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Cops on TV: Let's Be Careful Out There!

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Cops on TV Lets Be Careful Out There game quiz
"Living in West Belfast over two decades of 'the Troubles', my own relationship with the 'police' was less than cordial. It's ironic then that I'm a fan of any and every TV police drama. Here are a few of my favourites, both American and British..."

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1. In which quirky and unhurried TV series, set in the fictitious Scottish coastal village of Lochdubh, did Robert Carlyle play the role of a police constable determined not to do his job well enough to get promoted and have to leave his idyllic life?
    Hamish Macbeth
    Rebus
    Monarch of the Glen
    Taggart


2. What was the American NBC series in which the silhouetted scenes introducing each episode showed the San Francisco chief of detectives being gunned down by a sniper, then paralysed and wheelchair bound?
    Mannix
    Ironside
    The Streets of San Francisco
    T.J. Hooker


3. What was the British TV series in which actors Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber played reluctant detective partners working for an armed undercover unit of the London Metropolitan Police?
    The Avengers
    The Professionals
    Dempsey and Makepeace
    Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)


4. Who was the precinct sergeant in 'Hill Street Blues' whose trademark appeal to the dayshift cops during roll call was: "Let's be careful out there!"
    Sergeant Phil Esterhaus
    Sergeant Andy Sipowicz
    Sergeant Stan Jablonski
    Lieutenant Ray Calletano


5. Name the British TV police drama that featured an alcoholic, chain smoking, gambling, wife-cheating and totally unsympathetic - but brilliant - criminal psychologist called Fitz?
    Cracker
    Dalziel and Pascoe
    A Touch of Frost
    Wire in the Blood


6. This Canadian-American drama tackled the subject of deafness. What was the name of the series focusing on the role of a deaf investigator and her 'hearing dog' Levi in a Washington D.C. special surveillance team?
    Saving Grace
    Angela's Eyes
    Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
    Crossing Jordan


7. In the British detective dramas 'Bergerac' and 'Inspector Morse', both leading characters drove distinctive burgundy-coloured cars. What models of cars were they?
    1968 Daimler V8 and 1965 Peel Trident
    1961 NSU Prinz 4 and 1983 Porsche 911
    1963 Aston Martin DB5 and 1959 Ford Anglia 105E
    1947 Triumph Roadster and 1960 Mark II Jaguar


8. Which US police drama, set in the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan in New York, featured Detectives Greg Medavoy and Bobby Simone?
    The Shield
    Homicide: Life on the Street
    NCIS
    NYPD Blue


9. Which star of 'Blackadder' and 'Mr. Bean' played Inspector Fowler in the Ben Elton-penned TV comedy police drama 'The Thin Blue Line'?
    Tony Robinson
    Griff Rhys Jones
    Stephen Fry
    Rowan Atkinson


10. The opening credits of which 1970s US police drama featured a policeman in a cowboy hat, riding a horse through the centre of Manhattan?
    Big Apple
    McCloud
    Hunter
    Walker, Texas Ranger


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Compiled Jun 28 12