Dempsey and Makepeace/Armed and Extremely Dangerous

Armed and Extremely Dangerous
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	January 11, 1985
Written by	Ranald Graham
Directed by	Tony Wharmby
— N/A	1x02 → The Squeeze
Dempsey and Makepeace — Season One

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Armed and Extremely Dangerous is the first episode of the first season of Dempsey and Makepeace. This is a special two-hour episode.

Starring: Michael Brandon as Dempsey, Glynis Barber as Makepeace, Ray Smith as Spikings

Co-Stars: Ralph Michael (Lord Winfield), Terence Alexander (Commander Daffield), Ray Jewers (Phil Parris), Mark Wing-Davey (Mark Savory), David Baxt (Joe), Ross Murray (Eddie), Desmond Cullum-Jones (Coltrane), William Kearns (O'Grady), Norman Chancer (Bologna), Tony Osoba (Det. Sgt. Chas Jarvis), Douglas Milvain (Sir John Fielding), John Barcroft (Asst. Com. Jennings), Cheryl Prime (Car Rental Girl), Victor Baring (Club Manager), Eric Kent (Danny Price), Tony Jay (Abe Moser), Margot van der Burgh (Diana Moser), Peter Brace (Gunman), Paul Bacon (Philipott), Andrew Jolly (Combat Policeman), Knight Mantell (Abbott), Laurin Kaski (Stefan)

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Dempsey: After a botched sting operation, Dempsey's life is threatened through police corruption in New York, so his superiors covertly put him on loan to a new undercover unit of the British police in London, 3000 miles away from angry New York mobsters.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Falklands War: In 1982—two years prior to the production of the episode—Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a remote British overseas territory in the South Atlantic. In response, the United Kingdom launched a naval task force that eventually retook the islands in a decisive victory.

Bologna: They handled Argentina.

Quotes

• (Dempsey and Makepeace are about to pose as husband and wife.)
  Makepeace: Somehow, I don't think this is going to work.
  Dempsey: Why is that?
  Makepeace: I mean, how can we carry this off if we don't even like each other?
  Dempsey: Who says we have to like each other? Lots of married couples hate each other's guts. We could be one of them.

• Dempsey: If you need any help, just call me.
  Makepeace: I will, leftenant.
  Dempsey: Lootenant. Lootenant. You can say that, can't you, sergeant? You just put your lips together and you go "oo".

• Dempsey: You want me to make it an order?
  Makepeace: You order me?
  Dempsey: You're damn right. I'm a lieutenant and you are just a sergeant.
  Makepeace: We don't have lieutenants.
  Dempsey: You got one now.
  Makepeace: Well, I'm not taking orders from him.