The Blue Lamp and then to White City Stadium. Most of the chase is a logical following of Riley's car apart from when the car goes from Hythe Road NW10 into Sterne Street – Hythe Road in 1949 was a dead end. "The Blue Lamp" premiered on 20 January 1950 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, and the reviewer for "The Times" found the depiction of the police work very plausible and realistic, and praised the performances of Dirk Bogarde and Peggy Evans, but found Jack Warner's and Jimmy Hanley's two policemen portrayed in a too traditional way: ""There is an indefinable
The Blue Lamp actors were carried over into the TV series "Dixon of Dock Green", including the resurrected Dixon, still played by Warner. The series ran on BBC One for twenty-one years from 1955 to 1976, with Warner being over eighty by the time of its conclusion. In 1988, Arthur Ellis's satirical BBC Two play "The Black and Blue Lamp" had the film characters of Riley (Sean Chapman) PC "Taffy" Hughes (Karl Johnson) transported forwards in time into an episode of "The Filth", a gritty contemporary police television series, replacing their modern-day counterparts. "" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill has one panel