History Series / BetweenTheLines1992

* TheBigBoard: Complete with [[StringTheory red tape connecting up]] the network of corruption
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Pretty heavily.
* BrokenPedestal
* TheCasanova: Clark

* DownerEnding: Many of the individual episodes in the second and third seasons, and the show as a whole.
* DrivenToSuicide
* FairCop: Jenny Dean in the first season, and Clark himself became famously popular with the female viewers.
* {{Fanservice}}: So many sex scenes that it picked up the FanNickname of ''Between The Sheets''.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Jenny Dean]]

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

* TheToken: Mo is well aware that this how she’s viewed by some if not all of the higher ups, but she takes a pragmatic view of her position that she needs to take whatever advantages are available to her:

* SmugSnake: Clarke's rival Inspector Graves.

* OldFashionedCopper: Harry. Many episodes suggest that if he wasn't in CIB he'd be [[NotSoDifferent on the other end of an investigation]].

* BiTheWay: Mo, rather oddly. She's heavily implied in the first season as an exclusive lesbian, then at the beginning of the second season she's dating a man with no acknowledgement of her first season sexuality and her shift to another woman as a partner is played almost like a coming-out story.

* InternalAffairs: The whole point of the show is to present Internal Affairs' side of the story, in contrast to the loathing and contempt with which even relatively morally ambiguous cop shows usually portray them.

* LesbianCop: Mo

* DomesticAbuser: A memorable episode in the second season has a cop who murders his wife and uses his knowledge of the law and police procedure to get away with a manslaughter charge.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Many of the cases-of-the-week. Also the subplot about Mo dating a woman senior police officer was heavily influenced by the much-reported real life case of a woman senior police officer who sued her force for sex discrimination and was falsely rumoured (probably a deliberate smear by her enemies) to be gay.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Scenes with regulars going undercover as neo-Nazis were covertly filmed at a real far-right-wing political gathering in Belgium. The fairly-left-wing actors' fear and discomfort weren't wholly simulated.

* FanNickname: "Between the Loins" or "Between the Sheets" due to some sex scenes that at the time were a bit more explicit than usual in the genre.

''Between the Lines'' was a PoliceProcedural shown by 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.

* FanNickname: "Between the Loins", due to some sex scenes that at the time were a bit more explicit than usual in the genre.

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 [[TheTroubles Ulster Loyalist paramilitaries]] and [[ThoseWackyNazis European neo-Nazi extremists]].

''Between the Lines'' was a PoliceProcedural shown by 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 [[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.

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

* KnewTooMuch: [[spoiler: Jenny Dean]]

The first of the three seasons began with the central character Chief Inspector Tony Clark being press-ganged into CIB as part of an investigation into corruption at the police station where he was based, and meeting his subordinates Mo Connell and Harry Naylor and boss John Deakin. A series of MysteryOfTheWeek episodes also have elements dealing with a PlotArc involving a gangland murder that exposes large-scale corruption. A number of high-ranking officers are suspected but it turns out that the main BigBad is in fact [[spoiler: Deakin himself]].