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The Thin Blue Line (1995–1996)

TV Series  -  30 min  -  Comedy | Crime
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Various mishaps at a police station in an English Hamlet. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler. CID foil to Fowler, Inspector Grim is a bumbling, seething idiot!

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Ben Elton
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Season:

2 | 1

Year:

1996 | 1995
1 win & 1 nomination See more awards »
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Cast

Series cast summary:
Rowan Atkinson ...
Inspector Fowler (14 episodes, 1995-1996)
Mina Anwar Mina Anwar ...
P.C. Habib (14 episodes, 1995-1996)
James Dreyfus James Dreyfus ...
P.C. Goody (14 episodes, 1995-1996)
Serena Evans Serena Evans ...
Sergeant Dawkins (14 episodes, 1995-1996)
David Haig David Haig ...
D.I. Grim (14 episodes, 1995-1996)
Rudolph Walker Rudolph Walker ...
P.C. Gladstone (14 episodes, 1995-1996)
Kevin Allen Kevin Allen ...
D.C. Kray (7 episodes, 1995)
Mark Addy ...
D.C. Boyle (7 episodes, 1996)
Joy Brook Joy Brook ...
D.C. Crockett (7 episodes, 1995)
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Storyline

Inspector Raymond C. Fowler is the officer in charge of Gasford police station, a devoted and integer servant of the crown, and a terrible stickler for rules and all forms of correctness. His second in command, Sergeant Patricia Dawkins, is also his partner and very much in command in all non-police matters, with a nasty tendency to forget her professional place too. The uniform branch is further manned by three Constables: old Trinidadian-born Frank Gladstone, promising foxy Pakistani Maggie Habib and English simpleton Kevin Goody, good friends but constantly arguing and overeager, especially by Fowler's impossibly high standards. They share the station with loudly arrogant but rather stupid and shockingly in-courteous Detective Inspector Derek Grim's CID branch, which further includes Detectives Robert Kray and Gary Boyle. The female mayor is a further worry, the crooks usually cause much less trouble then the permanent cast. Written by KGF Vissers  

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Police | Police Station | Sergeant | Farce | Sitcom  | See more »

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Comedy | Crime

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Country:

UK

Language:

English

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Also Known As:

A Bela Farda Azul See more »

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Trivia

Chris Barrie was considered for the role of Inspector Fowler. See more »

Quotes

Detective Inspector Derek Grim: I've got a tough job Raymond, and I need your cooperation. Now it's pretty urgent, so I won't beat around the proverbial privet. Frankly I'm too busy a man to be cluck-clucking like a decapitated feathered fowl, so I'll get straight to the point.
Inspector Raymond C. Fowler: I'm very happy to hear that.
Detective Inspector Derek Grim: Time waits for no man as the proverb goes, and what I say is, in CID crime waits for no man. So, with that in mind, I shall cut the bovine feces altogether. This is CID work, and in CID, we dispense with niceties, we avoid irrelevance, disregard herrings, red or otherwise, and above all, we do not fanny about!
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Connections

Featured in "Comedy Connections: Geoffrey Perkins (#6.9)" (2008) See more »