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The Sweeney

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The Sweeney	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A classic British Cop Show from the 1970s featuring Cowboy Cop Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and his sidekick Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman) of the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad (Rhyming slang: "Sweeney Todd" = "Flying Squad", hence the title), an elite detective unit dealing with armed robbery.The characters were rough, hard-drinking and, by modern standards, highly sexist. Regan, while over forty, greying and divorced, was successful with women as part of his macho image (although his sex life became a plot point sometimes). Carter was married and a bit more stable and reliable than his "Guv'nor". In fact, Regan's "Guv'nor", Superintendent Haskins, felt Carter should be reassigned because Regan was a bad influence on him.British television cop shows had been undergoing a steady evolution from the light-hearted Dixon of Dock Green to the relatively gritty Z Cars. The Sweeney took this to the next level, with an unprecedented level of violence, cynicism, and bad language (albeit that it was still PG-rated; "bastard" was as bad as it got)note thery were allowed one "fucking", though. It was used to effect.. There was at least one car chase, fist fight or gunfight per episode. 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. Unlike the almost-contemporary Starsky & Hutch the violent action did not have a James Bond-movie feel to it, being instead down-and-dirty, and sometimes quite shocking. Gunfire was seldom non-lethal and people who got hurt stayed hurt. If a car crashed and burned, the people inside didn't climb out as in The A-Team, either!Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Detective work was mainly a matter of asking informants, many of whom lived in fear, or of following people, or simply "knowing the manor" so well that the heroes could just guess who was the most likely suspect. Not much Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot stuff happened, but it was often quite close to real police work.Blatantly parodied in The Invisibles, where Jack and George of Division X are Carter and Regan to the life. Explained by saying that the invisibles created their cover identities from old '70s cop shows. Their boss Mr Crowley is a Shout-Out to George Cowley of The Professionals, another British police drama of the time. (Their fellow agent Mister Six, meanwhile, is a Shout-Out to Jason King of Department S.)Gene Hunt of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes is a fairly obvious Shout-Out to Jack Regan and his ilk. (One is tempted to call him an Affectionate Parody, but he'd call one a poof for saying so. He'd call one a poof for saying "one" instead of "him" anyway.) Gerry Standing, Dennis Waterman's character in New Tricks, is another Affectionate Parody of what the characters from The Sweeney (George in particular) might look like thirty-odd years down the track.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The show was recorded entirely with film, and the production had a heavy reliance on location shooting, both of which were very unusual features at the time. Although it was extremely popular, a combination of high production costs and creator burnout meant that it only lasted for four series. Nonetheless it was very influential, directly inspiring ITV's successful The Professionals and The BBC's relatively unpopular Target.Two spin-off movies were produced during the show's run: Sweeney! in 1977 and Sweeney 2 in 1978.A movie adaptation of the show was released in 2012.
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The Sweeney / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The series was much tougher and grittier than most cop shows at the time.
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The Sweeney / int_14c10915	type	Crashing Through the Harem
The Sweeney / int_14c10915	comment	Crashing Through the Harem: In one of the movies, the Flying Squad takes a shortcut through a room, interrupting a couple having sex there. When the man threatens to put in a complaint, Regan shuts him up by asking whether the girl he's with is of legal age.
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The Sweeney / int_171e14be	type	London Gangster
The Sweeney / int_171e14be	comment	London Gangster: Several of the villains.
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The Sweeney / int_1d35ec39	type	6 Is 9
The Sweeney / int_1d35ec39	comment	6 Is 9: The "6 with a screw missing turns into a 9" gag is used in a scene where a very respectable family are eating dinner when armed policemen crash into their home, and are just as surprised as they are because they were expecting to meet armed criminals. After the mistake is cleared up, the officers leave with apologies and the family calmly return to their meal. Moments later, a crash is heard in the distance, and the father comments that it sounds as though they've found number 9.
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The Sweeney / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Sweeney / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: The first season finale "Abduction" sees Regan's daughter getting kidnapped. Near the end of the episode, he's alone with one of the kidnappers...
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The Sweeney / int_1f42a0d6	type	Scary Flashlight Face
The Sweeney / int_1f42a0d6	comment	Scary Flashlight Face: In "Nightmare" Regan's Girl of the Week has a prophetic nightmare of him in danger, ending with a red-coloured light shining in his face as Regan screams right before she wakes up. It's all supposed to foreshadow him being (temporarily) blinded by a laser beam by the villains.
