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This is an attempt to list rainwear interest items on tv etc. Film has its own extensive listing. [Oh! Lots of confusion between these two categories, sorry. I am moving towards amalgamating film and tv/video listings...] References in fiction are separately listed here. Please e-mail me with additions and corrections. Many thanks to those who are already contributing. New or substantially revised entries have an orange panel. |
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tv drama, BBC, early/mid 70s |
At least two plays featuring a brave and plucky boarding school girl. In the first she was a new girl; she had to help rescue a schoolboy who had been kidnapped by a gang which included a villainous teacher at her school. The uniform mackintoshes were dark blue with much lighter blue lining, and they had a hood. To aid the boy's escape he is disguised in one of the girl's mackintoshes, and the "good" teacher, who helps our heroine, tells him to put up his hood and tie it tightly to assist the disguise. Oh how I envied him. In the second play, in which our heroine is now a prefect, the author appears as a character - I think a sort of friend or benefactor of the school - who in the first episode does an impromptu bit of acting, to entertain a group of the girls, involving a death scene. He asks the girls to throw their mackintoshes over him as he "dies". I have been assured - by someone with inside knowledge - that the school raincoats provided by Costumes were indeed authentic macs, made of single-texture rubberised fabrics. |
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| tv drama series, ?Partners in Crime, BBC | A drama series of some years ago revolves around two young Agatha Christie characters, called Tommy and "Tuppence" Beresford, who help out British Inteligence in WW1, and then go on to investigate crimes. In one episode Tommy returns home and removes, with much rustling, a soaking wet (on the outside only, of course!!) mackintosh. (Crinckly-Mac) |
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| Lili Palmer, Film autobiography |
In an autobiography of the film star Lili Palmer there is a reference to a mackintosh, and, if I recall correctly, a lovely photo. Lili Palmer tells of her start in film acting, and how she and a friend went for auditons - if I recall correctly this was in pre-WW2 Germany. Between them they only one really good quality, smart and stylish garment - you've guessed it - a rubberised mackintosh, in, I think, pale green. They agreed they would both wear it over their rather shabby ordinary clothes, for their face-to-face interviews , and do a quick handover between them! (Crinckly-Mac) |
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| Horse racing coverage, uk tv |
Channel 4 coverage from time to time have a lady presenter interview the winning jockey as s/he returns to the parade ring. They include Alice Plunkett, Leslie Graham and Emma Spencer. If it is raining they can occasionally be seen in what one is tempted to think of as rubberised raincoats. For example, this year - 2012 - on the coverage of the 2000 Guineas at a wet Newmarket, I am sure Emma Spencer, was wearing a stylish light pink genuinely rubberised mackintosh. (Crinkly-Mack) |
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| uk tv drama series, Foyle's War |
In one episode of "Foyle's War", his driver, Sam, volunteers to help out some Land Army girls on a local farm, partly in response to a challenge from one of them, and partly, if I recall it rightly, because Foyle suspects "foul play" on the farm, and wants her to keep watch. One of the girls is seen several times wearing what is clearly a rubber mackintosh. The episode was in one of the later series, and called, I think, "Digging for Victory" after the wartime slogan. (Crinkly-Mack) |
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| Robert Herrick's Hesperides - 'Upon Julia's Clothes' (1648) | Julia is not wearing a mackintosh, but Herrick finds something like mackintosh pleasure in seeing her move...(H) |
| The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, English Translation by W. Conyngham Mallory, available on-line courtesy philosophy eserver. First Published 1782. |
Absolutely no reference to rainwear here, but a fascinating 'confession' and one which perhaps throws reflected light on the one of the best secrets in the world? (H) "As Miss Lambercier felt a mother's affection, she sometimes exerted a mother's authority, even to inflicting on us, when we deserved it, the punishment of infants. She had often threatened it, and this threat of a treatment entirely new, appeared to me extremely dreadful; but I found the reality much less terrible than the idea, and what is still more unaccountable, this punishment increased my affection for the person who had inflicted it. All this affection, aided by my natural mildness, was scarcely sufficient to prevent my seeking, by fresh offenses, a return of the same chastisement; for a degree of sensuality had mingled with the smart and shame, which left more desire than fear of a repetition." [more] |
| References in 19th Century Fiction | |
| The Clayhanger trilogy, novels by Arnold Bennett, 1910 - 1915 |
