The fact this show was cancelled despite it solving crimes and saving lives, but they keep shit like Eastenders running endlessly just baffles me. This show should have just run continuously like the news, it was so important.
That's what I think too. They could have atleast cancelled it for a month and then bring it back. 30 years is a long time and people obviously took it for granted. It's very important.
@@JC-ss7xy Not true and quite a bigoted comment from yourself! A lot of people are not watching things live now and will catch up online. However Crimewatch can only be online for 24 hours after the live showing so it wasn't getting the live viewers and people were missing it not realising of the online time limit. Also, the quality became really bad. There was only one or two reconstructions, half of the programme was pre-recorded segments on how past crimes were solved and advice to people. There was cheesy, over dramatic reconstructions, loud music and choppy editing; it wasn't scary at all and completely different to this golden oldies.
Because the snowflake trigger heads couldnt handle it these days...all the reconstructions would have to come with warnings and be done with cuddly toys. It would still be banned though,
Stealing works of art from places open to public view, such as churches and museums, to hoard them hidden from view in private collections, is the height of wankery.
Thank you so much for all these Crimewatch videos I am watching them chronologically one by one they are keeping me sane while self-isolating. They don't make programmes like this any more such a pity.
3 women violently murdered in Bristol over a space of 18 months in 1984/1985 - Shelley Morgan, Jackie Waines and Violet Milsom. Although the victimology and crime scenes were very different, they were all vicious murders with a sexual motive and multiple stab wounds. Jackie and Violet also lived in the same street. I wonder if these crimes were ever linked.
I have found my new favorite show. I love Crime Reel and Brief Case, but this is altogether different. I am American and I find this show fascinating. Everyone is so polite. Even when interviewing a crook, they say "no comment." Americans get the hell beat out of them.🙂😆
I am from Ireland in 1986 we had a programme called Garda patrol check out the edition of June 1986 in comparison to the crimewatch UK. I couldn't believe it myself Friesian cows (6).
There was at that time a school of thought suggesting that the murders of prostitutes did not receive the same degree of dedication afforded to other serious crimes.
These early Crimewatch episodes are brilliant helping to save crimes the public love this time most of the other programs they bring is absolute rubbish
@@CARLIN4737 IDK how it works in the UK, but if it's the US and they're consecutive rather than concurrent, you might do 15-20 years for 'life' and then the next one starts. Basically insuring even if you get life with parole you never actually get released.
Nick would seem more sincere at the end if he wouldn't smirk each time he said "Don't have nightmares, do sleep well" it just looks like he's about to chuckle at it.
Some of these robberies if they weren't so serious they would be funny ! 2 women in fake Nun Costumes ARMED with Collection Boxes ! You couldn't even make that up ! 🤣
I just stumbled on this. They CANCELLED this show? I do wonder why it seems like a great show. I do like the older ones, these guys still caught the bad guys without the aid of all the advanced forensics they have today!!
It was originally cancelled because people stopped watching it, and the nature of crime and crime detection has changed a lot. In the 80s, police were much more reliant on witness appeals. So many of the crimes here are unsolved, but would have been solved fairly quickly today with no need for a public appeal. Crime has changed a lot too - so many of the securicor van robberies we saw on Crimewatch back then don't happen now. People use cash much less now and new technology means the notes get ruined if stolen. Crimewatch is back on TV now in the mornings, but it's very different. It focuses on giving advice on things like online fraud.
33:37 looks like the same actor sitting in the driver's seat of that metallic blue Granada, as the actor who played Steve Whitnell in the March 1986 episode of Crimewatch who was shot dead in the loading bay of the Presto supermarket in Putney High Street.
erm . . . . . twice in the narrative we are told that there were 2 boys qarked in the gateway listening to music but in the reconstruction there are 4 in a citroen Diane/Ami. What are we thinking about that then?
It's not too clear, but he actually says "some young men". The old guy who said he should ought to take his number and report it to the council should have done just that.
Ford vehicles The villains favourite Powerful Granada this time as well V4 petrol transit vans were popular in the early 70s They used to outrun the police cars of the day
The burglary of churches shows how bad things had got in the 1980s. Crime had been increasing massively in the UK since the early 60s, before it started to deline in the early 2000s. In the 80s, crime, particularly violent crime, went through the roof. It was fed by de-industrialisation and the ensuing massive unemployment. Demographics also played a part. Crime is overwhelmingly carried out by the young, and the huge baby boomer generation was coming of age in a country where there were fewer and fewer jobs for them.
