey Keen), at a cocktail party.
		All over Dock Green cars and lorries are littered about by the score, either lost or abandoned by their drivers.
	www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/dixondock04.htm (4324 words)

	Dixon of Dock Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The emphasis in the series, which was reassuringly cosy and quaint even in the fifties, was on small, everyday human experiences, not major-league crime and sensationalism, with Dixon a benevolent father figure to the local community.
		The brainchild of Ted Willis, Dixon still ranks as the longest running police series on British Television having notched up some 367 episodes.
		Mary, Dixon's daughter, was played originally by Billie Whitelaw.
	www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /tv/adults/dixon/dixon.htm (190 words)

	Dixon of Dock Green TV Show - Dixon of Dock Green Television Show - TV.com
		The first, and until recently [see the TV.com entry on The Bill], the longest-running, cop show on British television, Dixon of Dock Green was virtually the diametric opposite of more modern programs centered around policemen in Britain and the United States, especially since the 1970's.
		Instead of hard-nosed tough guys kicking in doors chasing after drug dealers, Dixon and his fellow bobbies were uncomplicated nice guys, more likely to sit down to tea while solving minor disputes in their...
		Tell the world what you think of Dixon of Dock Green, write a review for this show.
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		Sergeant George Dixon and son-in-law Andie Crawford seen here in action in Dock Green.
		There were two Dixon of Dock Green jigsaws based on the popular BBC TV series (every Saturday evening as I recall) this is number 1 - Dixon gets his Man.
		The box for Dixon of Dock Green number 1 is end opening and in reasonable condition for its age.
	www.dandare.info /sale/jigsaw.htm (125 words)

	The Stage \| Features \| Radio review - drama
		Calder even caught that amalgam of geniality and tetchiness with which Warner delivered his homily under the blue lamp, clips of which are regularly rerun and have passed into the consciousness of generations too young for the original.
		Being far too young myself, of course, I can’t say if Dixon’s sidekick PC Andy Crawford was as cocky as he is in David Tennant’s playing of him.
		But it gave Dixon the chance to be grumpy and slap the young pup.
	www.thestage.co.uk /features/feature.php/8240 (745 words)

	Diplomacy 2000 - Another one bites the dust 2 Week Standard Game. Adjudication (Spring 1913)
		Dixon of Dock Green is set for a very PC comeback.By Robert Skynner.
		I bet that young Sebastian who we’ve just banged up at Dock Green won’t be driving at 31 mph in a 30 mph zone again.
		After a quarter of an hour driving around Dock Green in my squad car, admiring the ‘winterval lights,’ as we don’t tolerate Christmas or permit anything Christian as it’s an example of white-male middle-class values and horrible intolerance.
	www25.brinkster.com /dmmadtankie/showadj.asp?game=dust&season=s1913 (1360 words)

	June 2005
		George Dixon is showing new boy Andy Crawford the ropes on the beat of Dock Green.
		To PC Crawford's surprise, Dixon is prepared to bend the rules in order to arrest one of a gang of safebreakers.
		PC George Dixon – star of TV's longest-running police series – returns to Dock Green for six new stories, updated for a modern audience, with David Calder in the title role.
	www.david-tennant.com /id5.html (2968 words)

	Dixon of Dock Green (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		1- 4 30 Jul 55 The Dock Green Desperado 5.
		See also: Dixon of Dock Green on radio.
		Any sales or other uses of this document are expressly forbidden, without the specific consent of the author(s).
	epguides.com /DixonofDockGreen (3330 words)

	Outpost
		When I was, oooh, very young, there was a ridiculously popular TV series in the UK called Dixon of Dock Green.
		In reality, of course, the British bobby was probably a hundred miles removed from the Sergeant Dixon stereotype even then.
		But that was the kind of character we wanted to be protected by; the sort of character we believed could and would protect us.
	www.comicavalanche.com /columns/outpost/outpost032405.htm (1117 words)

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