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The Sweeney / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Sweeney / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Years of policing has left Regan an embittered, cynical man. He has no delusions about being a hero, he's just doing a job that needs doing, even if it's taken everything out of him.
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The Sweeney / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Sweeney / int_22cf536c	comment	The only times the guns are used on people, however, are on wounded crew members and to escape the Sweeney the only way out they could.
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The Sweeney / int_24400cfe	type	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
The Sweeney / int_24400cfe	comment	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: "Loving Arms" concerns a criminal who sells toy guns to criminals that turn out to be real. Things get serious when one of them accidentally kills a police officer.
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The Sweeney / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
The Sweeney / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: In "Nightmare", a couple of renegade ex-IRA have got hold of an experimental laser sighted rifle. Regan and Carter tell them to put down the rifle slowly which they do, making sure it's pointed in their direction. Then they turn on the battery pack activating the laser which shines into Regan's eyes, temporarily blinding him.
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The Sweeney / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
The Sweeney / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Most notably Morecambe and Wise in "Hearts and Minds". (John Thaw and Dennis Waterman found it hard to keep a straight face around them; they also did a spoof of The Sweeney on their sketch programme.) Amongst those who made guest appearances were BRIAN BLESSED, Warren Clarke, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, Ian Hendry, John Hurt, Michael Sheard, Patrick Troughton, Peter Vaughan, Tony Jay and Richard Wilson.
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The Sweeney / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Sweeney / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To the lesser-known series Special Branch, which was the first series made by Euston Films. Both series were shot on film and went for a more gritty and realistic look, although Special Branch lacked the rough-and-tumble approach. In fact, Dennis Waterman even appeared in one episode.
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The Sweeney / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
The Sweeney / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: Lots of sweating, along with plenty of punching, kicking, and banging against walls.
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The Sweeney / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
The Sweeney / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: For the fourth season, new opening and closing title sequences were introduced using live footage in kaleidoscope style rather than the tinted stills used in the first three seasons. The show's logo font and color were also changed, but the commercial break bumpers, remained the same and retained the style of the first three seasons' titles and logo.
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The Sweeney / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
The Sweeney / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: In "Hit and Run", Carter's wife is run down and killed because she was wearing a coat belonging to her co-worker, who was the intended target.
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The Sweeney / int_3892655c	type	Magical Security Cam
The Sweeney / int_3892655c	comment	Magical Security Cam: One hand-held 8mm camera gave two different views of the same armoured car robbery.
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The Sweeney / int_3c728b77	type	Flare Gun
The Sweeney / int_3c728b77	comment	Flare Gun: In "Hard Men", a Glasgow gangster punishes another gangster who tried to kidnap his daughter by shooting him in the back with a flare gun; he goes up in flames, screaming, and burns to death. Another gangster who witnesses the incident tells a policeman, "Dud ye see that? Dud ye see whut they dud? That was DIABOLICAL!"
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The Sweeney / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Sweeney / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: The series starred a pair of misogynist, foul-mouthed London cops who were a brilliant example of this - but they often completely failed to catch their man, and fairly often got into real, serious trouble with their superiors.
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The Sweeney / int_3fac55ce	type	Old-Fashioned Copper
The Sweeney / int_3fac55ce	comment	Old-Fashioned Copper: The cops are pretty much the archetypal characters who represent this trope, although they aren't old-fashioned themselves since the values represented were alive and well in The '70s.
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The Sweeney / int_405b0c46	type	Armed Blag
The Sweeney / int_405b0c46	comment	Armed Blag: Practically every other episode. Truth in Television, as the Flying Squad were actually the Metropolitan Police's specialist armed robbery taskforce.
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The Sweeney / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
The Sweeney / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: In "Thou Shalt Not Kill", a bank robbery leads to two gang members taking the manager and two women hostage. Haskins' hesitance in ordering the police to open fire causes Regan to chew him out.
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The Sweeney / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
The Sweeney / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: "Stay Lucky Eh?" features a crook who did twelve years in the army and kicks the plot off by robbing a pair of criminals right after they've pulled a job. "Taste of Fear" features a gang of ex-soldiers carrying out armed robberies.
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The Sweeney / int_4d92da97	type	Get into Jail Free
The Sweeney / int_4d92da97	comment	Get into Jail Free: In "One of Your Own", Carter is placed undercover in prison to try and find out information about stolen jewels from a crook in his cell.
