Police 2020 (1997)
In 2020, DCI Billy O'Connell is tasked with tackling an armed suspect who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in a lift after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that killed most of his family
- Date of release
- 1997-06-22
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Crime, Science Fiction, TV Movie
- Director
- David Richards
Casting
- Liam Cunningham — DCI Billy O'Connell
- Rachel Davies — DCI Marsha Beagley
- Nick Reding — DS Keanan
- Saira Todd — Katline Voikevich
- Keith Barron — Eddie Longshaw
- Ken Bones — Commander Johnson
- Ken Bradshaw — DS Dewhurst
- Tim Dantay — DI Brian Sagar
- Stephen Hackett — DS Steven Springfield
- Esther Hall — Julie Ostrovsky
- Velibor Topic — Mikki Ostrovsky
- Andrew Knott — Scully
Interesting facts
Police 2020 is a one-off television pilot, first broadcast on 22 June 1997, that was set to be the first episode of an ongoing British crime drama series. Set in the near future, the pilot starred Liam Cunningham as DCI Billy O'Connell, the head of a police nightshift force, who is tasked with tackling an armed suspect, Eddie Longshaw, who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in an elevator after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that took the lives of most of his family.
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