In Clayhanger (1910), the first of the trilogy, Hilda Lessways braves a wet chill night to call on Edwin, and he finds her mackintosh, its 'harshness' contrasting with her 'fragility', a thing of surprising charm : "At six o'clock ... In the second, Hilda Lessways (1911), Bennett writes eloquently of rain and the play it makes of light on the pavement: "In the end ... For extracts thanks to Penelope. |
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Extremely popular with British Forces during World War II, Jane was drawn by Norman Pett and the stories written by Don Freeman. Mike Hubbard took over the artwork in 1948, when Pett left the Daily Mirror. Pett originally used his wife as a model but in 1939 he hired Christabel Drewery, who married an RAF pilot named Arthur Leighton-Porter. During the War Years, the strip became more saucy, with Jane sometimes shedding even her undies. Interestingly, from time to time, Jane was pictured in rainwear, suggesting that Pett appreciated the sexual allure of macs. (Domino) |
e-text courtesy The University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection (Pic Orwell's Passport Photo, courtesy MI5) |
Chapter 7, Page 271"I fumbled with the key, got the door open, and the familiar smell of old mackintoshes hit me." Chapter 7, Page 273"I followed her indoors, into the smell of mackintoshes." Chapter 7, Page 278"Nothing remained except a vulgar low-down row in a smell of old mackintoshes." (EMILEY) |
Margaret's Story by Dorothy Russell in
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This story has bathing caps recognised as rainwear. (H) |
| The Fool Hath Said,
by Beverley Nichols, 1936 |
"The manufacturers of mackintoshes, I felt, must all be in a wild state of sexual complexity..." (Robin) |
| Dylan Thomas, poet, 1914- 1953 | In 'Dylan Thomas in America' (1957 edition page
62) John Malcolm Brinnin wrote: "Up to this time, all I knew of Dylan's
sexual interests were his continual, and now rather tiresome, references
to 'naked girls in wet mackintoshes " I am sure somewhere it has also been written that Dylan would lie in a bath wearing a mackintosh, but I am not able to verify this yet. Robin |
| John Wyndham's Short stories, 1954, 56 | Apart from his novels such as "The day
of the Triffids" and others, John Wyndham wrote short stories which
were collected into anthologies. In "The seeds of Time", (first published 1956), there is a story called "Pawleys peepholes", some of which takes part in the rain. ".... It was overcast when we went in; when we came out it was raining hard. Seeing that there was less than a mile to her place, and all the taxis in the town were apparently busy, we decided to walk it. Sally pulled on the hood of her mackintosh, put her arm through mine,
and we set out through the rain." "... Sally didn't move. With the rain shining on her mackintosh,
she looked like a black statue. When she turned so that I could see
her face under the hood, it had an expression I had never seen before. In Jizzle (first published 1954) there is a story |
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The cover of this LP features Jeri Southern wearing a grey trench-coat. This Nebraska born singer's first US hit was "You Better Go Now" in 1952. In that same year, she out-sold Doris Day in the UK with "When I fall in Love", before the UK Charts began. She had another UK hit in 1957 with "Fire Down Below". (Domino) |
| Age tendre et tete de bois, a french tv transmission of the 60s | For the young people a little bit like"Oh Boy" and later "Ready Steady Go" in England. The very first one, transmitted in 1961, opened with a group of young boys and girls in the streets of Paris. One of the girls was wearing a shiny "ciré noir" with a belt. She was a "brunette", attractive, with short hair. She was still wearing it when the group went into a cafe to have a drink. The commentary explained that here was a typical picture of French youth at the time. (André) |
| Book: The Love Investigator, Ernest Gebler, Pan Books, 1961 | From Chapter 7: "Anything special you'd like me to wear in bed?" she whispered. "Just your beautiful English accent." "I thought you might like vests or something" "You mean woolly vests? Terrible." "Some people feel more if they wear a vest or something, you know. Wake up - how would you like me to be? I want it to be perfectly sweet and beautiful for you. Will I go to bed in a raincoat or rubber boots or nothing at all?" She giggled self-consciously. "Gosh, I know - sure, sure. Talc powder - the kind they use on kids - that lovely smell..." "I haven't any baby powder," she said. "I have perfumed French talc." "You make me feel humble," he said. (James) |
ITV series (ITC), aired 1962-1969 |
Roger Moore starred as Simon Templar. (Domino) |
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In the first series (made in b/w) there was an episode called "The Never Never Affair" which guest-starred Barbara Feldon (who will be remembered as 'Agent 99' in the "Get Smart" series) and Cesar Romero. Barbara played Mandy, one of the many female assistants who littered the corridors of U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters and made it impossible for Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) to walk in a straight line. (In this first series, they were not wearing mini-skirts.) She has set her heart on becoming a field agent and to pacify her, Napoleon gives her a harmless task, telling her it is a special mission. However, through a misunderstanding, she is given a micro-dot to deliver, which puts her in real danger. For about a third of the episode, Barbara wears a white trench-coat, tightly belted. She fills it to perfection. (Dave D) Slideshow thanks to Johan In The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affairagent "Andy Francis" wears a marine blue trenchcoat (well, it comes close to a trenchcoat) in which she looks absolutely delicious (with only a bikini underneath). (Johan) |
