Juliet Bravo (1980)

Genre

crime, drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

6 seasons, 88 episodes

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British police drama about a female inspector who takes charge of a station in a small town. She deals with local crimes and faces resistance from some of her male colleagues.

earnestgroundeddeliberateunderstatedgrittysteady-pacedobservantmildly tense

What happens

Juliet Bravo is a British television police procedural drama series, first broadcast on 30 August 1980, that ran for six series and a total of 88 episodes on BBC1. The theme of the series concerned a female police inspector who took over control of a police station in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire. The lead role of Inspector Jean Darblay was played by Stephanie Turner in series 1 to 3, but in series 4 to 6 she was replaced by Anna Carteret for the role of Inspector Kate Longton. Carteret remained with the series until its conclusion in 1985. The series was devised by Ian Kennedy Martin, who had already enjoyed success with another police drama series, The Sweeney. Although the genre of police dramas was well-established on British television by 1980, Juliet Bravo and London Weekend Television's The Gentle Touch, which started a few months earlier, were the first series that saw female officers as lead characters, having to fight both crime and the prejudice of male colleagues. Kennedy Martin based the character of Jean Darblay on a real female police inspector, Wynne Darwin. UKTV’s Drama channel reran all six series in 2018 and again in early 2019. The series had previously been repeated in its entirety on the cable and satellite channel UK Gold from the launch in 1992 until 2001. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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