Patrick Mower played Detective Superintendent Steve Hackett in this underrated BBC cop show from the 1970s, which was deemed so violent that it was axed. Seemed a ridiculous decision then. More so now.

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Target Main Cast List

Patrick Mower as Det. Supt. Steve Hackett
Philip Madoc as Det. Chief Supt. Tate
Brendan Price as Det. Sgt. Frank Bonney
Vivien Heilbron as Det. Sgt. Louise Colbert
Ania Marson as Ros
Carl Rigg as Det. Con. Dukes
Grahame Mallard as Det. Con. Fletcher
Stephen Bent as Det. Sgt. Andrews
Del Baker as Carter's Thug
Derek Martin as Alan Ziegler
Eddie Powell as Carter's Thug

Target Episode List

Series 1
(1.01) Shipment
(1.02) Blow Out
(1.03) Big Elephant
(1.04) Hunting Parties
(1.05) Vandraggers
(1.06) Lady Luck
(1.07) Set Up
(1.08) Roadrunner
(1.09) Carve-Up

Series 2
(2.01) Rogue's Gallery
(2.02) A Good And Faithful Woman
(2.03) Queen's Pardon
(2.04) Fringe Banking
(2.05) Promises
(2.06) The Trouble With Charlie
(2.07) Figures Of Importance
(2.08) The Run

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I, Claudius DVD available from booksmusicfilmstv.com - in association with Amazon.co.uk

I Claudius - Complete BBC Series (5 Disc Box Set) [1976] ~ Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips

I, Claudius Main Cast List

Derek Jacobi as Claudius
Siân Phillips as Livia
George Baker as Tiberius
John Hurt as Caligula
Brian Blessed as Augustus
Patrick Stewart as Sejanus
Margaret Tyzack as Antonia
Patricia Quinn as Livilla
John Paul as Marcus Agrippa
Sheila White as Messalina
Christopher Biggins as Nero
Ian Ogilvy as Drusus
David Robb as Germanicus
John Castle as Postumus
Fiona Walker as Agrippina
Frances White as Julia
James Faulkner as Herod
Kevin McNally as Castor
John Rhys-Davies as Macro
Christopher Guard as Marcellus
Stratford Johns as Piso
Bernard Hepton as Pallas
John Cater as Narcissus
Barbara Young as Agrippinilla
Beth Morris as Drusilla
Simon MacCorkindale as Lucius
Sheila Ruskin as Vipsania
Angela Morant as Octavia
Graham Seed as Britannicus
Jo Rowbottom as Calpurnia
Sam Dastor as Cassius
Kevin Stoney as Thrasyllus
Freda Dowie as Caesonia & Sibyl
Irene Hamilton as Plancina
Darien Angadi as Plautius
Peter Bowles as Caractacus
Norman Eshley as Marcus
John Bennett as Xenophon
Patsy Byrne as Martina
Douglas Melbourne as Gemellus
Karin Foley as Helen
Earl Rhodes as Gaius
Richard Hunter as Drusus Caesar
Russell Lewis as Young Lucius
Robert Morgan as Young Caligula
Cheryl Johnson as Claudia Octavia
Sam Dastor as Cassius
Isabel Dean as Lollia
Liane Aukin as Aelia
Moira Redmond as Domitia
Bernard Hill as Gratus

EDGE OF DARKNESS

'Edge Of Darkness' was a dark BBC drama from the mid-1980s, written by the brilliant Troy Kennedy Martin. Bob Peck played police officer Ronald Craven, who, on investigating his daughter's murder, opens up a can of worms. 'Edge Of Darkness' was a series showered with awards, and is still considered one of British television's finest series.

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Edge Of Darkness Main Cast List

Bob Peck as Ronald Craven
Joe Don Baker as Darius Jedburgh
Charles Kay as Pendleton
Ian McNeice as Harcourt
Joanne Whalley as Emma Craven
Hugh Fraser as Bennett
John Woodvine as Ross
Jack Watson as James Godbolt
Allan Cuthbertson as Chilwell
Kenneth Nelson as Grogan
David Fleeshman as Jones
Zoë Wanamaker as Clemmy
Bill Stewart as Dingle
T.R. Bowen as Childs
Imogen Staley as Young Emma
Paul Humpoletz as Elham
Sarah Martin as Polly Pelham
Paul Williamson as Bewes
Tim McInnerny as Terry Shields
Harry Fielder as Policeman
Jay Jackson as Military Attache
Sally Martin as Polly Pelham

Edge Of Darkness DVDs available from booksmusicfilmstv.com - in association with Amazon.co.uk

Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series [1985] ~ Bob Peck

Edge of Darkness [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) ~ Joe Don Baker, Bob Peck