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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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