Whicker's World. Living with Uncle Sam. Colorado and California
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- Whicker's World. Living with Uncle Sam. "I thought I'd put myself up for sheriff" Colorado and California. Filmed for BBC Bristol in 1984 in the USA and looking at Brits who have settled there. I was the Sound Recordist on most of the shoots.
Sadly, Kenneth Crutchlow died in 2016 aged 71. His passion for rowing, London Cabs and everything British is brought back to life in the last clip of this 'masterpiece' of Whicker's World.
That's really sad. It seemed to me he was due a break - I hope he got a few after this programme.
David Harvey returned to the UK after ten years in the States. He rejoined the Met and on a trip to France in 1992 he was hit by a car and it left him a paraplegic. He died in 2004
Really enjoyed this video. As someone who’s lived in the UK, America and for the last 14 years, Australia, I really identified with the subjects of this film.
Oh how we miss AW. Thank you for uploading this Keith.
Cannot thank you enough for uploading what I think was maybe my favourite of all the Whicker series. Thanks also for your part in such great production.
Definitely the best, and ably assisted by that phenomenal music, Newsweek, by Graham De Wilde.
This is amazing, I'm sitting in China, surfing YT for something to watch and I came by this quite by accident and realised I served with David Harvey the former mounted police officer in Hyde Park in 1980 - I was the station officer during the embassy seige and although we didn't mix much with the mounted guys, we shared the same car park and the same canteen, I remember him - it was 42 years ago this month. Another friend of his and mine would be Paul Tasker, also mounted branch at Hyde Park during the same period
That's incredible - Dave was my dad, and I remember the tack room in Fulham in the late 70s. It's strange to be watching this now; it feels almost yesterday but also 40 years ago ...
Wow! Is Dave still living?
@@Jefferson1969-u4s he died in 2004 after a long illness - he was living in Scotland by then. It's amazing to 'meet' people who worked with him!
It is such a short life. Interesting how he returned to Scotland. I am also an immigrant (from England) to Australia. I have been here 14 years. I doubt I shall return to England as the place is fucked.
Did your dad tell you why he moved out to the States? It was odd how Mr. Whicker never asked him why he moved there, when he more or less asked that of most other interviewees....
The segment interviewing the LA cop was fascinating.
I thought that. The crazy thing is he was from East London and the place is pretty much now exactly how he describes LA. We have guns, drugs and murders on a regular basis so I dread to think how much worse LA is now.
Thank you Mr. R for the films.
Absolutely superb thanks for the upload
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Great theme music 👍
Whicker the wind and snow drifts, in a nice jacket.
Always such a dapper man, in a very expensive houndstooth jacket. As you may know, the air is so much drier there that freezing really doesn't feel like freezing.
@@xenu-dark-tony even so...
currently below zero here with wind and fog.... help, even Whicker may have had to don a stylish Parka .
@petrichor649 I suspect he was well aware that things could get a tad cool in Colorado, so he probably put on Marks & Spencer thermals before going out to the wilderness like that. He was a really old school gentleman who would have only put his sports jacket on during 'takes', and otherwise probably had a proper American coat and fur hat keeping warm in the car.
I recall working outside in NY when it was insanely cold, such that we were working outside the running truck for 10 mins, then warming back up for 10 alternately all day. We were bending and installing aluminium soffits and facia. I know my c/f equivalents from 0c to 100c as that is about the British range, but this must have been 6 or 7f. Thank goodness it was in a country with cheap fuel prices or we'd have spent more on petrol than the job was worth to the boss.
'Do you have any notches on your truncheon'? OOoo errr Alan...
Fantastic i remember this have any of the others?
I recall watching this in 1985 aged 17. I went to California in 1978 aged 10 and always wanted to go back. This series was fab.
I wonder where those guys are now.
Funny how Mr. Whicker never asked the Colorado cowboy why he went there…
Yes, as a patriotic Englishman it seems like a strange move. You don't just wander off to Colorado and get a cowboy job, it takes some planning and prior knowledge of that place and that job. Also interesting how he wouldn't join a union but leans very left.
@jupitersailing wouldn't join a union? Wonder how he got into the Metropolitan Police then. The closed shop was very strong here at the time, particularly in public services. Incidentally, he's not the only left of centre type who has an aversion to unions...
I would love to know what happened to the Cop. The crazy thing is if he lived as a Cop in East London nowadays he would hear the words " shots fired"
That LAPD officer is brave
Lol at the cowboy town, Fairplay CO. aka South Park.
Is the Tazer still on the roof of the cop car ??? Best not to leave weapons on the roofs of cars ...
Things got worse after Ronald Reagan' s Reagonomics.
Just go down a one way street the WRONG WAY!
Typical black cab driver; do as they please.
You mean typical Uber driver.