When things
get too much for the officers on the front line, they call for Backup, the
Operational Support Unit (OSU). Backup was a police procedural drama devised by
Nigel McCrery, a former police officer, based on the operations of the nine
officers of Charlie Van, an OSU squad of the West Midlands Police, and with a
strong focus on the personal lives of the officers.
Supplied as a 3 DVD set, recorded from Satellite TV, compared to a retail DVD,
the quality is around 8/10 (Very Good!)
Episodes are as follows;
Backup - Series 1 (DVD 1)
Episode 1 - Not All There
The members of Charlie Van are assigned to a team investigating serial murders.
Episode 2 - Tender Loving Care
An ex-soldier back from Bosnia has plans to prevent his sister getting married -
plans which result in the team being called in.
Episode 3 - Toleration Zone
The team are called in when a community takes vigilante action to rid its area
of prostitutes
Backup - Series 1 (DVD 2)
Episode 4 - Mouth and Trousers
Charlie Van is called into action when the leader of a hooligan gang is stabbed
before a football match, but need back-up themselves when a riot between rival
gangs looks inevitable.
Episode 5 - Badlands
The team are assigned to a tough inner-city housing estate when events threaten
to spiral out of control.
Episode 6 - Happy That way
The team have to go undercover as prostitutes, drug dealers and rent boys, in
order to stamp out crime on a local common. They catch a copper from another
nick with an under age girl in his car.
Backup - Series 1 (DVD 3)
Episode 7 - Clubbing
The team have to join forces with the Drugs Squad to take part in a raid on a
club
Episode 8 - Cut and Dried
A routine surveillance job for Charlie Van turns into a tragedy. Staking out a
drug dealer's home, the team see two police colleagues go inside.
