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* [[The City Narrows]]: The (fictional) setting of the series is based on London's poorest borough. How much the episode in question portrays this on screen [[Depending on the Writer|Depends on the writer]], to the extent where Sun Hill can be relatively middle class at times; and nothing short of a lawless [[Wretched Hive]] at others.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: [[Once an Episode|At the end of every single episode]] broadcast between 2002 and 2007, the period in its history when [[Crime-Time Soap|it was very heavily serialised]].
* [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]]: Sadly, the Region 2 (UK) DVD releases of older episodes appear to suffer from this. The episode "Snout", for example, originally opened with DI Burnside listening to "Every Breath You Take" by [[The Police]], on his car radio while driving to work. He even sings along (badly) to the chorus of the song. Both the
* [[Compilation Movie]]: The earliest commercial releases of the half-hour episodes on VHS videotape were almost exclusively made up of compilations of two or three episodes edited into a single "movie". Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
* [[Council Estate]]: And how!
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** Play spot the Southwark street with this show. Or, if you know [[National Rail]], spot the out-of-place train. Or, a scene clearly filmed south of the Thames.
* [[Title Drop]]: A regular trope of the earliest episodes was that the episode title ''always'' popped up somewhere in the dialogue of that particular episode.
* [[Transplant]]: Detective Constable Eva Sharpe was moved over to the [[Spin-Off]] series ''Murder Investigation Team'' during that
* [[Trash the Set]]: At least twice, but not always when the location had to be moved.
* [[Undercover Cop Reveal]]
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* [[Welcome Episode]]: The 1983 pilot episode takes this format.
* [[Whitehall]]: In the 1984 episode "The Drug's Raid", Whitehall intervenes {{spoiler|when the main suspect turns out to have diplomatic immunity}}, much to Detective Inspector Galloway's disgust.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Frequently employed by senior officers, particularly Sgt Smith
* [[The Yardies]]
* [[You Do Not Have to Say Anything]]: ''"... but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say can (and probably will) be taken down and used in evidence."''
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