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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."
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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. |
 Jane A strip cartoon in the "Daily Mirror" which ran from 1932-1959.
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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) |
 George Orwell, Coming Up For Air, 1939.
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
The Bumper Book , Thomas Nelson and Son, undated (but 1930s?) pp. 185-192. |
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
called "Confidence trick", which features a girl in a green
mackintosh, and a girl in a blue mackintosh. The green mackintosh
has a hood, because the girl pulls it on and later pushes it back.
(JH) |
 When Your Heart's on Fire,
Jeri Southern,
US Decca LP 1957
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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)
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| 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) |
The Saint,
ITV series (ITC),
aired 1962-1969 |
Roger Moore starred as Simon Templar.
In Season 4 (the first to be made in colour) which had its UK screening in 1966, there was an episode entitled "The House on Dragon's Rock", which featured Annette Andre, an Australian born actress, who, some may recall, rejected a marriage proposal by Benny Hill. She wears a lovely little ice-blue trench-mac in a couple of sequences. When we first see her she has it draped over her shoulders, but later, on a foggy night, she has buttoned and belted.
Also in Season Four, in an episode entitled "Locate and Destroy", Francesca Annis wears a shortie raincoat, but open.
(Domino)
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 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
US TV series (MGM/Arena) 1964-1967
Aired on BBC tv 1965-1968
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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)
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| 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)
|
 The Avengers, ITV series (ABC), aired in UK 1961-1969
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Rainwear interest in variety.
Nomination by Pete, RM and Domino |
 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)
|
 Strange Report,
tv series, Directors
Robert Asher and Peter Medak, UK, 1968
|
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)
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| 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)
|
The Lotus Eaters, Directed by
Douglas Camfield
Cyril Coke, UK tv series, 1972-3 |
Set in an English bar in Aigios Nicolaios (hope spelling correct).
The mac interest came in the flashback that opened each episode,
in which shapely blue-eyed blonde Wanda Ventham appeared in a
crisp white Valstar double texture belted "Gangster" mac.
We guess her mission is to check the progress of her husband, drying
out from alcoholism in a clinic. (John S)
|
 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) |
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
Alwyn
Bill 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) |
 Dr
Who, TV series, BBC, 1970s
The Five Doctors
Genesis of the Daleks
The Sontaran Experiment
|
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. |
 La
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. |
 Policewoman,
tv series, 1974 |
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)
|
 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)
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| 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.
(CW)
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 Wonder Woman TV series. Mind Stealers from Outer Space, Season 2 Episode 11, 1977 |
Lynda Carter in a trenchcoat. (jmr) |
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries tv series Edward M. Abroms
Jack Arnold et al, US, 1977-79 |
Teenage detectives soo on trend in 1977. American rainwear fashion before Ronald Reagan (H) |
Wish Me Luck
ITV Series (LWT)
aired 1978-1980 |
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
along with Lois, a wireless operator. Michael J. Jackson played Kit Vanston, the head of their cell in France, and Warren Clarke was the chief German Officer, Colonel Krieger.
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.
It was created by the team of Jill Hyem and Lavinia Warner (who had earlier created "Tenko"). Each series played like a serial. The writing and acting were very good.
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)
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| "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)
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 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)) |
 Juliet Bravo, BBC series
aired in UK 1980 -1985
|
Inspector Jean Darblay is the first female officer in charge of the Police Station in the fictional Lancashire town of Hartley.
(Domino) |
| 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) |
Widows, written by Lynda
La Plant, Drama Series, Euston Films, 1983
|
Mrs Rawlings finds her husband's gun in her single
texture trenchmac. |
 Doctor
Who - The Five Doctors, Peter Moffatt, GB, 1983
|
Elisabeth Sladen is weaing a purple tranlucent
plastic mac. (WK) |
 Flamingo Road, Episode 15
April, 1981
|
In the last minutes of the episode Morgan Fairchild
is dressed in a shiny blue belted raincoat .
(MacRain)
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.
(Jane W) |
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) |
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)
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| 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)
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| 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):
- Backtrack (1980)
- The Full Flying Carpet Treatment (1980)
- Fit Up (1980)
- Why Don't They Tell You These Things? (1980)
- Every Picture Tells a Story (1980)
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) |
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
Production Code008
|
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.
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| "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) |
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)
And
There is an episode with Joanna Lumley in it, where there is a see-through
cape displayed on a mannequin to one side. (Priscilla) |
|  Randall
and Hopkirk (deceased), tv drama series 1969 -
|
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)
 September
2003
|
Better
The Devil You Know Kylie Minogue video, 1990 |
Nice glimpses of Kylie in a clear plastic
mac.
(Gary)
|
The woman in a silky raincoat
Poem by Polish writer Marian Czuchnowski. |
(Thanks to Ted) |
Docteur Sylvestre,
French tv series, Director Philippe Roussel, 1995-2001 |
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) |
| 
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) |
|
 Heartbeat,
UK TV Drama series, Yorkshire tv, 1992 -
|
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)
 The
(then new) doctor wears a half-decent trenchcoat in the series first
aired (UK ITV 1) November 2003. (H)
|
 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)
|
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.
(
Peter A)
|
| Um Himmels
Willen, German tv series, 2001 - |
|
| Sex and the City |
(Macrain) |
 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".
(Robin)
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. |
 Singin' in the Rain , Jonathan Church, US, 2012
|
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) |
 How To Be Another Woman, Natalie Abrahami, 2011
|
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) |
 Secret Diary of a Call Girl, ITV2 series. Aired 2007 - 2011.
|
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".
In Season Four, the dominatrix, Charlotte (played by Gemma Chan), is briefly seen (in Episode 5) wearing a rather cute short hooded cape in semi-transparent pvc with black piping and buttons. (Domino) |
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)
|
 English Heritage, BBC TV, Last broadcast on Mon, 22 Jun 2009, 02:10 on BBC One. BBC page.
|
Properties
Presentation Director, English Heritage, in a blue mackintosh. Appearing in a
programme on Kenilworth Castle. (Brian)
|
Sound Advice, Patti Austin, Album Cover, 2001, USA
|
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) |
Sechzehneichen (Sixteen Oaks), Hendrik Handloegten, 2012 |
German TV Film.
This is apparently a variation of "The Stepford Wives". It stars Heike Makatsch as Laura Eichorn. There is a scene where Laura is visited by two of her neighbours in heavy rain.
One wears a shiny red hooded raincoat, the other a semi-transparent hooded pvc cape. Later Laura dons her hooded parka. (Domino)
|
Grub Street rainwear |
Sometimes you open the paper and it makes your day. |
