Promoting a culture of violence
A survey of films shown on terrestrial
television in 2001
JULY 2002
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he growing problem of violent antisocial behaviour is well known and
documented in the soaring statistics, regularly published, for violent crime
and aggressive behaviour. The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP,
declared it a "national emergency" and the Home Secretary has
introduced new punitive measures, including parenting orders and child curfews,
aimed at curbing social disorder, particularly among the young.
Police fail to stem rise in violent
crime
Violent crime
is still rising, despite extra resources given to police to tackle street
robberies, according to the government figures to be published this week. The
number of violent crimes, including robbery and sexual offences, rose by 2 per
cent to reach more than 715,000 recorded offences in the year to last March. The Times 16/7/2001
Street crime soaring by 26%, Home Office
figures reveal
Street crime
is "running out of control" with the number of muggings rising by
more than 26% over the past nine months, according to internal Home Office
figures. The increase, which has been accompanied by a sharp rise in the use of
guns, has so alarmed Tony Blair that he has ordered one of his top Downing
Street officials into the Home Office and Scotland Yard to try to sort out the
crisis. The Sunday
Times 10/2/2002
Crime up 6%
Recorded crime
rose by 6% in 2001-02, with increases in street robbery, violence and burglary,
according to figures to be published this week by David Blunkett, the Home
Secretary. Crimes involving firearms are also rising with a 50% increase in gun
crime in the West Midlands and 25% rise in London. The Times 8/7/2002
Whilst everyone surely welcomes attempts to restore order to the
nations' streets we believe that much more would be achieved if the film, video
and television industries played their part and actively took steps to stop the
gratuitous presentation of crime, disorder and violence as entertainment. A
positive response to the public and parliamentary concern about increasing
violent crime would be an exercise in social responsibility.
It is not without significance that Sir Edward Crew, the Chief Constable
of the West Midlands Police Authority, said in the Annual Report published in
June 2002, that "violent crime is steadily increasing. These increases
are hardly surprising given the constant diet of aggression, undress, innuendo
and dishonesty portrayed on television as normal behaviour and fed to young
people". (emphasis added)
Fury over killer vids
An uncut
version of the controversial film Natural Born Killers will finally be
available on video tomorrow despite fears that it could lead to copycat
attacks. The video release of the film in which 52 people die was delayed for
five years after the Dunblane Massacre. But Warner Brothers claim a lot of
people still want to see it. John Beyer, of pressure group mediawatch-uk said:
"There are not enough bad things to say about this movie. It glamorises
drugs, violence, gun use, under age sex and incest". Sunday Mirror 8/7/2001
We agree with the director general of the National Crime Intelligence
Service, John Abbott, who criticised the film industry in September 2000 for
glamorising violent crime and portraying gangsters as heroes. This criticism
remains valid although we would add that the portrayal of police and law
enforcement agencies is frequently as bad or worse than the portrayal of
criminals. This certainly does not engender respect for the police.
Being a crime victim 'part of growing
up'
Almost every
school pupil in Britain has been a victim of crime and regards it as part of
growing up, according to a disturbing new survey. More than 1,000 youngsters
aged 11 to 15 were surveyed and 96 per cent said they had suffered some sort of
crime, at the hands of both adults and other children. The most common problem
was physical attacks, with two thirds saying they had been hit or kicked. Half
of those said it had happened more than once. The Daily Mail11/4/2002
It is difficult to appreciate in a written report the full impact of the
violent fantasy world portrayed by film makers who perpetuate cruelty, killing,
maiming, destruction and all manner of brutal behaviour and sexual aggression
in their productions. As in previous years the most common portrayal of
violence involves the use of firearms.
Gun crimes go back above Dunblane level
Handgun crime
has returned to levels last seen before the Dunblane massacre of 1996 and the
ban on the weapons that followed, official figures have shown. Last year there
were 4,019 crimes in which handguns were used, a rise of more than 9% on the
previous year. The Sunday Times 16/12/2001
Street crime statistics
Between April
and November last year there were 45,255 street robberies and snatches against
32,497 for the same eight months of 2000. There is little doubt that by the end
of the statistical year in April, muggings in London will have exceeded the
record total of 50,607 in 2000-2001. One of the biggest causes for concern is
the number of cases in which real or imitation firearms are used. Commander
Alan Brown, the head of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad, says that in the first
eight months of 2001-2002 armed muggings rose by 53 per cent from 435 between
April and November 2000 to 667. Detectives say that young people aged between
14 and 17 are the most likely victims. The Times 7/1/2002
That the Broadcasting Authorities continue to purchase and screen such
material, on the absurd grounds that they simply "reflect reality",
has become a scandal. Long term monitoring of films, conducted for more than a
decade, reveals a cynical approach to programming which seems to be concerned
only with ratings and audience share while wider social responsibility is
ignored.
BBC's pursuit of ratings 'risks soul of
British TV'
The BBC is
putting the very soul of British television in danger with its slide into
commercialism in the battle for ratings, ITV's top programme executive said
last night. David Liddiment, the ITV programme Director, accused the BBC of
axing or sidelining fine programmes and serving up an endless diet of medical
soaps. "The relentless quest to find out what viewers want and then give
it to them has made for sameness", he said in the annual MacTaggart
Lecture at the Guardian Edinburgh International Festival. Mr Liddiment
said that in playing the ratings game the corporation was making it more
difficult for commercial broadcasters to take risks with programmes. The Times 25/8/2001
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Research
Public Attitudes?
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ccording to the latest Independent Television Commission annual survey
of public attitudes to television programming, published in March 2002, the
most common cause of offence was swearing and offensive language followed by
violence, then sex/nudity. The report 'Television: The People's View 2000'
also found that "more viewers claimed to have switched off or changed
channels because of violence, followed closely by swearing and offensive
language and then sex/nudity.
Depictions of Violence
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e note also the findings of a joint report, 'The Depiction of
Violence on Terrestrial Television', published in April 2002 by the ITC,
the BBC and the Broadcasting Standards Commission. It was found that the number
of violent scenes in TV entertainment shows had almost doubled in four years
and that there are now more violent scenes before the 9.00pm watershed.
In a two-week monitoring period the underlying year-on-year trends suggest that
scenes of violence have been increasing across a variety of programme types. It
was stated that film accounted for 23% of all violence on TV and Channel 5
showed the greatest amount of violence due to the high proportion of films on
this channel. (emphasis added)
The Effects of Viewing Violence
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ccording to the latest scientific research watching more than an hour of
TV a day makes teenagers more likely to grow up violent. The first study to
investigate the long-term impact of viewing on behaviour has confirmed fears
about a link with aggression. Experts have concluded that rates of violence,
including assaults, fights and robberies, increase dramatically in people in
their late teens and early twenties the longer they spent watching TV as
children. Adults were five times more likely to behave violently and
aggressively if they watched more than three hours of television a day as 14
year olds. One hour was enough to make a significant difference and the effect
was particularly severe for boys.
The researchers, who tracked 700 families for 18 years, said it made no
difference what programmes were watched since an average hour of children's TV
contained between 20 and 25 violent acts. 'Our findings suggest that, at
least during early adolescence, responsible parents should avoid permitting
their children to watch more than one hour of TV a day', said Dr Jeffrey
Johnson, of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. The Daily Mail 29/3/2002
Undoing the damage
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report published by Stanford
University in California USA in January 2001 concluded that rationing the time
that children spend watching television can make them less aggressive. This
survey is the first to demonstrate that such behaviour can be "unlearnt"
by cutting back on television, video games and videotapes. Thomas Robinson,
leading author of the study, said, "the effects of televised violence in
kids are really reversible".
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Findings
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his report is compiled from detailed accounts of what monitors actually
saw on screen. We have deliberately avoided the approach adopted by others,
which depends upon people's subjective perceptions. It is intended to be a
further contribution to the urgent debate about violence on television and the
causal connection with social disorder and criminal violence.
We recognise that in the course of a year more than 3000 films are shown
on the terrestrial channels with even more shown by the subscription film
channels on the cable and satellite networks. All these films represent a real
challenge to those charged with regulating and monitoring TV output and
conducting content research in the public interest.
In this Report a total of 200 films shown in 2001 on BBC1, BBC2, ITV1,
C4 and C5 are analysed. The Report is not exhaustive and the findings relate
only to the films monitored.
In the 200 films analysed, including 9 films shown twice, monitors
identified:
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987 incidents
involving firearms
(305 on BBC1; 98 on BBC2; 191
on ITV1; 62 on C4; 331 on C5)
·
667 violent
assaults
(168 on BBC1; 73 on
BBC2; 96 on ITV1; 75 on C4; 255 on C5)
·
94 incidents
of fire raising/causing explosions
(19 on BBC1; 9 on BBC2;
25 on ITV1; 4 on C4; 37 on C5)
·
318 incidents
involving knives and other offensive weapons
(100 on BBC1; 20 on
BBC2; 39 on ITV1; 51 on C4; 108 on C5)
·
44 incidents
involving illegal drug abuse
(4 on BBC1; 7 on BBC2; 9
on ITV1; 16 on C4; 8 on C5)
Of the 200 films monitored (including the 9 shown twice) 50 were shown
on BBC1, 22 on BBC2, 35 on ITV1, 25 on C4 and 68 on C5.
The 9 films shown twice were:
'Blind Date' on BBC2 and C5; 'Deadly
Pursuit' on BBC1 and C5; 'F/X - Murder by Illusion' on C5 and ITV1; 'Hard
Target' on BBC1 and C5; 'Malone' twice on ITV1; 'Night of the Running
Man' twice on BBC1; 'Out of Annie's Past' twice on BBC1; 'The
Assassin' on C5 and ITV; 'The Set Up' on BBC1 and BBC2.
The findings in this report verify regulator's research mentioned above
that Channel 5's output of films increased significantly in 2001 and
accordingly the figures for violent incidents are startlingly higher in all
categories than in any previous year analysed. We note that 4 of the films
screened by Channel 5 were shown at 3.35pm. Previous showings were after 9.00pm
We acknowledge that a number of the films were transmitted after
midnight. However small the audiences for these films may have been at these
times they still add to the overall presence of violence transmitted on
television. Moreover, because most households have video recorders, enabling
easy time shifting of programmes, late night/early morning scheduling is not a
real obstacle to viewing them.
Firearms shown being used in these films included:
Revolver; machine pistol; rifle; pump action shotgun; spear gun.
