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
Utopia (Doctor Who) "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith". He also had a small role in "Torchwood" story "Exit Wounds" and played the lead villain Corakinus in "Class". John Bell was a nine-year-old who won a "Blue Peter" competition to appear in this episode. Music originally composed for "Torchwood" can be heard in the background of this episode: a variation of the "Torchwood" theme plays when Jack runs towards the TARDIS and a motif plays when Jack lies dead, having ridden on the TARDIS through the Vortex. The drumming motif is suggestive of the fifth and subsequent bars of the "Doctor Who" theme