| Book: What's Wrong with Martin F? (Translated from the Danish, Fern fra Danmark), Leif Panduro, Holland, 1963-4. | It is about a man, called Martin Fern, who has amnesia, and is in a psychiatric hospital. Throughout his recovery' he finds out he is responding quite strongly to women and wants to have sex with them. There's one scene in the book that really turned me on. He is meeting one of the nurses in the garden of the institution, when it is raining. She has on a transparent plastic rainmac and responds with some reluctance to his interest. |
The Champions, UK tv series, 1968-69 |
From "The Champions" around 1970 featuring Alex Bastedo as "Sharron McCready". (BJ) |
Get Smart, US tv comedy series, 1965-70 |
Barbara Feldon played a female spy "Agent 99", one of main characters in this American comedy TV-series, filmed in 60's, a parody of the "spy movies". Five seasons, a wardrobe full of macs.(Artem) |
Seule À Paris, a French tv series
from 1965, showing in ORTF from October 1965, in Belgium television from
February 1971 |
Starring Sophie Agacinsky who is now the sister-in-law of former Prime
Minister of France Lionel Jospin, born in 1943, and wife of French comedian
Jean Marc Thibaut. It told the story of a young girl from Clermond Ferand,
a little bit naive, who comes to Paris to make a carreer as stylist in
the fashion world . She had a lot of adventures. Throughout nearly all
the series Sophie was wearing a white trench coat even in the inside scenes.
She wore a belt at first, but then seemed to lose it. (André) |
Rainwear interest in variety. Nomination by Pete, RM and Domino |
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast,
Julie London,
US Liberty LP 1967 |
The cover of this LP has sultry Julie on a bed in her trench-coat. Couldn't you just cry a river over her? Never mind nice - she's staying for breakfast! (Domino) |
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Evocative sixties fashions throughout this almost forgotten
series, the best rainwear though the
timeless riding mac worn in Episode 2 (Racist) by Jane
Merrow - her belt drawn extraordinarily tight for that particular decade.
Strange Report is now available eg from Amazon. (H, but thanks for the nomination to SL.) |
| Take Three Girls, Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady (writers) tv drama series, 1969-71, UK |
Liza Godard wears a Valstar Gangster most of the time. (KR) |
Paul Temple,
BBC TV series (co-produced with Taurus Film GmbH for [West] German TV) Aired in UK, 1969-1971, UK |
The Paul Temple serials, written by Francis Durbridge, had been a regular feature on BBC Radio from 1938. Paul was a successful crime novelist, who liked to play the amateur detective. Somewhat implausibly, Scotland Yard often sought his assistance in solving crimes. In one of the earliest serials, Paul met a Fleet Street journalist named Louise Harvey, who used the nom-de-plume 'Steve Trent'. Thus she was always known as 'Steve'. He subsequently married her. From 1952, Durbridge also wrote many serials for BBC TV (initially for the 'Saturday Serial' slot) beginning with "The Broken Horseshoe" and "Operation Diplomat", the hero of which was Mark Fenton, a surgeon (played by John Robinson). When it was decided to transfer Paul Temple to television, the BBC decided to make a series rather than a serial, and various writers were commissioned to write the episodes. Durbridge did not write any. Francis Matthews played Paul and Ros Drinkwater played 'Steve'. Both were extremely good. Sadly, one cannot say that about the scripts, the majority of which were very disappointing (a view shared by the stars). Despite this, the series was very popular, more so in Germany than in the UK. It ran for four seasons. There are conflicting reports as to how many episodes were made, ranging from 26 to 64, but the true number was 52. Taurus wanted to make more, but the BBC axed it. (Huw Wheldon, who was then the Managing Director of Television, thought it was not the kind of programme the BBC should be making.) Only 11 colour episodes from Seasons 2-4 survived in the BBC archives plus a further 5 (in black and white form only) which were retrieved from New Zealand. The whole series appears to have survived in Germany, but possibly only as dubbed into German. The 11 have been released on DVD. There is just one of these, "The Quick and the Dead", in which 'Steve' wears a pale blue calf-length raincoat in an all too brief scene. (Incidentally, it has wrongly been reported on several websites that Ros was the sister of Carol Drinkwater, best remembered as Helen Herriot in "All Creatures Great and Small". I have contacted Ros in Ireland and she confirms they are not related at all.) (Domino) |
| Danny Thomas in Make Room for Grandaddy, UK tv series, 1970. | With Danny Thomas, Marjorie Lord, Angela Cartwright, Rusty Hamer, Sherry Jackson, and Hans Conreid.
