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.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - Frisk 'Em
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
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 |
Lou Hirsch | Lou Friskham-Farino |
David Green | ART Officer |
Elinor Blick | Newsreader |
Garry Bushell | Self |
Dominic Anciano | Writer |
Ray Burdis | Writer |
Hugo Blick | Writer |
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 |