Jack Regan is a slobbish ... ensuring the continued existence of his department - the Sweeney.

The first episode of the hard-hitting 1970s cop series set in the violent world of the Flying Squad. Detective Inspector Jack Regan tracks three crooks who are planning a robbery.

The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey ...