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Police Camera Action! is a police video programme presented by Alastair Stewart and made by Optomen Television between 1994 and 2002 for Carlton Television which is broadcast on ITV1. Each episode had a subtitle relating to the type of police video footage such as "Safety Last" or "Driven to Distraction". It typically features police footage and occasional media footage relating to bad driving and road crime.
However, this has not always been so, with special episodes The Liver Run (featuring the Metropolitan Police) and The Man Who Shot OJ, focusing on the work of helicopter cameraman and pilot Bob Tur in Los Angeles. This episode also looked at the controversies behind the OJ Simpson trial. In later seasons of the show, footage from Bob Tur and the Los Angeles News Service would feature more prominently in certain episodes.

In 2002 the presenter Alastair Stewart's contract to present Police Camera Action was ended due to a drink driving conviction in Winchester, Hampshire and this delayed transmission of some unaired episodes until January 17, 2006.
Currently rescreenings of Police Camera Action are made on ITV4, 9.00pm-10.00pm Wednesday and Thursday (UK time). The rescreenings are of:

• Season 1 (1994-1995)
• Season 2 (1996-1998)
• Season 3 (1998-2000)
• Season 4 (2000-2001)

Season 5, from 2002, only airs on ITV1.

• The first episode broadcasted in 1994 was known as Police Stop!, however this was also used by a similar police programme that was available on VHS video (and later Sky One) that is known as Police Stop! In recent rescreenings of this episode on Men & Motors it is renamed Police, Camera, Action! with the subtitle of "Danger! Drivers Ahead" in line with the other episodes of this series.
• A spin off book of the series was released in 1996 by Ebury Press which was written by Peter Gillbe with a foreword by Alastair Stewart and which featured police footage of bad driving. Currently the book is out of print.

Episode guide

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1994-1997
1. Police Stop! (renamed Danger! Drivers Ahead! in recent transmissions)
2. Police Camera Action!
3. Safety Last
4. Helicops
5. International Patrol
6. Driven to Distraction
7. Eurocops
8. Road to Nowhere

1997-2001
9. On Your Bike
10. Rust Buckets

List of episodes from producion company

YEAR UK TITLE 1994 P 00 POLICE STOP / Danger, Drivers Ahead 1994 P 01 POLICE, CAMERA, ACTION!

SERIES 1 YEAR UK TITLE 1995 P 02 POLICE, CAMERA, ACTION! – 95 / Safety Last 1995 P 03 HELICOPS 1995 P 04 INTERNATIONAL 1995 P 05 TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED 1995 P 06 LIVER RUN

SERIES 2 YEAR UK TITLE 1996 P 07 DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION 1996 P 08 INTERNATIONAL PATROL 1996 P 09 MAN WHO SHOT OJ I 1996 P 10 UNFIT TO DRIVE 1996 P 11 EUROCOPS 1996 P 12 ROAD TO NOWHERE 1996 P 13 MAN WHO SHOT OJ II

SERIES 3 YEAR UK TITLE 1997 P 14 ON YOUR BIKE 1997 P 15 OUT OF CONTROL 1997 P 16 ENOUGH’S ENOUGH 1997 P 17 THE WILD SIDE 1997 P 18 A LORRY LOAD OF TROUBLE 1997 P 19 DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER (Special) 1997 P 20 WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR MOTOR?

SERIES 4 YEAR UK TITLE 1998 P 21 COAT HANGER MAN 1998 P 22 RUST BUCKETS 1998 P 23 CAPTURED 1998 P 24 THE UNPROTECTED 1998 P 25 SPEED 1998 P 26 ON THE BUSES 1998 P 27 LEARNING THE HARD WAY (Special) SERIES 5 YEAR UK TITLE 1999 P 28 WHAT DRIVES YOU MAD 1999 P 29 IN THE DRIVING SEAT 1999 P 30 BACK TO BASICS 1999 P 31 STAYING SAFE 1999 P 32 NOWHERE TO HIDE 1999 P 33 MONSTER DRIVERS 1999 P 34 BRAT PACK 1999 P 35 ON THE EDGE

SERIES 6 YEAR UK TITLE 99/2000 P 36 CRASH TEST RACERS (Special 60min) F1 footage 99/2000 P 37 HIGHWAY OF TOMORROW (Special 60min) 99/2000 P 38 CRASH TEST RACERS (Special 60min) F1 stills 99/2000 P 39 HIGHWAY OF TOMORROW Part 1 (Special 30min) 99/2000 P 40 HIGHWAY OF TOMORROW Part 2 (Special 30min) 99/2000 P 41 CRASH TEST RACERS Part 1 (Special 30min) 99/2000 P 42 CRASH TEST RACERS Part 2 (Special 30min) 2000 P 43 ROUND THE BEND 2000 P 44 DANGER AHEAD 2000 P 45 ROGUES ROADSHOW 2000 P 46 TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT 2000 P 47 A FAIR COP 2000 P 48 SMASH & GRAB 2000 P 49 FORD 2000 P 50 GETTING YOUR MAN

SERIES 7 YEAR UK TITLE 2002 P 51 LIFE IN THE FAST LANE 2002 P 52 MOTORWAY MANNERS 2002 P 53 DIVERSION AHEAD! 2002 P 54 UNDER THE INFLUENCE 2002 P 55 CITY LIMITS 2002 P 56 NICKED!

International syndication

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• New Zealand - TV 2
• Sweden - TV4 AB (1998-2003)
• United States of America - TLC

External links

• ITV4 website

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