One of Danny's tv daughters wore a plastic mac. (Leon)
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| The Lotus Eaters, Directed by Douglas Camfield Cyril Coke, UK tv series, 1972-3 |
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Man
About The House, UK tv series, 1973-1976, ITV (Thames), directed
by Peter Frazer-Jones. Pic above and right, second series, episode 1. Two pics below, another episode, c. 1972. |
Paula Wilcox wears the red red 'Gangster' mac in the 1970's sitcom (BeeJay) Yootha Joyce wears a long shiny dark blue PVC raincoat, which can partially be seen in the more recent pictures of this programme. (Rainy Brian) |
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The Sweeney, ITV tv series, 1975 |
From Series 2 Episode 2 - Faces Directed by William Brayne Military mackintosh worn by Major Carver, played by Jeffrey Wickham First aired 8th September 1975
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Enemy
at the Door, Directed by Jonathan
AlwynBill Bain, UK tv series, 1978-80 |
The image that graced the front of the TV Times announcing the 70's series "Enemy at the Door" based on the German occupation of the Channel Islands. This young lady - Emily Richards - wore her beige rubberised mackintosh in around a third of all episodes. One of the earliest Philips video recorders allowed me to appreciate each appearance more than once but sadly would not allow its transfer to the later VHS system. (RM) Two series of Enemy at the Door. About the second series: Emily appears (and wears her mac) I think in the first three episodes before her character has to be hospitalised. (LE) |
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The British television sci-fi series features an episode (1974) where the previous Doctor Who 3 (John Pertwee) metamorphosizes into Doctor 4 (Tom Baker). Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) his sidekick wears a yellow vinyl slicker and rain pants..... For no apparent reason! (Evad) In the Pertwee era, Katy Manning wears a Gangsters-style double textured mac in the first few scenes. Within about 5 minutes, after an alien plant sprays some vile-looking liquid on the coat, it is disguarded, never to be seen again. Video clip of relevant episode - thanks Brian and YouTube. In another Dr Who episode, Wendy Padbury wears a similar mac, but not in a 'Gangster'.(BM) Yes, in Doctor Who 'THE WAR GAMES' which is a ten episode story shown in April - May 1969, Wendy Padbury as Zoe wears a Riding Mac in almost all her scenes. Sometimes belted, sometimes open, it is in constant use through a four hour story. More pictures ...(P.M.) Brian explains that more pictures of Wendy Padbury (Zoe in the Dr Who serial "The War Games" - according to Dr Who experts one of the best) in her riding mac are here; also that the video is still available - one of the best Dr Who stories, says Brian, according to Whoies. |
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Demoiselle d'Avignon, Michel Wyn, France, 1972 |
A story of frustrated love between François (Louis Velle), a french diplomat, and Koba (Marthe Keller), a kurlandish princess. She goes to France, incognito, to work au pair and meet François. In many scenes, Marthe Keller wears a nice beige trench-coat. She wears it sometimes full buttoned up, often collar turned up, but unfortunately, never both. (Bernard) |
Dr
Who, TV series, BBC, 1972 |
Dr Who's assistant in the early 1970's was Jo Grant, played by Katie Manning. She assisted from the beginning of Terror of the Autons (1971) through the end of The Green Death (1973) and her power to transcend time fortunately failed to render her immune from the fashionable double-texture rainwear of the period. Thanks to Brian. |
| Angie Dickinson stars - often in her trenchcoat,
which she wears in just the way that I like beautiful women like her to
wear their trenchcoats: buttoned, the collar open, and the belt buckled
tightly... (Michael Reiter) |
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Fawlty
Towers, "A Touch of Class", episode from the tv
sitcom, BBC, 1975 |
In an episode about a conman called "Lord Melbury",
the maid , played by Connie Booth, wears a double textured mackintosh.
She wears her mac to go down town. (You see her first in the hotel and
then in town wearing it.) It is a rubberised double-textured mac, fashionable
in the 70s. (Pete) |
| Open All Hours, BBC TV Series, 1976-85 | Starring Ronnie Barker & David Jason, Open All Hours included 7 episodes between 1981-82 in which actress Maggie Ollerenshaw ("Mavis") always wore a dark-coloured Dannimac wet-look PVC double-breasted belted raincoat (always worn undone) in her scenes. The mac dates from around 1970-71.
