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Star Cops is a British science fiction television series first broadcast on BBC2 in 1987. It was devised by Chris Boucher, a writer who had previously worked on the science fiction television series Doctor Who and Blake's 7 as well as crime dramas such as Juliet Bravo and Bergerac. Set in the year 2027, a time where Interplanetary travel has become commonplace, it starred David Calder as Nathan Spring, commander of the International Space Police Force—nicknamed the "Star Cops"—who provide law enforcement for the newly developing colonies of the Solar System. The series follows Nathan Spring and the rest of his multinational team as they work to establish the Star Cops and solve whatever crimes come their way. Operating in a relatively accurately realised hard SF, near-future, space environment, many of the cases that the Star Cops investigate arise from opportunities for new crimes presented by the technologically advanced future society the series depicts and from the hostile frontier nature of the environment that the Star Cops live in.
Original Release
07/06/1987 on BBC
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Cast
Name | Character |
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David Calder | Nathan Spring / Box |
Erick Ray Evans | David Theroux |
Trevor Cooper | Colin Devis |
Linda Newton | Pal Kenzy |
Jonathan Adams | Alexander Krivenko |
Sayo Inaba | Anna Shoun |
Gennie Nevinson | Lee Jones |
Moray Watson | Commander |
Keith Varnier | Stephenson, Controller |
Sian Webber | Corman |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | An Instinct for Murder | Monday, 06 July 1987 |
2 | Conversations with the Dead | Monday, 13 July 1987 |
3 | Intelligent Listening for Beginners | Monday, 20 July 1987 |
4 | Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits | Monday, 27 July 1987 |
5 | This Case to Be Opened in a Million Years | Monday, 03 August 1987 |
6 | In Warm Blood | Monday, 10 August 1987 |
7 | A Double Life | Monday, 17 August 1987 |
8 | Other People's Secrets | Monday, 24 August 1987 |
9 | Little Green Men and Other Martians | Monday, 31 August 1987 |
Directors
Christopher Baker, Graeme Harper
Writers
Chris Boucher, John Collee, Philip Martin
Cast
Name | Character |
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David Calder | Nathan Spring / Box |
Erick Ray Evans | David Theroux |
Trevor Cooper | Colin Devis |
Linda Newton | Pal Kenzy |
Jonathan Adams | Alexander Krivenko |
Sayo Inaba | Anna Shoun |
Gennie Nevinson | Lee Jones |
Moray Watson | Commander |
Keith Varnier | Stephenson, Controller |
Sian Webber | Corman |
David John Pope | Michael Chandri |
Daniel Benzali | Commander Griffin |
Roy Holder | Daniel Larwood |
Alan Downer | Paton |
Trevor Butler | Leo |
Michael Chesden | Carlo Santanini |
Geoffrey Bayldon | Ernest Wolfhartt |
Andy Secombe | Brian Lincoln |
Sean Scanlan | Fox |
Richard Rees | Richard Ho |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Evgeny Gridneff | Producer |