Juliet bravo

[beccabear67]

We've been watching this one, one episode per night, and up to the first few for series 3 right now. There were a couple of remarkably strange episodes that were hilarious (to me at least)... one had a bonkers family where the little girl steals laundry for a lodger and the father is totally mental about having to marry his sister-in-law because his wife went off him. The other nutty one had a guy named Crasho who ultimately does himself in crashing into a wall and there were a couple other panto type characters besides him.

I like the semi-disco theme music too.

Did they have a lot of particularly small cars in Lancashire in the early '80s? Every other vehicle looks like a mini or even a toy including the police cars (not at all like the ones shown in each opening).

[George 1978]

How many people used to assume that the name of the protagonist in the series was literally called Juliet Bravo? I know that some people used to. The very first episode was transmitted on my birthday back in 1980.

The interesting thing was that Juliet Bravo had a bigger profile as a TV series than The Gentle Touch did, probably because it was a BBC series, but just like Z Cars, the series was set in the north west. Even though both series were launched in 1980 and featured female police officers in the title role, although Gentle had a four month start over Bravo in that year.

[beccabear67]

How many people used to assume that the name of the protagonist in the series was literally called Juliet Bravo? I know that some people used to. The very first episode was transmitted on my birthday back in 1980.

The interesting thing was that Juliet Bravo had a bigger profile as a TV series than The Gentle Touch did, probably because it was a BBC series, but just like Z Cars, the series was set in the north west. Even though both series were launched in 1980 and featured female police officers in the title role, although Gentle had a four month start over Bravo in that year.

Hello George!

We tried The Gentle Touch but gave up on it only a few episodes in, too melodramatic and sensationalistic. I think it also lacked the two sergeants (Joe and George) which Juliet Bravo had...their commentary at times adds a lighter touch, ironically lacking in the 'Gentle' series. Now at mid series 5 and going to go the full distance to series 6.

[George 1978]

There's a clip on YouTube where LWT has had technical problems during the evening, and the first minute of so of The Gentle Touch has the end of that evening's Play Your Cards Right and Bruce Forsyth talking anout a contestant's safari suit! Same ITV company for both programmes, but it looked so surreal!

Wasn't Juliet Bravo more or less filmed and set in the same neck-of-the-woods where Casualty was made a few years later - Bristol-ish?

[beccabear67]

I found this online:
"Studio scenes for the first two series were recorded at BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane in London. From the third series onward, studio scenes were recorded at the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. Exterior scenes were filmed in the Lancashire towns of Colne, Bacup, Accrington, Nelson, Burnley, Blackburn, Simonstone and Read. Other locations around east Lancashire, West Yorkshire such as Todmorden and the Black Country (Tipton and Dudley) were also used. The exterior of Hartley Police Station seen throughout the entire series run was in fact the real-life police station on Bank Street in the town of Bacup."