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Wonder Woman TV series. Mind Stealers from Outer Space, Season 2 Episode 11, 1977 |
Lynda Carter in a trenchcoat. (jmr) |
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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries tv series Edward M. Abroms |
Teenage detectives soo on trend in 1977. American rainwear fashion before Ronald Reagan (H) |
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Wish Me Luck |
This ran for three series and told the story of various men and women working for the SOE in France during the German occupation in World War II. Series 1 starred Kate Buffery as Liz Grainger, a married woman with a five-year old daughter, whose husband is away at the war, who becomes an agent. Suzanna Hamilton played Matty Firman, whose mother is French and father is a London Jew. Julian Glover was Colonel Cadogan (who everyone calls "Cad"), the head of the service, and Jane Asher was Faith Ashley, his Oxford Graduate assistant. Liz and Matty are trained and sent to France Series 2 initially has Liz assisting Faith in the London office. New agents, Vivien Ashton (Lynn Farleigh), Emily Whitbread (Jane Snowden) and Gordon Stewart (Stuart McGugan), are sent to France. Later, Liz goes out also. Series 3 also had new agents, Virginia (Catherine Schell) and Lewis (Jeremy Nicholas). Trevor Peacock played the Resistance leader, Renard, and Terence Hardiman was the German General Stuckler. In Series 1, we saw Liz wearing a gabardine raincoat with hood and long tapes when in France and a smart classic mac back in England. Faith is seen in a double-breasted trench mac (no epaulettes). In Series 2, Liz wears her gabardine but without a hood. In Series 3, there is brief glimpse of Vivien wearing a raincoat. Faith (now standing in for "Cad") wears a very smart raincoat. (Domino) |
| "London is Drowning", BBC TV play in the "Play for Today" series, (Season 12, Episode 2), Writer Graham Williams, Director Martyn Friend, First aired 27:10:1981. | Set before the building of the Thames barrage, this play featured the threat faced by London with the combination of a freak high tide and heavy rainfall. One scene had the heroine, played by Susan Tracey putting on a lovely beige rubberised mac and noisily tightening the belt. In this age of frequent repeats, I'm sad to say that I've never seen it repeated. (Maclover; Peejay) |
'Allo 'Allo!, UK tv series, BBC, 1982- 1992 |
In almost every one of the many episodes, Michelle "of the Ray-zis-tonse" (my favourite character naturally!) appears in a double- breasted gaberdine (or is it gaberdene?) [either are approved spelling - ed] mack of a distinctly "schoolgirl" style, enhanced by a beret and short white socks! Further, when other members of her resistance group (all girls, of course!) are seen, one or two wear what I am convinced are single-texture fawn mackintoshes - bliss! It would be something of a big job, I know, but it would be super if someone could prepare, from e.g. a DVD set, a montage of all these other girls' appearances to go on the website.... - ? (cm) |
The Gentle Touch, tv crime drama series, London Weekend Television, first aired on UK tv 1980-4 |
One memory has emerged, of a non-film media "impermeable event". It was in a "police drama" called, if I remember rightly, "The Gentle Touch". The main character was a female DI; I can't recall her name nor that of the actress who played her, but she had jet-black rather curly hair [This would be Jill Gascoigne, ed]. One episode revolved around a young mentally retarded man, who had a religious maniac of a mother, under threat of vigilante action on the council estate where they lived. The boy had a younger sister who was a fashion model, who vowed to protect her brother by taking him away. She was played by Gillian Taylforth. As far as The Gentle Touch was concerned she appeared in two scenes wearing a fawn single-texture mackintosh. First she appears talking at the station to the central character; then she is at the house to take off her brother from her very hostile mother, and puts on the mackintosh with a wonderful rustling!! (cm) (IMDB tells us the episode in question was called "Do It Yourself", the 3rd episode of Season 5, getting its debut airing on 15th September 1984. Is this available on DVD? My information is that it isn't. Has anyone better news? (ed)) |
| Inspector Jean Darblay is the first female officer in charge of the Police Station in the fictional Lancashire town of Hartley. (Domino) |
