Finally caught up with this final episode in August 2020 when ITV4 broadcast the whole run on consecutive weekdays. It was hard to believe that only 30 episodes were ever made - and broadcast, in three series, between the start of 1985 and the end of 1986.
What a lovely trip back to 1980s London. This series was made by "Avengers Mark One Productions", who also brought us "The Professionals".
Good relationship building with the "attraction of opposites" trope on full display. Very evocative to see London's former Docklands area (including the actual demolition of a few derelict buildings included in the storylines (the "just get away in time in a helicopter before the building blows" trope was wheeled out a few times - a fitting homage to the old docks)..
This final episode of series three (i.e. "the last ever episode") maintain the standards. You can stop the ironing when the spooky music presages action/threat, whilst the drummer certainly earned his/her fee for accompanying the action scenes. Some predictability (the "baddie" gets into an ancient Jaguar, so you know it will either blow up or end up underwater (I do not regard this as a spoiler - it's entirely predictable across the series).
Escapist, entertaining , filmed-in-the-moment British TV cop series, probably serving up some ideas for "Life on Mars" some two decades later.
Worth watching on free TV and enjoyable; probably not worth buying the DVD set.
What a lovely trip back to 1980s London. This series was made by "Avengers Mark One Productions", who also brought us "The Professionals".
Good relationship building with the "attraction of opposites" trope on full display. Very evocative to see London's former Docklands area (including the actual demolition of a few derelict buildings included in the storylines (the "just get away in time in a helicopter before the building blows" trope was wheeled out a few times - a fitting homage to the old docks)..
This final episode of series three (i.e. "the last ever episode") maintain the standards. You can stop the ironing when the spooky music presages action/threat, whilst the drummer certainly earned his/her fee for accompanying the action scenes. Some predictability (the "baddie" gets into an ancient Jaguar, so you know it will either blow up or end up underwater (I do not regard this as a spoiler - it's entirely predictable across the series).
Escapist, entertaining , filmed-in-the-moment British TV cop series, probably serving up some ideas for "Life on Mars" some two decades later.
Worth watching on free TV and enjoyable; probably not worth buying the DVD set.