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>As I have said previously, I only managed to see about three or four episodes,
>and I was wondering if anyone is familiar with the series and knows for how
>long it ran (or anything else about it).
>
>
>				Tom Payerle
>
>"Circular reasoning will just make you dizzy"

How about an episode guide?

All credit to Micky DuPree and Harry Carter.


From: htf@world.std.com (Harry Carter)

Subject: STAR COPS: Background, episode guide, tapes

Date: 18 Mar 92 16:59:20 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

[Micky DuPree gets the writing credit, I get the blame for this
not getting posted earlier.   - htf]


In an article dated 24 Dec 91 01:26:24 GMT,
Lawrence_Chen@lhaven.Portal.Com (Lawrence Chen) writes:
>In a message dated Mon 23 Dec 91 07:38, Jhreiher@happy.colorado.edu
>(animal wrote:
>
>J> I'm looking for an episode guide for Star Cops.
>
>I'd like to know more about this show, and seeing more of it.

STAR COPS
Introduction and Background

It is the year 2027 and the commercial exploitation of space is in full
swing.  There are six orbital stations around the Earth, an
internationally manned base on the moon, and a colony on Mars.
Unfortunately, criminal enterprise in space is in full swing as well,
and the International Space Police Force was created to deal with it.
But the ISPF is an ad hoc group of part-time volunteers looking for a
little extra money in addition to their regular jobs, and they're so
inefficient that they're dubbed the "Star Cops" by the press.  The
decision is made to appoint a commander and turn the force into a full-
time unit.  As our story opens, Detective Chief Superintendent Nathan
Spring has been pressured into submitting his name for the post despite
the fact that he's never even left Earth before.  Spring is an old-
fashioned cop who thinks modern police methods rely too heavily on
computer projections.

According to series creator Chris Boucher, "Star Cops" was three years
in the research and planning stage.  The ideas for Earth, Moonbase, the
orbital stations, and the Martian colonies were elaborately worked out,
and we only saw a fraction of the detail.  Boucher is known for previous
work on the science fiction series "Doctor Who" and "Blake's 7," and on
the crime dramas "Shoestring," "Juliet Bravo," and "Bergerac."  The
technological sophistication in "Star Cops" was almost unprecedented for
broadcast serial television drama, and yet it never bogged down in
technical detail.  The maturity of the human drama was unusual for any
medium, and it was handled with wit and intelligence.  The crime stories
were not pitched as whodunits.  Generally it was either ridiculously
easy or virtually impossible to figure out who the criminal was.
Instead, the mysteries were always occasions to question the validity of
one's evidence for believing in anything at all: for believing that a
crime had been committed, for believing that one was doing the right
thing, for placing trust in another human being.

"Star Cops" went into production in the fall of 1986 and was shown in
the summer of 1987 on BBC-2.  There were nine 51-minute episodes in all.
A tenth script was commissioned, but because of labor disputes at the
time, it never went into production.  A second series was planned,
reportedly to have focused on the Martian colonies, but the series was
canceled without much fanfare.

I can provide excellent copies of all nine episodes to interested
parties for the cost of the blanks and postage.  Reply by U.S. mail,
please.

Micky DuPree
24 Boston St. #2
Somerville, MA  02143-2011

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   STAR COPS
   episode guide

Starring David Calder as Nathan Spring/Box

Semi-regulars:

David Theroux                Erick Ray Evans
Colin Devis                    Trevor Cooper
Pal Kenzy                       Linda Newton
Alexander Krivenko            Jonathan Adams
Anna Shoun                        Sayo Inaba

Series devised by Chris Boucher
Producer: Evgeny Gridneff
Script Editor: Joanna Willett


1. AN INSTINCT FOR MURDER
   July 6, 1987
   W: Chris Boucher; D: Christopher Baker

"Groundsider" career cop Nathan Spring finds
himself being kicked literally upstairs to
the International Space Police Force.  He's
assigned a case in space that he doesn't
want, and told to drop a case on the ground
that he does want.

w/ Evans, Newton

Commander                       Moray Watson
Controller                     Keith Varnier
Lee Jones                    Gennie Nevinson
Brian Lincoln                 Andrew Secombe
Hans Diter                 Frederik de Groot
Lars Hendvorrsen                 Luke Hanson
Marie Mueller                          Katja
Kersten

2. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD
   July 13, 1987
   W: Chris Boucher; D: Christopher Baker

Spring, newly appointed Commander of the
Star Cops, is suddenly called back to Earth
about a case in his own back yard, leaving
David Theroux to solve the mystery of a
rogue space freighter.

