Sam Saturday

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6 x 60 minute episodes

Detective Inspector Sam Sterne (Ivan Kaye) was young, Jewish and divorced, and lived in a terraced house where he looked after his old-fashioned, widowed mother, Rita (Doreen Mantle) who moved in with him after she had a mild heart attack.

The £4 million Saturday night series from ITV was set in north London where – to the other coppers in his patch – Sterne was known as ‘Sam Saturday’ because he also worked on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath.

Storylines always managed to interweave Sam’s investigations (which were usually Golders Green-connected) with Sam’s personal life and problems, mostly with his married brother (David Fleeshman) and his two daughters who lived with his ex-wife (Tracie Hart) and her wealthy husband (Gareth Marks).

Sam’s partner was the hard-working Detective Sergeant Jim Butler (Peter Armitage).

DI Sam Sterne (Sam Saturday)
Ivan Kaye
DS Jim Butler
Peter Armitage
Rita Sterne
Doreen Mantle
Mike
Dennis Victory
CDI Simpson
Michael Elwyn
Michael Sterne
David Fleeshman
DI Griffiths
Simon Slater
Miriam Sterne
Lauren Jacobs
DC Knights
Paul Opacic
WPC Daniels
Helen Levien
DC Enright
Geoffrey Church
Susan
Sally Dexter
Carol Greenburg
Tracie Hart
Harry Greenburg
Gareth Marks