Thief Takers - Series 1 (1996) [VHSRip(XVid)] torrent download



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This is my first attempt at uploading, all comments, criticisms, encouragement, welcome. 





The files were generated exactly as by the guy who provided Thief Takers Series 3. The PAL VHS tapes were played back on my recently resurrected Samsung World VCR into a Hard Disk recorder (NTSC), which I used to edit into Episodes and then burn 2 NTSC DVDs. The DVDs were then used to rip to AVI as per the excellent guide by Jaffa (first post in forum "Recording, Capture & Encoding", following specs as closely as possible.





There's no Pilot I could find anywhere ("Episode 0") and it is not included on the VHS tapes. I have Series 2 coming in the mail, however :-)





Season 1, Episode 1: No One Likes to See That


Original Air Date—25 January 1996


The crack officers of the Metropolitan Police's Armed Robbery Squad are hunting a prisoner who has blasted his way out of jail with explosives. DI Charlie Scott leads his team in hot pursuit. The squad investigates a security van robbery which looks like an inside job. Meanwhile, escaped convict Dennis Worsley wants revenge, and Tate is top of his list.





Season 1, Episode 2: Company of Strangers


Original Air Date—1 February 1996


The squad is after a gang that's robbing banks in order to repay a debt they owe to a gangster, but DC Oxford's attempts to nail the gang put his informant, Marcus, in danger. DS Tate finds himself alone and unarmed in a deadly confrontation.





Season 1, Episode 3: Whispers in the Dark


Original Air Date—8 February 1996


DS Helen Ash finds herself torn between work and home when she's put in charge of a large-scale stake-out operation to catch a gang of armed robbers. It's an important assignment, but Helen's husband David, who's also a police officer, is doing everything he can to make her job harder. He's jealous of her position as a detective sergeant in the Flying Squad while he's only a constable. He wants her to transfer out of the Squad, but she lives for her job and she can't let go.. When David refuses to look after their children, Helen has to leave her observation point to go home. But where does that leave the rest of her team? A serious of violent robberies prompts the Armed Robbery Squad to launch a high-tech surveillance operation on the suspect, Gil Rogers. However, he uses his army training to stay ahead of the squad – until Ash makes a shocking discovery.





Season 1, Episode 4: Wild Card


Original Air Date—15 February 1996


An armed gang bursts into a plush London casino and shoots Detective Sgt Bob ‘Bingo' Tate who's working undercover as a punter. The raiders take a terrified croupier hostage before escaping with thousands of pounds, and it's touch and go for Bingo. DC Harris stays undercover to find out who tipped off the villains, while the squad tracks down the people who escaped.





Season 1, Episode 5: Lie Down with Dragons


Original Air Date—22 February 1996


The Flying Squad investigates a series of robberies in Triad-controlled Chinatown. A Chinese theft ring has arrived in Britain and begin by robbing shops protected by the Triad. Tate goes undercover to help and gets caught in a deadly power struggle.





Season 1, Episode 6: Hungry Ghosts


Original Air Date—29 February 1996


The Chinatown robberies are continuing and DI Scott uses DS Tate's cover to set up a ‘sting' operation, but it means Scott risking his own career and Tate's life as his cover is threatened. DS Ash's jealous husband attacks DC Oxford.





Season 1, Episode 7: The Outcasts


Original Air Date—7 March 1996


The squad are baffled by a string of audacious armed robberies apparently committed by a teenage couple. The modern-day Bonnie and Clyde head for the coast with the squad in pursuit. A dramatic showdown ensues.





Season 1, Episode 8: Wasteland


Original Air Date—22 July 1996


DC Grace Harris goes under cover as a new recruit to infiltrate a sinister religious cult called the Core (a dangerous task as the charismatic cult leader has a habit of chopping off people's fingers) to help catch members of the sect who have robbed a bank. But the case becomes very hot to handle when the cult leader sets the building on fire in a Waco-style siege. Harris's undercover work confirms DI Scott's worst fears – that the cult members are prepared to die for the charismatic leader. On a lighter note DI Scott hears his wife Stephanie has gone into labour just as the squad go into action.





File information:


File Name(s): Episode S1E01 thru S1E08.avi


Duration: 50 minutes    


File Size: 400 MB





Video Information


Video Codec Name: XVid


Video Bitrate: Variable, avg 972 kbps


Bits / Pixel: 0.119


Resolution: 608x448


frames Per Second: 29.970





Audio Information


Audio Codec: mp3


Audio Bitrate: 128kbps


Frequency: 48kHz





Errors: 


a. There was a problem with the tape about 20 minutes into Episode 3, so you may see the splice where I redid the second part of that episode. 


b. Episodes 6 and 8 seemed to have jitter on the upper frame, but I didn't want to change (crop) all the other episodes further, so I basically left it as is.








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