The Sweeney: Series Three 50th Anniversary Blu-ray
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Posted October 14, 2025 08:25 PM by Webmaster
British label Old Gold Media has provided final details for The Sweeney: Series Three . The release, a four-disc set, is scheduled to arrive on the market on December 1.
Description: There's no greater gift than a bit of classic telly! After the huge success of the first and second series boxsets, Old Gold Media is proud to be releasing The Sweeney Series Three Collector's Edition, beautifully restored on Blu-ray, on 1st December. Combined with Series One and Two (both available now at Amazon, HMV, Zavvi, and as a digital download), they're the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes their crime dramas straight-talking, gritty and packed with action. Good luck stuffing them into the stocking!
The Sweeney are back, sunshine, for an unstoppable third series as Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and Detective Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman) take down the hardest hoodlums on London's mean streets! Bent coppers or bank robbers, The Sweeney take it all in their stride and take no prisoners! Whether they're looking to take down a thug who shot a cop in a raid or dealing with an escaped convict with a grudge - the Flying Squad are going to do it by throwing out all the rules of TV police procedurals that came before them, and change the landscape of hard-hitting action dramas forever.
A rogues gallery of famous faces appear in the BAFTA-nominated Series Three, including John Hurt (The Elephant Man), George Cole (Minder), Geraldine James (Calender Girls), Kenny Lynch (The Plank), Hywel Bennett (Percy), Ronald Fraser (The Flight of the Phoenix), Maureen Lipman (The Pianist), Nadim Sawalha (The Living Daylights), and I, Claudius star Norman Eshley (in the top-rated episode Taste of Fear, directed by David Wickes); with gritty, quotable scripts by the likes of Troy Kennedy Martin (The Italian Job) and Roger Marshall (The Avengers).
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Sweeney, the brand new Blu-ray restoration has been called a "Revelation" (Desperate Living) and "The Best the Show Has Looked" (On: Magazine). Series Three has also been digitally restored and remastered for the first time in the original TV aspect ratio, with the original 2.0 mono and new 5.1 sound options. The car chases are clearer and the hits land harder - you'll wince in sympathy as Carter gets duffed up for the umpteenth time!
This definitive collector's boxset gets you right into the thick of it and with all the special features and bonus materials thrown in, as well as a booklet, you won't think you've been sold a 'cowboy' gun. Watch it or you'll end up helping old ladies across the street!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: There's no greater gift than a bit of classic telly! After the huge success of the first and second series boxsets, Old Gold Media is proud to be releasing The Sweeney Series Three Collector's Edition, beautifully restored on Blu-ray, on 1st December. Combined with Series One and Two (both available now at Amazon, HMV, Zavvi, and as a digital download), they're the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes their crime dramas straight-talking, gritty and packed with action. Good luck stuffing them into the stocking!
The Sweeney are back, sunshine, for an unstoppable third series as Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and Detective Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman) take down the hardest hoodlums on London's mean streets! Bent coppers or bank robbers, The Sweeney take it all in their stride and take no prisoners! Whether they're looking to take down a thug who shot a cop in a raid or dealing with an escaped convict with a grudge - the Flying Squad are going to do it by throwing out all the rules of TV police procedurals that came before them, and change the landscape of hard-hitting action dramas forever.
A rogues gallery of famous faces appear in the BAFTA-nominated Series Three, including John Hurt (The Elephant Man), George Cole (Minder), Geraldine James (Calender Girls), Kenny Lynch (The Plank), Hywel Bennett (Percy), Ronald Fraser (The Flight of the Phoenix), Maureen Lipman (The Pianist), Nadim Sawalha (The Living Daylights), and I, Claudius star Norman Eshley (in the top-rated episode Taste of Fear, directed by David Wickes); with gritty, quotable scripts by the likes of Troy Kennedy Martin (The Italian Job) and Roger Marshall (The Avengers).
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Sweeney, the brand new Blu-ray restoration has been called a "Revelation" (Desperate Living) and "The Best the Show Has Looked" (On: Magazine). Series Three has also been digitally restored and remastered for the first time in the original TV aspect ratio, with the original 2.0 mono and new 5.1 sound options. The car chases are clearer and the hits land harder - you'll wince in sympathy as Carter gets duffed up for the umpteenth time!
This definitive collector's boxset gets you right into the thick of it and with all the special features and bonus materials thrown in, as well as a booklet, you won't think you've been sold a 'cowboy' gun. Watch it or you'll end up helping old ladies across the street!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW RESTORATIONS OF ALL EPISODES IN SERIES THREE
- Option to view episodes in original Mono, 5.1 Surround sound, or isolated music only tracks
- In From the Cold Widescreen Version
- The Evening News British Film Awards – excerpt with John Thaw and Dennis Waterman
- ITV This is Your Life featuring The Sweeney
- Introduction to Visiting Fireman by Nadim Sawalha
- Introduction to Taste of Fear by George Sweeney
- Introduction to Bad Apple by John Lyons
- Introduction to Down to You, Brother by Tina Heath
- Introduction to Pay Off by Geraldine James
- Introduction to Loving Arms with Steven Pacey
- Introduction to On the Run with George Sweeney
- Audio Commentary on Taste of Fear with Robert Fairclough & Mike Kenwood
- Audio Commentary on Pay Off with Dennis Waterman and Garfield Morgan
- Booklet
- Optional English SDH subtitles for each episode
