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Operation Good Guys

Operation Good Guys

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1997 - 2000
  • 19 episodes (3 series)

Mockumentary. DI Beach is in charge of a group of hopeless undercover police officers. Stars David Gillespie, Ray Burdis, Dominic Anciano, Mark Burdis, Perry Benson and more.

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Series 2, Episode 2 - Stardust

Two film stars join the team to research authenticity and police 'attitude', but learn some very strange lessons from the Good Guys.

Further details

Hollywood comes to Hendon in the form of Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller. Whilst Jude observes Ash and Beach, Jonny is sent out with de Sade and the ART to do observation at the commissioner's house, which is being renovated. However they don't know they're being filmed so de Sade and Bill set about stripping the house of anything they think they can flog, including all the plumbing which causes a flood and destroys the upper floors.

Beach meanwhile tries to demonstrate the art of trailing criminals by trying to trail Jude and Ash. He fails dismally. He then takes Jude home to meet his mother.

Bones, meanwhile, after eating some of his homemade butter goes out vigilante crime fighting with Mark on the underground. Their patrol is cut short when Bones has a severe case of gut rot from his butter and after failing to find a toilet is forced to go to the loo in his rucksack. Later on in the streets, a thugs runs past them and whips Bones bag. Bones and Mark give chase and arrest him. Bones then hands the bag into the desk sergeant as evidence.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 12th July 1999
Time
9:30pm
Channel
BBC Two
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
David Gillespie DI Jim Beach
Ray Burdis DS Raymond Ash
Dominic Anciano Sgt Dominic de Sade
Mark Burdis Mark Kemp
Perry Benson Bones
John Beckett Strings
Hugo Blick Hugo Crippin
William Scully Bill Zeebub
Hugo Blick Narrator
Guest cast
Joanna Wake Mrs. Beach
Jude Law Self
Jonny Lee Miller Self
Writing team
Dominic Anciano Writer
Ray Burdis Writer
Hugo Blick Writer
Production team
Dominic Anciano Director
Ray Burdis Director
Hugo Blick Director
Dominic Anciano Producer
Ray Burdis Producer
Hugo Blick Producer
Geoffrey Perkins Executive Producer
Jim Beach Executive Producer
Mark Hudson Line Producer
Piotr Szkopiak Editor
Sabina Sattar Production Designer
Nick Burnell Production Designer
Ali Brown Costume Designer
Alish Kimber Costume Designer
Stephanie Branscombe Costume Designer
Carla Baxter Costume Designer
John Beckett Composer

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