Police 2020

Police 2020
Poster
GenreCrime drama
Science fiction
Created byPaul Abbott
Directed byDavid Richards
StarringLiam Cunningham
Rachel Davies
Nick Reding
Saira Todd
Keith Barron
ComposerHal Lindes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes1
Production
ProducerJoanna Gueritz
EditorNeil Parker
Camera setupAndrew McDonnell
Running time100 minutes[1]
Production companyGranada Television
Original release
NetworkITV
Release22 June 1997 (1997-06-22)

Police 2020 is a one-off television pilot, first broadcast in 1997, that was set to be the first episode of an ongoing British crime drama series. Set in the near future, the pilot starred Liam Cunningham as DCI Billy O'Connell,[2] the head of a police nightshift force, who is tasked with tackling an armed suspect, Eddie Longshaw (Keith Barron), who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in an elevator after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that took the lives of most of his family.[3]

However, whilst conducting his investigation, O'Connell and a close colleague, Marsha Beagley (Rachel Davies), are both in the process of competing for a promotion, and are being monitored throughout the crisis to see who performs better, unaware that their superiors are taking advantage of the situation to pit them against each other.[4] Although the feature-length pilot gained much press attention, a full series was not commissioned.

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References

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  1. ^ http://movies.prettyfamous.com/l/63056/Police-2020-1997 [dead link]
  2. ^ https://theiapolis.com/movie-0QZ5/police-2020/
  3. ^ "Blog".
  4. ^ "Police 2020 (1997)". Archived from the original on 19 September 2020.
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