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Rockliffe's Babies

Rockliffe
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DVD cover of Rockliffe's Babies
Also known as Rockliffe's Babies
Rockliffe's Folly
Genre Police procedural
Created by Richard O'Keeffe
Written by Richard O'Keefe
Don Webb
Directed by David Attwood
Starring Ian Hogg
Bill Champion
John Blakely
Brett Fancy
Joe McGann
Martyn Ellis
Susanna Shelling
Alphonsia Emmanuel
Brian Croucher
James Aubrey
Ian Brimble
Aaron Harris
Carole Nimmons
Craig Nightingale
Theme music composer Joe Campbell
Paul Hart
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 3
No. of episodes 25 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) Leonard Lewis
Ron Craddock
Location(s) Kensal Rise
Wessex
Editor(s) Nigel Cattle
Camera setup Paul Harding
Running time 50 minutes
Production company(s) BBC Studios
Distributor Network
Release
Original network BBC1
Picture format 4:3
Audio format Mono
Original release 9 January 1987 (1987-01-09) – 14 December 1988 (1988-12-14)

Rockliffe is a British television police procedural drama series, produced by the BBC, which ran for three series between 9 January 1987 and 14 December 1988. Rockliffe was devised by Richard O`Keeffe, and produced by Leonard Lewis. The first two series, entitled Rockliffe's Babies, starred Ian Hogg as Alan Rockliffe, a detective sergeant assigned to train a team of inexperienced plain-clothed Crime Squad PCs in inner-city London, which include Steve Hood (Brett Fancy), Gerry O'Dowd (Joe McGann), David Adams (Bill Champion), Janice Hargreaves (Alphonsia Emmanuel), Paul Georgiou (Martyn Ellis), Keith Chitty (John Blakely) and Karen Walsh (Susanna Shelling). The series featured writing contributions from Richard O`Keeffe, Don Webb, Charlie Humphreys and Nick Perry, and was directed by Derek Lister, Keith Washington, Clive Fleury and David Attwood.

The third series, entitled Rockliffe's Folly, followed Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex Police, dealing with rural crimes as part of a new team of investigators. The seven episode third series proved to be last, with many citing a change in the programme's formula for the heavy decline in viewing figures. Many viewers stated that the success of the two Babies series came from not from Rockliffe himself, but from the popular ensemble cast. Most of the location filming featured in the first two series took place around the Kensal Rise area of West London. Notably, the police station interiors were at Canalot Studios, Kensal Road. A paperback novel was released as a tie-in to the first series on December 11, 1986, four weeks before the broadcast of the first episode. After many years of remaining unreleased, the first two series have been earmarked for release on DVD by Network distributing on May 8, 2017.


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