The Vice (TV series)

Rob Pursey Caroline Catz David Harewood Marc Warren Rosie Marcel Tim Pigott-Smith Mel Raido Tamzin Malleson Touchpaper Television

The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit, which ran for five series of varying lengths between 4 January 1999 and 1 July 2003. The main cast included Ken Stott, Caroline Catz and David Harewood, as well as Rosie Marcel, Marc Warren and Tim Pigott-Smith. The show experimented with different formats throughout its five series. Series 1 and 2 combined consisted of seven two–part stories, i.e. fourteen episodes in total, lasting one hour per episode and two hours per story. Series 3 and 4 combined consisted of eight self-contained 90 minute episodes. The final series, i.e. Series 5, consisted of six self-contained 60 minute episodes. The Portishead track "Sour Times" was used as the theme music to the show.

"Hooked", although often referred to as the first episode of series five, and broadcast in 2003 prior to the broadcast of series five, was officially classified as the last episode of series four as it featured the last appearance of Pat Chappel, and was filmed during the filming block of series four. It was also the last episode to be ninety-minutes long, before the transfer to one-hour episodes, and it was also the last time that the original title card and sequence were used.