The Sweeney (TV Series) Drag Act (1978) User Reviews

Carter's Romantic Episode

[TheFearmakers · 6/10 · 12 April 2022]

Early on in THE SWEENEY, Dennis Waterman's Sgt. Carter, the young, more vulnerable partner of hot-tempered John Thaw's Inspector Regan, has a wife... who asked for more screen-time and money, and was run over by a car (the episode fitfully titled HIT AND RUN), thereafter making Carter almost as much a womanizer as Regan...

Until the final season's DRAG ACT, Carter's romantic episode paired with pretty Katy Fahy as PC Julie Kingdom (a rookie with an energetic male partner about to get credit for stolen lorries carrying brandy under a miffed Regan's nose)... which includes one of those date montage sequences in a filler episode that, like many, bookends the more intense and violent action upfront and in the finale, and while phoned-in is not altogether awful.

Drag Act

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 19 March 2022]

It looks like the Sweeney have their mind elsewhere. It certainly is not on the job.

A cargo of brandy has been stolen from a lorry. Regan turns up at the crime scene with his latest glamour puss.

Carter meanwhile gets over friendly with young WPC Julie Kingdom at another police station.

All the while the Sweeney are a laughing stock when another lorry with brandy is stolen right under their noses.

It is WPC Kingdom and rookie cop Mike Seton who follow a hunch about a flash guy called Marriot.

It was a disjointed episode, at times I wondered if there was a plot until one of the lorry driver's was found dead.

By the end it makes a social comment as to how badly police women were treated in those days. They were seen to join the force for a few years and then marry a merchant banker. Kingdom was not even given credit for help cracking the case.

Look out for a young Patrick Malahide. He will later go on to spar with Dennis Waterman in Minder.

Business as usual

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 15 April 2021]

A pretty middling episode. The great Patrick Malahide has a guest star role but they make so little of his presence that he's barely distinguishable. The rest is business as usual, tough dialogue, a little comedy, some action and lots of plot.