Dempsey & Makepeace

Dempsey & Makepeace was a crime drama back in the mid-80's starring Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber as a male / female detective team, but the real story is this: Brandon played a working-class detective and Barber a noblewoman detective. Oh my god! Can you imagine that? They teamed up a noblewoman detective with a working-class detective. I say! who dreams up this stuff? 
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