Rockliffe's Babies
(incl. Rockliffe's Folly)(a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
Last updated: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00
A detective sergeant trains a team of inexperienced but enthusiastic plain-clothes officers to operate in some of London's toughest areas.
Show Details:
Start date: Jan 1987
End date: Dec 1988
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC One (UK)
Run time: 50 min
Episodes: 25 eps
Genre(s): Crime/Mystery, Drama
End date: Dec 1988
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC One (UK)
Run time: 50 min
Episodes: 25 eps
Genre(s): Crime/Mystery, Drama
Credits:
- Ian Hogg as DS Alan Rockliffe
- Bill Champion as PC David Adams [ 1-2 ]
- John Blakey as PC Keith Chitty [ 1-2 ]
- Brett Fancy as PC Steve Hood [ 1-2 ]
- Joe McGann as PC Gerry O'Dowd [ 1-2 ]
- Martyn Ellis as PC Paul Georgiou [ 1-2 ]
- Susanna Shelling as WPC Karen Walsh [ 1-2 ]
- Alphonsia Emmanuel as WPC Janice Hargreaves [ 1-2 ]
- Edward Wilson as DI Charlie Flight [ 1-2 ]
- Malcolm Terris as Detective Superintendent Munro [ 1-2 ]
- Brian Croucher as Chief Superintendent Barry Wyatt [ 2 ]
- Ian Brimble as Inspector Leslie Yaxley [ 3 ]
- Aaron Harris DC Paul Whitmore [ 3 ]
- Carole Nimmons as Sergeant Rachel Osborne [ 3 ]
- Craig Nightingale as PC Guy Overton [ 3 ]
- Elizabeth Henry as WPC Hester Goswell [ 3 ]
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 Rockliffe's Babies | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 09 Jan 87 | Sirens |
| 2. | 1-2 | 16 Jan 87 | Sweet and Sour Revenge |
| 3. | 1-3 | 23 Jan 87 | It's All Happening |
| 4. | 1-4 | 30 Jan 87 | A Bad Few Days |
| 5. | 1-5 | 06 Feb 87 | In the Bag |
| 6. | 1-6 | 13 Feb 87 | Ghetto-Blasters |
| 7. | 1-7 | 20 Feb 87 | Up the Down Escalator |
| 8. | 1-8 | 27 Feb 87 | Extra-curricular |
| Season 2 Rockliffe's Babies 2 | |||
| 9. | 2-1 | 08 Jan 88 | Go for It |
| 10. | 2-2 | 15 Jan 88 | A Trip to the Zoo |
| 11. | 2-3 | 22 Jan 88 | In Too Deep |
| 12. | 2-4 | 29 Jan 88 | Looking After Your Own |
| 13. | 2-5 | 12 Feb 88 | Easy Meat |
| 14. | 2-6 | 19 Feb 88 | A Very Diplomatic Incident |
| 15. | 2-7 | 26 Feb 88 | Top Man |
| 16. | 2-8 | 04 Mar 88 | Black Arrow |
| 17. | 2-9 | 11 Mar 88 | Hearts and Flowers |
| 18. | 2-10 | 18 Mar 88 | The One That Got Away |
| Season 3 Rockliffe's Folly | |||
| 19. | 3-1 | 02 Nov 88 | The Greenhorn |
| 20. | 3-2 | 09 Nov 88 | Moving Targets |
| 21. | 3-3 | 16 Nov 88 | Witch Hunt |
| 22. | 3-4 | 23 Nov 88 | Lie of the Land |
| 23. | 3-5 | 30 Nov 88 | On the Big Wheel |
| 24. | 3-6 | 07 Dec 88 | The Blind Man |
| 25. | 3-7 | 14 Dec 88 | Nine-Tenths of the Law |