Some Dennis Potter, too. ‘Blue Remembered Hills’, ‘Nigel Barton’, ‘Son Of Man’. Also ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’. And ‘Shoestring’ seems weirdly modern, for all the early 80s period stuff.

Agree with all those. I’d forgotten this which still resonates today www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

GF Newman Remembers... Law and Order

Law and Order’s writer and creator GF Newman looks back on both the 1978 BBC crime drama and the controversy surrounding it.

Try watching some of the early episodes of Morse! The biggest problem with the older TV stuff is that it was shot in 4:3, whereas more recent stuff is shot in 16:9, which is essentially the same difference as watching a movie in the cinema between what was called widescreen* and cinemascope