Road Wars (TV series)
| Road Wars | |
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Title card for series 6
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| Created by | Bill Rudgard Steve Warr |
| Narrated by |
Lee Boardman (2003-2009) Claire Goose (2009-2010) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 88 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Raw Cut TV |
| Running time | 50-60 mins including adverts mins approx. |
| Production company(s) | Raw Cut Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sky1 |
| Picture format | PAL (576i), HD (1080i) |
| Audio format | Stereo, Dolby Digital |
| Original release | 26 July 2003 – 24 January 2010 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Street Wars Police Interceptors |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Road Wars was a police reality television programme created by Raw Cut TV for British Sky Broadcasting and broadcast on Sky1 from 2003 to 2010. From Series 1 the show was narrated by Lee Boardman who played villain Jez Quigley in ITV soap Coronation Street. The 2nd half of series 7 was narrated by Claire Goose who played Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV police drama The Bill.
Road Wars is unlike other previous police programmes on Sky in that it followed the work of officers rather than simply playing police video clips. The programme has documented the changing tactics of criminals and the response of the UK police forces. For six seasons the show followed officers in the Thames Valley, but moved to Devon and Cornwall for the last series in 2009. The programme also features some police videos both in the UK and mainly America. At one point it was the highest-rated show in the UK. As of 2017 the show continues regular re-runs on several Sky channels: Sky1, Sky2, Pick and Real Lives.
For series 1-6, the programme followed the fourteen members of the Thames Valley Police's roads policing proactive unit (Road Crime Unit) - known as "Tango Victor". They are also said to be known to fellow officers as "Tango Vulture", taken from their callsign prefix TV (Tango Victor) and the joke that they swoop to steal arrests from other officers while they carried out their duties.
The footage from this team is combined with video footage from police forces around the world (though largely UK and United States forces).
Officers involved in Road Wars are listed below. As a specialist unit, officers tended to appear in a couple of series, or just for one series, as either the camera just didn't happen to follow them during the time they were filming for the series, or that the officer's tenure had come up (which is after 3 years of being in the team, as it is a specialised unit) and they had left the team.
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