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Posted By Ian Bennett
Could anyone tell me where the BBC get their all encompassing Hi Viz jackets from.
On last nights Silent Witness the investigating officers went in to a known toxic environment wearing only overalls and Hi viz jackets no RPE. If the secret gets out where to buy these two items it would put most of us out of a job.
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
Have you also noticed that SOCOs and Forensics on this and other programmes always wear dust suits, masks,and overshoes (presumably to avoid contaminating evidence) but never put the hoods up on the suits or the masks on their faces? I suppose if they wore the right gear properly you wouldn't be able to tell which one was meant to be the "famous" actor.
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Posted By Ian Bennett
It really is a shame the details in period dramas are so meticulous in their preparation but something in the modern era has flaws. Or is it only historians see flaws in period dramas. They all have "poetic licence".
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Posted By John Allen
The one that annoys me is period dramas set before WW2 where the characters get on and off trains made up of ex BR Mk1 coaches (1950s) and hauled by a post war steam engine. If the producers have gone to the trouble of going to a heritage railway location they could at least have asked the operators to provide correct period stock.
Also according to films and TV every Allied tank that served in WW2 was in fact a post war Sherman.
No doubt I’ll be accused of trainspotting. It does make you think however that if they are getting the bits you know about wrong, how much are they getting wrong in the areas that you are not knowledgeable?
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Posted By Hilary Charlton
Have you noticed, however, that on CSI they wear no protective overalls whatsoever thereby managing to contaminate every crime scene they enter. Added to this, they are all experts in every aspect of Forensic Science. Being married for the last 16 years to a forensic scientist I can assure you that people like this simply don't exist.
I guess the real life of a forensic scientist doesn't make for such good viewing though so we have to allow a little poetic license in all things.
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
Has anyone ever seen a data sheet for the contents of the Gunge Tank or the Flan mix used by the Phantom Flan Flinger of Tiswas fame?
And is it just me but did some of that stuff on the Generation Game look a wee bit dangerous?
Showing my age again!
Gilly
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Posted By John Webster
Oh come on, folks. We all know these programmes come under the broad category of entertainment. Superman doesn't exist either (sorry to burst that bubble), the walls in motels don't really move (I hope) and I don't think there were jet aircraft in the days of Butch & Sundance.
I'm sure the scriptwriters never intended us to get our entertainment in the varied ways some of us do, but, hell, if looking for bloopers is more entertaining than the show then why not? They even manage to make other shows out of the clips.
If all shows depicted real people in real jobs doing real things, the tedium would be more unbearable than Big Brother.
I would be more worried if these "errors" were a regular feature of serious documentaries.
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Posted By Terry Smyth
What about the guy driving the chariot in Ben Hur wearing a wrist watch?
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Posted By Paul Costelloe
There is a scene in Ben Hur apparently with a red car in the background !
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Posted By David Brede
Nice to see that you have a fair few respondents who agree with your pick on an unsafe bit in an episode of Silent Witness when I got pulled apart when cribbing about a TV advert on this forum.
I am going to miss by dose of Amanda Burton now she has left the series though.
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
Looks like someone found another use for magic PPE. Apparently if you wear it in The Palace of Westminster it renders you totally invisible to security and provides a much cheaper route to getting into the Commons than standing for election.
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