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The Sweeney / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Sweeney / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The final episode, "Jack or Knave", had an ambiguous ending where Regan is temporarily locked up after being implicated in a corruption scandal, then finally gets exonerated. He then announces that he's had it with the Squad, and the series ends with him resigning in disgust, but it's left open as to whether he would be persuaded to change his mind.
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The Sweeney / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Sweeney / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: In "Hit and Run", Regan helps Carter cope with his wife's death by bringing him a bottle of booze.
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The Sweeney / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
The Sweeney / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: "Stay Lucky Eh?" features a doctor who was struck off, presumably for his alcholism. Naturally, he's called in when a criminal is shot during a robbery.
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The Sweeney / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
The Sweeney / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Regan and Carter refer to suspects (or otherwise) as birds, tarts, slags, micks, jocks, poofs, micks and other terms.
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The Sweeney / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Sweeney / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Both of the main characters, just so you know they're double-hard bastards.
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The Sweeney / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
The Sweeney / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: A young Lindy Brill played the daughter of an Irish terrorist involved in The Troubles in "Nightmares". Her Oirish accent would make a real Irish teenage girl cringe.
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The Sweeney / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Sweeney / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: "Soppo Driver" sees a Flying Squad driver blackmailed into being a getaway driver for a gang when they kidnap his new wife. In "Abduction", a gang kidnaps Regan's daughter in order to blackmail him so they can carry out a robbery. In "Feet of Clay", an ex-informer turned businessman's son is kidnapped. It turns out to be a scam.
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The Sweeney / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Sweeney / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The second episode, "Jackpot", has a captured bank robber interrogated for the whereabouts of a missing take. He pulled the heist to fund a kidney transplant for his daughter abroad, and the villains aren't keen to honour his share after his arrest and imprisonment.
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The Sweeney / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Sweeney / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In "Messenger of the Gods", Regan and Carter catch up with their suspect surrounded by four thugs. The villains reckon they can take them, as there's only two of them. Cut to our heroes kicking the crap out of them.
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The Sweeney / int_6d0c6ed6	type	Lead Police Detective
The Sweeney / int_6d0c6ed6	comment	Lead Police Detective: Although he's a bit more rough around the edges than is typical for this trope, Detective Inspector Jack Regan still counts.
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The Sweeney / int_6e8b95dc	type	The Teaser
The Sweeney / int_6e8b95dc	comment	The Teaser: Each episode opened with a three-minute intro that established the plot.
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The Sweeney / int_6eef5fc6	type	Temporary Substitute
The Sweeney / int_6eef5fc6	comment	Temporary Substitute: Haskins was largely absent from season four, as Garfield Morgan had theatre commitments. As a result, several commanding officers appeared to fill his role. "Hard Men, "Drag Act", "Hearts and Minds" and "Latin Lady" feature Det. Chief Supt. Braithwaite, "Bait" features DCI Roan, "The Bigger They Are" features Richard Wilson as DCI Anderson and "Feet of Clay" features Commander Watson. In "The Bigger They Are", Carter even lampshades this by saving, "Come back, Haskins, all is forgiven". Haskins is also absent from season two's "Supersnout", with Bill Maynard's Det. Chief Insp. Stephen Quirk filling his role.
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The Sweeney / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Sweeney / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Often! Once involved two police units who hadn't recognised each other.
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The Sweeney / int_73f8d546	type	Working-Class Hero
The Sweeney / int_73f8d546	comment	Working-Class Hero: Regan came from a working-class background in Manchester, his father being a dockworker.
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The Sweeney / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Sweeney / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: "Supersnout" has Carter make a reference to Get Carter. The episode features Rosemarie Dunham, who was in the film. Other actors from the film to appear in the series were Ian Hendry, George Sewell and Alun Armstrong. In "Messenger of the Gods", Carter interviews a woman who gets distracted by a horror film she watched starring Christopher Lee. Perhaps she was talking about Scars of Dracula, which starred Dennis Waterman.
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The Sweeney / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Sweeney / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The pilot movie Regan ended with Regan beating a confession out of a suspect for the murder of an undercover police man...and then threatening to do him for not paying his car tax.
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The Sweeney / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Sweeney / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Regan is red (cynical, agressive and world-weary) and Carter is blue (enthusiastic, ambitious and jovial).
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The Sweeney / int_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
The Sweeney / int_8816272b	comment	Blinded by the Light: In "Nightmare", a couple of renegade ex-IRA have got hold of an experimental laser-sighted rifle. Regan and Carter tell them to Put Down Your Gun and Step Away which they do, but then one of them turns on the battery pack on his belt activating the laser which shines into Regan's eyes, temporarily blinding him.
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The Sweeney / int_8966382e	type	Bank Robbery
The Sweeney / int_8966382e	comment	Bank Robbery: "Thou Shalt Not Kill" sees the Flying Squad deal with a robbery at the university branch of the National Mercian bank. "The Bigger They Are" sees criminals break into a back to steal a safety deposit box containing incriminating evidence.
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The Sweeney / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Sweeney / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Hit and Run" sees Carter's wife nurdered in a hit and run incident that was ultimately down to mistaken identity.
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The Sweeney / int_8e7835b3	type	Wunza Plot
The Sweeney / int_8e7835b3	comment	Wunza Plot: He's a tough, no-nonsense, bends-the-rules older cop who's quick-witted and with an eye for drink and the ladies! He's a younger, more inexperienced cop who wants to follow the rulebook yet respects his older partner! They fight crime!
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The Sweeney / int_901046d2	comment	The Informant: Several one-off characters whose portrayals ranged from "contemptible but necessary" to actually fairly sympathetic. Of course, one of the show's central themes was that the cops and the cons weren't so different.
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The Sweeney / int_955aba87	comment	Mook Chivalry: Strictly averted; nobody fought fair on this show!
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The Sweeney / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Regan is originally from Manchester and has been in London for several years, so his accent has modified, but traces of his northern origins are still evident. He also refers to his northern roots every now and again (his poor upbringing, his father's work on the Manchester Ship Canal), which brings banter from Carter, a Londoner, such as humming "The Red Flag".
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The Sweeney / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The main episodes focusing on DCI Haskins are "Golden Fleece", in which he is set up to be the victim of a corruption enquiry, and "Victims", in which his wife suffers a mental breakdown, owing to her memories of a miscarriage.
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The Sweeney / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In the episode "Thin Ice": "That's. Not. My. Dog!"
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The Sweeney / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Regan at the climax of the first movie. After seeing the only witness of the killings (who he'd shagged earlier) murdered, Regan is told by a government official the Big Bad would be assassinated by his own hitmen upon being arrested. What does Regan do next?
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The Sweeney / int_a280f130	comment	Take This Job and Shove It: In the final episode, "Jack or Knave", Regan faces prosecution for conspiracy to pervert the cause of justice. He's acquitted, but is so disgusted by the experience that he resigns.
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The Sweeney / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: D.S. Haskins, and above him, "The Commander".
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The Sweeney / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: In "The Bigger They Are", the MacGuffin, which leads to a burglary, a bank raid, two blackmail attempts, and a suicide, is revealed right at the start of the programme: a photo of a prominent politician, holding a bloody machete, standing on a pile of chopped-off human heads, proof of his participation in an atrocity committed during the Malayan Emergency of 1948-52.
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The Sweeney / int_aed924dc	comment	You Do Not Have to Say Anything: Regan's take on this was inevitably "You're fucking nicked!"
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The Sweeney / int_b0bd5f11	comment	Catholic School Girls Rule: DS Carter makes some lurid comments about the attractiveness of girls in school uniforms in "Taste of Fear". On another occasion Jack Regan is meeting an informant in the park when a couple of schoolgirls walk by and one of them bends over to pick something up. Seeing Regan's distraction, the informant quips: "I could be arrested for doing what you're thinking!"
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The Sweeney / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Regan bends the rules, but he's unwilling to cheat for personal gain: he delivers a sharp put-down to a corrupt copper in "Bad Apple", and refuses to take a bribe in "Golden Fleece".
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The Sweeney / int_bb8f2da3	comment	Cop Killer Manhunt: The penultimate episode "Victims" deals with the Flying Squad on the trail of an informant who shot and killed a police officer. He's eventually tracked to his hideout at an abandoned warehouse. His girlfriend attempts to talk him down, but Regan is forced to shoot him in self-defence.
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The Sweeney / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Sweeney / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Free from the constraints of television, the characters swear up a storm.
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The Sweeney / int_bffb777a	comment	Sawed-Off Shotgun: In the second movie the criminals use gold-plated Purdey shotguns stolen from a rock star. There's a notable scene where the blagger sticks his sawn-off in a bank manager's face. The only times the guns are used on people, however, are on wounded crew members and to escape the Sweeney the only way out they could.
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The Sweeney / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
The Sweeney / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Degenerating into Bad Cop, Worse Cop and even Bad Cop, Rabid Cop.
