cult film freak: DENNIS WATERMAN GETS ROMANTIC ON 'THE SWEENEY: DRAG ACT'

Written by James M. Tate / 4/12/2022 / No comments / british , british neo noir , cop , crime , dennis waterman , heist , john thaw , katy fahy , seventies , sweeney

DENNIS WATERMAN GETS ROMANTIC ON 'THE SWEENEY: DRAG ACT'

4/12/2022 | No comment

Title: THE SWEENEY: DRAG ACT Year: 1978 Rating: ***

Early on in THE SWEENEY, Dennis Waterman's Sgt. Carter, the young, more vulnerable partner of hot-tempered John Thaw's Inspector Regan, has a wife... who asked for more screen-time and money, and was run over by a car (the episode fitfully titled HIT AND RUN), thereafter making Carter almost as much a womanizer as Regan...

Until the final season's DRAG ACT, Carter's romantic episode paired with pretty Katy Fahy as PC Julie Kingdom (a rookie with an energetic male partner about to get credit for stolen lorries carrying brandy under a miffed Regan's nose)... which includes one of those date montage sequences in a filler episode that, like many, bookends the more intense and violent action upfront and in the finale, and while phoned-in is not altogether awful.

John Thaw in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

Final Season's opening credits with Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

Kate Fahy in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

Patrick Malahide and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

Rachel Dix and Dave Atkins in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

John Alkin and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

Kate Fahy and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

Kate Fahy in THE SWEENEY: Drag Act

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