Bluey: The First Bloody Day
This is a show I came across recently and have gone out of my mind over. The pilot is on the Internet Archive but I have treated myself to the boxed set as a late birthday present. Bluey is a 1976 Australian TV series which as far as I can tell has a cult following in Australia but I'm not aware of it being widely known in the cult TV blogosphere. Perhaps I should just say that we are all familiar with lots of seventies police TV series from both sides of the Atlantic and this is not out of the same stable at all. This is special. I suspect the team were aiming for a police procedural set in an oddball detective team which would have been utterly ordinary. Luckily if that's what they were aiming for they missed their aim completely. To cut to the chase it's about a police officer called 'Bluey' Hills who is really good at his job. He's so good at his job he's accumulated a telephone directory size file of disciplinaries and nobody else can cope with him in ...