The Sweeney

For other uses of the name Sweeney, see Sweeney

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The Sweeney is a British television police drama focusing on two crime-fighting members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the British police force specialising in armed robbery and violent crime. The programme originally aired on ITV from 1975 until 1978 and starred John Thaw as Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as George Carter. Such was its popularity in the UK that it even spawned two theatrically-released feature film spin-offs, Sweeney! and Sweeney 2.

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British - Television - Police - Drama - Flying Squad - ITV - 1975 - 1978 - John Thaw - Dennis Waterman - Feature film

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The series was created by writer Ian Kennedy Martin, brother of the better-known Troy Kennedy Martin, the latter of whom also contributed several episodes and wrote the second film. The programme was born out of a one-off drama, called Regan, which Ian Kennedy Martin had written for Thames Television's Armchair Cinema series of one-offs in 1974.

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Ian Kennedy Martin - Troy Kennedy Martin - Armchair Cinema - 1974

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