Other offensive weapons shown being used in these films included:
Flick knives; hunting knives; sword; axe; scissors; razor; snooker cue;
plank of wood; bottle; iron bar; spade; baseball bat; truncheon; chain saw.
Crimes portrayed included:
Murder; rape; grievous bodily harm; assault; robbery with violence;
robbery; burglary; vehicle theft.
We draw attention particularly to the violent acts portrayed against
women and against sensitive parts of the body, for example, the head and
genitals. We also draw attention to the so-called 'hardware violence' against
cars, buildings and property generally.
Principal findings from previous Reports:
In 1994 the National Viewers' and Listeners'
Association analysed 111 films screened on the four terrestrial television
channels. Two reports, 'A CULTURE OF CRUELTY AND VIOLENCE', and, 'MORE CRUELTY
AND VIOLENCE', were published in November 1994 and June 1995 respectively. Our
analysis of these films detailed 523 incidents involving firearms, 492 violent
assaults and 81 incidents involving knives of various kinds and other offensive
weapons.
In 1995 the Association analysed 200 films
screened on the four terrestrial television channels. The Report 'MORE CRUELTY
AND VIOLENCE 2' was published in August 1996. Our analysis of these films detailed
835 incidents involving firearms, 689 violent assaults and 232 incidents
involving knives of various kinds and other offensive weapons.
In 1996 the Association analysed 246 films
screened on the four terrestrial television channels. The report 'MORE CRUELTY
AND VIOLENCE 3' was published in March 1997. Our analysis of these films
detailed 1076 incidents involving firearms, 706 violent assaults and 376
incidents involving knives kinds and other offensive weapons.
In 1997 the Association analysed 265 films
screened on the five terrestrial television channels. The report 'MORE CRUELTY
AND VIOLENCE 4' was published in May 1998. Our analysis of these films detailed
1281 incidents involving firearms, 918 violent assaults and 409 incidents
involving knives of various kinds and other offensive weapons.
In 1998 the Association analysed 269 films
screened on the five terrestrial television channels. The report 'MORE CRUELTY
AND VIOLENCE 5' was published in May 1999. Our analysis of these films detailed
1171 incidents involving firearms, 798 violent assaults, 340 incidents
involving knives of various kinds and other offensive weapons.
In 2000 mediawatch-uk analysed 193 films screened
on the five terrestrial television channels. The report 'YOB CULTURE ON TV' was
published in March 2001. Our analysis of these films detailed 1021 incidents
involving firearms, 799 violent assaults, 87 incidents involving knives of
various kinds and other offensive weapons.
mediawatch-uk believes that violence in entertainment continues to cause
widespread concern mixed with frustration about the lack of any meaningful
response from the film, video and television industries.
Violence takes Cannes to new extreme
A film
portraying extreme sexual violence is about to become the first controversial
offering at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Those who have seen Irreversible,
a film by Gaspar Noi, say that it is more shocking than Crash, which
caused outrage six years ago at the festival. Noi's tale of murder and
vengeance, rape and sadomasochism will have its premiere at the festival.
"The sexual violent scene in Irreversible is almost too painful to
watch," one viewer said. "It's incredibly shocking and will cause
more of a sensation than Crash, which was not as graphic as this." The Times 15/5/2002
The resources available to mediawatch-uk, a voluntary organisation, for
monitoring TV output are small compared to those available to the regulatory
authorities. Nevertheless, the results of this limited monitoring report
indicate that those who are currently charged to secure that programmes do not
"incite to crime or lead to disorder" continue to fail in their
duties.
In the future OFCOM must do rather more than the present regulators to
overcome the problems that arise from portrayals of violence on television.
Politicians talk of the importance of having "joined-up government"
where different departments co-operate and harmonise application of policy with
others. It is clearly pointless to have stringent law and order policy, for
example, aimed at encouraging good and responsible citizenship if it is
continually undermined by lawlessness and disorder glorified and celebrated in
entertainment.
In drafting its "more coherent system of objectives and
principles" OFCOM really must take into account public attitudes and the
experience of those who have to deal with violence and aggression in their
daily work, for example, police, teachers, probation officers, nurses,
magistrates, transport staff and so on.
Germany aims to curb TV violence
Germany's
broadcasting chiefs were summoned by Chancellor Schroder last night to work out
how to reduce the level of violence on television. The media summit, on the eve
of a funeral service for the 16 teachers and students murdered in Erfurt, was
aimed at calming an increasingly nervous German public. The move seems certain
to usher in a new era of self restraint by broadcasters who are worried that
the Government in the throes of an election campaign will try to tighten
already strict youth protection rules on viewing times. The Times 3/5/2002
mediawatch-uk believes that OFCOM, in order to be effective in these
matters, must embrace a much broader definition of incitement. The continual
portrayal of violence in film, video and on television should itself be
regarded as an incitement to crime and disorder. The latest scientific research
from the University of Columbia, referred to above, concludes that viewing
violence increases aggressive behaviour. Given that shootings, stabbing and violent
assaults continue to increase OFCOM must focus its attention upon portrayals of
such harmful activities and seek to secure change.
At the present time there seems to be a complete disregard of public
concern and the accumulated evidence of harm associated with violent
entertainment. On the basis of this report there is no evident desire to have a
positive or beneficial influence on our society. This assertion is
substantiated by the fact that all of the films catalogued in this report,
including the most violent, have been screened three, four or five times in as
many years.
We submit that violence in entertainment contributes significantly to
violence in society and it remains the one factor that is easiest to deal with.
A more socially responsible approach to programme policy is essential if social
policies elsewhere are to have any hope of succeeding.
It is our hope that this report 'Promoting a Culture of Violence',
will lead to a significant and meaningful reduction of violence in
entertainment thought by the Broadcasting Authorities to be suitable for the
nation. We appeal to the Government to ensure that the Communications Act will
give OFCOM the necessary powers and resources to affect a change of programme
policy that will bring real benefits to the society as a whole rather than
perpetuate the present damaging and harmful influence.
BBC1
Programme: 'FALLING DOWN'
Date: 7.01.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time:
10.15pm
Previously
shown:
2.05.97 BBC1 10.00pm
Urban drama. A
highly stressed middle-aged man is pushed over the edge when his journey across
L.A. is hampered by traffic jams, criminals and obstructive shopkeepers.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BUSTIN' LOOSE'
Date:
11.01.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.40pm
Previously
shown:
1.09.96 BBC1 11.25pm; 14.04.98 BBC1 11.45pm; 13.12.2000 BBC1 12.45am
Comedy. A
wise-cracking former convict is blackmailed into driving eight under-privileged
children across the US.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'NIGHTHAWKS'
Date:
12.01.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
3.12.96 BBC1 10.25pm; 3.11.98 BBC1 10.30pm; 17.03.2000 BBC1 10.25pm
Action
thriller. Seconded for special training in anti-terrorist tactics, two
hard-bitten New York cops find themselves on the trail of a ruthless
international terrorist.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'WHITE SANDS'
Date: 15.01.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
10.09.99 BBC1 11.05pm
Psychological
Thriller. A New Mexico sheriff gets drawn into an FBI sting involving drugs and
gunrunners after discovering a dead man clasping a case containing half a
million dollars.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 4
Programme: 'BODY OF EVIDENCE'
Date:
16.01.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
10.08.96 BBC1 10.45pm; 18.10.97 C5 10.55pm; 16.01.98 BBC1 11.15pm
Erotic
thriller. A seductive art gallery owner is accused of murdering her elderly
millionaire lover by indulging in unusual sex games.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults; 2
Programme: 'CARLITO'S WAY'
Date:
19.01.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
7.02.97 BBC1 10.00pm
Crime thriller.
Released from jail on a technicality after five years, a former drugs dealer is
determined to go straight. But he finds himself pulled back into the violent
criminal underworld by his sleazy lawyer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 5 Illegal Drug Abuse: 2
Programme: 'DEADLY PURSUIT'
Date:
29.01.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
16.10.91 ITV 9.00pm; 4.05.98 C5 9.00pm
Thriller. An
FBI agent pursues a killer into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, aided by a
rugged mountain guide whose girlfriend is the killer's hostage.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DEATH HUNT'
Date:
16.02.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.35pm
Previously
shown:
28.07.89 ITV 11.10pm
Film based on a
true story of a Canadian trapper framed for murder. Hunted through the
wilderness by three Mounties and a pack of bounty hunters but he eventual
escapes.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE STAR CHAMBER'
Date:
18.02.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
4.04.90 ITV 10.45pm; 19.02.99 BBC1
Thriller.
Sickened by seeing criminals escape justice through legal loopholes, an
idealistic judge joins the Star Chamber, a secret society of judges who take
the law into their own hands.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'WALL STREET'
Date: 4.03.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time:
10.55pm
Previously
shown: 9.12.91
ITV 9.00pm; 12.09.95 ITV 9.00pm; 21.01.2000 BBC1 10.25pm
Big business
drama. An ambitious young stockbroker makes illegal deals to persuade a top
dealer that he's got what it takes to reach the highest level.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'COLOR OF NIGHT'
Date:
13.03.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.20pm
Previously
shown:
26.08.99 BBC1 00.15am
Erotic
Thriller. When a colleague is stabbed in his office a psychologist takes over
the dead man's therapy group, one of who may be the murderer. As he tries to
unmask the killer he is drawn into a torrid affair with an enigmatic woman.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'FAMILY BUSINESS'
Date:
22.03.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.40pm
Previously shown: 28.10.94 BBC1 9.30pm;
11.07.96 BBC1 10.50pm; 4.04.97 C5 9.00pm; 3.06.98 BBC1 11.10pm
Comedy
thriller. The son of a small-time criminal is anxious to keep his own son out
of trouble.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 4
Programme: 'COPYCAT'
Date:
24.03.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.25pm
Previously
shown:
22.08.99 BBC1 9.30pm
Thriller. A
criminal psychologist who is an expert on serial killers becomes an agoraphobic
recluse after being attacked by one of her patients. When a murderer begins
imitating the crimes of notorious killers, a San Francisco policewoman realises
she need help to catch the true culprit.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'MURDER IN THE FIRST'
Date: 1.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.00pm
Previously
shown:
9.07.98 BBC1 9.30pm
Fact based
prison drama. Half deranged after three years of solitary confinement in an
Alcatraz dungeon, a petty thief attacks and kills a fellow convict. The lawyer
assigned to defend him determines to expose the brutal prison regime...
