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- Summaries A daring gang of cold-blooded thieves make off with lorries carrying brandy on two separate occasions, killing a driver and injuring a policeman. The Sweeney are made to look a laughing stock at their failure to catch the gang.
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Summaries. A daring gang of cold-blooded thieves make off with lorries carrying brandy on two separate occasions, killing a driver and injuring a policeman. The Sweeney are made to look a laughing stock at their failure to catch the gang.
Drag Act: Directed by Tom Clegg. With John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Kate Fahy, Albert Welling. A daring gang of cold-blooded thieves make off with lorries carrying brandy on two separate occasions, killing a driver and injuring a policeman.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Tom Clegg
- 1978-09-21
The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.
- 8 The Bigger They Are
- 7 Drag Act
- 6 Bait
- 5 One of Your Own
- 4 Nightmare
- 3 Jack Or Knave
- 2 Hard Men
- 1 Victims
Regan and Carter are on the tail of another blackmailer, in a twisty, turny plot that does feel a bit "out there" for a Sweeney episode, but nevertheless keeps you involved. The soundtrack sounds like a cross between Boney M and Zombie Flesh Eaters, while Carter indulges in mock Jamaican accents and Regan calls a man a "spade". It's questionable st...
There's some odd moments in this episode, such as Carter virtually sexually harassing a WPC and getting the brush off until she realises he's a Sergeant. This then forms the basis of the plot, as she basically solves a case for The Sweeney, but isn't allowed to take credit, thus ending their relationship. A nice touch of realism is the use of an em...
There's a lot to like here. A trio of villains include the physically imposing Edward Peel, the always-worthwhile George Sewell, and Di Trevis, one of the most developed and rewarding female characters in the series. Which, without undue detriment to the programme, isn't really saying much. Waterman appears to be clearly bored throughout much of it...
Carter is placed undercover into prison to try and find out information about stolen jewels from a crook in his cell. Said crook, Jimmy Fleet, is memorably brought to life by Michael Elphick, and his relationship with Carter is given added closeness when Carter's colleagues take turns to sleep with his girlfriend behind his back... a sexually-drive...
An episode involving heroin trafficking and the IRA should have been top rate, though Nightmare chooses to dilute such edgy elements with a bizarre subplot about Regan's spiritual girlfriend having a psychic dream that tells of his demise. Frequently so silly I feel sure I've ranked it too highly, it nevertheless works, despite Regan's constant res...
The final episode of any series will always be special, but this bow out for The Sweeney does feel oddly structured. The plot sees Regan charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice many years earlier, but this isn't introduced until over half an hour in, and in the final segment of the show, two ad breaks gone past. Add to this the fac...
series four sees The Sweeney on its last legs, the ideas and enthusiasm all but expired in many of the episodes. Hard Men is a deeply unusual instalment in that it makes the two leads effectively guest stars in their own series, outwitted and disregarded by James Cosmos's superb Detective Sergeant Davy Freeth. A Scottish detective travelling down t...
An episode that – Hard Men aside – is so far superior to the other episodes of the series it's not even funny. Four of the episodes in this series were crafted by men who only helmed a single episode of the entire series... as that number include the top two episodes here, then it does make you wonder what the final run would have been like had the...
Early on in THE SWEENEY, Dennis Waterman's Sgt. Carter, the young, more vulnerable partner of hot-tempered John Thaw's Inspector Regan, has a wife... who asked for more screen-time and money, and was run over by a car (the episode fitfully titled HIT AND RUN), thereafter making Carter almost as much a womanizer as Regan...
Drag Act is absolutely outstanding: in this episode Carter faces a conflict of conscience: to remain honest or to save his own skin, at the expense of his ambitious young colleague Julie Kingdom. This episode is a multilayered study on the subject of women in the workforce, becoming even more relevant with the seemingly simple ending, which at ...
Regan and Carter track down those responsible for killing a driver and injuring a policeman while making off with vehicles carrying brandy on two separate occasions. Carter's new girlfriend, rookie cop Julie Kingdom, pursues a known fence and recovers the brandy.
