1 | * ActingForTwo: Creator/RonnieBarker also voiced the judge in the intro. |
2 | * ActorInspiredElement: Mr Mackay's distinctive mannerisms, like his neck twitch and clicking his heels, were added by Fulton Mackay. |
3 | * ActorSharedBackground: Mr. Mackay was in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. In RealLife, Fulton Mackay was spent five years in the Black Watch in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII that included a tour of India. He even based the character on a sergeant he knew. |
4 | * TheCharacterDiedWithHim: When the 2016 special aired, it's stated that Fletcher passed away in 2011, six years after Creator/RonnieBarker died. |
5 | * CharacterOutlivesActor: Ingrid (Fletch's daughter, who married Godber in ''Going Straight'') gets a phone call from her husband to say that he can't make it back for the 2016 documentary. Creator/RichardBeckinsale had died in 1978 shortly after ''Going Straight'' completed filming. |
6 | * CreatorBacklash: |
7 | ** Creator/RonnieBarker later said his only regret about the series was performing the opening narration. |
8 | ** Writer Ian La Frenais regretted not making one final series after Series 3. |
9 | * CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: The writers named "The Harder They Fall" as their favourite episode. |
10 | * TheDanza: Averted by Fulton Mackay, who plays Mr. Mackay, as the character had already been named before he was cast. |
11 | * DawsonCasting: Fletcher was born, in his words, "two-two-thirty-two" - 2 February 1932. Creator/RonnieBarker was born in 1929. |
12 | * IAmNotSpock: |
13 | ** Creator/PeterVaughan claimed that for years after the series ended, people would shout at him, "Let you out they, Grouty?" |
14 | ** Creator/RonnieBarker's desire not to be solely associated with one character was why he chose to leave the show after three series. |
15 | * TheOtherDarrin: As mentioned above, Creator/RonnieBarker provides the voice of the judge in the opening narration. The said judge later appeared as a prisoner himself and was played by Maurice Denholm. Barker's narration was retained, though, so we effectively had both Darrins at once. |
16 | * RecycledScript: |
17 | ** Scripts for the [[TransatlanticEquivalent American remake]], ''On the Rocks'', were reused for the third series. |
18 | ** Fletcher correcting Godber's mixed metaphors in ''Going Straight'' was reused in TheMovie. |
19 | * UncreditedRole: Creator/FelixBowness as Gay Gordon in "Just Desserts". |
20 | * UnderageCasting: The then thirty-five-year-old Creator/DavidJason played the extremely elderly Blanco Webb. |
21 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before the casting of Creator/RichardBeckinsale as Godber, Creator/RonnieBarker had recommended Paul Henry. |
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