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| The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, UK tv series, 1981 | Sandra Dickenson wears a shorts see-thro red PVC jacket in a couple of episodes. (Rainy Brian) |
Brideshead Revisited, Granada Television, tv series, UK, 1981 |
Lengthy shots of Julia (Diana Quick) in a hooded gabardine mac onboard an ocean liner in the thirties. She wears it later without the hood. After the war, this style was to be seen on girls across Britain. (Preston) |
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Widows, written by Lynda La Plant, Drama Series, Euston Films, 1983
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Mrs Rawlings finds her husband's gun in her single texture trenchmac. |
| Elisabeth Sladen is weaing a purple tranlucent plastic mac. (WK) | |
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In the last minutes of the episode Morgan Fairchild
is dressed in a shiny blue belted raincoat . For pics thanks to Domino. |
A Woman of Substance, tv mini-series, Don Sharp, UK, 1984 |
It starred Jenny Seagrove, who, towards the end of the final part, stands on the Yorkshire moors dressed in a beautiful trenchcoat - all done up to the throat and the belt tied tightly at the waist. |
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Hold the Dream, tv serialisation, Director Don Sharp, UK, 1986 |
From Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel with Jenny Seagrove riding up to the top of the Yorkshire moors wearing her riding mac. (SL) |
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The Bonfire of the Vanities, novel by Tom Wolfe, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 |
"The Master of the Universe stood up and managed to hold on to the leash and struggle into his raincoat..." (Thanks to Dannimac) |
Porterhouse Blue, TV Series, UK, 1987 |
In one scene Mrs Biggs (Paula Jacobs) senses that something is up from Lionel Zipser's (John Sessions) awkward behaviour around her every time she comes to clean his room and she teases him sexually, the climax of which is when she asks him to help her take off her bright red PVC raincoat from behind, which prompts him to reach around her and almost touch her large breasts. (Rainy Brian) |
| Inspector Morse, uk tv series, The Last Enemy, UK, 1987 |
Amanda Hillwood, who plays Doctor Russell, wears knee-high
green rubber boots at the start of the story when a body is found in a
swamp. There is only a very brief shot of them however, when she is kneeling
over the body, and then stands up and walks toward Morse. (Michael D) |
| Oranges are not the only fruit, Beeban Kidron, TV series, BBC, UK, 1989 |
At the start of episode 2 you see a teenage girl wearing a shiny green PVC raincoat, complete with hood. Then her mother takes a strange dislike to it and sadly sellotapes up one of the arms. She then frogmarches her into a charity shop and goes through a box of plastic raincoats and finds a pink shiny PVC raincoat, with matching hat. When then girl puts it on the raincoat it's too big for her, but she still wears it for a few scenes afterwards. (Rainy Brian) |
| The Enigma Files, UK TV series, early eighties | A series about old police files in a store, the copper in charge was assisted by his secretary played by Carole Nimmons who in one episode wore a double-textured riding mac for quite a long spell. (PD) These are the episodes Carole Nimmons appeared in (according to IMDB):
Alas, no evidence of there being either a tape or a DVD. Incidentally, Carole Simmons is referred to in the Wikedia entry entry as "the unit Administrator" - yup, OK, the Secretary. (LE) SL writes: I recall this series quite well. I believe the lead male actor was Tom Adams, last seen fronting adverts for Northern Upholstery. Also part of the team was a Norman, who played a technical boffin. I'm sure he used to be one of ''The Comedians'. (SL) |
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Marlene Dietrich by her Daughter, Maria Riva, 1992 |
Just completed the long haul read of this. Quite a lady! She and I have something in common - an absolute reluctance to dispose of any mackintosh! (CB) Marlene Dietrich by her Daughter is still available eg from Amazon. |
Between
the Lines, tv drama series, first aired UK 1992-4. |
Lesley Vickerage wears a sophisticated red raincoat one dark wet night, allowing the conjecture of rubberised satin, which it can't possibly be, I'm sure. (H) But RM thinks it is! "The mackintosh worn by Lesley Vickerage
was a 3/4 length Lady Harper style mackintosh in red rubberlined cotton.
