cop shop episode 25

You can't tell me this isn't Louise Homfrey, I hope you weren't going to try. She's in one scene of episode 25 of Cop Shop, as 'Mrs Price', but as was so often the case, she is not in the credits (Mrs Price isn't listed as a character either). 

As I said earlier, Cop Shop is Crawfords demonstrating 'everything they've learned about soap opera laid upon everything they already knew about police/crime shows'; I was thinking earlier that perhaps I should take a sample episode or two and try to figure out what proportion is soap, and what proportion is action/crime solving. There'd also be value in figuring out the ratio of outside action to indoors (i.e. sets). Homicide and D4 distinguished heavily between the outdoor and the indoor stuff, and for long periods both shows had two directors per episode, focusing on each. 

CS has also learnt a lot from D4, particularly the upstairs-downstairs nature of a police station, so Riverside police station has the front desk and the uniform with the detectives upstairs and interaction - conflict between them as well as against the outside world of crims and conspiracies. 

Most of the time, it's the detectives and their home lives (JJ and Valerie and Glen, Pamela and Gayle - and for a short time early, Don and Carol McKenna and Kerrie) but also spare a thought by the way for Paula Duncan as Danni Frances, who gets handed around quite a bit early on... I'm only in the early stages though.

This is going to be a long ride. Sorry, you don't have to put up with it if you don't want to.