Rockliffe's Babies
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📺 Series

Rockliffe's Babies

📅 1987 ⭐ 5.2 🕐 50m GB GB

Rockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe, who is assigned to train seven young recruits to the CID, all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascible guidance, it is hoped that they will blossom into full-blown detectives. But Rockliffe is human – so human that he makes more mistakes than the 'Babies' he's supposed to be training. A follow-up series, Rockliffe's Folly, follows Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex, dealing with rural crimes as part of a new team of investigators. The seven episode third series proved to be the last, with many citing a change in the programme's formula for the heavy ratings decline. Many viewers stated that the success of the two Babies series came not from Rockliffe himself, but from the popular ensemble cast.

Seasons & Episodes
Series 1 8 episodes
E1
Sirens 1987-01-09
E2
Sweet and Sour Revenge 1987-01-16
E3
It's All Happening 1987-01-23
E4
A Bad Few Days 1987-01-30
E5
In the Bag 1987-02-06
E6
Ghetto-Blasters 1987-02-13
E7
Up the Down Escalator 1987-02-20
E8
Extra-curricular 1987-02-27
Series 2 10 episodes
E1
Go for It 1988-01-08
E2
A Trip to the Zoo 1988-01-15
E3
In Too Deep 1988-01-22
E4
Looking After Your Own 1988-01-29
E5
Easy Meat 1988-02-12
E6
A Very Diplomatic Incident 1988-02-19
E7
Top Man 1988-02-26
E8
Black Arrow 1988-03-04
E9
Hearts and Flowers 1988-03-11
E10
The One That Got Away 1988-03-18
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