YMMV / Dempsey and Makepeace

• Harsher in Hindsight: Makepeace wants to be the first female commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. This wouldn't happen in real life until 2017.
• Retroactive Recognition: A man in an office from "In the Dark" is played by James Fleet, who would later be best known for playing Hugo Horton in The Vicar of Dibley.
• Spiritual Successor: to Brannigan, John Wayne's film where he plays a tough American cop who is sent to London on assignment and partnered with a glamorous blonde British female detective. Michael Brandon also cites 'Serpico' as an inspiration, another New York cop who uncovers corruption and is forced to flee abroad.

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