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'TIMESCAPE'
Date: 2.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.50pm
Previously
shown:
25.08.95 BBC1 10.25pm
Sci-fi.
thriller. When a group of Australian tourists turn up in a small American town,
the hotelier discovers that they are time travellers from the future visiting
sites of great disasters -and he has just hours to save the town from
destruction.....
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'NIGHT OF THE RUNNING MAN'
Date: 6.04.2001
Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
12.05.98 BBC1 10.25pm
Thriller. A cab
driver finds a bag with $1 million in the back of his car. He decides to keep
it - but the money belongs to a casino boss who hires a ruthless hit-man to get
it back...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'SEX, LOVE AND COLD HARD CASH'
Date: 6.04.2001
Channel: BBC1 Time: 1.05am
Previously
shown:
3.03.98 BBC1 00.20am
Crime thriller.
When her manager absconds with her life savings, a high-class call-girl teams
up with an ex-con to get the money back. But the pair soon find themselves on
the wrong side of the Mob.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE MEAN MACHINE'
Date: 9.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.20pm
Previously
shown:
25.02.94 BBC1 10.20pm; 26.09.97 BBC1 11.00pm; 2.12.98 BBC1 11.35pm
Comedy
adventure. A one-time professional football star, now prison inmate, coaches a
team of his fellow convicts in preparation for a brutal grudge match against
their guards' semi-professional squad.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 7 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'WHITE MISCHIEF'
Date:
18.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
29.12.91 BBC2 10.15pm; 16.11.97 C5 9.00pm
Fact based
murder mystery set in Forties colonial Kenya. A man appears to turn a blind eye
when his wife embarks on a blatant affair. Then her lover is found murdered.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Programme: 'NO ESCAPE'
Date:
19.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.40pm
Previously
shown:
4.09.97 BBC1 11.15pm
Futuristic
prison thriller. A court-martialled soldier sent to an island jail teams up
with the leader of a gang of rebels and plans an escape.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 13
Programme: 'RED HEAT'
Date:
20.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.35pm
Previously
shown:
19.09.92 ITV 10.55pm; 24.02.96 ITV 10.00pm
Action
thriller. A Soviet policeman teams up with a wisecracking Chicago cop to catch
a gang of drug dealers.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 14
Violent Assaults: 3
Programme: 'CLIFFHANGER'
Date:
21.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.45pm
Previously shown: 24.12.96 BBC1 9.00pm;
1.05.98 BBC1 9.35pm; 26.06.2000 BBC1 9.50pm
Action
adventure. A violent gang searching for stolen loot comes up against a Rocky
Mountains guide.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 15
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'JADE'
Date:
22.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
7.09.98 BBC1 10.00pm
Psychological
thriller. An assistant district attorney investigates the murder of a
millionaire and discovers that one of the suspects is an ex-girlfriend.
Incidents involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'
Date:
27.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
16.01.92 BBC1 9.40pm; 9.07.93 BBC1 10.30pm; 6.10.95 BBC1 10.20pm; 1.11.98 BBC2
10.50pm
Described as
Action/Drama. A bank robber escapes from prison and goes to recover stolen
loot, only to find that a building has been erected on the spot where the money
was buried.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'UNDER SIEGE'
Date:
29.04.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
24.01.97 BBC1 9.30pm; 9.12.97 BBC1 9.30pm
Action
thriller. When a team of trained saboteurs take over a US nuclear warship, it
is left to the ship's cook to lead the resistance.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults etc: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BOILING POINT'
Date: 1.05.2001
Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
31.08.96 BBC1 10.55pm; 6.06.98 BBC1 11.00pm
Action
thriller. U.S. Treasury agent swears vengeance on the flamboyant con-artist
behind his partner's death.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'NARROW MARGIN'
Date:
20.05.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.00pm
Previously
shown:
15.11.93 9.00pm; 8.11.95 ITV 9.00pm
Thriller. An
L.A. district attorney accidentally reveals the whereabouts of a witness to a
Mob killing. It is then a race against time for him to reach the woman and
protect her from hired hit men.
Incidents involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE HUNTED'
Date:
25.05.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
26.07.99 BBC1 11.00pm
Thriller. A
businessman visiting Japan has a passionate night with a mysterious woman. Soon
after he witnesses her murder and finds himself pursued by a gang of ruthless
ninjas.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 5 Knives etc: 17
Programme: 'STAGGERED'
Date:
27.05.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
26.05.97 BBC1 10.20pm
Comedy. A
hapless toy demonstrator wakes up after his stag night to discover that his
scheming best man has left him stranded, naked, on the beach of a remote
Scottish island. He has three days to get out of his predicament and back to
London in time for his wedding.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DR GIGGLES'
Date: 1.06.2001
Channel: BBC1 Time: 1.10am
Previously
shown:
10.01.98 BBC1 1.00am; 15.10.99 BBC1
Deranged man
escapes from an asylum determined to seek revenge on those he believed killed
his father.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 5 Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'HARD TARGET'
Date: 2.06.2001
Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.45pm
Previously
shown:
12.07.97 BBC1 10.00pm
Action
thriller. An out-of-work sailor comes to the aid of a woman searching for her
missing father and discovers a group of sadistic hunters who kill human prey
for sport.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 16
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 4 Knives etc: 10
Programme: 'SNIPER'
Date: 8.06.2001
Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.05pm
Previously
shown:
25.09.98 BBC1 10.20pm
Action
Thriller. A mismatched pair of assassins are sent into the Panamanian jungle
toeliminate a rebel leader.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 13
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE SET UP'
Date: 8.06.2001
Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.40am
Previously
shown:
19.05.97 BBC1 10.10pm; 27.05.2000 BBC1 11.30pm
Thriller. An
ex-convict is employed by a bank to use his knowledge as a thief to invent the
ultimate security system. However, after an old prison buddy takes his
girlfriend hostage, he is soon being blackmailed into cracking his own machine.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults: 7
Programme: 'SE7EN'
Date:
12.06.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
11.10.98 BBC1 9.05pm; 7.01.2000 BBC1 9.30pm
Thriller. With
only one week to go before his retirement a veteran homicide detective and his
young replacement find the corpse of a man who has apparently been force-fed to
death. After another murder and the uncovering of several cryptic clues, they
begin to suspect that a serial killer is selecting and despatching his victims
in a fiendish homage to the seven deadly sins.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THREE FUGITIVES'
Date:
25.06.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
16.04.94 8.30pm; 28.12.97 ITV 11.15pm
Comedy. Tough
ex-con is taken hostage by an inept bank robber who has turned to crime to
support his mute daughter. When the police refuse to believe that he's an
innocent bystander, he is forced to aid the robber's escape.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 9 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BLUE ICE'
Date:
08.07.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.30am
Previously
shown:
20.12.99 BBC1 00.30am
Thriller. A
former MI6 agent gets involved in the world of espionage again.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'TO PROTECT AND SERVE'
Date:
13.07.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.15pm
Previously
shown:
21.04.99 BBC1 11.35pm
Someone starts
executing a group of corrupt police officers after a black man is beaten to
death.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent Assaults: 2 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'COMMANDO'
Date:
24.07.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 9.10pm
Previously
shown:
26.09.92 ITV 10.35pm; 6.01.94 ITV 10.40pm; 13.11.98 BBC1 10.25pm; 11.02.2000
BBC1 10.25pm
Action
adventure. A retired commando tries to rescue his daughter, kidnapped by a gang
of ruthless renegades employed by a deposed central American dictator. The aim
is to coerce the father into assassinating their leader's successor. Film
includes a scene where a serrated knife is held at a child's throat.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'MAN ON FIRE'
Date:
27.07.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.55am
Previously
shown:
2.10.97 BBC1 12.00m't
Thriller. A
former CIA agent takes a job as bodyguard to a rich Italian couple's
12-year-old daughter. Then disaster strikes and he finds events spinning
violently out of his control.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'SLIVER'
Date: 28.07.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.30pm
Previously
shown:
18.10.96 BBC1 10.20pm; 6.05.98 BBC1 10.15pm; 29.05.2000 BBC1 10.30pm
Erotic
thriller. A recently divorced book editor moves into a high-rise Manhattan
apartment building that has a history of mysterious deaths. Romantically
pursued by two neighbours she cannot escape the feeling that she's constantly
being watched.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DOUBLE CROSS'
Date:
31.07.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.20pm
Previously
shown:
7.10.98 BBC1 10.35pm; 19.05.2000 BBC1 11.05pm
Thriller. A man
happily bends the truth when he is involved in a minor traffic accident with an
attractive woman. But his lie comes back to haunt him when he finds himself
falsely accused of murder.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2
Programme: 'TOTAL RECALL'
Date:
11.08.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
9.11.93 ITV 10.40pm; 25.02.95 ITV 10.00pm; 5.11.96 ITV 10.40pm; 5.12.98 ITV 9.55pm;
8.04.2000 ITV 10.15pm
Sci-fi.
adventure. A man goes to Mars in search of his true identity after realising
that his mind and memory have been tampered with.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'NIGHT OF THE RUNNING MAN'
Date:
20.08.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.35am
Previously
shown:
12.05.98 BBC1 10.25pm
Thriller. A cab
driver finds a bag with $1 million in the back of his car. He decides to keep
it - but the money belongs to a casino boss who hires a ruthless hit-man to get
it back...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'OUT OF ANNIE'S PAST'
Date: 2.09.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time:
11.25pm
Previously
shown:
1.12.99 BBC1 11.35pm
Thriller. After
her lover is murdered in a Mob-related incident a New York gallery owner starts
a new life in Utah. An ex-detective knows of her involvement in a 10 year old
killing and a group of mobsters are both on her trail.
