Heartbeat

have you ever wondered what it was like when your parents were a child? well this is a great show where you can find this out, although this is a relatively new filmed program which began filming in the early 90's and still film today it is set in a northern village in the 60's This is a police drama but it isnt all set around a police station like the bill is it is set in aidensfield the village they are policing and has some great characters and storylines. When it first began there was a lovable rough called green grass in the show who was an old man that used to be getting into all sorts of trouble by plotting and scheeming to make some extra ...  Read the complete review

Heartbeat is 1960's drama that began in the UK on ITV in 1992. It is police drama. It is set in The village of Aidensfield in Yorkshire. The main police station, however, is based in nearby Ashfordly. When the show started the police needed a new bobby to live in the police house in Aidensfiled. So a policeman and his doctor wife moved from London to Aidensfiled. The bobby was Nick Rowan (Nick Berry who played Wicksy in Eastenders) and his wife was Dr. Kate Rowan (Played by Niamh Cusack). These two caused quite a stir at first because of Nick's different policing attitudes and Kate being a femal doctor. However, they soon settled in nicely and became aquainted with the ...  Read the complete review

I can hear you now! "The Grove family? who are they?". But this is about Heartbeat. Heartbeat is for me the best thing on TV and the absolute highlight of the weeks television viewing (Second to Grove family, but that was long ago) I have pondered over the question why it is so, for as long as I have been watching the programme, and have come up with this explanation. The acting is spot on and the characters are so very believable. They are so northern in their speech and manerisms that you just 'go with it'. I am a Yorkshireman myself and know about this (Grove family were too if I recall correctly). The scenery of the North ...  Read the complete review

Sunday evenings, peak hour, family viewing, ITV, the forum for plebs everywhere, operating at the lowest common denominator and effortlessly churning out bland family entertainment at its most wholesome and cosy without so much as a crease disturbing the oh so smooth exterior. Institutions rarely come more dull and unremarkable than this and the rustic charms of the Yorkshire Dales certainly have an awful lot to answer for - you've got three stupid old men in Last of the Summer Wine, those damned attractive sheep in Emmerdale and most tedious of all the combination of the faceless, those lacking in charisma, the feckless renegades and the upholders of moral ...  Read the complete review

Heartbeat has been one of the most successful ITV drama series of the last twenty years. The exploits of its country policeman hero and his wife - solicitor Jackie Brown - But hey hasn't she just left Mike Bradley YES!!! How dare she!!! It pulls in up to 17 million veiwers an episode, and regularly challenges Coronation Street in the weekly ratings war! Set in the sixties, Heartbeat and its gentle nostalgia has proven quite irresistible. Its leading actors were: Nick Berry and Niamh Cusack now replaced by characters Mike Bradley - Jason Durr- and the rest of the policemen. Some of the cast members include: Ex-Sergent Oscar Blaketon - Derek Fowlds ...  Read the complete review