# New BBC Sci-Fi comedy "HyperDrive"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 12, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bbc-sci-fi-comedy-hyperdrive/339646 "2006-01-12T11:58:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bbc-sci-fi-comedy-hyperdrive/339646/21 "2006-01-24T12:28:05Z")

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Where the hell did they find an authentic Party Seven for last night’s episode of _Life on Mars_? Must have been borrowed from a museum (maybe that’s why they never actually opened it.

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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bbc-sci-fi-comedy-hyperdrive/339646/22 "2006-01-24T12:42:57Z")

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I think that Ford Cortina they are using is a cut-and-shut, because it has a GXL badge on one end and a 2000E badge on the other. As I’m sure we all know, the 2000E was a different model.

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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bbc-sci-fi-comedy-hyperdrive/339646/23 "2006-01-24T16:49:53Z")

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A blast from the past for me was the two-way radio in the police car right at the start of the episode. This was the Pye Westminster and I remember them being fitted in our vans and cars when I joined the Gas Board in 1981, although at that time they were being replaced by newer models. They were affectionately called wezzies.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bbc-sci-fi-comedy-hyperdrive/339646/24 "2006-01-24T22:55:03Z")

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There have got to be a whole lot of still-unopened Party Sevens out there. (I mean, once you’ve opened one of the damn things, you learn from your mistake, don’t you?)

As for _Hyperdrive_, it’s a bit of a curate’s egg at the moment; it might gell into something good, or it might not. (I think Kevin Eldon is a strike against it; I’ve never seen that man play anything but one-dimensional one-note characters, so casting him as one of the leads looks like a bad move.) But I’ll give it a chance. I liked bits of it, certainly.

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