In
one episode of Heartbeat, the plot involved a child murderer grown up
but rediscovered and hounded by the press - to death in fact. Heavy! But who
cares about the plot when there are more important things to worry about...In
one episode of Heartbeat, the plot involved a child murderer grown up
but rediscovered and hounded by the press - to death in fact. Heavy! But who
cares about the plot when there are more important things to worry about...
The thing is, the character in the middle of it all wore a navy blue raincoat which looked as if it might be … double-texture rubberised cotton.
I don't think it was, actually.
| Dannimac writes: : "Here was a good double-breasted, raglan sleeve mack, tightly belted. Accurate to the period too." And he thinks it was double-textured. |
I think they tried hard to make it look like rubberised cotton, but you could tell. I don't think they realize you can get this material for real. Their researchers tell them there was lots of it about at the time the Heartbeat stories are set - the sixties actually - but they don't realize they could get the real thing!
There are always policemen in Heartbeat - it's a police drama really of a lovely low key kind (escaping goats, that kind of thing. Child murderers are not the usual fare!) - and they wear topcoats that ought to be proper rubberised cotton but aren't. There's a policeman at the centre of the thing called Bradley (?) and he is always wearing one - he looks lovely anyway, but even lovelier when he is wearing his mac (and police motorcycling boots), and it really does look mackintoshy, but it's not the real thing.
But full marks for trying! I'm told they once made Bradley's wife wear a real riding mac, and that must have been terrif - but haven't got any pics : (
And the short skirted navy blue mac that the heroine wore in THAT episode - belt always done up nice and tight, sharp lapels, hem three inches above the tops of her boots, drape a good double-texture lookalike, you can't deny - was a real thrill.
Eli
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