Incidents
involving:
Firearms: 2
Violent assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'FATAL BEAUTY'
Date:
15.09.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
1.04.91 BBC1 9.20pm; 1.01.93 BBC1 ; 3.06.94 BBC1
A coloured
female police detective and her battle against drug pedlars and barons in the
violent underworld of narcotic dealing.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'RUNNING COOL'
Date:
15.11.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.40am
Previously
shown:
23.08.97 BBC1 12.30am
Action drama. A
biker and his gang help an old friend to fight off a land developer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 12 Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'VICTIM OF RAGE'
Date:
22.11.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.40am
Previously
shown:
10.03.97 BBC2 9.00pm; 15.05.98 C5 9.00pm; 18.04.2000 BBC1 12.20am
Fact based
drama. Trapped in a marriage to an obsessive body-builder made violent by
steroids, a woman comes to the conclusion that she must have her husband killed
before he kills her.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 4
Programme: 'THE SEVEN-UPS'
Date:
23.12.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 12.25am
Previously
shown:
28.09.99 BBC1 00.15am
Action
Thriller. A group of New York detectives set out to hunt down two vicious
thugs.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 6
Programme: 'STAKEOUT'
Date:
27.12.2001 Channel: BBC1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
27.03.93 ITV 9.15pm; 31.05.94 ITV 9.00pm; 18.07.97 BBC1 9.30pm; 7.09.2000 BBC1
10.50pm
Comedy
thriller. A cop falls in love with the ex-girlfriend of a psychotic escaped
convict while staking out her apartment.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 6 Knives etc: 2
BBC2
Programme: 'THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS'
Date: 6.01.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.12.95 BBC1 9.30pm; 14.06.97 BBC1 10.00pm; 16.08.98 BBC1 9.50pm; 8.10.99 BBC1
Period romantic
adventure. During the Anglo-French war of the 1750s, an American frontier scout
and his two Indian partners try to rescue the two daughters of a British
officer who have been kidnapped by a fearsome tribal leader.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'VIDEODROME'
Date:
20.01.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 10.35pm
Previously
shown:
19.01.97 BBC2 10.40pm
Surreal sci-fi
thriller. A TV producer uncovers a conspiracy.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 3
Programme: 'MELVIN AND HOWARD'
Date:
28.01.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.50pm
Previously
shown:
21.10.90 C4 10.15pm; 27.02.99 BBC2
Docudrama. The
story of Melvin Daemar who allegedly gave a lift to Howard Hughes in 1968 and
was left a fortune in his will.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'SCARFACE'
Date:
10.02.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 10.35pm
Previously
shown: 8.06.97
BBC2 10.05pm
Crime thriller.
A Cuban refugee arrives in Florida, where he impresses the local crime boss
with his handling of a cocaine deal. He rapidly rises through the ranks of the
underworld, but his downfall is destined to be as swift as his ascent.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 18
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 3 Knives etc: 4 Illegal Drug
Abuse: 5
Programme: 'LEGAL EAGLES'
Date: 3.03.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time:
10.35pm
Previously
shown:
24.12.89 BBC2 9.25pm; 29.05.91 BBC1 10.30pm; 14.10.97 BBC1 11.25pm; 25.04.2000
BBC1 11.45pm
Comedy
thriller. An assistant DA plunges into a mystery involving art fraud and murder
when he gets mixed up with a lawyer and her client.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 3
Programme: 'NEAR DARK'
Date:
10.03.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.55pm
Previously
shown:
22.12.97 C4 10.00pm
Vampire
thriller. An Arizona farm boy runs into serious trouble when a young woman
bites him on the neck...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 3 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'A CRY IN THE DARK'
Date:
17.03.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 10.35pm
Previously
shown:
10.02.95 BBC1 10.20pm; 11.10.96 BBC1 10.45pm; 7.11.97 C5 9.00pm
Real life drama
based on Australia's Dingo Baby case. On a family camping trip to Ayers Rock, a
baby girl disappears. Was she abducted by a dingo, as claimed by her distraught
mother, - or did her parents commit the most bizarre murder in Australian
history?
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE PUBLIC EYE'
Date:
25.03.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 12.25am
Previously
shown:
13.05.97 BBC1 11.55pm
Mystery drama.
A lonely tabloid photographer is drawn into the city's violent
underworld when
he tries to help a widowed nightclub owner.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'HEAT'
Date:
12.05.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.12.99 BBC1 9.30pm
Crime thriller.
A burned-out LA police detective is convinced that a professional criminal is
behind the bloody robbery of an armoured car, but he proves an elusive quarry.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 13
Violent Assaults: 7
Programme: 'BLIND DATE'
Date: 8.06.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time:
1.25am
Previously
shown:
14.11.92 BBC1 9.25pm; 18.12.96 C5 9.00pm; 29.11.98 C5 9.00pm; 14.05.2001 C5
9.00pm
Romantic
comedy. Desperate for a date to take to a company dinner, a harassed executive
is set up with his sister-in-law's cousin, but is given a word of warning - on
no account should he let her drink alcohol...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE COTTON CLUB'
Date: 9.06.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time:
12.20am
Previously
shown:
8.12.90 10.30pm; 9.12.95 BBC2 12.00m't
Harlem 1928. A
picture of gangland warfare in 20's Harlem where the Cotton Club is the meeting
place for the jazz age, mobsters and racketeering of the Prohibition era.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'L.A. TAKEDOWN'
Date: 7.07.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time:
11.20pm
Previously
shown:
23.02.97 BBC2 10.20pm; 21.08.98 BBC2 11.40pm
Crime thriller.
Three very violent and dangerous men plan a final bank robbery - but it goes
wrong.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'SHAFT IN AFRICA'
Date:
12.08.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.50pm
Previously
shown:
24.06.98 BBC1 11.10am
Action Thriller
sequel. A tough New York detective investigates a slave ring in Africa.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent Assaults: 11 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE GRIFTERS'
Date:
18.08.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 10.45pm
Previously
shown:
2.01.94 BBC2 10.00pm; 21.06.95 BBC1 10.00pm; 26.04.98 BBC2 11.00pm
Gangster
thriller. A small-time L.A. con artist finds himself out of his depth when his
Mafia-connected mother reappears in his life.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 6
Programme: 'JFK'
Date: 1.09.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
28.12.94 BBC2 9.25pm; 2.03.97 BBC2 9.30pm; 5.10.97 C5 9.00pm
Political
thriller. After the assassination of US President John F Kennedy, a New Orleans
district attorney becomes convinced that a sinister conspiracy lies behind the
killing.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'SOMMERSBY'
Date: 5.09.2001
Channel: BBC2 Time: 8.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.12.96 BBC1 10.15pm; 11.09.97 C5 9.00pm; 15.06.98 BBC2 8.00pm; 17.06.2000
BBC2 7.35pm
Romantic period
drama. Seven years after leaving to fight in the American Civil War, a man
returns home to his wife - but so different is he from his former crude and
ill-tempered self that she is not convinced he is her husband.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'SHORT CUTS'
Date:
22.09.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.55pm
Previously
shown:
1.01.97 BBC2 10.05pm; 23.05.98 C5 10.40pm
Ensemble drama
set during a hot summer in L.A.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'Q AND A'
Date:
13.10.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown: 15.01.95
BBC2 10.10pm; 12.05.96 BBC2 10.00pm
Police
thriller. After a crooked New York cop guns down a Puerto Rican drugs dealer,
an inexperienced assistant D.A. uncovers a network of corruption.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 1 Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'CLOCKERS'
Date:
17.11.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.50pm
Previously
shown:
18.04.99 BBC2 10.30pm
Crime Thriller.
A teenage drug dealer unwittingly draws his law abiding elder brother into his
violent world.
Incident
involving
Firearms: 2
Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'THE SET UP'
Date:
18.11.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 12.45am
Previously
shown:
19.05.97 BBC1 10.10pm; 27.05.2000 BBC1 11.30pm
Thriller. An
ex-convict is employed by a bank to use his knowledge as a thief to invent the
ultimate security system. However, after an old prison buddy takes his
girlfriend hostage, he is soon being blackmailed into cracking his own machine.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults: 7
Programme: 'THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS'
Date: 9.12.2001
Channel: BBC2 Time: 12.35am
Previously
shown:
27.04.97 BBC2 12.30am
Australian
black comedy. An Outback settlement in which the locals make a living
deliberately causing car accidents and then salvaging the wreckage.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE NIGHT PORTER'
Date:
26.12.2001 Channel: BBC2 Time: 11.15pm
Previously
shown:
28.05.95 BBC2 11.05pm; 15.08.97 BBC2 11.55pm; 19.08.2000 BBC2 12.35am
Psychological
drama. An ex SS officer in Fifties Vienna is reunited with a former
concentration camp victim who becomes his lover when she turns up at the hotel
where he works as a night porter.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 3
ITV1
Programme: 'THE ASSASSIN'
Date: 6.01.2001
Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
23.09.96 ITV 9.00pm; 7.02.98 ITV 10.00pm
Thriller. A
street punk is sentenced to death after killing a policeman during a raid on a
pharmacy. However, instead of being executed, she is recruited to a top secret
government agency and trained as an assassin.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3 Illegal Drug
Abuse: 3
Programme: 'F/X - MURDER BY ILLUSION'
Date:
12.01.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
10.09.92 BBC1 9.30pm; 2.07.94 BBC1 ; 19.02.97 ITV
High Tech
Thriller. A top special effects man in the film world is called upon to stage
the 'killing' of a supergrass for a corrupt section of the Justice Department.
But eh Department decide to kill him and he has to make an unlikely alliance
with an honest policeman to uncover a bizarre plot.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 4
Programme: 'A FEW GOOD MEN'
Date:
13.01.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 10.10pm
Previously
shown:
16.03.96 ITV 9.05pm; 5.08.97 ITV 9.00pm
Courtroom
drama. A slick young U.S. navy lawyer is assigned to defend two marines accused
of murdering a colleague at a U.S. military base in Cuba. But as he delves
deeper into the case, he runs up against the outpost's no-nonsense commanding
officer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Programme: 'THE DANGER OF LOVE'
Date:
19.01.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.35am
Previously
shown:
19.04.97 ITV 11.35pm
True-life crime
thriller. When a teacher's wife is found murdered as he is coming to the end of
a torrid affair with a colleague, the police make him their prime suspect.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Programme: 'THE GAUNTLET'
Date:
22.01.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
4.04.97 ITV 10.40pm; 6.06.98 itv 10.45pm
Action
thriller. A police officer is sent to Las Vegas to escort a call girl to court
to testify against the Mob. But certain corrupt officials are determined to
stop them at any cost.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2
Programme: 'BACK OF BEYOND'
Date:
14.02.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.55am
Previously
shown:
12.01.2000 ITV 12.35am
Thriller. A
garage owner finds his life in the Outback disrupted when a car carrying a gang
of jewel thieves breaks down nearby.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE YAKUZA'
Date: 7.03.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time:
12.45am
Previously
shown:
5.06.91 BBC1 11.00pm; 19.04.98 ITV ; 21.02.2000 ITV 2.05am
Thriller. When
Japanese gangsters kidnap and L.A. shipping magnate's daughter after he
defaults on an armaments deal, he turns to an old GI buddy-turned-private eye
for help.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'STRIKING DISTANCE'
Date:
17.03.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
16.09.97 ITV 9.00pm
Action
thriller. A fifth-generation Pittsburgh cop is determined to catch the serial
killer who claimed the life of his policeman father.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 15
Violent Assaults: 5 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3 Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'TEQUILA SUNRISE'
Date:
13.04.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 10.50pm
Previously
shown:
7.08.95 9.00pm; 12.12.96 ITV 9.00pm
Romantic thriller.
