Kojak casting an eye over 1981 Portsmouth is superb
If you have a spare few minutes, search ‘Telly Savalas looks at Portsmouth’ on YouTube.
It’s a seven-minute film made by movie director Harold Haim which was shown in cinemas across the UK. Savalas also voiced similar films on Birmingham and Aberdeen! The superb footage was filmed in 1981.
From Prince Charles’ visit to the Charlotte Street market and the Tricorn, the construction of Port Solent and on to Old Portsmouth and a tiny Sealink car ferry arriving from the island, it’s a brilliant look at the city at the beginning of the new decade.
Maybe we should do a remake for 2020 and get Sylvester Stallone to voice it, which would be as random as Kojak in 1981.