The Sweeney

Season 2 (13 Episodes)

4 Seasons 1975 TV-PG 1h 00m 8.1

Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police. They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.

Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police (called "the Sweeney" from the Cockney rhyming slang "Sweeney Todd" = "Flying Squad"). They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Chalk and Cheese

1. Chalk and Cheese

Aired: Sep 1, 1975

Giles Nunn and Carrie Selhurst are an upper crust couple who, partly for kick...

Episode 2 Faces

2. Faces

Aired: Sep 8, 1975

A masked gang robs a security van and Carter's informant names ex-soldier Tob...

Episode 3 Supersnout

3. Supersnout

Aired: Sep 15, 1975

Joey Stickley, Regan's informant, is greedy but generally reliable. With Hask...

Episode 4 Big Brother

4. Big Brother

Aired: Sep 22, 1975

Suspect Andy Deacon collapses whilst Regan is interviewing him and a doctor c...

Episode 5 Hit and Run

5. Hit and Run

Aired: Sep 29, 1975

Carter's school-teacher wife Alison is deliberately killed by a hit and run d...

Episode 6 Trap

6. Trap

Aired: Oct 6, 1975

Five years earlier Regan got promotion following the Golden Maid dairy robber...

Episode 7 Golden Fleece

7. Golden Fleece

Aired: Oct 13, 1975

Colin MacGruder and Ray Stackpole, two Australians with the theme "Nice 'n' e...

Episode 8 Poppy

8. Poppy

Aired: Oct 20, 1975

Vic Labbett, a violent robber who fled England following a robbery, has now r...

Episode 9 Stay Lucky Eh?

9. Stay Lucky Eh?

Aired: Oct 26, 1975

Two young villains, Tyson and Jenner, working for gang boss Tony Kirby, are r...

Episode 10 Trojan Bus

10. Trojan Bus

Aired: Nov 2, 1975

Australian villains Colin MacGruder and Ray Stackpole return to London and st...

Episode 11 I Want the Man

11. I Want the Man

Aired: Nov 9, 1975

Informant Popeye is abducted by villain Maynard whilst staking out small-time...

Episode 12 Country Boy

12. Country Boy

Aired: Nov 16, 1975

An armed gang kidnap telephone engineer Ronald Peters and hold him in an empt...

Episode 13 Thou Shalt Not Kill!

13. Thou Shalt Not Kill!

Aired: Nov 23, 1975

The day before the start of a new term, the university branch of the National...

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Info about The Sweeney

Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime, Action

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