I can be certain as my wife had just acquired the same mackintosh in
SBR." (RM)
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| Cold Feet , BBC comedy drama series, Pilot 1997, then 1998 - 2003, UK | The second series of dvd volumes 1 2 3 have several scenes of the delightful Rachel (Helen Baxendall) wearing and carrying a dark brown rubber-lined mackintosh . One scene of a rainy night with lots of mackintosh noises. This series is a lot of fun too. It was shown here in southen California in 2004. Hope this is interest. (Nigel) |
| Das Haus am Watt German TV movie 90's | Gudrun Landgrebe wears long and hooded rubber raincoat and rubberboots in rainstorm. She drags the body of her husband (she killed) out into the garden to dispose. Her coat is shiny wet. (PE) |
Sabrina, The Teenage
Witch, Third Aunt from the Sun, Episode Number 7, First aired November
8, 1996 |
Towards the end of the episode Rachel Welch appears in a short black PVC raincoat/jacket, black patent leather thigh boots and very little else. Transcript of episode is here. Thanks very much to r-wfan for getting these terrific details
for us. |
| "The life and Loves of a She-Devil" tv serialisation, UK, 1990s. | One of the classic trenchcoat scenes. At the start of one episode, Julie T Wallace is seen walking a long a path to a house. The camera starts at her polished walking shoes, and pans up past the skirt of a navy blue trench coat (Burberry?), and up to her tightly fastened belt, end stowed away properly, and then to her bust. She wears the coat fully buttoned to the neck, with the storm flap firmly buttoned down, and it fits so beautifully that it is almost like an armoured second skin. The collar clips are fastened, and she even has the collar flap buttoned firmy across, with the collar down. She makes a most impressive sight, as she stands before the house owner, a Judge, and tells him that she is the new governess (if I remember rightly). She wears the coat several more times, but never buttoned up fully, and the whole character is softened by the end of the episode, along with the lines of her coat. (James) |
Highlander, Gerard Hameline, TV series, 1992 |
TV-series, based one the films with the same title. Duncan McLeod is Immortal, who lives in present days, meeting and fighting other Immortals. There is a 17th episode in the first season, titled "Saving Grace". This is a story about female Immortal named Grace; she always was concentrated on curing instead of killing and Duncan is trying to save her, because there is another male Immortal who is chasing her. During a long sequence of the episode she is wearing a yellow mac. (Artem) |
House
of Cards BBC Originally transmitted 21:11:93-12:12:93 |
Young women reporters are alone in recent times in being represented as forced to rely by reason of their trade (hanging about outside places) on the waterproof properties of the genuine mackintosh. One is pictured plying her odious trade here, lying in wait and in rain, then hairing after the hapless quarry: all in her reporter's uniform of off-white single texture trenchmac. (H) |
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To Play the King, Paul Seed, UK, 1993. Originally a BBC serialised drama production. |
UK political drama. The PM's special adviser wears a short mac, riding-style. (David) |
| Are You Being Served, long-running uk tv series, 1973-85 |
Episode 'New Look' Mrs Slocombe, understated as ever, wears a beige trench coat, a see-thru plastic coat over the top, an accordion rainhat (lopsided, bow under one ear, front almost over her nose) and carries a Barbara Cartland pink umbrella, none of which is particularly fetching. Miss Brahms wears an all-red ensenble of vinyl raincoat and hat with matching brolly. Mr Humphries wears a shower cap. (The episode is available on video but it's hard to find new copies). (BJ) Also In one episode there was a glimpse of a woman wearing a Gangster coming out of the lifts that you see in the background of a lot of the scenes, and then you get a close-up of the womans shoulder and back and you get a good sight of the ubiquitous shoulder vents so evocative of Attwood's design. (PD) There is an episode with Joanna Lumley in it, where there is a see-through cape displayed on a mannequin to one side. (Priscilla) |
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Nov 2001 series Episode 1: Jeannie wears one of the pink single texture macs that have appeared in Connolly's - until it gets too hot? She changes into a plastic substitute half way through, and back again right at the end. (H) |
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Better The Devil You Know Kylie Minogue video, 1990 |
Nice glimpses of Kylie in a clear plastic
mac. |
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Poem by Polish writer Marian Czuchnowski. |
(Thanks to Ted) |
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Docteur Sylvestre, |
Featuring Jerome Auger, in this series Maria Pacome often wears a Burberry trenchcoat. A lady of a certain age, she wears the coat well. In Seule à Paris (1965) she played opposite a young Sophie Agacinski - that time in a trenchcoat in an inside scene. (André) |
Sex and the City,
tv series, Creator Darren Star, US, 1998-2004 |
The fashion victims of "Sex in the City" sometimes wear trenchcoats. (Bernard) |
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The Hunt, tv drama, 2001 |
Amanda Holden slips on her light blue jacket for key encounters with handsome and captivating Adrian Lukis. And tears it off again when love-hate simplifies into hungry passion and the two wrestle each other to the ground. Her jacket is in double-texture rubberised cotton, Newmarket style, with modest wrist-tabs highlighting the charming simplicity of the look. Just the thing somehow for the girl who has everything, and who wants to (quietly) admit it. (H) |