Two old high-school friends - a cop and a drug dealer trying to go straight -
find their loyalties pushed to the limit when they end up on opposite sides of
a drugs bust, and fall in love with the same woman.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'MALONE'
Date:
14.04.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 1.20am
Previously
shown:
8.07.93 BBC1 11.00pm
Action Drama.
An ex-CIA contract killer has a violent encounter with a right-wing extremist
in a small Oregon town.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'CODE OF SILENCE'
Date:
28.04.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.25pm
Previously
shown:
16.03.91 BBC1 9.50pm; 2.01.95 BBC1 12.10am; 15.11.97 ITV 11.15pm
Action
thriller. A tough Chicago cop has to tackle warring Mob families and corrupt
police officers when a drugs bust goes wrong.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3 Illegal Drug
Abuse: 2
Programme: 'THE FUGITIVE'
Date: 5.05.2001
Channel: ITV1 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.04.97 ITV 9.00pm; 31.10.98 ITV 10.25pm
Action
thriller. After being wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife, a doctor is
sentenced to death. But a freak accident on the way to jail enables him to
escape and go in search of the real killer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'JUST CAUSE'
Date: 5.05.2001
Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
11.08.98 ITV 9.00pm
Legal thriller.
A lawyer turned academic is asked to investigate the case of a young man on
Death Row who has appealed against his rape and murder conviction. As he probes
the crime he suspects that the authorities have got the wrong man ...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'DIE HARD'
Date:
12.05.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
14.10.92 ITV 9.00pm; 16.01.95 ITV 9.00pm; 27.01.96 ITV 9.00pm; 1.01.97 ITV
9.00pm
Action
thriller. A ruthless terrorist gang hijack a vast L.A. company building at
Christmas, planning a heist of over $600 million. But a New York cop - whose
estranged wife is one of those being held hostage - also happens to be in the
building and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Incidents involving
Firearms: 13
Violent Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 3 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'DIE HARD 2'
Date:
19.05.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.09.93 ITV 9.00pm; 2.09.94 ITV 9.10pm; 2.10.95 ITV 9.00pm; 5.10.96 ITV 9.00pm;
18.05.98 ITV 9.00pm
Action thriller
sequel. After terrorists seize control of Washington's Dulles Airport, an L.A.
cop is the only man in a position to save the lives of thousands of airborne
passengers - including that of his wife.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 1 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'SOMETHING WILD'
Date: 3.06.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time:
12.00m't
Previously
shown:
9.06.91 BBC2 10.10pm; 27.01.96 BBC2 10.00pm; 29.12.97 ITV 11.25pm
Offbeat
thriller. A strait-laced tax consultant is seduced to the wild side of life by
a kooky woman who takes him on an unpredictable journey.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'MEAN STREETS'
Date: 6.06.2001
Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.35pm
Previously
shown:
17.04.94 C4 10.00pm; 21.05.95 C4 9.55pm; 17.10.98 C4 10.00pm
Crime drama. A
small-time hood and his wild friend fall foul of the Mafia and a loan shark.
Failure to pay up can only mean severe punishment or death.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 1 Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'THE COUCH TRIP'
Date:
17.06.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 1.00am
Previously
shown:
19.06.91 10.20pm; 3.03.96 BBC1 11.10pm
Comedy. An
escaped mental patient assumes the identity of his psychiatrist and becomes the
star of a radio advice show. Then he's rumbled by a fellow con-artist who
decides he wants a piece of the action...
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE MEAN SEASON'
Date:
30.06.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.20am
Previously
shown:
30.03.93 BBC1 9.30pm; 19.10.94 BBC1 10.25pm; 2.01.96 BBC1 11.00pm; 29.10.96
BBC1 11.35pm; 27.05.97 BBC1 1.00am; 9.01.98 ITV 10.40pm
Thriller. After
reporting the apparently motiveless murder of a young woman, a hard-bitten
Miami crime reporter is contacted by the killer who threatens to strike
again...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Programme: 'THE BLUES BROTHERS'
Date:
14.07.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
14.08.92 ITV 11.10pm; 6.07.96 ITV 11.10pm; 7.11.98 ITV 10.30pm
Described as
cult comedy adventure of the 80's. Two blues musicians re-form their band to
raise money for their old orphanage.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'THE GETAWAY'
Date:
15.07.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.25am
Previously
shown:
22.07.97 ITV 9.00pm; 20.11.99 ITV 10.30pm
Action
Thriller. To get her husband out of a Mexican jail, a femme fetale
strikes a deal with a crime boss to take part in a robbery. It goes smoothly,
but the couple soon realize they have been double crossed by their partners in
crime. Film included scenes of hanging.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 18
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'ROBOCOP 2'
Date:
28.07.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 10.45pm
Previously
shown:
9.12.95 ITV 9.45pm; 31.03.97 ITV 10.25pm; 13.05.2000 ITV 11.10pm
Sci-fi action
sequel. The robotic law enforcer continues his fight against crime in Detroit,
but finds himself up against two powerful adversaries - a corrupt corporation
and an insane drug dealer who plans to flood the market with a devastating new
designer drug.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA'
Date: 1.08.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time:
12.30am
Previously
shown:
8.12.95 ITV 10.40pm; 16.09.2000 ITV 10.25pm
Fantasy
adventure. A tough truck driver and a female lawyer are caught up in a
supernatural gang war beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE PELICAN BRIEF'
Date:
11.08.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 10.45pm
Previously
shown:
26.03.97 ITV 9.00pm; 28.11.98 ITV 9.55pm; 12.01.2000 ITV 10.15pm
Conspiracy
thriller. When a young law student writes a speculative brief connecting the
recent murders of two Supreme Court judges, she unwittingly stumbles upon the
truth and puts her life in grave danger.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2
Programme: 'HEARTBREAK RIDGE'
Date:
15.08.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
19.02.94 ITV 9.15pm; 31.05.95 ITV 9.00pm; 31.07.96 ITV 9.00pm
Military drama.
A battle-hardened sergeant takes on a platoon of army misfits and tries to turn
them into a crack-fighting unit.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'NIGHT MOVES'
Date:
19.08.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 1.00am
Previously
shown:
7.04.96 ITV 11.45pm
Thriller. A Los
Angeles private detective puts his own marital problems on ice when he is hired
to find a runaway teenage daughter.by a faded Hollywood actress
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'THE TERMINATOR'
Date: 1.09.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time:
10.30pm
Previously
shown:
24.06.90 10.40pm; 23.07.94 BBC1 10.10pm; 4.01.96 BBC1 10.00pm; 1.11.96 BBC1
10.20pm; 11.11.97 ITV 10.40pm
Thriller. A
robot assassin is sent from the 21st Century to present-day L.A. to kill a
woman who holds the key to the future of humanity.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE HOUSE ON CARROLL STREET'
Date: 2.09.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time:
1.20am
Previously
shown:
3.01.96 BBC1 11.35pm; 9.08.2000 ITV 11.30pm
Political
thriller set in Fifties New York. A black-listed magazine journalist stumbles
upon a sinister government conspiracy to smuggle Nazis into the U.S.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'CONAN THE BARBARIAN'
Date:
26.09.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.25am
Previously
shown:
12.09.92 ITV 9.15pm; 15.07.95 ITV 9.45pm; 6.03.99 ITV 11.00pm; 11.11.2000 ITV
10.35pm
Action
adventure fantasy. Set in a mythical primitive era, a young man seeks revenge
on the tribe who brutally murdered his parents.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'IN THE LINE OF FIRE'
Date:
20.10.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 10.05pm
Previously
shown:
12.11.97 ITV 9.00pm; 18.11.2000 ITV 9.05pm
Thriller. Still
haunted by his failure 30 years earlier to save President Kennedy from
assassination, an ageing secret service agent finds himself taunted by a
professional assassin who threatens to kill the current President.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE COLOR OF MONEY'
Date: 7.11.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time:
11.40pm
Previously
shown:
29.05.93 ITV 10.20pm; 17.07.95 ITV 9.00pm; 5.08.2000 ITV 11.20pm
Drama. A
retired pool hustler discovers a talented but innocent young player and teaches
him to use his skill to make money from the shady world of pool-room gambling.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'ON DEADLY GROUND'
Date: 10.11.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.30pm
Previously
shown:
2.09.98 ITV 10.40pm; 26.07.2000 ITV 11.30pm
Thriller. An
oil rig fire fighter who lives life on the edge has his loyalties tested when
his unscrupulous employer prepares to drill for oil on land that belongs to a
native Inuit.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent Assaults: 10 Fire Raising/Explosions: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'CHASERS'
Date:
17.11.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 11.45pm
Previously
shown:
17.01.98 ITV 10.35pm
Action comedy.
Two UK navy officers are told to escort a prisoner to Charleston navel base,
but discover that their female charge has no intention of being incarcerated.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'MALONE'
Date:
16.12.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 1.00am
Previously
shown:
8.07.93 BBC1 11.00pm; 14.04.2001 ITV 1.20am
Action Drama.
An ex-CIA contract killer has a violent encounter with a right-wing extremist
in a small Oregon town.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'NO WAY OUT'
Date:
31.12.2001 Channel: ITV1 Time: 12.05am
Previously
shown:
24.12.91 BBC1 9.30pm; 29.10.93 BBC1 9.30pm; 7.02.95 BBC1 9.35pm; 3.12.97 ITV
10.40pm; 25.11.2000 ITV 10.55pm
Thriller. A
naval officer is sucked into a Pentagon conspiracy after he embarks on an
affair with the mistress of his powerful boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defence.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 1
C4
Programme: 'TRAINSPOTTING'
Date:
21.01.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.11.97 C4 10.00pm
Black
comedy-drama in Edinburgh's squalid underbelly, a man and his friends - a group
of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies - rush headlong towards
self-destruction. Will he 'choose life' and get out before it's too late?
