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Crime Drama Context
The Sweeney
Britain was subjected to terror attacks by the IRA, following attacks in Guildford the previous year.
The Conservative party elected its first female leader, Margaret Thatcher.
Football hooliganism was rife in the 1st division, with hundreds of arrests across the country on the opening day.
Fascism was gaining momentum with the rise of the National Front, prompting racial conflict in specific communities.
The Punk movement was just about starting, with young people feeling disenfranchised.
We were about to enter the “winter of discontent”, with national strikes and blackouts.
Popular Hollywood films often featured “Hard Boiled” detectives like Dirty Harry, who had a cynical distrust of authority - (This is a reflection of the Watergate Scandal and America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
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The programme focuses on two members of
The Flying Squad, a branch of the
Metropolitan Police
Each episode cost in excess of £250,000 to
make and was filmed on a strict ten day
shooting schedule.
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Thames Television was one of the regional
franchise holders of the ITV network
broadcasting in the London area from 1968-
1992.
Euston Films, that made the series, adopted a “guerrilla” style of production. Filming on location and sometimes without permissions.
Luther
The set product is the first episode of Series 1,
broadcast in May 2010
Luther is a police procedural crime drama and
an example of an inverted detective story. It is
produced by BBC Drama, distributed by BBC
Studios, and broadcast on BBC1. It is also
available on iPlayer and Amazon Prime.
It has had 5 series, the most recent being in
2019.
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