A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.
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"Heroes walk on ordinary shoe leather"
Dean Stockwell is trying to write a school essay on an important person. He thinks he's settled on John Paul Jones, but nothing will come. Someone suggests that important people are all around, so he goes out in search of one in this episode of John Nesbitt's THE PASSING PARADE.
It's a typical episode in the series, sentimental and concerned with the ordinary, unnoticed, forgotten things and people in the world. Here, it's Dean's father, the local beat cop.
To some, this has a definite post-war air to it, with its love of normalcy. True enough, but Nesbit had been telling such stories on the radio and in the movies for ten years by the time this came out. I guess people like things to be simple and normal.
It's a typical episode in the series, sentimental and concerned with the ordinary, unnoticed, forgotten things and people in the world. Here, it's Dean's father, the local beat cop.
To some, this has a definite post-war air to it, with its love of normalcy. True enough, but Nesbit had been telling such stories on the radio and in the movies for ten years by the time this came out. I guess people like things to be simple and normal.
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- boblipton
- Jan 27, 2020
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- Passing Parade No. 59: A Really Important Person
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