Road Wars: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

This series follows the fourteen members of the Thames Valley Police's roads policing proactive unit (road crime unit - known within the force as "Tango Vulture" - taken from their TV call-sign prefix and the joke that they swoop to steal arrests from other officers) while they carried out their duties. Road Wars is unlike other previous police program on Sky in that it followed the work of officers rather than simply playing police video clips. The Thames Valley Police unit operates high-specification, unmarked 3.0L V6 Vauxhall Omegas (now being replaced by unmarked 2.8L Turbo V6 Police Special Vauxhall Vectras) and is tasked with taking a proactive role in fighting crime especially targeted towards street robbers and burglars, but also undertaking general traffic policing (the officers are drawn from standard Roads Policing teams).

Claire is an ideal narrator, in stark contrast to Lee Boardman, who may be a good actor, but he is definitely not a good narrator. Over exaggeration and misuse of the English language are his failings. With the programme see-able here in Sweden, I get complaints from my pupils regarding the way he speaks, so often omitting the letter T in words like mo(t)or and be(tt)er. Pathetic in fact.

Series details

• Title: Road Wars
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Crime
• Premiere date: 2003-07-26
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-01-25
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Sky Showcase
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 29273
• TVDB ID: 133941

Cast and credited roles

• Lee Boardman — Narrator
• Claire Goose — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2003-07-26; final listed air date 2003-08-30; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2004-06-21; final listed air date 2004-07-26; episode order: 6.
• Season 3: premiered 2005-03-03; final listed air date 2005-04-21; episode order: 8.
• Season 4: premiered 2006-10-05; final listed air date 2006-11-23; episode order: 8.
• Season 5: premiered 2007-05-08; final listed air date 2007-09-18; episode order: 20.
• Season 6: premiered 2008-07-29; final listed air date 2008-12-09; episode order: 20.
• Season 7: premiered 2009-02-17; final listed air date 2010-01-25; episode order: 20.

Source and licence

Adapted from Road Wars on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.