a5c7b9f00b Dempsey, a tough NYPD cop, is sent to a London undercover police unit teamed up with the sophisticated, sexy, blonde Makepeace. They hunt down the top of London's underworld - when not quarreling. James Dempsey was a tough New York cop who got himself into a lot of trouble by killing his partner during a corruption investigation. With things too hot for him in New York, Dempsey was seconded to London's elite SI10, where he was assigned to work with Detective Sergeant Harriet Makepeace, under the supervision of Chief Superintendent Spikings. Dempsey found British police methods slow and infuriating, and his new colleagues considered him a violent maverick, entirely too attached to his .357 Magnum. The immediate antagonism between Dempsey and Makepeace was countered by a strong physical attraction, and while they fought continuously, they made a good, effective team. Watching the ridiculous, but funny "Keen Eddie: (on Fox) last night made me think about D&M and how wonderful it was. We got to see 20 of the 29 episodes produced and they ran as a syndicated show during the fall of 1985. Unfortunately the remaining shows didn't make it over here. Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber had tremendous on-screen chemistry (which eventually carried off-screen as they got married), and the writing, location shooting, directing, and acting were top notch. Dempsey's character was an no-nonsence action guy, who often had a hard time with the stiff rigid ways of Scotland Yard. Makepeace, on the other hand, though by the book on the job, was a wild society dame after hours, which took Dempsey a while to adjust too. I would like to see the final 9 episodes to see if D&M's sexual tension finally resulted in them "closing the deal"!!! I wonder if this marvelous show will ever show up in re-runs? I remember watching Dempsey and Makepeace in the late 1980s and I loved it with all the action and chemistry that it offered. The differences between the lead characters is what made the show work well in personality, nationality and for appearance one being dark and the other fair that bought the chemistry of their differences to the paradox of their partnership of the personal and the cultural. This probably helped them finally get married in real life in 1989. <br/><br/>This for the time was the most underrated show as it had good writing, a good introduction in the credits and the characters were well written so their contentious forces always seemed to consolidate with their roles in SI10 the special Police branch they worked for. Other action shows that were overrated for the time got more attention because of their commercial ties and influence among Pop-culture circles such as The A-Team making this marginalised but not forgotten.<br/><br/>The series made in an era of good television the 1980s is about an American Police officer who for reasons of exposure to corruption in high circles is sent to Britain for safe keeping and working in an elite Police force with a hard nosed inspector and a feisty partner from an elite family. The series is well presented and full of action. The plots are based on real crime scenarios that are well reused in a selective and independent manner from the Sweeney and the Professionals and in its own way matches these great Police Thrillers making it their distinct equal
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