I remember watching Dempsey and Makepeace in the late 1980s and I loved it with all the action and chemistry that it offered. The differences between the lead characters is what made the show work well in personality, nationality and for appearance one being dark and the other fair that bought the chemistry of their differences to the paradox of their partnership of the personal and the cultural. This probably helped them finally get married in real life in 1989.
This for the time was the most underrated show as it had good writing, a good introduction in the credits and the characters were well written so their contentious forces always seemed to consolidate with their roles in SI10 the special Police branch they worked for. Other action shows that were overrated for the time got more attention because of their commercial ties and influence among Pop-culture circles such as The A-Team making this marginalised but not forgotten.
The series made in an era of good television the 1980s is about an American Police officer who for reasons of exposure to corruption in high circles is sent to Britain for safe keeping and working in an elite Police force with a hard nosed inspector and a feisty partner from an elite family. The series is well presented and full of action. The plots are based on real crime scenarios that are well reused in a selective and independent manner from the Sweeney and the Professionals and in its own way matches these great Police Thrillers making it their distinct equal
This for the time was the most underrated show as it had good writing, a good introduction in the credits and the characters were well written so their contentious forces always seemed to consolidate with their roles in SI10 the special Police branch they worked for. Other action shows that were overrated for the time got more attention because of their commercial ties and influence among Pop-culture circles such as The A-Team making this marginalised but not forgotten.
The series made in an era of good television the 1980s is about an American Police officer who for reasons of exposure to corruption in high circles is sent to Britain for safe keeping and working in an elite Police force with a hard nosed inspector and a feisty partner from an elite family. The series is well presented and full of action. The plots are based on real crime scenarios that are well reused in a selective and independent manner from the Sweeney and the Professionals and in its own way matches these great Police Thrillers making it their distinct equal