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Re: Did you see heartbeat

To: "Jane Burdekin" <burdekij@bvsd.k12.co.us>, "triumph list" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Did you see heartbeat
From: Mark Milotay <mark.milotay@onthemark.bc.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 08:46:30 -0800
It runs on PBS here in NA.

At 04:51 AM 16/02/1999 -0700, Jane Burdekin wrote:
>
>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
>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  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......
>> 
>> 
>>    Johnny '70 Viterald not capable of being driven over smooth
>> tarmac....:-(
>


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