Police Camera Action!

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Police Camera Action!
Presented byAlastair Stewart (1994–2009)
Adrian Simpson (2007–2009)
Gethin Jones (2010)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series14
No. of episodes95 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducersOptomen Television
Carlton Television (1994–2002)
Original release
NetworkITV
Release7 September 1994 (1994-09-07) –
18 August 2010 (2010-08-18)
Related
Police Stop!

Police Camera Action! is a police video programme made by Optomen Television, originally broadcast on ITV with repeats airing on ITV4. It was originally commissioned through Carlton Television.

It was presented by

drink-driving conviction led to a temporary suspension, before he resumed his role with Adrian Simpson from 2007 until its cancellation three years later. In 2010, the final series of the programme was presented by Gethin Jones
.

History

Logo from the original 1994 series.

The first episode broadcast on 7 September 1994 was known as Police Stop!, which was also the name of

Ebury Press, which was written by Peter Gillbe with a foreword by Alastair Stewart and which featured police footage of bad driving. The book had some footage stills
which were not shown on the TV episodes.

In 2003, the programme was suspended due to Stewart's second drink-driving conviction when he was found to have crashed into a telegraph pole whilst three times over the legal limit.[1] This delayed transmission of some unaired episodes until 17 January 2006. The programme resumed with Stewart introducing the series from a studio on 24 September 2007, joined by Adrian Simpson, who reported from location and provided voice-overs to the clips. A week before the new series began, there was a special 'Ultimate Pursuits/Best of Police Camera Action!' edition, presented by Stewart.

The last ever series was aired from 29 July to 18 August 2010, presented by Gethin Jones.

Format

Each episode has a subtitle relating to the type of police video footage such as "Safety Last" or "Driven to Distraction". It typically features police footage and occasional media footage relating to bad driving and road crime. However, this has not always been so, with special episodes "The Liver Run" (featuring the

trial
. In later series of the show, footage from Tur and their Los Angeles News Service would feature more prominently in certain episodes.

Episodes

Main article: List of Police Camera Action! episodes

See also

  • Sky1
    with a similar format.
  • Road Wars – seen as the replacement to Police Stop! and runs to a similar format to the more recent Police, Camera, Action! episodes.
  • Pick TV
    .
  • Channel 5
    .
  • Traffic Cops – sometimes broadcast as Motorway Cops or Car Wars. BBC programme with similar format.
  • Bravo
    and then Virgin1).
  • Bravo
    .
  • Pick (TV channel)

References

  1. ^ "Drink-driving TV host dropped", BBC News 2003-07-01
  2. ^ UK Emergency Vehicles > Information > The Liver Run UK Emergency Vehicles Created 8 May 2007, Accessed 6 June 2011

External links

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