Spender - Season 1 - Eps 4: The Candidate

Name: Eps 4: The Candidate
Released: 1991-01-29
Rating: 3.5

1991-01-29 • 50 min • ⭐ 7/10

Spender is assigned to look after a female Conservative politician named Bobby Montgomery. However, he is angered when Yelland teams up with him. However, Spender is injured when he is run down by a lorry whilst saving Bobby from being run over herself. After his spell in the hospital, Yelland has Spender put on the sick and his car taken away. However, determined to do his job, he gets a job working for Iain Rutherford, the owner of the lorry which ran him over. Whilst driving for Rutherford he ends up being involved in a robbery!

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About Spender

Title: Spender

First Air Date: 1991-01-08

Last Air Date: 1993-12-29

Status: Ended

Rating: 7/10 (from 3 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 4

Total Episodes: 21

Network: BBC One

Genres: Crime, Drama

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife.