Repost of info ----- Star Cops is a BBC sci fi program [that aired] in 1987 which mixes the science fiction and mystery [procedural] genres .. The series is set in the year 2027, a time where Interplanetary travel has become commonplace, it starred David Calder as Nathan Spring, commander of the International Space Police Force—nicknamed the “Star Cops—who provide law enforcement for the newly developing colonies of the Solar System. The series follows Spring and the rest of his multinational team as they work to establish the Star Cops and solve whatever crimes come their way. Operating in a relatively accurately realized hard SF, near-future, space environment, many of the cases that the Star Cops investigate arise from opportunities for new crimes presented by the technologically advanced future society the series depicts and from the hostile frontier nature of the environment that the Star Cops live in. [synopsis is borrowed from wikipedia] Star Cops only lasted nine episodes. I found the show interesting. Each character had a reason for being on the Star Cops and that made things more realistic than in shows we would see in the future: Nathan Spring (David Calder) Nathan Spring is a 41-year-old Chief Superintendent in the British police force who reluctantly accepts promotion to Commander of the International Space Police Force with the brief of turning them into a full-time professional police force. Spring is a career policeman who has become disenchanted with the prevailing methods of policing which, he feels, are too dependent on computer logic and not on human instinct. David Theroux (Erick Ray Evans) Springs second in command is Chief Superintendent David Theroux, an American. Theroux, an engineer, started out in the US space program but quit and joined the European space effort instead. At first he is shown working as a traffic controller and part-time Star Cop on the European space station Charles de Gaulle. Movie buff Theroux generally tries to maintain an air of wise-cracking, cool detachment Colin Devis (Trevor Cooper) When Springs girlfriend, Lee Jones, is killed the task of investigating the murder is handed to Chief Inspector Colin Devis of the London Metropolitan Police, one of the Departments all-time cretins. Devis pursuit of the killer, an agent of the British Secret Service, costs him his job but Spring compensates him by hiring him, at the rank of Inspector, for the Star Cops Although Devis is not the sharpest investigator, is heart is in the right place and he is fiercely loyal to Spring. Pal Kenzy (Linda Newton) Australian Pal Kenzy is fired in episode 2 by Spring for corruption. Determined not to go quietly, Spring is forced to reinstate her when she foils an attempted hijacking on the Earth-Moon shuttle. Anna Shoun (Sayo Inaba) Rounding off the team is Dr Anna Shoun, a 29-year-old general physician from Japan. Spring takes her on when she is fired for betraying her employers, the multinational Hanimed corporation, to the Star Cops in Alexander Krivenko (Jonathan Adams) is the Russian commander of the Moonbase where the ISPF have their headquarters. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, it is Krivenkos research into bone damage that has contributed to enabling humanity to access space easily. Although the Star Cops are independent, Springs relationship with Krivenko is often deferential and he frequently seems to capitulate to Krivenkos wishes *************************************** One can watch this series via youtube Episode 1: https://youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DKjr0yzgCoxqbKYZqtJkz4D Episode 2: https://youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DIpylpSKZyw4SiDFJiMCzQL Episode 3: youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DLbZJFlGRml6lsqN67M898z Episode 4: youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DJeg5Jkxa9o7C2okrpOviKx Episode 5: https://youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DKw3aMBk_XSOrK8gW4vm7-w Episode 6: https://youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DLKeCBKb7geLmO0w7MQwfQs Episode 7: https://youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DIL6mpz9PMxKPvUmwfIDP5- Episode 8: https://youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DLRKA1meCgO_KjrRhREtDUe Episode 9: https://youtube/playlist?list=PLiIOt3RQJ5DKsk_BOcY6wSPPqxh0IA0vg
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:50:04 +0000
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