The Chief (Complete Series) - 11-DVD Set ( The Chief - Season Three )

The Chief (Complete Series) - 11-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The Chief - Season Three
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1750 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
A.J. Quinn
Brian Farnham

Written By:
Jeffrey Caine
Peter Jukes

Actors:
Martin Shaw ..... Chief Constable Alan Cade / ... (23 episodes, 1993-1995)
Karen Archer ..... Asst. Chief Constable Anne Stewart / ... (23 episodes, 1990-1994)
Gillian Martell ..... Diane Lewis (20 episodes, 1991-1995)
Michael Cochrane ..... Nigel Crimmond (18 episodes, 1990-1995)
Dean Lepley ..... PC Jack Sayers / ... (15 episodes, 1990-1995)
Tim Pigott-Smith ..... Chief Constable John Stafford (14 episodes, 1990-1993)
Judy Loe ..... Dr. Elizabeth Stafford (13 episodes, 1990-1993)
Stuart McGugan ..... Det. Chief Supt. Sean McCloud / ... (12 episodes, 1993-1994)
Tony Caunter ..... Deputy Chief Constable Arthur Quine / ... (11 episodes, 1990-1994)
Eamon Boland ..... Det. Chief Supt. Jim Gray (10 episodes, 1990-1993)
T.P. McKenna ..... Colin Fowler (10 episodes, 1991-1994)

Synopsis:

Series three of this outstanding police procedural drama sees the role of Chief Constable passing from John Stafford (played by Tim Pigott-Smith) to former Metropolitan Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Cade (Martin Shaw - The Professionals, Judge John Deed). This release contains all six episodes, originally transmitted in 1993. As John Stafford takes up a new position with Europol, Alan Cade replaces him as Chief Constable at Eastland, East Anglia; Anne Stewart continues as Cade's deputy. While Cade is every bit as capable as his predecessor, he finds that the challenge of frontline policing continues to be eclipsed by the pressure to manage ever-tighter budgets and justify expenditure. Sharing Stafford's tolerant but scrupulous approach, he also faces ongoing conflict with his superiors, and certain local politicians whose cavalier attitudes towards issues of civil liberties contrast sharply with his own.

The series was set in East Anglia, with "the Chief" in command of the fictitious Eastland Constabulary, a large police force covering all of it. The first Chief was John Stafford (Tim Pigott-Smith), who was replaced in episode 3 of series 3 by Alan Cade (Martin Shaw). Both were dynamic men who talked frankly. There is a lot of political content, in particular battles with the Home Office and local politicians.

Focussing on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

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