Spender

[aaron_2000]

I just got finished watching through Spender after seeing it mentioned on the Sierra Cosworth thread a while ago, I absolutely loved it. Found the first episode slow but gave it another chance, thought it was ace. Every episode including the Christmas special is on YouTube, anyone else here watched it in recentish times?

[Patch1875]

Didn’t he have a cool black Saab 900 turbo as well.

[TR4man]

I can remember watching it in the day, but had completely forgotten about it until this thread.

Jimmy Nail was also a pop star at the time too.

Can’t think of anything he did after Spender though - he seemed to disappear.

[CaptainSlow]

TR4man said:

I can remember watching it in the day, but had completely forgotten about it until this thread.

Jimmy Nail was also a pop star at the time too.

Can’t think of anything he did after Spender though - he seemed to disappear.

Crocodile Shoes?

[SS2.]

Patch1875 said:

Didn’t he have a cool black Saab 900 turbo as well.

Don't specifically recall Spender having a 900T, but I seem to remember Danny Kane smoking around in one in The Paradise Club.

[aaron_2000]

TR4man said:

I can remember watching it in the day, but had completely forgotten about it until this thread.

Jimmy Nail was also a pop star at the time too.

Can’t think of anything he did after Spender though - he seemed to disappear.

Think he does a lot of theatre now. I only realised Ain't No Doubt was him after I started watching

[Patch1875]

SS2. said:

Patch1875 said:

Didn’t he have a cool black Saab 900 turbo as well.

Don't specifically recall Spender having a 900T, but I seem to remember Danny Kane smoking around in one in The Paradise Club.

This is going to annoy me now!

Googling it there’s a couple of forums mentioning a black Saab in Spender.

Wonder if one of the baddies drove one might need to watch them to check!

[aaron_2000]

Patch1875 said:

SS2. said:

Patch1875 said:

Didn’t he have a cool black Saab 900 turbo as well.

Don't specifically recall Spender having a 900T, but I seem to remember Danny Kane smoking around in one in The Paradise Club.

This is going to annoy me now!

Googling it there’s a couple of forums mentioning a black Saab in Spender.

Wonder if one of the baddies drove one might need to watch them to check!

There was a black 900T used by someone in an episode but it wasn't one of Spenders cars

[deltaevo16]

Brilliant series, featuring the Cassie,. One of the cars they were using got knicked apparently. Think one of the episodes featured a chase with a Quattro UR. Loved Jimmy Nail, excellent in Croc shoes as well.

[Saleen836]

Jimmy Nail drove a Saab in Auf Weidersehein Pet series 3, could it be that you are thinking of?

[cologne2792]

Just realised it's been nearly 30 years since it started.

I used to watch it on a Tuesday night with my Grandma and Great Uncle.

Both were Geordie's and they used to translate some of the dialogue for me.

Brilliant show!

There was an episode where Spender's friend, DS Boyd, needs a car and manages to get a Calibra 4x4 Turbo.

It all seems so long ago.

[aaron_2000]

cologne2792 said:

Just realised it's been nearly 30 years since it started.

I used to watch it on a Tuesday night with my Grandma and Great Uncle.

Both were Geordie's and they used to translate some of the dialogue for me.

Brilliant show!

There was an episode where Spender's friend, DS Boyd, needs a car and manages to get a Calibra 4x4 Turbo.

It all seems so long ago.

That was one of the last episodes where his dog gets run over and he goes after the car thief that did it. Got very dark towards the end of the series

deltaevo16 said:

Brilliant series, featuring the Cassie,. One of the cars they were using got knicked apparently. Think one of the episodes featured a chase with a Quattro UR. Loved Jimmy Nail, excellent in Croc shoes as well.

Yeah that was the 2nd episode where he goes after a ringing operation. The Cossie that was nicked from the set was the first one a 2wd, I think it got recovered though as the tax expired in 1998

[aaron_2000]

Here's the playlist I watched it from if anyone is interested. It's well worth watching or rewatching even though the first episode is a bit slow. Came out well before I was born but still found it to be an ace series

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvrinI8FfP9...

[waynecyclist]

deltaevo16 said:

Brilliant series, featuring the Cassie,. One of the cars they were using got knicked apparently. Think one of the episodes featured a chase with a Quattro UR. Loved Jimmy Nail, excellent in Croc shoes as well.

From what I understand the 2wd was nicked and burnt out hence why he then switched to a 4wd.

By all accounts the car had round the clock guards so it was not nicked again.

[aaron_2000]

waynecyclist said:

deltaevo16 said:

Brilliant series, featuring the Cassie,. One of the cars they were using got knicked apparently. Think one of the episodes featured a chase with a Quattro UR. Loved Jimmy Nail, excellent in Croc shoes as well.

From what I understand the 2wd was nicked and burnt out hence why he then switched to a 4wd.

By all accounts the car had round the clock guards so it was not nicked again.

I don't think it got burnt out, it was taxed up until 1998. I do know they had to spend £100 a day on a bodyguard just for the car after it got stolen though

[waynecyclist]

aaron_2000 said:

waynecyclist said:

deltaevo16 said:

Brilliant series, featuring the Cassie,. One of the cars they were using got knicked apparently. Think one of the episodes featured a chase with a Quattro UR. Loved Jimmy Nail, excellent in Croc shoes as well.

From what I understand the 2wd was nicked and burnt out hence why he then switched to a 4wd.

By all accounts the car had round the clock guards so it was not nicked again.

I don't think it got burnt out, it was taxed up until 1998. I do know they had to spend £100 a day on a bodyguard just for the car after it got stolen though

From this thread: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... I think they may have used more than one 2wd or could be an urban myth

s m said:

NorthDave said:

I remember a story of the Jimmy Nail program where he drove one (Spender?) - they had a bodayguard for the cossie as so many people had tried to knick it.

Having said that I remember walking through Newcastle city centre and seeing a lad who looked about 12 driving a car out of the multi storey with his mates following in another car. Obviously stolen and very casual on a Saturday afternoon.

Seems mental looking back that taking cars was so common!

The very first car used in the Spender series was stolen and later found burnt out in Newcastle

[Pothole]

I remember it as being a great series. I seem to recall watching it with my parents but I was no longer living at home by the time the first series was released. We must just have talked about the episodes each week. I know my Dad loved it.

[thegreenhell]

No mention of a 900T here, but some other interesting metal

http://imcdb.org/movie_98913-Spender.html

[AJL308]

An absolutely epic series. People always ask why it was never repeated much. There are rumours round this neck of the woods that there was nefariousness in attributing scrips to people they shouldn't have been attributed to which caused production companies and broadcasters to get nervous about legal action.

I have precisely zero concrete evidence of that and it's probably a complete load of rubbish but those are the rumours.

[PixelpeepZ4]

Saleen836 said:

Jimmy Nail drove a Saab in Auf Weidersehein Pet series 3, could it be that you are thinking of?

was that the one with the bridge ?