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Blue Watch 1991-92

Blue Watch in Series 4 and Series 5


Blue Watch is one of four operational watches (or shifts) used at fire stations throughout the UK (the other watches are red, white and green). Members of Blue Watch at Blackwall are the primary focus of London's Burning.

Over the show's run, 36 permanent members of Blue Watch were seen; George Green was the longest lasting character, appearing in all episodes, except for two in Series 13 and the original television movie. The shortest lived in the series were Chris 'Skippy' Newman and Craig Ross who both lasted only six episodes. Andreas 'Ethnic' Lewis and Kenny 'Rambo' Baines only appeared in the pilot. Bert 'Sicknote' Quigley was the last survivor from the pilot movie. Firefighters from other watches or stations, such as Jaffa Parrish or Clingfilm, occasionally stood in at Blue Watch for absent regulars. 'Liver Salts' was a former member of Blue Watch and visited the station a few years later. Fireman Anderson joined Blue Watch at the end of the movie but was not seen again.

Seven members of Blue Watch died on duty (Lewis, Cartwright, Hallam, Georgiadis, Walker, Quigley, Mackenzie), four retired due to injury or ill health (Tate, Parrish, Newman, Blake), six left the fire brigade (Sanderson, Cross, Wilson, Ray, Morgan, Barratt), and six transferred to other stations or divisions (Appleby, Ingham, Stevens, Reid, Medhurst, Hammond). Five left for unknown reasons (Baines, Webb, Sharpe, Coleman, Silver). Four firefighters made appearances in London’s Burning after they had officially left Blue Watch (Ingham, Appleby, Wilson and Medhurst).

When Kevin Medhurst won a pedigree greyhound in a poker game, he named it Blue Watch.

Composition of Blue Watch, 1986-2002[]

Movie Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Series 4
SO Tate Tate Tate Tate Georgiadis
Sub Hallam Hallam Hallam Hallam Hallam
LF Cross Cross Cross Cross Cross
FF1 Wilson Wilson Wilson Wilson Wilson
FF2 Quigley Quigley Quigley Quigley Quigley
FF3 Lewis Sanderson Sanderson Sanderson MacKenzie
FF4 Baines Green Green Green Green
FF5 Appleby Appleby Appleby N/A N/A
FF6 Cartwright Cartwright Cartwright Parrish Parrish
FF7 Ingham Ingham Ingham Ingham/Stevens Stevens
FF8 Medhurst Medhurst Medhurst Medhurst
Series 5 Series 6 Series 7 Series 8 Series 9
SO Georgiadis Georgiadis Georgiadis Georgiadis Georgiadis
Sub Hallam Hallam Hallam Hallam Hallam/
Webb
LF Cross/ Mackenzie (tempoary) Pearce Pearce Pearce Pearce
FF1 Wilson Wilson Wilson Wilson Morgan
FF2 Quigley Quigley Quigley Quigley Quigley
FF3 MacKenzie MacKenzie MacKenzie MacKenzie MacKenzie
FF4 Green Green Green Green Green
FF5 N/A Reid Reid N/A
FF6 Parrish Parrish Appleby N/A
FF7 Stevens Ray Ray Ray Ray
FF8 Medhurst Medhurst Medhurst Medhurst Newman
Series 10 Series 11 Series 12 Series 13 Series 14
SO Georgiadis Hammond Hammond/
Coleman
N/A Callaghan
Sub / Watch Commander Webb Pearce Pearce Pearce Pearce
LF / Crew Commander Pearce Barratt Barratt/Sharpe Sharpe N/A
FF1 Morgan Morgan Sharpe/Barratt Clarke Mooney
FF2 Quigley Quigley Quigley Benjamin Benjamin
FF3 MacKenzie MacKenzie MacKenzie MacKenzie MacKenzie/Ross
FF4 Green Green Green Green Green
FF5 Blake Walker Walker Silver Mead
FF6 N/A Fields Fields Fields Fields
FF7 N/A N/A N/A N/A
SC Georgiadis Coleman


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