tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post2860786599631089327..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: "There's been a murder!"Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-6452123713978886672010-10-18T11:03:39.354+01:002010-10-18T11:03:39.354+01:00Opening lyrics?
Oh! ye'll take the High Court...Opening lyrics?<br /><br /><i>Oh! ye'll take the High Court and<br />I'll take the low court,<br />And I'll be reclaimin' afore ye;<br />But me and my client<br />Will never meet again<br />In the bonnie, bonnie halls o' the Session.</i>Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-12518067000970485992010-10-18T10:40:47.552+01:002010-10-18T10:40:47.552+01:00What would the Scottish version of a courtroom-bas...What would the Scottish version of a courtroom-based soap opera be called? Why, "Take the High Court" of course!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-52087728300362233672010-10-16T11:10:06.223+01:002010-10-16T11:10:06.223+01:00Egad, how could I have left it out, Stuart!
As I ...Egad, how could I have left it out, Stuart!<br /><br />As I remember <i>Crown Court</i>, the witnesses, barristers and judge and so on were actors - but the jury were ordinary members of the public? No doubt the show contributed to the - quantitatively false - sense that the jury is at the heart of most English criminal trials. <br /><br />I also seem to recall, a few years ago now, that one of the terrestrial channels revived the genre - this time trying a rape case with a jury staffed with "celebrities" of one stripe or another, including the awful Jeffrey Archer.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-59622070128582962722010-10-15T23:20:21.348+01:002010-10-15T23:20:21.348+01:00Remember Granada's Crown Court from the 70s, w...Remember Granada's Crown Court from the 70s, which was on for about half an hour every day?!? It ran to nearly 900 episodes.<br /><br />That was entirely set in the courtroom, but I suspect it was essentially the legal equivalent of Crossroads.<br /><br />Gosh, I wonder what the Scottish equivalent would be called??<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Court_(TV_series)Stuart Wintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02772436419630464325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-39801445926913993952010-10-15T21:16:56.105+01:002010-10-15T21:16:56.105+01:00Thanks Allan,
Just an idling thought I thought I&...Thanks Allan,<br /><br />Just an idling thought I thought I'd share and see what you all make of it. Certainly, it seems to me that there is lots of potential - whether such a show was gritty, irreverent, relevant, burlesque, silly, earnest or straight. I'd just be nice to see anything offering a bit of a figuration of these things. Maybe one say, when I've a bit of time, I'll take up Bugger's suggestion and give it a go!Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-87073878382857156002010-10-15T21:13:24.375+01:002010-10-15T21:13:24.375+01:00All sage advice gratefully received, Rab!
You are...All sage advice gratefully received, Rab!<br /><br />You are probably right that without the whizzbang phantasmal alternative reality of a Boston Legal, a "straight" Scots courtroom drama risks intense sleepiness. To whit, Kavanagh QC, which in all honesty was often dreary. I'd be more tempted by a rather more off the wall interpretation, myself, a short-bread tin Scots Law alternative reality...Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-82573531692058281402010-10-15T21:09:37.847+01:002010-10-15T21:09:37.847+01:00Bugger,
I'm sure our fictional "Freedom...Bugger, <br /><br />I'm sure our fictional <i>"Freedom Come Aa Ye"</i> figure could have a fictionally devoted wife who we could call Toy Shafter - perhaps in sharp commentary on flinty West Coast political masculinities and their traditional dinosaur chauvinisms?Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-39842761807518811602010-10-15T21:03:57.785+01:002010-10-15T21:03:57.785+01:00Good post.
I had thought a couple of weeks ago th...Good post.<br /><br />I had thought a couple of weeks ago that ITV should have split their re-make of Law & Order between setting it in London & Edinburgh (or Glasgow). This would have highlighted the diferences in English/Scottish law perfectly...<br /><br />Can't think on an actor to take Sam Shepherd's role though...Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13574173214924437278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-70898445777606012542010-10-15T07:28:39.817+01:002010-10-15T07:28:39.817+01:00Hi Lallands,
I remember Sutherland's Law with...Hi Lallands,<br /><br />I remember Sutherland's Law with affection. The late Iain Cuthbertson was indeed a great actor and the series had great scripts but the action took place mostly outwith the courtroom as I remember it. I think therefore if you ever take up Bugger's suggestion of writing courtroom drama you may find it more difficult than you imagine, to make it entertaining.<br /><br />Good TV drama should leave the viewer with the impression that they have learned something from the experience and I recall vividly that it was in Sutherland's Law that I first heard (I was quite young at the time) the term "procurators fiscal" as the correct plural for procurators of a fiscal persuasion. Your own appellation for Mr. Baker of "swine pursuivant" is unusual in capable of being simultaneously either singular or plural and I would ask you therefore whether you consider him to be "a" or "The" swine pursuivant, although I think I may already know your answer.<br /><br />An element of humour is also essential in a good drama, and here I think may lie your principal difficulty. After - "Its a lie, your Honour. It wisne me. I never swore at the f***'in polis!", given in solemn testimony, has been used once, I think you may find yourself struggling for further comedy lines.<br /><br />As you note it does seem that crime dramas are more popular than courtroom dramas. They are also usually more formulaic. Who can forget at near the end of each episode, when Dickson of Dock Green's gloved hand descends on the miscreant's shoulder in the midst of the baddie committing some evil deed, the baddie uttering the lines "All right Gov'. Its a fair cop. You've caught me bang-to-rights." (Presenting his wrists to be 'cuffed.) "I'll come quiet." Uttered week after sodding week.<br /><br />Taggart's "There's been a mur-dur" is surely but a pale shadow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-12987485031817362172010-10-14T18:39:15.448+01:002010-10-14T18:39:15.448+01:00Sorry sticky M key
Tommy Shafter although Toy Sha...Sorry sticky M key<br /><br />Tommy Shafter although Toy Shafter has a certain Leggoesque resonance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-67962122851259278972010-10-14T17:24:31.221+01:002010-10-14T17:24:31.221+01:00The central character Toy Shafter, a larger than l...The central character Toy Shafter, a larger than life left wing politician, a man of the people a modern day John McLean ------Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-66006279508381823642010-10-14T17:21:50.600+01:002010-10-14T17:21:50.600+01:00All names have been changed to protect the innocen...All names have been changed to protect the innocent and no animals were harmed during the production of this TV series.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-38750208640778107252010-10-14T16:31:32.302+01:002010-10-14T16:31:32.302+01:00A gauntlet across the gob! You make a fair point, ...A gauntlet across the gob! You make a fair point, Bugger. Its all very well sitting soorly in a dark corner, griping away. Could always set the opening episode in the criminal trial of a leftwing Scottish political firebrand accused of some yet to be decided but reputation-wrecking offence... All inspiration purely fictional, you understand.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-1751209940731931532010-10-14T14:07:38.132+01:002010-10-14T14:07:38.132+01:00Why don't you pen just such a pilot, get yours...Why don't you pen just such a pilot, get yourself and agent and see if it could fly? <br /><br />Alternatively, a joint novella or two with aid of a penny dreadfull scribbler might boost your anonymous Swiss account and lay open the bids for the TV and big fillum rights? <br /><br />Scaredy Cat?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com