''Bad Cop, Bad Cop'' is a 2002
Australian
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television series produced
by the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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and
Southern Star, directed by
David Caesar
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Caesar graduated from the ...
Cast
*
Michael Caton
Michael Caton (born 21 July 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor, comedian and television host, best known for playing Uncle Harry in the Australian television series ''The Sullivans'', Darryl Kerrigan in 1997's low-budget hi ...
– Det. Red Lilywhite
*
Dan Wyllie
Daniel Wyllie (born 1970) is an Australian stage, film and television actor. Wyllie began acting in theatre.
Early life
Wyllie grew up on Sydney's North Shore. He attended North Sydney Boys High School and the University of New South Wales, whe ...
– Det. Cons. Lou Knutt
* Helen Thomson – lawyer Tracy Lafever
*
Roy Billing
Roy Harwood Billing (born 1947) is a New Zealand television actor, now based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. He was brought up in Ruawai, Northland, New Zealand. Billing spent almost three decades living and working in Australia. He became wid ...
– Assistant Commissioner "Pud" Tugwell
*
Chris Hobbs
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– Slim Azzopardi
Premise
The series is a
black comedy
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about two utterly corrupt
police officers
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Lilywhite and Knutt (the "bad cop, bad cop" of the title). Lafever is their friend, a lawyer with a relaxed attitude to the goings on. Police graft, corruption and brutality are
satirised in a very dry comic fashion, and with a stream of matter-of-fact
obscenities
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. The series is shot in the eastern suburbs of
Sydney
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, with Lilywhite and Knutt often seen drinking at the
Clovelly Bowling Club
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and numerous references to Maroubra.
[Southern Star Productions]
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The title is a reference to the tactic of ''good cop, bad cop
Good cop, bad cop, also informally called the Mutt and Jeff technique,The Phrase Finder/ref> is a psychological tactic used in interrogation and negotiation, in which a team of two people take opposing approaches to the subject. One interrogator ...
''; though in this case both cops are as bad as each other.
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, id=0307720
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Australian comedy television series
2002 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Sydney
Television series by Endemol Australia