The Thin Blue Line

Various mishaps at a police station in an English town. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler. CID foil to Fowler, Inspector Grim is a bumbling, seething idiot.

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Cast:Rowan Atkinson , Mina Anwar , James Dreyfus , Serena Evans , David Haig , Rudolph Walker , Kevin Allen , Mark Addy , Joy Brook , Lucy Robinson , Gabrielle Blunt , Walter Sparrow , Stephen Fry , Owen Teale , Sheila Gish , Stephen Moore , Jean Ainslie , Jonathan Cake

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Queen's Birthday Present

Mon, Nov 13, 1995

The Queen's official birthday approaches as well as Raymond and Patricias' tenth anniversary. Fowler, not entirely surprisingly, forgets about the anniversary and creates a lot of tension in their relationship.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Fire and Terror

Mon, Nov 20, 1995

Grim and the CID initiate a counter-terrorism operation, Fowler deals with mythomaniacs and Habib becomes attracted to a fireman.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Honey Trap

Mon, Nov 27, 1995

Dawkins is furiously jealous of Fowler's admiration for Habib, albeit as star of his pub quiz team. That worsens when CID needs her as sexy, secret bait for a 'honey trap'. Alas for Fowler, that part proves incompatible with the quiz.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Rag Week

Mon, Dec 4, 1995

When Rag Week begins, the Gasforth police deals with students' pranks and bank robbers.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Night Shift

Mon, Dec 11, 1995

Fowler reluctantly agrees to let his son Bill stay with him and Patricia for a few days. When they hear Bill and his girlfriend making love Patricia has a crisis and demands that she and Raymond start visiting a sex therapist. Meanwhile, Grim initiates an all-out operation against organized crime.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Kids Today

Mon, Dec 18, 1995

Fowler, Gladstone, Habib and Goody go camping with some juvenile criminals while Goody faces charges of assault for punching a skinhead who used racist language towards Habib.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Yuletide Spirit

Tue, Dec 26, 1995

Christmas comes to Gasforth and Goody intends to try again with Habib by giving her some sexy underwear for Christmas. He also buys Fowler a puncture repair kit. Unfortunately, he mixes up the packages and gives Habib the puncture repair kit and Fowler the underwear. When Patricia finds the underwear in Fowler's office, she becomes overjoyed, believing he bought them for her. Meanwhile, the Gasforth Amateur Drama Soceity are performing "Peter Pan" and Fowler hopes for the role of Captain Hook instead of the crocodile as every other year. To everyones' surprise, Grim gets to play Hook.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Court in the Act

Thu, Nov 14, 1996

Grim and Foyle frame a drug dealer by planting evidence at the scene and Goody, having found the "evidence", is to testify and is trained by Fowler to handle the pressure.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Ism Ism Ism

Thu, Nov 21, 1996

The Gasforth police has to arrest an illegal immigrant. Inspector Raymond C. Fowler first makes sure his officers get an elaborate brainstorming about tolerance and non-discrimination, a particularly sensitive subject for ethnic minority Constables Frank Gladstone (Trinidadian origin) and Habib (Pakistani), so the hypothetical example is a Martian. Meanwhile shamelessly bigoted CID inspector Grim fails to get accepted into a real masonic lodge, and pledges an absurd secret society instead.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Fly on the Wall

Thu, Nov 28, 1996

The Gasforth PD are to be in a fly-on-the-wall documentary. Naturally, everyone wants to look good for the camera.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Alternative Culture

Thu, Dec 5, 1996

CID plan a raid on a rave party. Meanwhile, Habib's drug-addicted little sister comes to Gasforth.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Come on You Blues

Thu, Dec 12, 1996

Gasforth Football Club are to play in a qualification game for Premier League, and since this has attracted a lot of tourists and investors, Mayoress Wickham orders the police to make sure everything goes as planned.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Road Rage

Thu, Dec 19, 1996

Patricia joins an environmentalist group, the Dongers, who are protesting against a bypass. Soon the rest of the Gasforth police are called in.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Green Eyed Monster

Mon, Dec 23, 1996

The promotion board will be visiting the Gasforth police station and Grim and Fowler are the most likely candidates. When Grim tells Fowler that they usually go for family men, Fowler proposes to Dawkins in a most unromantic way, causing her to break up with him.