City Central
- 1998 – 2000
- Ended
- Talk
- ~50m / ep
- 3 seasons
The everyday public and private lives of the detectives, policemen and policewomen who work at the inner-city Christmas Street police station in Manchester.
Latest: Season 3 · 2000
View all seasonsE1. No Direction Home.
Apr 15, 2000 · 50m
Christmas Street's new CID chief, Jack Carter, immediately upsets Chief Inspector Barnard by arresting local dignitaries. Pcs Jitlada and Green become involved with a homeless young couple who are being chased by an armed bounty hunter.
E2. Half-Man, Half-Cop.
Apr 22, 2000 · 50m
A one-man crime wave hits Christmas Street in the form of an impostor and DI Jack Carter and DS Janet Miller investigate local drugs dealers – one of whom turns out to be the son of Chief Inspector Barnard's new love.
E3. Everything Must Go.
Apr 29, 2000 · 50m
After a bungled drugs bust, DI Carter is left to salvage something from the few scraps he has. Carter and the team were after ambitious small-time dealer Gerald Ridley but chances of them getting him now look slight. Later, Pcs Green and Lawtry go to help social services take two children into care. However, it turns out they're ill-prepared and unequipped to deal with the mother and find themselves in the middle of a hostage situation.
E4. Respect.
May 6, 2000 · 50m
Pc Clive goes in for some heroics involving one of Mulholland's tenants, and DI Carter goes after the gangster. But will Mulholland fall? Andy offers to work off his debt to dodgy landlord Mulholland – but ends up having to set fire to a house.
E5. Above And Beyond.
May 20, 2000 · 50m
Carter's confidence is shaken to its core when he pushes his luck too far. Miller finds herself having to go beyond the bounds of duty when she tries to stop two brothers dealing in stolen videos. A girl tries to have her dad arrested to end his life of crime – but her plan has tragic consequences.
E6. Nutcase.
May 24, 2000 · 50m
Alfie Stokes is a sadistic, underworld-type who now claims to have found God, and he's DI Carter's star witness in the prosecution of Barry Roberts, a local drug dealer. But then former sergeant Yvonne Mackey turns up with some difficult question… Back at Christmas Street, Nick is livid that Sgt Dobson forgot to enter him for his sergeant's exams and threatens to take action.
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