The Sweeney was a TV drama about the Metropolitan Police.
Required viewing for families in the mid-1970s The Sweeney was a hard hitting police drama about the Metropolitan Police. The Sweeney focused on two main characters, played by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, as they tackled violent crime and armed robbery in London. Pursuing villains by methods which were underhand and often illegal saw Thaw and Waterman investigating crimes including bank robberies, kidnap, hijack and blackmail. The Sweeney revolutionised the genre on UK television in the mid 1970s and its cult status lead to its return in 2012, this time on the big screen in a feature film starring Ray Winstone.
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