Rockliffe's Babies
5.8/ 10 5 votes 1987 50m / ep 3 popularity
Rockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe, who is assigned to train seven young recruits to the CID, all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascible guidance, it is hoped that they will blossom into full-blown detectives. But Rockliffe is human – so human that he makes more mistakes than the 'Babies' he's supposed to be training. A follow-up series, Rockliffe's Folly, follows Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex, dealing with rural crimes as part of a new team of investigators. The seven episode third series proved to be the last, with many citing a change in the programme's formula for the heavy ratings decline. Many viewers stated that the success of the two Babies series came not from Rockliffe himself, but from the popular ensemble cast.
Creator: Richard O'Keefe
Network: BBC One
Seasons
2
Episodes
18
Status
Ended
Ian Hogg
DS Alan Rockliffe
Joe McGann
PC Gerry O'Dowd
Alphonsia Emmanuel
WPC Janice Hargreaves
Bill Champion
PC David Adams
John Blakey
PC Keith Chitty
Brett Fancy
PC Steve Hood
Martyn Ellis
PC Paul Georgiou
Edward Wilson
DI Charles Flight