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 5 Illegal Drug Abuse: 11
Programme: 'MORTAL THOUGHTS'
Date:
29.01.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.07.95 ITV 9.50pm; 7.09.96 ITV 10.45pm; 25.12.97 ITV 11.25pm
Thriller. A
young woman is questioned by the police about the mysterious death of her best
friend's husband. A sordid story of casual domestic violence emerges. But is
she telling the whole truth?
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MATADOR'
Date:
10.02.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 12.45pm
Previously
shown:
19.04.98 C4 11.55pm
Spanish erotic
thriller. A female lawyer defends a bullfighter charged with rape and murder.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 4 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'MANHUNTER'
Date:
19.02.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
7.08.93 BBC2 11.15pm; 21.04.95 BBC1 10.20pm
Thriller. An
ex-F.B.I. agent with a gift for understanding murderers comes out of retirement
to track down a serial killer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'JAGGED EDGE'
Date:
26.02.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.03.95 BBC1 9.30pm; 22.06.96 ITV 11.15pm; 7.11.97 ITV 10.40pm
Courtroom
thriller. A wealthy San Francisco publisher is accused of murdering his heiress
wife. He wants a top woman lawyer to defend him - but first he must convince
her of his innocence...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO'
Date:
11.03.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.30pm
Previously
shown:
19.04.92 C4 10.35pm; 28.02.95 C4 10.00pm; 6.02.97 C4 10.00pm; 29.10.98 C4
10.00pm; 24.01.2000 C4 10.00pm
Comedy drama.
Two teenage girls living on a run-down Bradford housing estate embark on a
three-way affair with a married man.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'RAINING STONES'
Date:
24.04.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 12.35am
Previously
shown:
31.10.95 C4 10.00pm; 4.06.96 C4 10.00pm
Comedy drama.
An unemployed man is determined to buy his daughter a new dress for her first
communion.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'RAGING BULL'
Date: 8.05.2001 Channel: C4 Time:
12.35am
Previously
shown:
24.04.94 C4 10.00pm; 16.12.95 BBC2 12.15am; 1.08.98 BBC2 11.10pm
A biopic of
boxer Jake la Motta. The rise and fall of the Middle weight boxing champion, an
angry, violent and not very likeable man.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 6
Programme: 'PEEPING TOM'
Date: 9.06.2001 Channel: C4 Time:
3.40am
Previously
shown:
23.11.97 C4 10.00pm
Psychological
thriller. A film studio technician takes to murdering women and filming the
fear on the faces of his victims, just before they die.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2
Programme: 'DRUGSTORE COWBOY'
Date:
15.06.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 12.40am
Previously
shown:
17.10.93 C4 10.00pm; 16.03.97 C4 11.55pm; 23.08.98 C4 11.00pm
A junkie leads
a group of fellow addicts from town to town, robbing pharmacies and hospitals
for their next fix.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'SLEEPERS'
Date:
24.06.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown: 7.11.99
C4 10.00pm
Fact based
drama. Four young men seek revenge on guards who once abused them at a brutal
reform school.
Incidents
involving:
Firearms: 4
Violent assaults: 5 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'WILD AT HEART'
Date:
30.06.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 11.40pm
Previously
shown:
1.04.96 C4 10.00pm; 8.05.2000 C4 10.30pm
Violent road
movie. An Elvis-obsessed ex-convict and his girlfriend set off on a bizarre
odyssey across America - pursued by a hit-man hired by the woman's mother.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD'
Date:
15.07.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
6.02.2000 BBC2 10.00pm
Thriller. A
retired gangster is persuaded to commit one last crime.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 6 Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'BANDIT QUEEN'
Date:
14.08.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 12.30am
Previously
shown:
28.07.97 C4 1.10am
Indian
true-life drama. A low cast's child bride becomes a notorious bandit.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 13
Violent Assaults: 6 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'KALIFORNIA'
Date:
20.08.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.30pm
Previously
shown:
9.11.97 C4 10.30pm
Thriller. A
young couple take a trip through the American South to research a book on
serial killers - and unwittingly encounter the real thing.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 8
Programme: 'THE INDIAN RUNNER'
Date: 6.09.2001 Channel: C4 Time:
3.25am
Previously
shown:
16.06.96 BBC2 10.30pm; 9.01.98 BBC2 12.35am; 17.03.2000 BBC2 12.50am
Family drama. A
small-town Nebraska policeman tries to get his ne'er-do-well brother, a Vietnam
veteran, to give up his life of crime - with disastrous results. Film included
a suicide.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3 Violent
Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'THE LAST DETAIL'
Date: 8.09.2001
Channel: C4 Time: 2.25am
Previously
shown:
9.04.91 C4 10.50pm; 24.07.97 C5 9.00pm; 10.08.98 C5 10.05pm; 7.12.2002 C5
9.00pm
Comedy drama.
Two veteran U.S. marines assigned to escort a young recruit to jail decide to
give their charge one last weekend of fun.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION'
Date: 9.09.2001 Channel: C4 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
16.11.97 C4 9.00pm
Prison drama
set in the Forties, based on a Stephen King story. Jailed for the murder of his
wife and her lover, a mild-mannered banker forges an unlikely friendship with
the prison 'fixer'.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 6
Programme: 'HEATHERS'
Date: 1.10.2001 Channel: C4 Time:
11.50pm
Previously
shown:
13.08.95 C4 10.00pm; 24.11.96 C4 10.00pm; 4.08.98 C4 10.00pm
Black comedy.
Two high-school misfits exact revenge on a trio of girls who form the school's
tyrannical ruling clique.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'LA SCORTA'
Date: 5.11.2001 Channel: C4 Time:
1.20am
Previously
shown: 23.04.98 C4 11.35pm
Italian
political thriller. An Italian judge working in Sicily is engaged to break the
power of the Mafia.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE KRAYS'
Date: 6.11.2001 Channel: C4 Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
14.03.93 C4 10.10pm; 25.04.95 C4 10.00pm; 15.06.96 C4 10.30pm
Drama based on
the lives of the notorious gangster brothers who had a criminal empire in the
East End of London in the 50's and 60's.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'EASY RIDER'
Date:
19.11.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 1.00am
Previously
shown:
17.12.95 BBC2 10.00pm; 25.07.98 BBC2 12.00m't; 1.04.2000 BBC1 12.20am
Road movie. Two
bikers set off across the U.S.A. to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans encountering
hostility on the way.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Knives etc: 1 Illegal Drug Abuse: 2
Programme: 'BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA'
Date:
10.12.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.10.96 ITV 10.00pm; 17.11.98 ITV 10.40pm
Chiller.
Devastated by the death of his wife, a 15th century Romanian prince lives on
through the ages as a vampire until, in late-Victorian England, he sees a woman
who looks just like his long-dead bride....
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 7
Programme: 'A BOY AND HIS DOG'
Date:
10.12.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 2.05am
Previously
shown:
30.04.93 C4 11.05pm
Sci-fi black
comedy. A boy and his telepathic dog are lured into a strange underground
society by a beautiful woman.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'BRAINDEAD'
Date:
25.12.2001 Channel: C4 Time: 1.40am
Previously
shown:
3.10.2000 C4 11.40pm
Horror spoof.
An innocent young man tries to fend off a horde of mutant flesh-eaters and
becomes a zombie.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent assaults: 13
C5
Programme: 'ONE GOOD COP'
Date: 8.01.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
19.09.94 9.00pm; 16.01.96 ITV 9.00pm
Police drama.
When his partner and best friend is killed in the line of duty, a New York
policeman decides to give the dead man's three orphaned children a home. The
flat he shares with his wife is not big enough for a family so he comes up with
a risky and illegal way to raise money.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'DOUBLE IMPACT'
Date:
15.01.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.10.95 ITV 10.00pm; 22.02.97 ITV 10.00pm; 9.05.98 ITV 11.05pm; 19.03.2000 C5
9.00pm
Action drama.
Twins are separated at the age of six months following the murder of their
parents. They are reunited 25 years later in Hong Kong, and team up to take
revenge on their parents' killers.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 13 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'LOCK UP'
Date:
18.01.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
13.07.96 BBC1 9.45pm; 6.01.98 BBC1 10.25pm; 6.02.2000 C5 9.00pm
Thriller. With
only six months left to serve of his prison sentence, a tough convict finds
himself transferred to a brutal, high-security prison run by a sadistic warden.
His only recourse is to fight back.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 14 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE NIGHTMAN'
Date: 3.02.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
11.50pm
Previously
shown:
3.08.96 ITV 11.00pm; 14.11.97 ITV 10.40pm; 30.01.2002 ITV 12.20am
Erotic
love-triangle thriller. Still haunted by the murder of her mother 18 years
earlier, a woman doctor learns that the man convicted of the crime is out on
parole.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'GOODFELLAS'
Date: 5.02.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
10.00pm
Previously
shown:
10.04.94 C4 10.00pm; 2.06.96 C4 10.05pm; 25.08.98 C4 10.00pm
Gangster drama
based on the memoirs of a real-life Mafia hood.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'THE HITCHER'
Date: 8.02.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.10.98 C5 9.00pm; 21.04.2000 C5 9.00pm
Thriller. A
teenager driving across Texas picks up a hitch-hiker but his passenger turns
out to be a psychotic killer who engages him in a sadistic game of cat and
mouse.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 1 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE PREPPIE MURDER'
Date:
10.02.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
6.06.97 ITV 12.40am
Fact based
crime drama. A well-bred prep-school graduate is accused of the brutal murder
of a young woman in New York's Central Park.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS'
Date:
12.02.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.10.94 ITV 10.00pm; 3.10.95 ITV 10.40pm; 12.10.96 ITV 10.00pm; 28.01.98 ITV
10.40pm
Thriller. A
novice FBI agent is assigned to help track down a serial killer. To develop a
profile of the killer, she has to collaborate with one of the most dangerous
murderers ever brought to justice - a cannibalistic psychiatrist.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'UNHOLY MATRIMONY'
Date:
14.03.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 3.30pm
Previously
shown:
25.11.96 ITV 11.10pm; 7.07.98 ITV 11.40pm
Fact based
crime thriller. In the sleazy underworld of San Antonio in Texas, a car
mechanic-turned-psychologist and a pimp-turned-minister join forces to commit
the perfect crime - murdering a young woman for 300,000 dollars in accident
insurance.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 6
Programme: 'NO MERCY'
Date:
21.03.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
2.11.91 ITV 9.05pm; 8.05.93 ITV ; 25.08.98 C5 ; 29.03.99 C5 9.00pm; 7.03.2000
C5 9.00pm
Crime thriller.