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The Sweeney / int_c5d36037	type	Big Damn Movie
The Sweeney / int_c5d36037	comment	Big Damn Movie: The 1977 movie featured a complex blackmail conspiracy attempting to influence oil prices, with collateral murders the only reason the Sweeney are involved. However they seemed to realise this was silly, so in the second spinoff they went stuck to foiling particularly nasty bank robberies- this ended up Darker and Edgier with a higher body count than the whole TV run combined.
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The Sweeney / int_d02585dd	comment	Ending Theme: A slower and mellower version of the opening theme was used on the end credits, accompanying images of Carter and Regan packing up their stuff and going home for the night.
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The Sweeney / int_d24f76b2	comment	Police Lineup: "In From the Cold" has a scene where a wheelchair-bound officer has to identify the criminal who shot and paralysed him. The lineup takes place outdoors in the police station car park.
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The Sweeney / int_debc6687	comment	Solemn Ending Theme: The show has a fast-paced opening theme as befits an action-packed cop show, but the closing titles use a surprisingly low-key arrangement of the same theme.
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The Sweeney / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: In "Night Out", the following exchange takes place between Regan and Iris Long (a "working girl") while awaiting the arrival of an armed gang:
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The Sweeney / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: In "Big Spender", a character played by Warren Mitchell (better known for Till Death Us Do Part) escapes from villains by dressing up in his girlfriend's clothes and a wig. Regan and Carter turn up. "Ooh Mr Wardle, you do look nice!"
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The Sweeney / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: "Night Out" has a scene where we're introduced to a woman in a hand-held shot which lasts three minutes and forty seconds with no cuts, during which time the camera shows her at her dressing-table, follows her around the room as she puts her stockings away, and then follows her back to a shot of her and Regan and their reflections in the dressing-table mirror, moving effortlessly from one-shot to two-shot to long-shot to over-the-shoulder and back to one-shot - all in a single take
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The Sweeney / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger than They Look: John Thaw would have been between 33 and 37 when he played Jack Regan, but looks well into his forties- partly reinforced by the way he acts as well. Thaw himself apparently said "I was born looking 50".
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The Sweeney / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: "Bad Apple" sees Regan take on a pair of crooked officers who take bribes from villains to let them go and are running a protection racket.
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The Sweeney / int_eb37fe59	type	Sequel Episode
The Sweeney / int_eb37fe59	comment	Sequel Episode: Season two's "Golden Fleece" and "Trojan Bus" featured a pair of Australian villains, Colin MacGruder and Ray Stackpole. Season three's "Taste of Fear" and "On the Run" feature career criminal Tim Cook.
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The Sweeney / int_f0cb6c51	comment	Reading Your Rights: Regan's reading of the rights generally summed to four words, usually accompanied by one last punch, kick or headbutt.
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The Sweeney / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: The opening theme is upbeat and heroic, while the closing theme is the same themes but slower and in a minor key, reflecting Regan's incomplete success and his regrets for the compromises necessary to achieve even that.
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The Sweeney / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: In "Hard Men", one Glasgow gangster kills another (who had, admittedly, kidnapped the first man's daughter) by shooting him with A VEREY (Flare) PISTOL; the victim goes up in a ball of flame and dies horribly, screaming; causing the dead man's friend to tell a policeman, "Did ye see that? Did ye? That was DIABOLICAL!"
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The Sweeney / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Garfield Morgan was asked to play Haskins again as he had done in the series, but rejected the project as he felt the role was too small. In the end, Haskins became Matthews and Bernard Kay was cast instead.
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The Sweeney / int_f729e5bc	comment	Sequel Goes Foreign: The second film sees Regan and Carter go from their London setting to Malta in order to track down a gang of armed robbers.
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The Sweeney / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: "Nightmares" features a couple of renegade ex-IRA trying to get hold of some experimental laser-sighted rifles stolen from a factory in Utah (a reference to the AM-180, though they're AR-10's on screen).
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The Sweeney / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: Jack Regan suffers this in the 1978 movie when an armed robber evades capture by putting a sawn-off shotgun in his mouth. And it's not just blood either. Regan doesn't sell it until he reaches the bathroom, then frantically scrubs his face clean before venting his anger at the criminals escaping justice.
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The Sweeney / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Many of the famous catchphrases used by Regan and Carter (for example, "Get your trousers on, you're nicked" and "We're the Sweeney, son, and we haven't had our dinner yet") were the result of the program's researchers studying the way real members of the Flying Squad ("The Sweeney") talked when off-duty in pubs near New Scotland Yard.
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