The Blue Lamp The Blue Lamp The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as veteran PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell, and Dirk Bogarde as hardened criminal Tom Riley. The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hung outside British police stations (and often still do). The film became the inspiration for the 1955–1976 TV series "Dixon of Dock Green", where Jack Warner continued to play PC Dixon until he was 80 years old (even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film). The screenplay was written
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? puts an LP record on a turntable and the song plays as Mark Rylance's character, Johnny Byron, dances with her and is then brutally beaten by the girl's stepfather and his brothers. The version used is the live recording from BBC Radio "Sounds of the Seventies", recorded September 11, 1973. The song was played in the BBC's "Inspector George Gently" episode "The Lost Child" set in 1968. In 2018 the Nina Simone cover version was used at the end of episode 3 of "Save Me" a Sky Television programme. Who Knows Where the Time Goes? "Who Knows Where the Time