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The Detectives is a British comedy television series, starring Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, and George Sewell. It aired on BBC One from 27 January 1993 to 28 December 1997, and was a spoof of police dramas. It was written by Mike Whitehill and Steve Knight.

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  • The Detectives is a British comedy television series, starring Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, and George Sewell. It aired on BBC One from 27 January 1993 to 28 December 1997, and was a spoof of police dramas. It was written by Mike Whitehill and Steve Knight. (en)
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  • While Louis is confined to a wheelchair, he witnesses a brutal crime of passion, but has trouble convincing Briggs that it was not all in his mind. (en)
  • When Briggs and Louis, helped by a mysterious Comanche Chief, go on the hunt for a sacred Indian carving, they soon find themselves on the trail of tragedy, death and disaster. (en)
  • A new female superintendent takes over the department. She decides a clean sweep is needed and Briggs and Louis are useless so it is time for them to go. Surely this isn't the end for the bumbling duo? (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • Much to his surprise, Briggs is asked to be best man at a colleague's wedding. (en)
  • A natural steroid that promotes raw aggression has been developed, and the British Boxing Board of Control is worried that a certain trainer may be using it on his boxers. Briggs and Louis masquerade as the manager and trainer of a more athletically built policeman, working undercover at said trainer's gym. However, they are more interested in the drug's side effects, which include enhanced sexual prowess and drive. Guest starring Tim Healy. (en)
  • Drugs are found in the locker of a girl at a private school. In an appeal against her expulsion, she claims they have been planted by her socialite classmates. Louis and Briggs are assigned to the case, but are distracted when Myrtle the Turtle, the last female member of a very rare species, dies while under their protection. (en)
  • Briggs and Louis investigate an attack on a top figure skater. (en)
  • D.C. Boyle, the son of the commissioner, has joined the police force and his father has ordered that he not be treated any different from the others. So Frank puts him with Briggs and Louis, who are assigned to guard Wembley Stadium that weekend. However, they have their minds on winning the police table football tournament. (en)
  • Two tough detectives are required to go undercover at a monastery. Unable to find any, the Super employs Briggs and Louis. Guest starring Christopher Ellison. (en)
  • A gang member is shot by police during a getaway and is unconscious in hospital. The gang leader wants to ensure that he does not incriminate anyone by killing him before he comes round. Briggs and Louis are assigned to protect the unconscious gang member while he is in hospital – giving Bob all sorts of opportunities to express his hypochondria. (en)
  • Louis and Briggs are called in to investigate a murder that has taken place during the re-creation of a medieval battle scene. However, they are more concerned with the police football quiz. (en)
  • On Customs and Excise duty in Felixstowe, Louis and Briggs become trapped in the back of a pilchard lorry. They find themselves in Amsterdam, in possession of a large quantity of diamonds that had been smuggled there in the lorry. Guest starring Herbert Lom. (en)
  • A Duchess keeps appearing in the tabloids canoodling with her police bodyguards. Guest starring Rula Lenska. (en)
  • Briggs and Louis have found their true vocation during a job swap scheme – the river police. With peace, quiet and the total absence of any kind of crime, it seems like paradise, until they encounter an unexploded World War II river mine. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • Louis and Briggs spend a night patrolling the marshes, on the lookout for an escaped bear. (en)
  • Briggs and Louis are assigned a case protecting the eggs of a newly discovered breeding pair of red kites. Their indifference turns to panic as the eggs are stolen. Guest starring Bill Oddie. (en)
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