Each film will open with a teaser of up to 3 minutes, which will be followed by the opening titles.
#SWEENEY TODD IMDB CAST SERIES#
His shoes as series writer were filled by his brother Troy Kennedy Martin, Roger Marshall, Ranald Graham and Trevor Preston.Įvery writer on the series was given very specific guidelines to follow: "Each show will have an overall screen time (minus titles) of 48 minutes 40 seconds. Following this battle for creative control, Ian Kennedy Martin parted company with the project. Ian Kennedy Martin saw the subsequent series as being mainly studio-based, with more dialogue and less action, but producer Ted Childs, inspired in part by Get Carter (1971) and The French Connection (1971), disagreed. After it scored highly in the ratings, work began on the development of the series proper. įrom the very beginning, the Regan film was seen as having series potential. Dennis Waterman was cast after his performance in the Special Branch episode "Stand and Deliver", also produced by Euston Films.
#SWEENEY TODD IMDB CAST TV#
The part of Jack Regan was specifically written for John Thaw, who was a friend of Ian Kennedy Martin, with whom he had worked on the TV drama series Redcap in the 1960s. Regan is a 90-minute television film written by Ian Kennedy Martin for the Thames Television anthology series Armchair Cinema (see Armchair Theatre) in 1974. The Sweeney was developed from a one-off TV drama entitled Regan which served as the pilot episode for the series.
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The very great popularity of the show in the UK helped bring about the production of two feature film iterations of the series in Sweeney! and Sweeney 2.
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The programme's title The Sweeney comes from the real-world Cockney rhyming slang nickname "Sweeney Todd" used to refer to the Flying Squad by London's criminal fraternity in the mid 20th Century. It was produced by the Thames Television subsidiary Euston Films for broadcast on the ITV network in the UK between 19. It stars John Thaw as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as his partner, Detective Sergeant George Carter. The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.