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Nostalgia over childhood TV gets the better of Conrad Landin

“ANY sign of danger, and I’ll stroll by whistling the Lambeth Walk.”

There’s still time to catch Hue and Cry, possibly my favourite Ealing Comedy, on BBC iPlayer before it expires early tomorrow morning.

It’s a tale of working-class street kids who discover criminals are sending cryptic messages through children’s comic stories. Amid the ruins of post-war London, their initial scrapping and fisticuffs give way to a show of solidarity and collective discipline that would leave most revolutionaries envious.

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