The Sweeney

7th November 2000 - Please alter your bookmarks for the site to http://www.thesweeney.tv

September 2000. I have just registered www.thesweeney.tv so watch out for the site migrating.

MARCH 2000. There is a new DISCUSSION WEB in place, replacing the old one which was based on the local server. The new one is much more advanced.

Date
1999

28th April	I have just sent for the Sweeney board game. Pictures & a review will appear soon.
March '99	I have just sent for 3 books on The Sweeney. Full reviews will appear in the near future.
14th January	MAJOR update of site. ALL episode synopses ? now have the actors & characters names appearing. I have identified about 20 episodes which need writing up. To make this easy on my poor fingertips, I have ordered the Dragon Dictate upgrade for Wordperfect suite * so I can merely dictate the text onto the screen. The CARS section is also underway. If you can help with the FAMOUS PEOPLE section, by identifying what other programme people have appeared in whether I have identified them as being 'famous' or not, will earn you a mention on the site.
January '99	There was a double bill recently, Hearts & Minds on the Monday & I missed the one on Tuesday. Can anyone tell me what it is. I will be spending a bit more time on this site, hopefully. I've found some books & magazines & pictures to add.

Date
1998
13th May	Added German titling chart
11th May	Scanned & added the remaining .jpg's to each episode synopsis.
10th May	Added approximately half the title .jpg's to each episode synopsis.
7th May	Formatted Season 1 and 3 pages.
6th April	Added to Links
4th April	Added Links to other Sweeney sites
March 28th	I started to do a bit of work on the site, egged on by the above mentioned note & the enjoyable time I spent on the CHAT session after the episode ended, & was dismayed that I had done so little to it since I uploaded it. I had forgotten that some of the pages didn't have anything on them ! Sorry !!!!!
March '98	It's being re-run on Channel 5 at 21:00

Hello Governors and Governesses,

For those of you who have been on thesweeney.com's mailing list for a while - hello again - I hope you've all been keeping well - It's been quite a while since we've been in touch. For those of you who haven't had one of these before, basically this is an 'alert list' which will occasionally keep you informed about all things Sweeney, and new developments on www.thesweeney.com

LATIN LADY

First up - the episode 'Latin Lady' is being shown tonight, 3rd Dec. '98, on Channel 5 at 8pm. It's the 12th episode of the 4th series (i.e. quite near the end). It starts with a traditional Sweeney opener - hooded gunmen jumping out of a Mercedes on a blag. No guest stars of any great fame in this ep as far as I can see, though look out for the Latin Lady of the title, who on a less PC mailing list than this would be described as a *cracking* bird, and is a gangster's moll who inevitably has her particulars taken down by Regan...

The next Sweeney's are on Monday the 28th and Tuesday 29th December, both at 8pm again: 'Hearts and Minds' and 'Jack or Knave' respectively. Quite a nice piece of scheduling, what with people dealing with post-Xmas blues etc. Incidentally, we haven't had an online chat for many months now, so if any of you are interested, let me know and we'll schedule one for one of those evenings at the end of the month...

CHANNEL 5

Lots of people have been asking me what's going on with The Sweeney re-runs. Basically C5 bought a job lot (about 20 eps out of a total of 50 odd) and have now shown all of them apart from the above 3. It remains to be seen if they'll buy any more - they're quite expensive (my snout tells me that Thaw and Waterman get to trouser a fair bit of bread every time they're reshown), and I guess C5 are still making up their minds. It's all dependent on viewing figures, so make sure you watch, and tell your friends...

XMAS VIDEO SPECIAL OFFER

After the great success of last year's Xmas Video offer we are doing it all again. It's a bit more fun though because there are are 5 tapes out there now, containing a total of 9 episodes. New episodes available on video include the classic 'Abduction', when Regan's daughter is kidnapped, and 'Tomorrow Man', which features John Hurt and George Cole. We've teamed up with the online store IMVS.com to offer an exclusive discounted deal which offers 20% off - around £7.35 each plus VAT and p&p. If you slip them an extra sov, they'll even gift wrap them for you, using your choice of 4 tasteful designs... You can look at a Real Video preview of all the episodes on the page.

This deal is ONLY available by clicking/cut and pasting the link below:

http://www.thesweeney.com/newvideos.htm

Please note that the discount offer CAN'T be accessed via thesweeney.com or IMVS.com directly. Just think - you'll be able to sort out your old man's Christmas present without even having to get out of bed! You know Jack would approve... Pre-Christmas delivery is guaranteed as long as you order now, though the offer is available until the end of the month.

Unfortunately this is a UK only deal. However, if you ARE outside the UK and are interested in Sweeney tapes, let me know by replying to this email and if demand is significant we'll look at ways of fulfilling this.

I have had an interest in The Sweeney for many years now. In fact, in 1987 I attempted to write a book on the subject but Thames were not interested in helping me. Please bear in mind that :

2) Much of the episode review text was written 11 years ago on a Macintosh & could probably do with being run through with a thesaurus.

3) it is in no way affiliated nor intends to poach viewers from the official Sweeney site which can be found at http://www.thesweeney.com.

4) If you would like your own pages to say what you want about The Sweeney, please let me know.

Jack retires to run a salmon farm in Scotland.

George promoted to Commander....

Would you Adam & Eve it ???

It's all true. Ian Kennedy-Martin is devising the remake of the show scheduled to be filmed in the autumn at a cost of £1.5m.

George will team up with two officers in their twenties, one of whom could be female.

Can't wait !!!!