The Detectives (1993)
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
- Mike Whitehill
- Steve Knight
- Jasper Carrott
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Episode 1 - D.C. Of Love
Release Date: 1995-01-09As a lonely and meaningless retirement beckons after 25 years on the force, the boys are given the task of finding 'The Black Widow' after a series of gruesome lonely hearts murders.
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Episode 2 - Flash
Release Date: 1995-01-16After mixing their drinks at the policemen's ball, Louis and Briggs confront a new horror involving a flasher, a Marquess and the commissioner's wife.
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Episode 3 - Art Attack
Release Date: 1995-01-23When forced to transfer into the Fine Arts Squad, our heroes are despatched to recover the latest artistic creation of 'enfant terrible' Hadyn Smailes - a pair of maracas, a tin of peaches and a fish tank of the artist's own urine.
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Episode 4 - On Thin Ice
Release Date: 1995-01-30When Briggs and Louis investigate an attack on a top figure skater, the pair wind up on ice but fail to gain marks for artistic interpretation.
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Episode 5 - Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Release Date: 1995-02-06After 30 years of watching and waiting, Superintendent Cottam ropes the boys into helping him catch notorious bullion thief, Ronnie Richardson.
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Episode 6 - Twitchers
Release Date: 1995-02-13Briggs and Louis are assigned a case protecting the eggs of a newly-discovered breeding pair of red kites. Teir lack of enthusiasm soon turns to panic as the eggs are stolen.