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
Dixon of Dock Green includes the following special features:- In 2005, the series was revived for BBC Radio, adapted by Sue Rodwell, with David Calder as George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford, and Charlie Brooks as Mary Dixon: A second series followed in 2006, with Hamish Clark replacing Tennant owing to the latter's "Doctor Who" recording commitments: "The Black and Blue Lamp" by Arthur Ellis was screened in the BBC2 "Screenplay" series of drama plays on 7 September 1988. In the play – which begins with a montage of key scenes from "The Blue Lamp" – Tom Riley (Sean Chapman) and PC Hughes