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Operation Good Guys

Operation Good Guys

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1997 - 2000
  • 19 episodes (3 series)

Mockumentary. DI Beach is in charge of a group of hopeless undercover police officers. Stars David Gillespie, Ray Burdis, Dominic Anciano, Mark Burdis, Perry Benson and more.

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Series 1, Episode 3 - Frisk 'Em

A New York cop, invited over by Beach to explain US policing techniques, rejects the team's reserved approach in favour of more direct action.

Further details

Beach has decided to enlist the help of US cop Lou "Frisk 'em" Ferrino in their latest attempt to nab Smiler McCarthy. When Ferrino arrives he is quick to mock The Good Guys efforts and much to Beach's anger proceeds to take over. He sets up an exchange with Smiler McCarthy of $500,000 for £2,000,000 of counterfeit money. He has placed the money in a bag, which is rigged with aluminium dye, which will explode over Smiler as soon as he opens the bag thereby marking him and pinning this job on him (thus creating grounds for an arrest).

The plan backfires when Mark Kemp decides he wants to see half a million dollars as he'll never get the chance again. He opens the bag and covers all the Good Guys (apart from Beach who is in his office telling Ferrino that they are the best in the force).

They are forced to use new tactics. They send Gary Barwick rigged with a camera into a pub to meet one of Smiler's men to find out when McCarthy will be taking the fake money. Instead Gary gets drunk and fails.

Ferrino angrily storms into the pub and demands the info off the guy at gunpoint. With the information acquired, the Good Guys wait outside Smiler McCarthy's house. When no one turns up Ferrino goes mad and goes and takes McCarthy at gunpoint. When Beach goes to talk to him, Ferrino takes him hostage too.

The Good Guys try to negotiate with Ferrino for Beach's release and even send over a drugged Pizza, which Beach ends up eating. Things are later resolved when they discover Ferrino's gun is empty. Ferrino is taken away whilst McCarthy sues the police.

Broadcast details

Date
Saturday 10th January 1998
Time
9:30pm
Channel
BBC Two
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
David Gillespie DI Jim Beach
Ray Burdis DS Raymond Ash
Dominic Anciano Sgt Dominic de Sade
Mark Burdis Mark Kemp
Perry Benson Bones
John Beckett Strings
Gary Beadle Gary Barwick
Roy Smiles Roy Leyton
Kim Taylforth Kim Finch
Hugo Blick Smiler McCarthy
Billy Penny ART Officer
William Scully ART Officer
Fiona Spreadborough Fiona Barwick
Guest cast
Lou Hirsch Lou Friskham-Farino
David Green ART Officer
Elinor Blick Newsreader
Garry Bushell Self
Writing team
Dominic Anciano Writer
Ray Burdis Writer
Hugo Blick Writer
Production team
Dominic Anciano Director
Ray Burdis Director
Hugo Blick Director
Dominic Anciano Producer
Ray Burdis Producer
Hugo Blick Producer
Geoffrey Perkins Executive Producer
Jim Beach Executive Producer
Sarah-Jane Wright Line Producer
Piotr Szkopiak Editor
Sabina Sattar Production Designer
Tanya Dowd Production Designer
Nick Burnell Production Designer
Venetia Ercolani Costume Designer
Clarissa Bromelle Costume Designer
Ali Brown Costume Designer
John Beckett Composer
Tess Golding Make-up Designer

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