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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Juliet Bravo

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    This British police drama series was created by the prolific Ian Kennedy Martin (creator of The Sweeney) and revolved around a newly promoted female police Inspector called Jean Darblay, whose radio call sign was “Juliet Bravo”.

    Jean (Stephanie Turner, pictured above) created waves when she took over a small-town police station in the fictional town of Hartley, Lancashire (an amalgam of bits of Burnley, Nelson, Bacup and other east Lancashire cotton towns with chunks of the surrounding moorlands thrown in).

    She was a career copper and housewife who battled against sexism from the start.

    Her arrival in Hartley was greeted with distrust and resentment from her fellow officers – especially the obnoxious CID mob – but she rapidly earned respect, enjoying particular support from her solid, dependable sergeants, Joe Beck (David Ellison) and George Parrish (Noel Collins), as well as her husband, Tom (David Hargreaves), a social worker.

    After three seasons Darblay was promoted upstairs and replaced by Kate Longton (Anna Carteret, pictured below) who kept the police call sign that gave the show its title.

    Cosy and reassuring, with an emphasis on human drama rather than sensational crime, Juliet Bravo proved particularly popular with female viewers.

    Inspector Jean Darblay 
    Stephanie Turner
    Tom Darblay
    David Hargreaves
    Sgt Joseph Beck 

    David Ellison
    Sgt George Parrish 

    Noel Collins
    PC Roland Bentley 

    Mark Drewry
    Inspector Kate Longton 

    Anna Carteret
    DCI Logan 

    Tony Caunter
    PC Brian Kelleher 

    C J Allen
    DCI Mark Perrin 

    Edward Peel
    PC Danny Sparks
    Mark Botham

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