Watched it too -- great
Might be looking through rose tinted specs -- but it was a happier time ( even with the Faulklands). Life was less ... complicated. You just got on with it without all this PC crap 
And those SDIs weren't so much a body prone to rust, as a rust heap with a bit of car thrown in -- but I loved them too -- eventually, after getting over the loss of the P6 !!!!
Yes that may be very true, but in terms of the subject of this series; the police, it was just prior to PACE of 1984. In modern times it has been unfortunately proved that in all too many cases the wrong person was imprisoned for somebody elses crime. This was due, no doubt, to the police practices at that time of "we will get
somebody for this", and if the evidence seemed to fit........

It may have gone all too much the other way now in the PC culture, but I would never believe it was right for a "fit up" to take place

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