The Thin Blue Line
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1995 - 1996
- 14 episodes (2 series)
Police sitcom about fastidious Inspector Raymond Fowler, his array of uniformed officers, and the oafish CID Inspector Grim. Stars Rowan Atkinson, David Haig, Serena Evans, James Dreyfus, Mina Anwar and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - Honey Trap
Further details
Grim asks Fowler if he can borrow Habib for an illegal entrapment operation. After some convincing Fowler reluctantly agrees, but is distraught when he realises she will have to pull out of the police pub quiz team.
Meanwhile, Patricia is getting suspicious of the amount of time Fowler and Habib are spending together. When Habib arrives for work disguised as a tart and tells Patricia that Inspector Fowler ordered her to dress that way, her blood begins to boil.
However, Fowler is too concerned with the quiz team and upcoming finals to notice. He's already lost Habib, and now Kray seems to be risking his competence. When Patricia refuses to take Maggie's place and Goody and Gladstone turn out to be too thick, he resorts to asking the criminals in the cells.
Back in CID, Grim decides to step up the operation and urges Habib go even further to get information out of the villain. Habib is increasingly uneasy with his methods and Fowler washes his hands with the whole business.
Things come to a head with Patricia over the matter of a new Royal Coat of Arms to be hung over the station's front desk, but the truth comes flowing out and it's Dawkins left looking the fool.
Grim is delighted when Habib and local criminal Terry the Tank arrive, handcuffed together. But the operation, it seems, hasn't concluded quite as he had hoped.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 27th November 1995
- Time
- 8:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
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Tuesday 12th July 2011 | 9:20pm | Gold |
Tuesday 12th July 2011 | 11:20pm | Gold |
Monday 14th April 2014 | 8:00pm | Gold |
Tuesday 15th April 2014 | 3:00pm | Gold |
Saturday 28th June 2014 | 11:45am | Gold |
Wednesday 30th July 2014 | 12:20pm | Gold |
Sunday 15th February 2015 | 5:00pm | Gold |
Tuesday 10th March 2015 | 5:00pm | Gold |
Wednesday 11th March 2015 | 1:40pm | Gold |
Friday 4th December 2015 | 11:10am | Gold |
Saturday 5th December 2015 | 8:50am | Gold |
Thursday 23rd June 2016 | 10:00pm | Yesterday |
Friday 24th June 2016 | 8:40pm | Yesterday |
Thursday 5th January 2017 | 10:05am | Gold |
Wednesday 14th June 2017 | 8:00am | Gold |
Wednesday 14th June 2017 | 1:50pm | Gold |
Wednesday 5th July 2017 | 7:00am | Gold |
Wednesday 13th September 2017 | 3:05am | Gold |
Thursday 14th September 2017 | 3:00am | Gold |
Monday 12th June 2023 | 9:00am | Gold |
Monday 12th June 2023 | 1:00pm | Gold |
Wednesday 26th July 2023 | 8:00pm | Gold |
Thursday 27th July 2023 | 12:20am | Gold |
Tuesday 5th September 2023 | 7:00pm | Gold |
Wednesday 6th September 2023 | 1:40pm | Gold |
Wednesday 6th September 2023 | 6:20pm | Gold |
Wednesday 4th October 2023 | 1:00pm | Gold |
Wednesday 4th October 2023 | 4:20pm | Gold |
Tuesday 16th January 2024 | 8:00pm | Gold |
Wednesday 17th January 2024 | 12:20am | Gold |
Wednesday 17th January 2024 | 2:35pm | Gold |
Wednesday 14th February 2024 | 2:40pm | Gold |
Friday 16th February 2024 | 2:20am | Gold |
Saturday 24th February 2024 | 10:30pm | Gold |
Sunday 25th February 2024 | 1:10am | Gold |
Cast & crew
Rowan Atkinson | Inspector Fowler |
David Haig | D.I. Grim |
Serena Evans | Sergeant Dawkins |
James Dreyfus | P.C. Goody |
Mina Anwar | P.C. Habib |
Rudolph Walker | P.C. Gladstone |
Kevin Allen | D.C. Kray |
Joy Brook | D.C. Crockett |
Stephen Marcus | Terry the Tank |
Ben Elton | Writer |
John Birkin | Director |
Geoffrey Perkins | Producer |
Ben Elton | Producer |
Peter Bennett-Jones | Executive Producer |
Graham Hutchings | Editor |
James Dillon | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |