It’s been a long time since I’ve seen The Detectives. I may not have even seen it since it was first broadcast.
The sitcom began life as a run of sketches on Canned Carrott.
It ran for five series between 1993 and 1997, and was written by Mike Whitehill and Steve Knight. Unusually for the time, it was shot entirely on film.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
