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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Referenced in "The Squeeze":
-->"Besides, he's only with us for 12 months. Lie back and enjoy it. Think of England."
-->"Besides, he's only with us for 12 months. Lie back and enjoy it. Think of England."
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Michael Dempsey (Creator/MichaelBrandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Creator/GlynisBarber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime.
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Michael Dempsey (Creator/MichaelBrandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Creator/GlynisBarber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime.they fight crime.
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* WunzaPlot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together TheyFightCrime and make sparks fly between them!
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* WunzaPlot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together TheyFightCrime they fight crime and make sparks fly between them!
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* SerialKiller: In "Out of Darkness", SI10 is hunting for the so-called 'Thriller Killer', who kidnaps blue-eyed brunettes and kills them within 20 hours. But the killer takes an interest in Makepeace as she and Dempsey get close during their investigation and demands to meet with her one on one.
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* SerialKiller: In "Out of Darkness", SI10 [=SI10=] is hunting for the so-called 'Thriller Killer', who kidnaps blue-eyed brunettes and kills them within 20 hours. But the killer takes an interest in Makepeace as she and Dempsey get close during their investigation and demands to meet with her one on one.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Oh so much. The immediate antagonism between Dempsey and Makepeace was countered by a strong physical attraction. In fact, the tension was so palatable onscreen that Brandon and Barber married in real in 1989, and have been together since. They even had a son together, Alex.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Oh so much. The immediate antagonism between Dempsey and Makepeace was countered by a strong physical attraction. In fact, the tension was so palatable onscreen that Brandon and Barber married in real life in 1989, and have been together since. They even had a son together, Alex.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Oh so much. The immediate antagonism between Dempsey and Makepeace was countered by a strong physical attraction. In fact, the tension was so palatable onscreen that Brandon and Barber married in real in 1989, and have been together since. They even had a son together, Alex.
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Michael Dempsey (Michael Brandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Glynis Barber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime.
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Michael Dempsey (Michael Brandon) (Creator/MichaelBrandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Glynis Barber).(Creator/GlynisBarber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime.
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* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In "Bird of Prey", Eddie Dean kidnaps a young girl to keep her mother from testifying against a crook named Burton. Dempsey and Makepeace seek help from the one man able to find Dean: Dempsey's nemesis Keith Lymon. But first they have to get him out of prison and convince him to help.
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* RecruitingTheCriminal: In "Bird of Prey", Dempsey and Makepeace have to get Dempsey's nemesis, Keith Lymon, out of prison and convince him to help find a young girl kidnapped by Eddie Dean.
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* SerialKiller: In "Out of Darkness", SI10 is hunting for the so-called 'Thriller Killer', who kidnaps blue-eyed brunettes and kills them within 20 hours. But the killer takes an interest in Makepeace as she and Dempsey get close during their investigation and demands to meet with her one on one.
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* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In "Bird of Prey", Eddie Dean kidnaps a young girl to keep her mother from testifying against a crook named Burton. Dempsey and Makepeace seek help from the one man able to find Dean: Dempsey's nemesis Keith Lymon. But first they have to get him out of prison and convince him to help.
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* TheBoxingEpisode: In "The Prizefighter", Dempsey and Makepeace find the broken body of a bare-knuckle prizefighter on the street carrying counterfeit money. Posing as an American couple named Dwayne and Lu, they manage to get into the illegal underground fight.
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* StalkerWithACrush: In "Love You to Death", Dempsey is stalked by a homicidal women who obsesses over him, and who hates Makepeace for being with him.
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* BreakingOutTheBoss: In "Hors de Combat", gang leader Frank Price is sprung out of jail, only to be killed by his accomplices.
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* TheCasino: In "Lucky Streak", Dempsey happens to be present at a casino when it is robbed and a security guard murdered.
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* ArmedBlag: In "The Squeeze", a heavy duty transit van carrying half a million pounds in used notes is high jacked, drivers and all and S.I. 10 is tasked to find it.
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* CowboyCop: Dempsey, naturally.
* DaChief: The long-suffering Detective Superindendent Gordon Spikings had the unenviable task of dealing with CowboyCop Dempsey
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* DaChief: The long-suffering Detective Superindendent Gordon Spikings
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* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Dempsey finds Makepeace at an archery range and launches into a fake monologue full of butchered English before Makepeace tells him to "stop butchering the language".
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: [=SI10=], which fulfils a similar role to [=CI5=], though it has a more rigid hierarchy and appears to be an actual police unit
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Referenced in "The Squeeze":
-->"Besides, he's only with us for 12 months. Lie back and enjoy it. Think of England."
* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Referenced in "The Squeeze":
-->"Besides, he's only with us for 12 months. Lie back and enjoy it. Think of England."
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* FemaleFlatffotAndSnarkyGuy: She's a competent but single London cop (who is also titled hereditary aristocracy), he's a cleaned-up Dirty Harry type from the NYPD who gets unexpectedly made her partner for reasons that are never mentioned again after the pilot episode.
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* FemaleFlatffotAndSnarkyGuy: FemaleFlatfootAndSnarkyGuy: She's a competent but single London cop (who is also titled hereditary aristocracy), he's a cleaned-up Dirty Harry type from the NYPD who gets unexpectedly made her partner for reasons that are never mentioned again after the pilot episode.
