Trivia / Coppers End

• Creator Backlash: The cast didn't give the series much hope. In 1990, Bill Owen later remarked, "All you could do was keep your fingers crossed someone would laugh".
• Fake Irish: Paddy from "The Drunken Irishman" was played by the British Mark Eden.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: While all of the aired episodes survive in the archives in some form, they haven't been re-aired since 1971 or released on DVD. One episode was uploaded to YouTube in June 2023, but the channel where it was uploaded has since been terminated, with the episode in question gone once more.
• Missing Episode: The series survives in full, but not in its original condition; the series was filmed in colour, but many episodes only exist in the archives as black and white telerecordings. The two original unaired episodes starring Joan Sims don't exist either.
• The Other Darrin: The first two episodes filmed had a completely different cast - Joan Sims played Sergeant Pringle, Trevor Peacock played Sam Short, John Carlin played Eddie, Will Leighton played Chipper, and Barry Lineham played Ripper. After Sims left the series due to an illness, the two episodes filmed (as well as the next three planned) were scrapped. The series would then be recast with Josephine Tewson, Bill Owen, Richard Wattis, George Moon, and Kevin Brennan in the aforementioned roles. Only Royce Mills was in both casts, playing Dinkie.
• Screwed by the Network: The series' unpopularity led to the final episode, "Caught Him, for a While...!", not being broadcast in London, saved only for the regions.
• Unfinished Episode: The original versions of episodes three, four, and five (the last of which is entitled "The Long Branch Saloon") were never filmed.
• What Could Have Been: The original five episodes written when Joan Sims was meant to star were completely different to the five that would air when the series made its full run of thirteen episodes in 1971. The last three of Sims' scripts were never filmed.

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