Connections

What have Rambo and Dixon of Dock Green got in common?  You've probably got to be of a certain age to know the answer to that one - after all it's nearly forty years since P C Dixon (memorably played by Jack Warner - evenin' all) last appeared on our television screens, and over sixty since he made his first appearance in the film "The Blue Lamp". And therein lies the clue to the answer, because in the film P C Dixon was shot and killed (by Dirk Bogarde no less).  And if you've read the book "First Blood" by David Morrell which first introduced Rambo (the opening line is "His name was Rambo...") you will know that at the end of that book, he too dies.  So both are resurrected characters, brought back to live again - and far more famously -  in a different medium.