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Re: Did you see heartbeat

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Subject: Re: Did you see heartbeat
From: "Jane Burdekin" <burdekij@bvsd.k12.co.us>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:51:39 -0700
I have never seen it, probably only on British TV.  Sounds like a fun show
tho.  I hardly ever see old cars on TV unless I am watching the old movie
channel and then it's usually American cars. 

Jane 
'67 GT6

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>  Are our American friends familiar with 'Heartbeat'? If you aren't it's
> a 'nice' show set in 1960's Remote Yorkshire. It's centred around a
> police station and the coppers that work there. They only ever have to
> deal with 'nice' crime that doesn't really involve anyone getting more
> than a 'Elstree biff' on the nose.:-) Anyway the real reason we watch it
> is for the old cars that are used in it. The barmaids got an isetta
> bubble car, the coppers use Anglias and one has a triumph motorbike.
> Imagine my excitement when I saw that the focus characters this week had
> a 948 herald! Imagine my dispointment when it transpires (in a daytime
> scene) that the herald is 'salmon pink' and it's owners are a 'pair of
> nice boys' who are opening up a restaraunt!:-) Later on i nearly cried
> as the Herald was driven roughly across a ploughed field towards a
> cliff......
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>    Johnny '70 Viterald not capable of being driven over smooth
> tarmac....:-(

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