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* Jack Halford, Gerry Standing and Brian Lane in ''[[New Tricks]]'', although they cheerfully excuse their flagrant bending of the rules with the (reasonable) justification that technically they aren't ''actually'' police officers any more.

* Although the show was made when the "old-fashioned copper" technically wasn't old-fashioned, since the values represented were alive and well in the '70s, the cops on ''[[The Sweeney]]'' are pretty much the archetypal characters who represent this trope.

'''Carter''': (to the perps girlfriend) Have a lie in, luv. }}

* The 1983 sketch series ''Alfresco'' had a sketch in which a policeman in Victorian uniform walked into a modern police station, prompting another bobby to remark, "That's what I like to see - a good old fashioned copper."