History Series / BetweenTheLines1992

* HealthcareMotivation: Harry takes a cash-in-hand job as a security guard to pay for Joyce to get private treatment for her MND.

%%* DownerEnding: Many of the individual episodes in the second and third seasons, and the show as a whole.

%%* FairCop: Jenny Dean in the first season, and Clark himself became famously popular with the female viewers.

* TokenMinority: Mo is well aware that this how she’s viewed by some if not all of the male higher ups, but she takes a pragmatic view of her position that she needs to take whatever advantages are available to her:
-->”I might be a token policewoman but I don’t have a token career.”

%%* TheBigBoard: Complete with [[StringTheory red tape connecting up]] the network of corruption

%%* BrokenPedestal

-->”Celtic people are gifted that way.”

''Between the Lines'' was a PoliceProcedural shown by Creator/TheBBC in 1992-1994. It was created by writer J C Wilsher and Executive Producer Tony Garnett. Almost uniquely among TV police series, it was a sympathetic depiction of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, the [[UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard Metropolitan Police's]] [[InternalAffairs Complaints Investigation Board]], accepting the necessity for investigation into police corruption and brutality while retaining some cynicism about the motivation and effectiveness of it.

''Between the Lines'' was a PoliceProcedural shown by Creator/TheBBC in 1992-1994. It was created by writer J C Wilsher and Executive Producer Tony Garnett. Almost uniquely among TV police series, it was a sympathetic depiction of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, the [[UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard Metropolitan Police's]] InternalAffairs section, accepting the necessity for investigation into police corruption and brutality while retaining some cynicism about the motivation and effectiveness of it.

* ArtefactTitle: Mo and Harry continue to refer to Tony as their governor even after [[spoiler:all of them have left the police.]]

The final series, subsequently lamented by executive producer Tony Garnett as an example of FranchiseZombie-ism, made a GenreShift into political thriller territory, and ended with Clark and Naylor apparently being killed in an explosion while trying to stop an arms deal between [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Ulster Loyalist paramilitaries]] and [[ThoseWackyNazis European neo-Nazi extremists]].

-->”I might be a token policewoman but I don’t have a token career.”

(For the webcomic about transgender teens, see ''Webcomic/BetweenTheLines''. For the BlackComedy newspaper strip, see ''ComicStrip/BetweenTheLines''.)