Talk:Sykes and a...

Latest comment: 11 years ago by BDD in topic Requested move

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This should be moved to 'Sykes and a...', of course. Rothorpe (talk) 00:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

P.C. Turnbull

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Watching the episode "Sykes and a Plank", in which Deryck Guyler appears as a police constable, not Corky Turnbull, I wondered does he play PC Turnbull in this version of the Sykes series at all? In Plank, although the end is a bit confusing, it seems that he is Jack the D.I.Y. husband of Elsie whose floorboard Sykes has to replace in the episode. This episode is from 1964 so did the Turnbull character appear in the next series as semi-regular or did he first appear in the colour remakes from 1972, anyone know for sure? 81.111.127.132 (talk) 00:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)Reply


The first Eric Sykes show Guyler appeared in as a policeman was "It's a fair cop" in 1961 [1]

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 22:58, 5 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Sykes and A...Sykes and a... – indefinite article, should be lower case Rothorpe (talk) 12:42, 29 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

I have explained that the elided word varies. The punctuation mark is not included for effect; it represents that word. Rothorpe (talk) 14:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
That's my point; there is no single word missing here. It's a blank, a cypher, a placeholder, not a word. It cannot "represent" "that word" because there is no "that word"; instead there are a variety of possible words, none of which are in the title. Powers T 21:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
So how do you pronounce the title? Rothorpe (talk) 02:08, 4 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.