When I think about TV shows that aren’t on DVD but should be -- as in yesterday’s Qotd -- I invariably come back to Star Cops, the short-lived 1987 BBC science fiction drama. The thing is, the show did get a Region 2 release in 2004, but it’s long been out of print, and the four used copies currently available on Amazon U.K. range in price from £92 to £130... which is preposterous. Star Cops was amazing. It’s set in the near future -- 40 years after it was made, but 2027 is not so far away now! -- when humanity has started in earnest to move out into near space, into orbit and on the Moon, and taking all the usual ordinary human problems with us. Such as crime. Which necessitates the creation of an off-Earth police force. David Calder plays Nathan Spring, the veteran cop who takes over the force -- he is,...
- 6/1/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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