The Times, January 10, 1987, by Alexandra Shulman
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[...] For all its multi-racial gestures and concrete jungle 
backdrops, *Rockliffe's Babies (BBC1) is no more real than 
*Yesterday's Dreams*.Just a lot noisier.

Ian Hogg's Sergeant Rockliffe, who makes only a striking 
first appearance in the last 30 seconds of this opening 
episode, plays nanny to a squad of plainclothes PCs that 
could understudy for Duran Duran.

In sub-Miami Vice mode, they stake out potential trouble 
spots sporting gelled hair and Fred Perry T-shirts, worry 
about their girlfriends, and are capable of slipping-up now 
and again.

The dragon, a sprawling London council estate, clearly 
lacked the setting of Florida, so to compensate a 
superfluous glamour ingredient was added to the main thrust 
of last night's episode. O'Dowd, the Liverpudlian hot-head 
of the team, was offered the post of bodyguard to an 
unconvincing Gulf princess also living on the "Babies' 
beat." 



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