A Chicago policeman travels to New Orleans to avenge his partner's murder. His
only lead to the killer is the Cajun mistress of a local gang boss.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 2 Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'TANGO & CASH'
Date:
27.03.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
27.02.95 ITV 9.00pm; 1.02.97 ITV 10.00pm; 4.04.98 ITV 10.05pm; 12.10.98 C5
9.00pm
Action
Thriller. Two Los Angeles policemen, who have become rivals, are forced to
overcome their differences when they are sent to prison after being framed by a
drugs baron.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 5 Fire Raising/Explosions: 3
Programme: 'GET CARTER'
Date:
28.03.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.03.96 BBC1 11.45pm; 7.03.98 BBC2 10.30pm
Gangster
thriller. A tough London racketeer travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to avenge his
brother's murder.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 7 Knives etc: 2 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'BLUE JEAN COP'
Date: 2.04.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.10.91 9.05pm; 5.02.94 10.45pm; 20.05.95 ITV 10.45pm
A lawyer and a
detective team up to find the killers of an undercover cop.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 7
Violent Assaults: 5 Fire Raising/Explosions: 3 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'BEAR ISLAND'
Date: 5.04.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 3.35pm
Previously
shown:
10.02.95 ITV 10.40pm
Adventure
Thriller. On an Arctic Island, a team of meteorologists discover the rusting
hulk of a World War II German submarine, containing skeletons and gold bullion.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MIAMI BLUES'
Date:
16.04.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
8.08.97 ITV 10.45pm; 16.04.2000 C5 9.00pm
Offbeat
thriller. A devious criminal arrives in Miami, steals a policeman's badge and
gun, and goes on a crime spree...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'UNIVERSAL SOLDIER'
Date:
19.04.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.06.95 ITV 10.00pm; 29.10.96 ITV 10.40pm; 24.01.98 ITV 10.00pm; 22.07.2000
ITV 11.20pm
Sci-fi action
adventure. A soldier killed in Vietnam is brought back from the dead as a
state-of-the-art killing machine. But flashbacks prompt him to question his
role as a government-controlled killer and lead him to clash with his former
platoon leader, who is also now a cyborg.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults: 9 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BLUE HEAT'
Date:
21.04.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
29.12.94 ITV 9.15pm; 6.02.96 ITV 9.00pm; 15.06.98 ITV 11.40pm; 4.04.2000 C4
9.00pm
Thriller. An
undercover narcotics squad raids a drugs ring. But the mission goes wrong when
the back-up does not arrive and they realize they have stumbled upon something
much bigger than they had first thought.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'DARKMAN'
Date:
22.04.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
30.05.93 BBC2 10.25pm; 6.05.95 BBC1 11.40pm; 19.02.97 BBC1 11.25pm; 27.11.98
BBC1 11.40pm
Fantasy thriller.
A brilliant scientist who invents synthetic skin is horribly mutilated in a
gang attack. Thanks to his invention he is able to plan an ingenious revenge.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 10 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'THE ROOKIE'
Date:
26.04.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
4.12.93 ITV 9.30pm; 9.10.95 ITV 9.00pm; 29.03.97 ITV 9.05pm; 7.03.98 ITV
10.20pm; 16.05.2000 C5 9.00pm
Police
thriller. When his partner is killed in a shoot-out with a car thief, a veteran
cop is teamed with a rich kid trying to escape his background.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 13
Violent Assaults: 5 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'NEXT OF KIN'
Date: 3.05.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 12.11.93
BBC1 9.30pm; 5.05.95 BBC1 10.35pm; 18.02.97 BBC1 10.55pm; 10.12.97 BBC1
00.05am; 9.03.98 C5 9.00pm; 27.03.2000 C5 9.00pm
Comedy
thriller. A hillbilly cop vows to bring his younger brother's gangster killer
to justice. But his older brother is set on violent confrontation with the
Mob...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent Assaults: 7 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'SUSPECT'
Date:
11.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
7.11.92 ITV 9.05pm; 28.06.99 C5 9.00pm
A lawyer in
Washington discovers secrets in high places when she defends a homeless deaf
and dumb man accused of murder.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent assaults: 3 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON'
Date:
12.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 3.35am
Previously shown: 16.05.93 C4 9.00pm;
27.05.94 C4 11.50pm; 30.08.98 C5 11.00pm
Bitter sweet
comedy drama. A Russian circus performer defects in New York and discovers that
the city is not all it appears to be - or the American Dream.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Programme: 'NATURAL BORN KILLERS'
Date:
12.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.55pm
Previously
shown:
8.11.97 C5 10.50pm
Violent drama.
A young couple embark on a three-week killing spree that leaves 52 people dead
and sees them become 'stars' in the eyes of the media.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 15
Violent Assaults: 11 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 5 Illegal Drug
Abuse: 1
Programme: 'FIRST BLOOD'
Date:
13.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.40pm
Previously
shown:
17.09.98 C5 10.00pm
A Vietnam
veteran looks up an Army friend but finds he died under suspicious
circumstances. The local town sheriff arrests the veteran on a false charge but
lives to regret it. He and his men cannot contain the veteran who goes on the
rampage in fury.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 3 Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'BLIND DATE'
Date:
14.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
14.11.92 BBC1 9.25pm; 18.12.96 C5 9.00pm; 29.11.98 C5 9.00pm
Romantic
comedy. Desperate for a date to take to a company dinner, a harassed executive
is set up with his sister-in-law's cousin, but is given a word of warning - on
no account should he let her drink alcohol...
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE ASSASSIN'
Date:
17.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
23.09.96 ITV 9.00pm; 7.02.98 ITV 10.00pm
Action
thriller. A street punk is sentenced to death after killing a cop. However,
instead of being executed, she is recruited to a top-secret government agency
and trained as an assassin.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'THE RUNNING MAN'
Date:
21.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
29.10.94 ITV 9.00pm; 16.09.95 ITV 9.00pm; 3.05.97 ITV 10.15pm; 16.03.98 C5
9.00pm; 9.03.99 C5 9.00pm; 18.04.2000 C5 9.00pm
Sci-fi
adventure. A convict in 21st century America is forced to participate in a
deadly game show in which the contestants are hunted to their deaths by a team
of fearsome gladiators.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'RENEGADES'
Date:
22.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
6.05.94 BBC1 10.20pm; 7.10.95 BBC2 11.15pm; 17.04.98 C5 11.10pm
Action
thriller. When a maverick cop teams up with a Lakota Indian to track down a
crooked policeman, the unlikely pair end up on the run from enemies on both
sides of the law....
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 5
Programme: 'TELEFON'
Date:
31.05.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
4.03.94 BBC1 10.20pm; 14.05.97 BBC1 11.30pm; 22.09.98 BBC1 11.30pm
Spy thriller. A
KGB agent tries to stop a renegade Stalinist's plans to heat up the Cold War
between East and West.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 1 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2
Programme: 'FINAL ANALYSIS'
Date: 5.06.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
21.01.95 ITV 9.00pm; 3.01.96 ITV 9.00pm; 23.08.97 ITV 10.10pm
Psychological
thriller. A San Francisco psychiatrist falls in love with the sister of one of
his patients. When her violent husband is murdered, he becomes the prime
suspect.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'JUMPIN' JACK FLASH'
Date: 6.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
8.00pm
Previously
shown:
3.03.93 ITV 8.00pm; 12.07.95 ITV 8.00pm; 19.04.98 BBC1 10.35pm
Comedy spy
thriller. A bored computer operator is longing for excitement and romance when
she receives an electronic cry for help from a British spy trapped behind the
Iron Curtain.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DEADLY PURSUIT'
Date:
10.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.50pm
Previously
shown: 16.10.91
ITV 9.00pm; 4.05.98 C5 9.00pm; 29.01.2001 BBC1 11.30pm
Thriller. An
FBI agent pursues a killer into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, aided by a
rugged mountain guide whose girlfriend is the killer's hostage.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 8 Violent
Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'HANDGUN'
Date:
11.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 11.10pm
Previously
shown:
25.07.98 C4 10.00pm; 17.08.2000 C4 2.40am
Crime Drama.
When a teacher in Dallas is raped by a lawyer she sets out for revenge...
Incidents involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE STONE KILLER'
Date:
14.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
18.04.95 ITV 1.25am; 20.12.97 C5 10.50pm; 27.09.98 C5 9.00pm; 10.03.2000 C5
9.00pm
Thriller. A New
York detective transfers to the West Coast where he becomes involved in trying
to unravel a chain of mystery that leads to the elaborate plan of a Mafia don
using Vietnam veterans to stage an underworld massacre.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent Assaults: 5
Programme: 'CRIMES OF PASSION'
Date:
16.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.50pm
Previously
shown:
2.10.98 C5 11.55pm
Black Comedy. A
business woman leads a double life but one night one of her customers becomes
dangerous.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BLACK WIDOW'
Date:
18.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
6.08.94 ITV 9.25pm; 18.02.96 ITV 11.40pm; 21.08.97 C4 10.30pm
Thriller. When
two wealthy men both die of the same rare disease, a Justice Department
investigator's suspicions are aroused.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'DONATO AND DAUGHTER'
Date:
21.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
5.02.98 ITV 10.40pm
Thriller. A Los
Angeles police officer and his daughter, also a police officer, try to put
aside personal differences when they become involved in the hunt for a
psychopathic serial killer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'BETRAYED'
Date:
28.06.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 3.35pm
Previously
shown:
2.09.92 ITV 9.00pm; 29.06.2000 C5 3.30pm
Thriller. An
undercover FBI agent investigating a racist group in the Deep South falls for
her main suspect.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 1
Programme: 'THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY'
Date:
15.07.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.08.93 BBC1 10.00; 28.04.95 BBC1 10.20pm; 16.07.96 BBC1 10.20pm; 15.12.98
BBC1 11.20pm
Political
thriller. A young Australian journalist gets caught up in a revolutionary coup in
1965 Indonesia. As he strives for a scoop he becomes involved with a British
Embassy official and a Chinese-Australian photographer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'DEAD CALM'
Date:
17.07.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
4.08.96 BBC1 9.45pm; 7.02.2000 C5 9.00pm
Suspense
thriller. Sailing their yacht in the Pacific, a couple rescue the sole survivor
of a sinking ship. The sailor's story of disaster doesn't ring true, so the
husband decides to investigate - leaving his wife alone with the stranger on
the yacht....
