Following the huge phenomenal popular success of putting old Doctor Who episodes on to the Blu ray disc format, the BBC have decided to extend the idea to other cult TV shows in its back catalogue.
Following an analysis of social media (and in particular a select group of Twitter movers and shakers), they have chosen Juliet Bravo - the hit 80s police series - as their next project.
The series was hugely popular in the 1980s for many years and was a permanent fixture of Saturday night viewing until Casualty turned up and spoilt it all. Questions were often asked in the Houses of Parliament, not about the series but none-the-less, they were asked. And schoolboys everywhere filled their playgrounds with the sounds of "I-Am-Juliet-Bravo!!, I-Am-Juliet-Bravo!!". There was even talk of a movie (by two old ladies in a Swindon cafe over a five-item breakfast.).
It was THAT huge!
Anyway, here's the covers for the first two releases -available in exclusive steelbook editions - which should hit stores when they are thrown at them from a short distance.
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It's been sometime since I've had some Juliet Bravo fun so the fact it's now being screened in the mornings on Drama is as good an excuse as any to post some daft bits what I've done recently...
There can't be many Saturday night TV shows that were broadcast during the 1980s that spawned as much merchandise as Juliet Bravo.
Sadly much of it is rarely seen nowadays outside of Yorkshire where the "official Juliet Bravo play costume dress-up set" was the top Christmas present for two years running in 1982 and 1983.
Luckily, I've managed to acquire a job lot of this highly sought after material and I want to share it with you on my blog.
Why?
God knows...
Here they are.
It was THAT huge! 
