* GrowingTheBeard: From the 1995 series onwards it was seen as getting significantly better.
* PeripheryDemographic: Watched by all ages, a la ''Series/{{Doctor Who}}'', despite intended audience being for adults.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The 1997 ExtraLongEpisode "Don't Look Back In Anger" was billed as being about the history of policing and police cars through the ages, but it fell into becoming a ClipShow episode, which didn't please all of the audience. OK, so it's a documentary, but people felt it didn't live up to the billing in TV guides of the time, November 1997!