Police 2020

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,^[2] the head of a police nightshift force, who is tasked with tackling an armed suspect, Eddie Longshaw (Keith Barron), 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.^[3]

Police 2020
Poster
Genre	Crime drama Science fiction
Created by	Paul Abbott
Directed by	David Richards
Starring	Liam Cunningham Rachel Davies Nick Reding Saira Todd Keith Barron
Composer	Hal Lindes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	1
Production
Producer	Joanna Gueritz
Editor	Neil Parker
Camera setup	Andrew McDonnell
Running time	100 minutes[1]
Production company	Granada Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	22 June 1997 (1997-06-22)

However, whilst conducting his investigation, O'Connell and a close colleague, Marsha Beagley (Rachel Davies), are both in the process of competing for a promotion, and are being monitored throughout the crisis to see who performs better, unaware that their superiors are taking advantage of the situation to pit them against each other.^[4] Although the feature-length pilot gained much press attention, a full series was not commissioned.

Cast

• Liam Cunningham as DCI Billy O'Connell
• Rachel Davies as DCI Marsha Beagley
• Tim Dantay as DI Brian Sagar
• Maureen Hibbert as DI Christine Baker
• Nick Reding as DS Keanan
• Ken Bradshaw as DS Dewhurst
• Jane Slavin as DC Fiona Muir
• Stephen Hackett as DC Steven Springfield
• Saira Todd as Katline Voikevich
• Keith Barron as Eddie Longshaw
• Ken Bones as Commander Johnson
• Esther Hall as Julie Ostrovsky
• Velibor Topic as Mikki Ostrovsky
• Andrew Knott as Scully
• Rad Lazar as Uri Pacovsky
• Ivan Marevich as Andreyev
• David Prosho as Dr. Fortnum