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* FemaleFlatffotAndSnarkyGuy: She's a competent but single London cop (who is also titled hereditary aristocracy), he's a cleaned-up Dirty Harry type from the NYPD who gets unexpectedly made her partner for reasons that are never mentioned again after the pilot episode.
-->(After Lady Harriet Makepeace addresses Lt Dempsey with the English pronounciation "Lef-tenant")
-->'''Dempsey:''' You know how to say "Lootenant", don'tcha? [[Film/ToHaveandHaveNot Just put your lips together and go "OO]]".
-->(After Lady Harriet Makepeace addresses Lt Dempsey with the English pronounciation "Lef-tenant")
-->'''Dempsey:''' You know how to say "Lootenant", don'tcha? [[Film/ToHaveandHaveNot Just put your lips together and go "OO]]".
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* GentlemanDetective: A female version, as DS Harry Makepeace is more properly Lady Harriet Makepeace.
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* ByTheBookCop: Makepeace.
* CowboyCop: Dempsey, naturally.
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* NameAndNameNameAndName: Right there in the title.
* OppositesAttract: Virtually everything about the two lead characters is different, but that doesn't stop their ability to deal with the bad guys or the BelligerentSexualTension between them.
* OppositesAttract: Virtually everything about the two lead characters is different, but that doesn't stop their ability to deal with the bad guys or the BelligerentSexualTension between them.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber who played the title characters married a few years after the series finished and are still together.
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* CatchPhrase: 'Life is tough and then you die.' Or was it 'Life's a Bitch and then you die'?
* DaChief: The long suffering Detective Superindendent Gordon Spikings had the unenviable task of dealing with CowboyCop Dempsey
* DaChief: The long suffering Detective Superindendent Gordon Spikings had the unenviable task of dealing with CowboyCop Dempsey
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* CatchPhrase: 'Life is tough and then you die.' Or was it 'Life's a Bitch bitch and then you die'?
* DaChief: Thelong suffering long-suffering Detective Superindendent Gordon Spikings had the unenviable task of dealing with CowboyCop Dempsey
* DaChief: The
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* WunzaPlot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together they fight crime and make sparks fly between them!
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* WunzaPlot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together they fight crime TheyFightCrime and make sparks fly between them!
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-->"Dempsey, when the prime minister and the home secretary instructed me to set up this special unit to combat major crime, I did not expect to be wet nursing ex vietnam soldiers touting bazookas!"
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-->"Dempsey, when the prime minister and the home secretary instructed me to set up this special unit to combat major crime, I did not expect to be wet nursing ex vietnam ex-Vietnam soldiers touting bazookas!"toting bazookas!"
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* [[{{Syndication}} First-run Syndication]]: In the states.
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Michael Dempsey (Michael Brandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Glynis Barber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime. Why is it always a street smart American and Aristocratic Brit? Couldn't it just once be a tough, street smart Cockney teamed with a First Families of Virginia type?
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Michael Dempsey (Michael Brandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Glynis Barber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime. Why is it always a street smart American and Aristocratic Brit? Couldn't it just once be a tough, street smart Cockney teamed with a First Families of Virginia type?\n
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Michael Dempsey (Michael Brandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Glynis Barber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime. Why is it always a street smart American and Aristocratic Brit? Couldn't it just once be a tough, street smart Cockney teamed with a First Families of Virginia type?
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Oh so much.
* CatchPhrase: 'Life is tough and then you die.' Or was it 'Life's a Bitch and then you die'?
* DaChief: The long suffering Detective Superindendent Gordon Spikings had the unenviable task of dealing with CowboyCop Dempsey
-->"Dempsey, when the prime minister and the home secretary instructed me to set up this special unit to combat major crime, I did not expect to be wet nursing ex vietnam soldiers touting bazookas!"
* [[{{Syndication}} First-run Syndication]]: In the states.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber who played the title characters married a few years after the series finished and are still together.
* WunzaPlot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together they fight crime and make sparks fly between them!
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Michael Dempsey (Michael Brandon) is a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity cop who makes the Big Apple too hot to hold him. His superiors hand him over to the UsefulNotes/{{London}} Metropolitan Police, where he is teamed with Lady Harriet Makepeace (Glynis Barber). HilarityEnsues as TheyFightCrime. Why is it always a street smart American and Aristocratic Brit? Couldn't it just once be a tough, street smart Cockney teamed with a First Families of Virginia type?
!!Examples:
* BelligerentSexualTension: Oh so much.
* CatchPhrase: 'Life is tough and then you die.' Or was it 'Life's a Bitch and then you die'?
* DaChief: The long suffering Detective Superindendent Gordon Spikings had the unenviable task of dealing with CowboyCop Dempsey
-->"Dempsey, when the prime minister and the home secretary instructed me to set up this special unit to combat major crime, I did not expect to be wet nursing ex vietnam soldiers touting bazookas!"
* [[{{Syndication}} First-run Syndication]]: In the states.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber who played the title characters married a few years after the series finished and are still together.
* WunzaPlot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together they fight crime and make sparks fly between them!
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