The Thin Blue Line (TV series): Difference between revisions

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1990s [[Britcom]] set in a small-town police station, written by [[Ben Elton]] and starring [[Rowan Atkinson]] as repressed, old-fashioned but basically decent Police Inspector Raymond Fowler. His nemesis in the series was Inspector Grim, a [[Life on Mars|proto-Gene Hunt type]] but without the brains. The other regulars were all fellow police officers, including Raymond's longterm and long-suffering cohab girlfriend Sergeant Patricia Dawkins, elderly Constable Gladstone, junior officers Goody and Habib, and Grim's henchman Kray.
 
The series was apparently modelled on the classic World War II-themed show ''[[Dad's Army|Dads Army]]'', an ambitious target to live up to. The BBC's website sums up the show as [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thethinblueline/ "Should've worked. Didn't."]
 
Not to be confused with the Errol Morris [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/ documentary] about Dallas police and prosecutors framing a man for murder, nor ''[[The Thin Red Line]]''.
 
Came thirty-fourth in ''[[Britain's Best Sitcom|Britains Best Sitcom]]''.
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]
** After Patricia discovers the [[Not What It Looks Like]] example below, she goes for the rolling pin, and when he argues against her idea of having kids, she hits him with a fish.