We’re havin’ hoops! Robert Fairclough takes an inside look at the ’70s lawman beating up the wrong guy...
From Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court to the Hot Tub Time Machine films, marooning characters from one era in another, usually more primitive one has been a popular staple of science fiction, fantasy and comedy. In 1992, The Comic Strip spoof Detectives On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown went the other way: “Shouting George of The Weeney” – a spoof of womanising, fist-throwing, alcohol-fuelled Flying Squad Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) from The Sweeney, 1975-78) – was brought out of retirement, the show relishing stranding him in a 1990s London lacking derelict warehouses, car chases and shouting.
Eight years later, three TV professionals descended on Blackpool for a Sweeney-esque, boozy weekend of chip suppers to brainstorm ideas for new television dramas. “Tony Jordan, Ashley Pharaoh and myself were sent away by [the production company] Kudos,” writer Matthew Graham tells SFX. “We realised that we were all a bit bored with police shows. Tony had done a series called City Central, which was a fairly traditional cop show… Inspector Morse and A Touch Of Frost were really good, but they weren’t naturally our thing. As a result, we all agreed The Sweeney was great and said, ‘Let’s do that!’
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ANCER MAHAGEMENT
WITH A NEW TRILOGY IN SIGHT, WE SPEAK TO THE DIRECTOR OF 28 WEEKS LATER THE ORIGINAL CHILLING SEQUEL TO DANNY BOYLE'S SEMINAL SURVIVAL HORROR
WHO YA CONNA CALL?
BEHIND THE SCENES AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL'S HOUR STRIKES TWICE AS THE GENREDEFYING DRAMA RETURNS
SCARRY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK
FROM THE RETURN OF EC COMICS TO SCREAM!, THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN OFFERS UP HORROR COMICS FOR ALL THE AGES
UNDEADS REFLECTIONS
NEIL JORDAN ON BRINGING ANNE RICE'S MODERN VAMPIRE CLASSIC TO SCREEN, 30 YEARS ON
MUNSTER MASH!
PRODUCTION HELL, SHOCK RECASTING AND HOTLY CONTESTED AUTHORSHIP. AS THE MUNSTERS CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, WE UNCOVER HOW THE SPOOKY SITCOM WAS ALMOST DEAD ON ARRIVAL
COMING TO AMERICA
THE MOGWAI LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THEIR SECOND CHAPTER, GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH
BEING HUMAN EVOLUTION
IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANT HIT, BUT BBC THREE'S DARKLY COMIC DRAMA ABOUT A HOUSE-SHARING VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/GHOST TRIO HAD A STRANGE JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN, SERIES CREATOR TOBY WHITHOUSE TELLS SFX
THE MAINE EVENT
THE DARK IS RISING IN SALEM'S LOT AS STEPHEN KING'S DEATHLESS TALE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN
WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR A BITE?
THE VAMPIRE COMES HOME AS DIRECTOR EUROS LYN WELCOMES SFX TO HIS NEW DARK COMEDY THE RADLEYS