It went out on Mondays at 8:30 where it got 15 million viewers usually thanks to the main ITV competition being World In Action the original episodes were 30 minutes the 1987 Christmas Special which ran for 45 minutes with Kate returning and Kevin Lloyd as a faded 60s pop star coming in for the final 2 episodes this with a eye to a 3rd series in the background plans for a 3rd series were being made with scripts being prepared and the BBC preparing a move to post-watershed 9:30pm slot after The 9'0 Clock News which would have given John Sullivan more freedom bring in more adult language and sexual situations but the lead actor Ralph Bates pulled out having developed pancreatic cancer in 1988 before that 3rd series could be made from which he eventually died in 1991. But the BBC bought the USA version and showed it late Sunday nights .
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