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In the Yorkshire Police series, the policeman's (Rowan) second wife, played by Juliet Gruber, wears a riding mac in two separate episodes. (Pete D) 17th Feb 2002, episode 'Sympathy For The Devil': Here was a good double-breasted, raglan sleeve mack, tightly belted. Accurate to the period too. Hope others can confirm the material was double-textured. Shame the mack was sent off the edge of a cliff. (Dannimac)
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The
Bill, UK tv series, Granada, 1983 |
Great trench sported by the then Acting Detective Inspector Samantha Nixon. (H) |
Dream On, US TV comedy series, David Crane/Marta Kauffman, 1990-1996 |
An adult comedy about the book editor Martin Tupper, who is constantly looking for dates with women and getting into stupid and funny circumstances. Martin keeps remembering episodes from old monochrome movies that somehow relate to the current moments of his life or his reactions. In the episode titled "Pants on fire" (Season 2, Episode 11) Martin's ex-wife (played by actress Wendy Malick) wears a grey mac. (Artem) |
| Late-1980s Butter TV Commercial (c. 1989-1992) | In a "Give Them All A Little Pat Of Butter" ad the patroller wore a simple yellow mackintosh with a clear rain-net over the police cap. (RLW) |
| "Tatort - Im Herzen Eiszeit", D, German TV-Serial, 1995 | Actress Gunda Ebert wears throughout the episode a fantastic clear PVC-Jacket. (CP)
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| tv drama series, Love In The 21st Century , Episode 4, 1999 |
Starred Ioan Gruffydd and Natasha Little. Natasha's character Amanda wore a black rubberised nylon trenchcoat - 3/4 length and double breasted - very sexy. Her boyfriend Jack (Ioan Gruffydd) appeared to be sniffing her mac when they were close after she came home unexpectedly. (
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| Um Himmels Willen, German tv series, 2001 - |
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Murder City, tv series,
UK, 2004 - |
(Nomination:Andre. Pics: Dave) |
| Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I Wont Change You, Video, 2004. The video is here. |
The thing Sophie doesn't want to change apparently is her terrific gold trenchcoat, and she dead right about that. (Thanks to Kevin) |
Play The Solid Gold Cadillac, in production at The Garrick Theatre, London, November 2004 |
Great play from the Golden Age, starrring Patricia Routledge and Roy Hudd but most notable for the appearance of beautiful young actress Kate-Lynn Hocking in a super red rubber mac. [MORE] (Bryan) |
Ruth Rendell, End in Tears, London, 2005, Hutchinson. |
Chapter 24 describes a heavy rain storm: "even his heavy rubberised raincoat would'nt stand up to it more than ten minutes." A little later: "she
wore a glossy white mac, tightly belted and reaching only eight inches
above her knees". Gross slur on rubberised macs, surely! They do stand up to rain, actually, even though it's very heavy and prolonged. (The wearer might drown of course.) L. |
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Stage show. Telegraph critic Charles Spencer doesn't really need to explain why he enjoyed the show so very much ...Staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, 2011 then Palace Theatre, London and other venues, 2012. (Pics courtesy Daily Telegraph 19 and 04 and 12) (cm) |
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Stage Play Kate Maltby writes: "In the pivotal scene in which Charlene explores the Wife’s wardrobe ... the cast transform a simple row of coats and shoes into a visual sequence that is as refreshingly elegant as it is menacing."(The Spectator Arts Blog, 27:10:11) (pics courtesy Flickr, via Johan) |
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This series stars Billie Piper as Belle and is based on the book and blog by a real life call-girl using the pseudnym "Belle de Jour". |
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90210, TV drama, developed by Rob Thomas et al, USA, premiered 2008. |
An American teen drama tv series. In season 2, episode 13 ('Rats and Heroes'), Naomi Clark (played by AnnaLynne McCord) wears a trenchcoat with nothing underneath as she goes out to a party and afterwards to the appartment of a young man she wants to seduce (which she successfully does, to the point of them both being completely exhausted and very satisfied at the end). More great screencaps here. (Johan) |
| The X-Factor, UK tv, 2008 |
Alexandra Burke in a shiny red PU trenchcoat. (Beejay)
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Properties Presentation Director, English Heritage, in a blue mackintosh. Appearing in a programme on Kenilworth Castle. (Brian)
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Sound Advice, Patti Austin, Album Cover, 2001, USA
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I have just found a couple of pics of American Soul singer, Patti Austin, wearing her raincoat. The first was used for the cover of her 2011 album, 'Sound Advice'. My favourite track of hers is 'Love's Been Kind to Me Lately' from her 2001 album, 'On the Way to Love'. This track can be heard on You-Tube. (David) |
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Sechzehneichen (Sixteen Oaks), Hendrik Handloegten, 2012 |
German TV Film. |
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Grub Street rainwear |
Sometimes you open the paper and it makes your day. |
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