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"Fire up the Quattro!" was the catchphrase of brutal and corrupt Detective Chief Inspector Gene Hunt. Described by a police colleague as "an overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding," Hunt laconically replied: "You make that sound like a bad thing." Which British TV series (subsequently adapted for American television) was this? |
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Can you name the TV police lieutenant who opened most episodes of the Miami-based crime detection drama he/she starred in by voicing platitudes such as: "So they brought the war to us. Now we ... are going to take it to them" - while coolly putting on a trademark pair of sunglasses? |
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Which Scottish television series, based in the real Maryhill district of Glasgow, was well known for its detective hero's catchphrase, delivered in a rolling Glaswegian accent: "There's been a murrr-derrr!" |
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Which groundbreaking American TV cop drama, which claimed "to protect the innocent", began as a radio show in 1949 and included Sergeant Joe Friday's catchphrase: "All we want are the facts, ma'am"? |
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Which animated cartoon TV police officer - with bumbling similarities to Inspector Clouseau and Maxwell Smart - was responsible for the catchphrase "Wowsers!"? |
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Oh come on, it'd be too easy to ask which lollipop-sucking TV detective's catchphrase was: "Who loves ya, baby?" So, can you tell me instead what 'Theo' is short for in the name of the character, Lieutenant Theo Kojak? |
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In which 1970s series, named after the Cockney rhyming slang term for the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police, was no-nonsense Detective Inspector Jack Regan's catchphrase: "Get your trousers on - you're nicked!" |
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No clues with this one. Which shabby detective's case-breaking catchphrase was: "Just one more thing ..."? |
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In which cop drama series, set in the fictional English town of Denton - and which marked a departure for actor David Jason from earlier comic roles in programmes like 'Only Fools and Horses' and 'The Darling Buds of May' - was the catchphrase heard: "We've got him bang to rights"? |
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In which series does a phobia-driven homicide consultant for the San Francisco police say of his own obsessiveness: "It's a gift ... and a curse", and about his own investigative genius: "Unless I'm wrong, which, you know, I'm not ..."? |
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