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME'
Date:
20.07.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
30.10.91 ITV 9.00pm; 22.05.93 ITV 9.30pm; 30.01.95 ITV 9.00pm; 2.02.98 C5
9.00pm
Thriller. A New
York cop is assigned to protect a socialite who has witnessed the murder of one
of her friends. However, on a museum visit, he cannot prevent the killer from
reaching her...
Incidents involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'PINK CADILLAC'
Date:
27.07.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.08.96 ITV 9.30pm
Action comedy.
A 'skip-tracer' whose job is to track down escaped criminals and bail-jumpers
is hired to find a young woman and an eight-month-old baby.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 10
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 2 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'FEDS'
Date:
28.07.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 6.15pm
Previously
shown:
20.09.95 ITV 8.30pm; 1.01.97 ITV 5.35pm; 16.02.98 C5 9.00pm; 24.04.2000 C5
9.00pm
Comedy. Two
women, one an ex-marine, the other a lawyer, help each other survive gruelling
training and the pranks of their chauvinistic colleagues as recruits at the FBI
academy.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'THE DREAM TEAM'
Date:
29.07.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
28.01.98 BBC1 11.15pm
Comedy. Four
mismatched psychiatric patients on a day trip to New York's Yankee Stadium get
separated from their doctor-chaperon.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 4
Programme: 'DESPERATE HOURS'
Date: 3.08.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
17.09.94 9.00pm; 30.12.95 10.05pm; 9.08.97 ITV 10.15pm
Fifties
thriller. A psychopathic criminal escapes from prison and, with his gang, holds
a family hostage.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent Assaults: 11 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'ENDLESS LOVE'
Date: 3.08.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 1.05am
Previously
shown:
6.04.91 BBC1 10.40pm; 15.05.98 C5 11.45pm
A teenager
becomes totally obsessed with a beautiful girl.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 2 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'SOUTHERN COMFORT'
Date: 9.08.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
15.01.91 BBC1 10.55pm; 25.02.2000 C5 9.00pm
Thriller. A
group of National Guardsmen on manoeuvres in the Louisiana swamps become
involved in a tense cat-and-mouse game with murderous Cajun hillbillies.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 4
Programme: 'MIKE'S MURDER'
Date:
17.08.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 1.15am
Previously
shown:
17.07.93 BBC2 12.10am; 25.07.95 BBC1 11.50pm
Thriller. A
woman finds her boyfriend dead and her investigations into the cause reveal a
secret dark side to his life.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 4 Illegal Drug Abuse: 2
Programme: 'ROBOCOP'
Date:
15.09.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
19.3.94 ITV 10.15pm; 18.2.95 ITV 10.15pm; 13.04.96 ITV 10.05pm; 8.05.99 ITV
10.00pm; 15.04.2000 ITV 10.20pm; 31.07.2000 ITV 1.30am; 18.10.2000 C5 10.15pm
Science Fiction
thriller. A murdered policeman is transformed into an indestructible cyborg
policeman - but retains some human spirit and seeks revenge against the men who
killed him.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 12
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'DECEIVED'
Date:
17.09.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 13.02.95
ITV 9.00pm; 18.05.96 ITV 9.00pm
Thriller. A New
York art restorer's life is thrown into turmoil after her husband of six years
is killed in a car accident. As evidence of his real identity slowly emerges,
she finds her own life in deadly peril as she gets closer to the truth.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 5 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'IMPULSE'
Date:
23.09.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
22.01.94 ITV 9.05pm; 11.3.95 ITV 9.00pm; 12.03.2000 C5 9.00pm
Thriller. An
undercover vice policewoman and an assistant District Attorney join forces to
find a missing witness in an important trial.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 4 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'TRUE CONFESSIONS'
Date:
27.09.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
10.04.96 BBC1 11.30pm; 6.06.99 C5 9.00pm; 26.11.2000 C5 9.00pm
Crime drama.
The lives of an L.A. police detective and his Catholic priest brother come
together in surprising ways during an investigation into the murder of a
prostitute.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 2
Programme: 'SHINING THROUGH'
Date: 1.10.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
11.9.95 ITV 9.00pm; 26.05.97 ITV 10.40pm
Romantic espionage
drama set during World War Two. A New York secretary persuades her spy master
lover to send her on a dangerous assignment to Berlin. Once there, she succeeds
in infiltrating the home of a top Wehrmacht officer - but can she accomplish
her mission before a Gestapo double-agent betrays her?
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'A BOY CALLED HATE'
Date: 6.10.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
12.05pm
Previously
shown:
16.11.98 C5 10.55
Teen road
drama. A young petty criminal rescues a girl from violent assault and shoots
her attacker. The pair go on the run but they are hunted down after killing a
police officer.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 4
Violent Assaults: 3
Programme: 'BIRD'
Date:
12.10.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 12.35am
Previously
shown:
1.06.96 BBC2 12.10am
Biopic of jazz
saxophonist Charlie Parker.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 3
Programme: 'COMA'
Date:
18.10.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.15pm
Previously
shown: 10.7.92
10.20pm; 27.10.95 BBC1 10.20pm
A doctor's life
is threatened when she investigates a sinister medical conspiracy.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 3
Programme: 'BASIC INSTINCT'
Date:
31.10.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.15pm
Previously
shown:
16.11.94 ITV 10.40pm; 23.9.95 ITV 10.00pm; 8.10.97 ITV ; 21.04.99 C5 10.00pm;
25.10.2000 C5 10.15pm
Erotic
thriller. A detective investigates the brutal murder of a rock star and finds
himself sexually attracted to the prime suspect.
Incidents involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 3 Knives etc: 1 Illegal Drug Abuse: 1
Programme: 'A WOMAN SCORNED'
Date: 2.11.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 10.50pm
Previously
shown:
20.10.98 C5 10.00pm
Erotic Drama.
After her husband commits suicide a young woman decides to find out the reasons
why. When she uncovers the truth she sets out on a trail of revenge.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 2
Violent Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'A BREED APART'
Date: 7.11.2001
Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
15.10.91 BBC1 10.50pm; 10.09.2000 C5 9.00pm
A reclusive
Vietnam veteran lives on a private island where he protects the are wildlife
that flourishes there. Into this safe world comes a ruthless egg collector.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1
Programme: 'PREDATOR 2'
Date:
16.11.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
10.10.95 ITV 10.40pm; 18.02.98 ITV 10.40pm
Sci-fi action
fantasy sequel. In L.A. a bloodthirsty alien exploits the conflict between
drugs dealers and the police, killing indiscriminately. It's left to a
streetwise cop to fight the creature to the death.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 5 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 3
Programme: 'RESERVOIR DOGS'
Date:
19.11.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
31.05.97 C4 10.30pm
Crime thriller.
When a big jewel heist goes horribly wrong, the gang hide out in an empty
warehouse with a cop hostage - and the suspicion that they have an informer in
their midst....
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 11
Violent Assaults: 4 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'MIDNIGHT EXPRESS'
Date:
20.11.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 10.00pm
Previously
shown:
24.10.97 ITV 10.40pm; 8.11.2000 C5 10.15pm
Prison drama.
An American college student is arrested at Istanbul airport for possession of
drugs and sentenced to four years in a Turkish prison.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 1
Violent Assaults: 9 Knives etc: 2
Programme: 'HARD TARGET'
Date:
21.11.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
12.07.97 BBC1 10.00pm; 10.03.2000 BBC1 10.25pm
Action
thriller. An out-of-work sailor comes to the aid of a woman searching for her
missing father and discovers a group of sadistic hunters who kill human prey
for sport.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 16
Violent Assaults: 6 Fire Raising/Explosions: 4 Knives etc: 10
Programme: 'EXTREME PREJUDICE'
Date:
26.11.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
26.8.91 ITV 10.35pm; 25.01.96 ITV 10.40pm; 31.08.98 C5 9.00pm; 4.09.2000 C5
9.00pm
Action thriller.
A Texas Ranger fights a big battle against local drug trafficking. His problems
are made worse when a leading drug dealer turns out to be a boyhood friend.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 9
Violent Assaults: 3 Fire Raising/Explosions: 1 Knives etc: 1
Programme: 'BILLY BATHGATE'
Date:
29.11.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown:
28.11.96 ITV 10.50pm; 2.12.2000 ITV 11.25pm
Drama set in
Thirties New York. An impressionable young man becomes involved with a
notorious gangster who is in the twilight of his criminal career.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 3
Violent Assaults: 5
Programme: 'CONAN THE DESTROYER'
Date: 2.12.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
3.04.97 ITV 10.40pm
Fantasy
adventure. Comic-book hero Conan the Barbarian joins a young princess on a
quest to find a magic key.
Incidents
involving
Violent
Assaults: 1 Knives etc: 11
Programme: 'F/X - MURDER BY ILLUSION'
Date: 3.12.2001 Channel: C5 Time:
9.00pm
Previously
shown:
10.09.92 BBC1 9.30pm; 2.07.94 BBC1 9.20pm; 19.02.97 ITV 10.40pm; 12.01.2001 ITV
11.30pm
High Tech
Thriller. A top special effects man in the film world is called upon to stage
the 'killing' of a supergrass for a corrupt section of the Justice Department.
But eh Department decide to kill him and he has to make an unlikely alliance
with an honest policeman to uncover a bizarre plot.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 5
Violent Assaults: 4
Programme: 'DISORGANISED CRIME'
Date:
19.12.2001 Channel: C5 Time: 9.00pm
Previously
shown: 25.04.97
ITV 10.45pm; 8.10.98 C5 ; 1.11.99 C5
Crime comedy. A
criminal plans the perfect robbery but manages to get himself arrested before
he can reach the rendezvous with his fellow crooks.
Incidents
involving
Firearms: 6
Violent Assaults: 3
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