Black and Blue (1992)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Television Film

Series Title: Screen One (1989-1994)

Director: David Hayman

Writer: G.F. Newman

Cinematographer: John Daly

Composer: Bob Last

Cast: Christopher John Hall, Linus Roache, Martin Shaw, Iain Glen, Ray Winstone, Don Henderson, Rowena King, Fraser James, Clive Wedderburn

A young black police officer is brought in from Plymouth to go undercover on a South London council estate (which looks suspiciously like Liverpool) ostensibly to investigate the murder of a prominent solicitor, but instead uncovers rampant racism and corruption in the Metropolitan Police Service, in this often powerful and generally very entertaining if never entirely credible BBC drama, which often feels more like a pilot for a television series than a one-off piece. Iain.Stott