Rent Rockliffe's Babies: Series (1988)
3.6 of 5 from 48 ratings
15h 8min
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- Synopsis:
A controversial police procedural from the late 1980's, this ratings-winning drama charts the progress of seven trainee CID officers learning the ropes in some of London's toughest areas. Ian Hogg gives a career best performance as the tough, irascible Alan Rockliffe an old-school supervisor whose job it is to sort the wheat from the chaff. Also starring Joe McGann and Brian Croucher with guest appearances from Clive Owen, Pauline Quirke, Kevin Lloyd, John Michie and John Woodvine this set contains both hard-hitting series of 'Rockliffe's Babies', complete and uncut. It's a busy week for the young plain-clothes crime squad PC's. A mixed bunch, with decidedly mixed abilities, they're thrown in at the deep end with a hooded prowler, an armed robbery and a mugging on the notorious Dragon Estate they need to think fast, but if anyone can sharpen their instincts it's surely the quick-tempered DS Rockcliffe. - Actors:
- Ian Hogg, Joe McGann, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Bill Champion, John Blakely, Martyn Ellis, Brett Fancy, Edward Wilson, Susanna Shelling, Malcolm Terris, Brian Croucher, Bill McCabe, John Bleasdale, Norman Beaton, Lesley Clare O'Neill, Philip Wright, Denise Margetts, Lonnie Donegan, Gabrielle Glaister, Glen Murphy
- Directors:
- David Attwood, Derek Lister, Clive Fleury, Jeremy Ancock, Leonard Lewis, Keith Washington, Diarmuid Lawrence
- Producers:
- Leonard Lewis
- Writers:
- Richard O'Keefe, Don Webb, Nick Perry, Brian Thompson, Charlie Humphreys, Terry Hodgkinson, Joe Campbell
- Aka:
- Rockliffe's Babies: The Complete Series
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- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Crimes, TV Dramas
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Reviews (1) of Rockliffe's Babies: Series
Hard Hitting gone twee - Rockliffe's Babies: Series review by IcePee
Wow, I only half remember this program. I was very young at the time but I remembered it being hard hitting. Now, however, it feels incredibly dated and tame. The acting at times is quite hammy. And the supposedly severe and tasertern governor now feels more vaudevillian.
Not worth watching outside a nostalgia trip. But, still miles better than The Bill (don't @ me).
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