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
The Rani (Doctor Who) experiment, grew to enormous size and ate the President's pet cat, and according to The Master, "took a chunk out of him too". She is established as being the same age as the Doctor. The Rani was, like the Master, intended as a recurring foe of the Doctor, but only appeared in two serials, "The Mark of the Rani" (1985) and "Time and the Rani" (1987), before "Doctor Who" went off the air in 1989. The Rani also appeared as the principal villain in "Dimensions in Time", a 1993 "Doctor Who" charity special created for Children in Need. She was