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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 3, Episode 6 - Operation Snowdrop

A race relations officer gives the squad some tips on how to conduct themselves in public.

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Beach decides that his men need to be taught tolerance of minority groups in the police force. The commissioner assigns expert Assistant Commissioner Terra Blacnhe to help them.

They try to bring in officers of minority groups to help them, but when they can't find any, Terra Blanche makes them all pretend to be from minority groups themselves.

Beach and Ray are made into black coppers, Strings is put in a wheelchair, Mark becomes a gay cop, de Sade and Bill are made WPCs and Bones is told to be a homeless man.

de Sade and Bill are make to dress in short skirts with stockings and suspenders and too much make-up and Terra Blanche insists their wages are cut, as it is a proven statistic that women don't work as hard as men.

Mark is made to dress in a glittery sequined uniform and wear a small moustache, Bones is made to look like a beggar from a Dickens novel and Beach and Ray are made to behave in a stereotypically Jamaican way, which does not go down well with the black community.

Beach decides enough is enough and calls in the Commissioner to sort it all out. Once Terra Blanche has gone Beach works to sort out Bones's gambling addiction, which he has acquired during his time on the streets. Several hours later Beach is still on the fruit machines himself.

Broadcast details

Date
Thursday 31st August 2000
Time
10pm
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
William Scully Bill Zeebub
Hugo Blick Narrator
Guest cast
Jim Beach The Commissioner
John Judd Asst. Commissioner Terra Blanche
Tina Renzullo Mrs. Hudson
Writing team
Dominic Anciano Writer
Ray Burdis Writer
Hugo Blick Writer
Production team
Dominic Anciano Director
Ray Burdis Director
Dominic Anciano Producer
Ray Burdis Producer
Hugo Blick Producer
Geoffrey Perkins Executive Producer
Jim Beach Executive Producer
Mark Hudson Line Producer
Piotr Szkopiak Editor
Chris Shaw Editor
Nick Burnell Production Designer
Rupert Allan Production Designer
Tim Prosser Production Designer
Ian Culverwell Production Designer
Howard Lloyd Production Designer
Ali Brown Costume Designer
Stephanie Branscombe Costume Designer
Carla Baxter Costume Designer
Anna Zolotuhin Costume Designer
Michelle May Costume Designer
Caroline Rose Make-up Designer
John Beckett Composer

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