The Sweeney at 50: ‘It’s still more lively than things on TV now’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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Half a century ago, John Thaw’s flawed and fallible detective Jack Regan introduced the antihero to mainstream British TV audiences. Decades later, the show’s influence is still visible all over our modern drama series, writes Jonathan Wells

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