She is more of a major character than she Insp. George CarterBarry Foster - Elliott McQueenIan Bannen - Charles BakerColin Welland - Frank ChadwickDiane Keen - Bianca HamiltonMichael Coles - JohnsonJoe Melia - Ronnie BrentBrian Glover - MacLynda Bellingham - Janice WyattMorris Perry - Flying Squad Cdr. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Full cast!!! A category of characters that appear in the films and Broadway musicals. She also starred opposite Patrick Swayze in Guys and Dolls, the musical. She is murdered in episode 2.5 "Hit and Run". Telephone engineer Ronald Peters is kidnapped and bound by an armed gang. The Sweeney was developed from a one-off TV drama entitled Regan which served as the pilot episode for the series. It is during a conversation in the kitchen that Gar agrees, seemingly spontaneously, to go to Philadelphia to stay with Con and Lizzy. Che dire? costume. | Past and present, Young and old. Like Regan, he enjoys a drink, and follows football. Their daughter Susie (Jennifer Thanisch) appears most notably in "Abduction". In the DVD commentary for "Abduction", it is claimed that Alison was written out because actress Stephanie Turner was asking for too much money to continue to appear in the series. Sweeney, the main character in the Irish legend seen in Sweeney Astray Ram Sweeney, fictional character in the 1988 black comedy film Heathers, and it's musical and TV adaptations Mad Sweeney, fictional character in the series American Gods Conor MacSweeney ( Alex Murphy ), protagonist of the Irish film and television series The Young Offenders For this release the original 16mm film negatives were scanned in HD and comprehensively restored by BBC Studios and Post Production.[29]. However, in auditions and With Haskins on holiday, Quirk takes charge. (6 episodes, 1975-1978) Series Writing Credits. Tom DanielsBernard Kay - MatthewsAntony Scott - Johnson's HenchmanJohn Oxley - Chadwick's Deputy EditorPeggy Aitchison - Carter's NeighbourHal Jeayes - ManservantSally Osborne - SallyJohn Kane - Special Branch Sgt.Chris Dillinger - Johnson's HenchmanPeter Childs - Murder Inquiry Insp.Alan Mitchell - Detective Insp.Leonard Kavanagh - PathologistAnthony Woodruff - CoronerMichael Latimer - P.P.S.Matthew Long - Traffic Police Sgt.Joyce Grant - McQueen's SecretaryJohnny Shannon - Scotland Yard Duty Sgt.David Corti - Young LadSusan Valentine - Chadwick's SecretaryNadim Sawalha - Chairman of the Oil Producers' ConferenceLewis Alexander - Party GuestTony Allen - Poilce DriverDel Baker - Johnson's HenchmanMaxwell Craig - Man with TeaJenny Cresswell - Lady in PubVi Delmar - Lady in PubHarry Fielder - Wages Security GuardAidan Harrington - Man at PartyWalter Henry - Oil Conference ExecutiveGeorge Hilsdon - Security ManAileen Lewis - Party GuestJay McGrath - Man in StreetStuart Myers - DetectiveMike Reynell - DetectiveGuy Standeven - UndertakerFred Stroud - WaiterBarry Summerford - DetectiveJohn Tatham - Conference OfficialReg Thomason - ReporterRita Tobin-Weske - Lady in PubJoseph Tregonino - Man on BusCy Town - PhotographerGreg Powell - Special BranchIan Kennedy-Martin - Writer / CreatorDavid Wilkes - (Director)*DISCLAIMER*Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for \"fair use\" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. He drives what is presumably his own car, a green 1974 Ford Capri (Mk II) 3.0 Ghia (PTW 475M), in episode 1.13 "Abduction". [27] A suspicious group of men have entered a bank dressed as painters. The new The Wedding Veil trilogy consists of three films, and this one is the second in the series. As per her bio, Autumn Reeser, who plays Emma, has experience performing on stage, as well as on TV and in movies. Standard British accent (RP). By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. Every writer on the series was given very specific guidelines to follow: "Each show will have an overall screen time (minus titles) of 48 minutes 40 seconds. Dennis Waterman was cast after his performance in the Special Branch episode "Stand and Deliver", also produced by Euston Films.[1]. A lorry containing cigars is hijacked and one of the robbers plus the driver is killed. Due to this, the number of different filming locations had to be restricted to 10, i.e. Johanna: 18, Sweeney's daughter. judge without much compassion. A trio of schoolboys played at being plain-clothes policemen, with two of them looking like little versions of Regan and Carter. Ian Kennedy Martin saw the subsequent series as being mainly studio-based, with more dialogue and less action, but producer Ted Childs, inspired in part by Get Carter (1971) and The French Connection (1971), disagreed. Detective Inspector Jack Regan endangers an operation, and loses his girlfriend's car. ", thery were allowed one "fucking", though. Series 4 textless titles with dual sound. According to Kevin Whately, John Thaw claimed that he had witnessed the regency red 1960 Jaguar Mark 2 (registration 248 RPA) used in Inspector Morse being written off several times while filming The Sweeney. At the moment, she and her two boys, Finn and Dashiell, reside in Los Angeles. She is a sister of his mother Maire, who died just after Gar was born. Past and present, Young and old. The programme was shot entirely on 16mm film by Thames Company Credits Garfield Morgan plays Detective Chief Inspector Frank Haskins. The two main protagonists are Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and Detective Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman). Doreen Haskins (Sheila Reid) features in the penultimate episode 4.12 "Victims", which deals with her deteriorating mental health and the impact of police work on family life. Each episode had a budget of 266,000 with an eight-and-a-half-week production schedule: two weeks' pre-production (for casting, finding locations etc. He is frequently seen at odds with