Floodtide is a British television crime drama produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on ITV from 14 June 1987 to 12 February 1988. The series follows a police inspector's dogged pursuit of a group of cocaine smugglers across Europe and his bid to bring them to justice. A total of thirteen episodes aired over the course of nine months. Co-produced and partly filmed in France, it was one of the first ITV dramas to be co-produced with an international production company. Written by The Sweeney scriptwriter Roger Marshall.
Although further series of the programme were planned, the lead actor Philip Sayer was diagnosed with cancer in 1988 and died in 1989. Marshall concluded that it would be wrong to re-cast the part and instead decided to bring the series to a natural close.
Contents
Cast
Philip Sayer as Dr. Thomas 'Tommy' Ramsey
John Benfield as Detective Inspector Brook
Sybil Maas as Dany Lombárd
Georges Trillat as Pascal Lambért
Gaby Dellal as Tessa Waite
Connie Booth as Isabel Palmer
Oliver Pages as Marcel Joubert
Linda Marlowe as Beryl Waite
Alfred Lynch as P.F.
Eric Denize as Tailman
Raoul Delfosse as Serge Costo
Wylie Longmore as Malone Foster
Malcolm Scates as Detective Sergeant Ward
Sarah Martin as Kath Parrock
David Fielder as Detective Sergeant Jackman
Episodes
Novel
Floodtide, by "Roger Mark", based on the scripts of the TV series, was published in 1987 by Javelin Books. Copyright is assigned to Anthony Fowles, whose other credits include Dupe Negative (1972), The Fake Game (2022), Head On (2020), Necessary Things, student guides to several acclaimed authors, and a biography of Barbra Streisand.
Home media
The complete series was released on DVD by Network in a four-disc set on 19 July 2010.