Early appearances on The Detectives

Starring Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell The Detectives was based on a five minute regular sketch on Carrot's comedy show Canned Carrot. The first series featured 2 actors who went on to become big names.

Philip Glenister

The actor whose best known role is as another some what different detective Gene Hunt played an uniformed policeman when Briggs (Powell) and Louis (Carrot) get taken hostage by an escaped prisoner played by one time Eastenders Micheal Melia

Lucy Davis

Carrots own Daughter who would go own to find fame on her own terms in roles both on TV (Pride and Prejudice, The Office) and film (Shaun of the Dead, Wonder Woman) played a club goer when the defective pair go undercover at the Paradise Club. Which had been the for a short live Leslie Grantham show.