Regan, preferring more conventional "by-the-book" policing methods. Some years earlier, Eddie Medhurst a gang member who shot a police sergeant escapes to Spain but returns. BurtonshawJohn Alkin - D.S. In 1977, the BBC responded to the success of, The repeat of the episode "Selected Target" on 21 December 1978 recorded the highest viewing figure of the series, with 19.05 million people watching. Both films, Sweeney! well-intentioned. revenge twists him into something violent and evil. Snow everywhere.. Stephanie Turner went on to appear in Juliet Bravo, also devised and part-written by Ian Kennedy Martin. Antonycrayton 1:46 MICHAEL 'STORM' SWEENEY WORKS THE PUNCHBAG @ TEAM FURY GYM (BOLTON) / TIMS v SWEENEY IFL TV 0:17 'Two Dum Micks'/Trailer - D.B. [3][4] Until The Sweeney, the violent reality of policing was largely ignored by British television. Sweeney! "Thick as Thieves" episode and "Special Branch" episode. Explore. Eliot later used Sweeney in poems like Sweeney Among the Nightingales and Mr. Dennis Waterman plays Detective Sergeant George Hamilton Carter who comes from south London. Bernardini confirmed with Survived the Shows podcast that the second movie was filled in Victoria. Director: Nick Love. Jimmy Fleet, a prisoner, is arrested and remanded in custody at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. (6 episodes, 1974-1978) Douglas Camfield. Season three's "Taste of Fear" and "On the Run" feature career criminal Tim Cook. Sweeney grew up in Ramsey, New Jersey and attended Don Bosco Preparatory High School. The film was released in 1977 and based on a story by Ian Kennedy-Martin and directed by David Wilkes. Sgt. A drunken Regan pulls Luke Sparrow for questioning for the theft of mercury worth 30,000. Day off. In the late 1970s, this and other scandals led to a massive internal investigation into the activities of the Metropolitan and City of London Police lead by Dorset Police, codenamed Operation Countryman. Regan and his team are suspected of pocketing 35,000. Sweeney played five seasons for the Boston College Eagles, redshirting his freshman season. Colin Douglas features as an unnamed Commander in series 1, with Michael Latimer as Commander Jackman in series 2. corrupted by the world. Writing Credits. is a play written by Brian Friel. Release Dates John Thaw stars as Detective Inspector John "Jack" Albert Regan, a tough police officer, often frustrated by Scotland Yard's red tape. As was with the first movie in the new trilogy, most of the filming took place in and around Victoria in Canada. A At the very least, Sweeney looks the part, making Felicia Hardy an obligatory theory. We suspect Gars decision is influenced by the emotional effect of it being the wedding day of his lost love, Katie Doogan - reinforcing the fact that there is nothing left for him in Ballybeg. The series also captured the zeitgeist as it was made during a dark period for the real-world Flying Squad. Now as a bank manager, you'll appreciate that any man capable of cutting a gun like that in half wouldn't think twice about cutting you in half. Police officers in The Sweeney are ready and willing to meet violence with violence when dealing with London's hardened criminals, and are prone to cut corners and bend the law in pursuit of their prey, as long as it gets the right result. In the series' timeline, George was in the Flying Squad prior to events in Regan, but quit for family reasons (cf. Sweeney neither trusts nor believes in anyone except Anthony as he expresses in his response to Anthonys insistence that any good Christian would have helped save a fellow Unlike most British policemen, Regan and Carter were often armed Truth in Television, as the Flying Squad, which had to deal with armed robbers, was the only police unit where officers carried firearms more often than not but the squad frequently took down criminal gangs in brutal hand-to-hand battles fought with pick-axe handles, iron bars, fists and boots. audience with violence. The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (alternatively titled The Sailor's Gift) is a fictional story first published as a penny dreadful serial from 184647. It stars John Thaw as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as his partner, Detective Sergeant George Carter. The programme's title derives from ' Sweeney Todd ', which is Cockney rhyming slang for 'Flying Squad'. Produced by Thames Television subsidiary Euston Films for broadcast on the ITV network. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Jack ReganDennis Waterman - D.S. He invariably calls Carter and the other Squad members by their first names, or occasionally nicknames. Criminal and police slang was also used, including 'ringer' (a car thief, also a stolen car with fake plates), 'stoppo' (a getaway car), 'snout' (informant), 'factory' (police station/office), 'fence' (selling stolen goods, also someone who sells stolen goods) and 'fireman' (someone who deals with problems). In this gritty action film based on the '70s TV show, two hard-drinking cops battle the criminal underworld and attempt to foil a major bank heist. In "Money, Money, Money", a retired criminal friend of Regan and Carter is blackmailed and extorted by a criminal out of money he won on the pools in exchange for not revealing telling about a job he pulled years ago. List of The Sweeney (1974) Characters Characters played by John Thaw Det. Haskins is absent at the start of the fourth and final series due to Garfield Morgan's other professional commitments, but he returns a few episodes in. In Sweeney 2, Regan and Carter are on the trail of particularly violent armed criminals. A jupiter red Granada (UAY 272S) was due to be used for filming in season four but it suffered bodywork damage while being delivered to Euston Films and was replaced.[9]. 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