The Thin Blue Line (British TV series)

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The Thin Blue Line
Genre	Sitcom Police comedy
Created by	Ben Elton
Written by	Ben Elton
Directed by	John Birkin
Starring	Rowan Atkinson James Dreyfus Mina Anwar Rudolph Walker Serena Evans David Haig Kevin Allen Mark Addy
Composer	Howard Goodall
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	14 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producer	Peter Bennett-Jones
Producers	Geoffrey Perkins Ben Elton
Editors	Graham Hutchings Steve Tempia Charlie Fawcett
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Tiger Aspect Productions
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	13 November 1995 (1995-11-13) – 23 December 1996 (1996-12-23)
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The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1995 to 1996. It was created and written by Ben Elton, and starred Rowan Atkinson. It was ranked number 34 in a poll for Britain's Best Sitcom. In September 2021, the series became available on BBC iPlayer.^[1]

The series is set in a police station in the fictional English town of Gasforth. The show sees the uniformed squad, led by Inspector Raymond Fowler (Atkinson), and the CID, led by Detective Inspector Derek Grim (David Haig), locking horns over similar, or even the same, issues while having conflicting views or methods of operations. Generally, the uniformed section triumphs over the detectives, although not without their own foibles. Although other PCs and staff other than the main characters are visible in the background, they generally have no speaking parts.