Jasper Carrott
Director
The Detectives (1993)
Season 3
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
Released Jan. 27, 1993
Episode 25 min
None+
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Production Companies: Celador Productions
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S3E1 - D.C. Of Love
As a lonely and meaningless retirement beckons after 25 years on the force, the boys are given the task of finding 'The Black Widow' after a series of gruesome lonely hearts murders.
Jan. 9, 1995, midnight
S3E2 - Flash
After mixing their drinks at the policemen's ball, Louis and Briggs confront a new horror involving a flasher, a Marquess and the commissioner's wife.
Jan. 16, 1995, midnight
S3E3 - Art Attack
When forced to transfer into the Fine Arts Squad, our heroes are despatched to recover the latest artistic creation of 'enfant terrible' Hadyn Smailes - a pair of maracas, a tin of peaches and a fish tank of the artist's own urine.
Jan. 23, 1995, midnight
S3E4 - On Thin Ice
When Briggs and Louis investigate an attack on a top figure skater, the pair wind up on ice but fail to gain marks for artistic interpretation.
Jan. 30, 1995, midnight
S3E5 - Between A Rock And A Hard Place
After 30 years of watching and waiting, Superintendent Cottam ropes the boys into helping him catch notorious bullion thief, Ronnie Richardson.
Feb. 6, 1995, midnight
S3E6 - Twitchers
Briggs and Louis are assigned a case protecting the eggs of a newly-discovered breeding pair of red kites. Teir lack of enthusiasm soon turns to panic as the eggs are stolen.
Feb. 13, 1995, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 25 min.
Season Runtime: 725 min.
Released: Jan. 27, 1993
Last Air Date: Feb. 18, 1997, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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