Its fictional but also non-fictional!!!!

[Ben Hartmann]

Ok any of you mature gentlemen out there remember Airline??? Airline was a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1982.

The series starred Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts up his own air freight business.

Airline was created by Wilfred Greatorex and lasted for one series of nine episodes. Other leading cast members were Polly Hemingway, Richard Heffer, Sean Scanlan and Terence Rigby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca1Psf5ZlCI









Rgds

Ben

[Techy111]

Wow....forgot all about this....didn't he take part in the Berlin Airlift and one of his Daks crashed in the snow on the runway...?

Excellent......Wanna join an Airline...?



Tony

[ianhind]

Ben

Aren't you too young to remember this?

Or is that photo of you out of date?

[Ben Hartmann]

Ben

Aren't you too young to remember this?

Or is that photo of you out of date?

Ian

I think thats completely irrelevant

I will let you know I am also too young to remember all of those 707's / 727's / 737's / KC-135's / DC-8's / CV880's / CV990's / Phantoms / Lightnings / Canberras / Andovers etc I have painted over the years

Rgds

Ben

[ianhind]

I think thats completely irrelevant

I was merely asking how you would know about this :-( - I see now that it was the YouTube link

I

[DelP]

Thanks for the reminder Ben

I'd just left the Army and started college as a 'mature student' when Airline was aired....one of the few times that I was glued to the TV instead of propping up the student union bar

I think thats completely irrelevant

Even more irrelevant is the fact that I once met Roy Marsden by way of knowing his brother, Mike Mould..serious gratuitous name-dropping here

..after college I made sets and props for Bruvvers Theatre Company, Neeuuwcassel:

http://www.bruvvers.co.uk/

http://www.36limestreet.co.uk/pages/mai ... s_2b.shtml

ATB,

Derek

[DaveB]

Hi Derek

It was Ben who wrote 'I think thats completely irrelevant' and Ian who quoted it back

Love the name dropping though Roy Marsden was some sort of Secret Service bloke in another prog prior to Airline if my memory is correct and his partner turned up as a gay fellow in EastEnders some years later How off topic is THAT!

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[AllanL]

Roy Marsden was some sort of Secret Service bloke in another prog prior to Airline if my memory is correct and his partner turned up as a gay fellow in EastEnders some years later How off topic is THAT!

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Gay Secret Service off topic? I thought it was obligatory in the days of Burgess and MacLean. :000:

[DelP]

Talking of secret service, did you know that Aggie Mackenzie of 'How clean is your house' fame is ex MI6.....

Pub quiz information....

Derek ;-)

[delticbob]

.... Roy Marsden was some sort of Secret Service bloke in another prog prior to Airline if my memory is correct ...

Was that "The Carpet Baggers" ??

I remember "Airline", & I think it might have been brought up on here a couple of years ago, along with a photo link - must look for it, about a planned (second??) series that even aquired a Constellation, but the planes cane to notheing & the series ended.

Edit...wasn't on here then but I did find mention of how it got the chop after 9 episodes, and the Constellation I refered to is now at Wraughton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=jOr5UbFl4uY

Those were the days he had hair - so did I come to that & before he became Adam Dalgliesh.

Bob