The Detectives. Image shows from L to R: Dave Briggs (Robert Powell), Bob Louis (Jasper Carrott). Copyright: Celador Productions
The Detectives
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1993 - 1997
- 31 episodes (5 series)
Sitcom starring Robert Powell and Jasper Carrott as Dave Briggs and Bob Louis, the Met's most incompetent detectives. Stars Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell and George Sewell.
Episode menu
Series 3, Episode 3 - Art Attack
A performance-related pay initiative has been introduced, and Dave's delighted - until Bob's supportive words for a colleague end up seeing them transferred to the Fine Art Squad.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 23rd January 1995
- Time
- 8:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Jasper Carrott | Bob Louis |
| Robert Powell | Dave Briggs |
| George Sewell | Superintendent Cottam |
| Oliver Young | Uniformed Officer |
| Geoffrey Chater | Sutton Frobisher |
| John Quentin | Brian Kent |
| Ben Lemel | Performance Artist |
| James Sinclair Wallace | Haydn Smailes |
| Vernon Nurse | Hughie |
| Amanda Richardson | Barmaid |
| Stephen Aintree | Walter |
| Kevork Malikyan | Josef Esterhazy |
| Steve Knight | Writer |
| Mike Whitehill | Writer |
| Ed Bye | Director |
| Ed Bye | Producer |
| Nic Phillips | Executive Producer |
| Graham Hutchings | Editor |
| Andy Hamilton | Production Designer |
| Keith Strachan | Composer |
| Matthew Strachan | Composer |