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Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from January 1966. It was created as a spin-off from the series Z-Cars, which ended its fifth series run in December 1965. The series took its title from the proverb "Softly, softly, catchee monkey", the motto of Lancashire Constabulary ...
Inspector (later Chief Constable) Thomas Brackenreid (portrayed by Colm Meaney in the TV movies and in the TV series by Thomas Craig [4]) is a middle-aged married man, fond of the theatre and a good drink. He is the head of the stationhouse and does most of the interrogating, often forming opinions of a suspect because of personal impressions ...
The series followed the work of the fictitious "Eastland Constabulary", particularly focusing on Chief Constable John Stafford (Tim Pigott-Smith), and his efforts to restore order within his volatile team. Later, focus shifted towards Stafford's replacement, Alan Cade (Martin Shaw).
Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama mystery television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series created by Caroline Graham. It has been broadcast on the ITV network since its premiere on 23 March 1997. The series focuses on various murder cases that take place ...
WPC 56 is a British television police procedural series, created and partly written by Dominique Moloney and broadcast on BBC One.The stories feature the first woman police constables (WPC) to join the fictional Midlands Constabulary at Brinford Police Station in 1956.
Starting in 2014, Chambers appeared in the main cast of the BBC detective period drama Father Brown, playing Inspector Sullivan in series 2 and 3. He reprised the role as a guest star in Series 7 and 8, before returning as a regular from Series 10 onwards.
At the end of Softly Softly, the main characters – Detective Chief Superintendent Barlow (Stratford Johns) and Detective Inspector Watt (Frank Windsor) – both applied for the role of head of CID at the newly formed police force, the fictional Thamesford Constabulary, which was said to be a product of amalgamations carried out during a recent reorganisation of the British police and is ...
Sir David Joseph O'Dowd, CBE, OStJ, QPM (born 20 February 1942) was Chief Inspector of Constabulary [1] from 1996 until 2001. [2] O'Dowd was educated at Gartree High School, University of Leicester, the Open University and the University of Aston. [3] He joined the Leicester City Police in 1961 rising to the rank of Chief Inspector.