w/ Evans, Cooper

Lee Jones                    Gennie Nevinson
Corman                           Sian Webber
Paton                            Alan Downer
Fox                             Sean Scanlan
Gina                            Carmen Gomez
John Smith                       Benny Young
Traffic Controller           Deborah Manship
Mike                          Richard Ireson
Lara                                   Rosie
Kerslake

3. INTELLIGENT LISTENING FOR BEGINNERS
   July 20, 1987
   W: Chris Boucher; D: Christopher Baker

On his first assignment in the ISPF, Colin
Devis stings corrupt cop Pal Kenzy, and the
Star Cops get a mysterious tip on the moon
about space shuttle hijacking that may tie
into computer sabotage on Earth.

w/ Evans, Cooper, Newton

Michael Chandri              David John Pope
Leo                            Trevor Butler
Ben                         Thomas Coulthard
Shuttle hostess                    Tara Ward
Shift foreman                   Peter Quince
Process operator                Peter Glancy

4. TRIVIAL GAMES AND PARANOID PURSUITS
   July 27, 1987
   W: Chris Boucher; D: Graeme Harper

Having reinstated herself, Kenzy follows
Spring to the American space station on the
trail of a missing scientist who may have
never existed.  Meanwhile, Russian Dr.
Alexander Krivenko, the new Coordinator of
Moonbase, starts asking a lot of questions.

w/ Evans, Cooper, Newton, Adams

Commander Griffin             Daniel Benzali
Dilly Goodman                 Marlena Mackey
Pete Lennox                     Robert Jezek
Marty                        Russell Wootton
Lauter                           Angela Crow
Harvey Goodman                  Morgan Deare
Receptionist                 Shope Shodeinde

5. THIS CASE TO BE OPENED IN A MILLION YEARS
   August 3, 1987
   W: Philip Martin; D: Graeme Harper

Spring is attacked and framed for murder in
Rome, while the Star Cops investigate the
aborted launch of a nuclear waste dumper
rocket on the moon.

w/ Evans, Cooper, Newton, Adams

Carlo Santanini              Michael Chesden
Marla Condarini                 Susan Curnow
Inspector Canova            Stewart Guidotti
Lina Margello                 Vikki Chambers
Personnel officer               Flip Webster
Angelo Pordenone             Andre Winterton
Tour guide                     Carl Forgione

6. IN WARM BLOOD
   August 10, 1987
   W: John Collee; D: Graeme Harper

When a survey spaceship arrives home with a
dead crew, the contracted medical firm sends
in its own investigator, Dr. Anna Shoun, but
after one of its top researchers also dies
in the same manner, Spring suspects a
coverup.

w/ Evans, Cooper, Newton, Adams, Inaba

Richard Ho                      Richard Rees
Christina Janssen                Dawn Keeler
Receptionist                       Susan Tan

7. A DOUBLE LIFE
   August 17, 1987
   W: John Collee; D: Christopher Baker

An influential woman's frozen embryos are
stolen from the Moonbase clinic and held for
ransom, but when Shoun identifies the thief,
he has absolute proof he was on Earth when
the crime was committed.

w/ Evans, Cooper, Newton, Adams, Inaba

James Bannerman/Albi          Brian Gwaspari
Chamsya Assadi                    Nitza Saul

8. OTHER PEOPLE'S SECRETS
   August 24, 1987
   W: John Collee; D: Christopher Baker

Suspicious technical glitches abound on
Moonbase just as a safety inspector does his
tour, and aggravation waxes instead of wanes
when an abrasive psychiatrist shows up to
shrink heads in space.

w/ Evans, Cooper, Newton, Adams, Inaba

Ernest Wolffhart            Geoffrey Bayldon
Dr. Angela Parr           Maggie Ollerenshaw
Hooper                         Barrie Rutter
Beverly Anderson               Leigh Funnell

9. LITTLE GREEN MEN AND OTHER MARTIANS
   August 31, 1987
   W: Chris Boucher; D: Graeme Harper

The Star Cops have to contend with a
Moonbase abuzz with meddling journalists,
scientific fraud, political corruption, drug
smuggling, and murder when the discovery of
a Martian, now on its way to Moonbase, is
announced.

w/ Newton, Cooper, Adams, Inaba

Daniel Larwood                    Roy Holder
Andrew Philpot                  Nigel Hughes
Susan Caxton                   Lachelle Carl
Operations manager             Wendy Macadam
Co-pilot                Bridget Lynch-Blosse
Pilot                          Kenneth Lodge
Customs officer                Peter Neathey
Outpost controller           Philip Rowlands
Surveyor                         David Janes


"Star Cops" is copyright (c) 1987 by the
British Broadcasting Corporation.  This
episode guide is copyright (c) 1992 by Micky
DuPree.  Permission to reproduce it is
hereby granted so long as it is always
reproduced in its entirety and never
reproduced for profit.


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