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Bugs

1995
Bugs

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EP1 Absent Friends Jul 11, 1998

Ros is missing and Beckett, Alex and Ed are desperately searching for her. However, they find her car a river with some of her blood in it, and presume that she is dead. Beckett won't accept this, and sobs his little heart out at Ros' house. He ends up quitting from the bureau, to devote his time to searching for Ros. Beckett goes to see Ros' Mum, her ex-fianceé, Terry and does everything he can to determine Ros' whereabouts. Ros is actually alive and well (naturally) and is working with Terry. Ed and Alex are given a job to transport what they think is something that saves lives- but they were given false information. Beckett is also where Alex and Ed are, still trying to find leads on what happened to Ros, and then Ros suddenly appears, steals the stuff that Alex and Ed are looking after, with Terry and two other people and runs to Terry's van As she starts the van, and starts to drive off, she sees Beckett, but is told by Terry to keep driving. She does as he says, leaving behind Be

EP2 Sacrifice to Science Jul 18, 1998

Ros is still missing, although now the others know that she is not actually dead. Ros decides to ring Beckett and ask him to meet her, and Beckett quickly rushes to where she is. They meet on a bridge and Beckett is demanding an explanation, but Ros is too upset to give an answer. they go to see the others (Terry, Chris and Morag) who voice their opinions on Bureau 2 becoming involved; they don't like it one bit, especially Terry, who ideally wants to pick up where he and Ros left off, but he realises that that is never going to happen, because Ros is together with Beckett. However, because Beckett's Jeep had a bug on it the people trying to stop Ros and Terry find out where they are, and Chris and Morag are killed. Then they decide to blow up the base where Ros, Terry and Beckett are. They presume they are dead, but they managed to escape just in time. Beckett and Ros are walking in the hospital garden together and Beckett asks for an explanation. Ros tells him exactly what happened t

EP3 Girl Power Jul 25, 1998

Carly, a 14 year old girl breaks into The Hive and for some reason Ros is put in charge of her, which she is not too happy about. Beckett is moving into a rather run-down flat which Alex found for him, and his friendship with Ros is rather ‘rocky'. Carly is taken off Ros' hands by a man who turns out to be a baddie after an ancient funeral mask that the Bureau are looking after. He manages to con Carly into stealing the mask and once she realises why they want it, she runs off and hides it. Soon, both Ros and Carly are held prisoner until Carly gives the whereabouts of the mask. They are trapped under a lift. Carly manages to get out and tell Alex and Ed where it is hidden, and they quickly find it.

EP4 The Two Becketts Aug 01, 1998

A man breaks into a building, and although he tries to escape, he is caught. He then asks for Beckett, saying that he will only talk to him, and no-one else, and although becket doesn't know who he is, he goes to meet him. Once he reaches the place and sees the man, he simply says ""You,"" and punches him. The man then reveals that he is Beckett's father. Beckett takes his Dad to his house, where he tries to exlpain why he ran out on Beckett 10 years ago, after his Mum's funeral. He then explains that he was trying to find out about the whereabouts of a man who is after the two witnesses that will send him to prison. Ed goes to check it out, only to see that the man has escaped. Both of the witnesses are kidnapped and Beckett's Dad finally reveals that he wants to see the man go down because he killed Beckett's Mum. So, Beckett and his Dad go to find the man, as well as the two witnesses and Alex, who got mixed up in the whole thing.

EP5 Hell and High Water Aug 08, 1998

The Bugs team are called in to investiagte why the crew on board the Searanger, an oil rig, have suddenly gone silent. After investigation, they discover that the team they are with on the oil rig are not the really crew, and they work with the last surviving member, Paul Grey, to stop a satellite falling onto the Earth. Ros finds beckett unconscious in a room, and they are forced to work closely when they are left to do, betrayed by Paul Grey.

EP6 Pandora's Box Aug 22, 1998

The legendary tomb of King Arthur is supposedly at a site, where suddely a lot of people are becoming ill and new owners have stopped all normal work. beckett goes undercover to find out what is going on, and with the help of the others, they discover that the digging for the tomb has unearthed a plague. Alex falls ill with the pague and Ros works at finding her a cure. She is also worried about Beckett, who insists to stay at the site and stop the men from letting more people die and shows for the first time since they split up that she still cares for him.

EP7 Jewel Control Aug 29, 1998

Ros' friend, Sorrel marries Richard Blenko, a two faced man with a silver tongue, who'd give anything to save his own life. He promises a gangster as many emeralds as he'd like in exchange foir his life, using Sorrel's own father, Mr Mandrake, to do so. Mandrake is kidnapped whilst staying at becket's place, who went off with Christa when he was supposed to be assuring Mandrake's safety. Sorrel and Ros are also kidnapped. The gangsters steal the emeralds and then leave a bomb in the bunker where Ros, Sorrel, Mr Madrake and Richard are. Beckett, Jan and a trainee, Melissa have to stop the bomb and the gansters, before it is too late.

EP8 Twin Geeks Aug 14, 1999

Some Twin bright sparks decide that the world does not take them seriously enough, and plan to pay back the company that sacked them, years before. Beckett gets caught up in the process and is Beckett-napped (haha), whilst Ros is having a hard time facing up to the fact that ex-boyfriend Channing sold her designs to a new firm. So, she decides to buy them back, with the help of an old friend, who works at a bank. Alex and Adam go to investigate more about the ‘twin geeks'. However, they are trapped in a room, and the temperature is gradually decreasing, so Ed comes to the rescue. Ros goes to find Beckett, who has a little device attached to his wrist that will make a bomb explode just above him, if he walks to far away from it. This bomb is attached to the ceiling by an electromagnet, and Ros releases this and Beckett catches the bomb and has to run around with this. Ed saves Alex and Adam just in time, but gets jealous when she is more concerned about Adam, than thanking him. Beckett

EP9 Money Spiders Aug 21, 1999

Two baddies (Zephyr and Wymark) create some ‘spiders' that route around networks looking for juicy bits of information that they can use to black mail people in a ‘get rich quick' scheme using something called Catflap. The Bugs team are called in when a man has this happen to him, and they set up a trap to lure the people responsible to them. However, this goes horribly wrong and Zephyr and Wymark end up with what they think is Catflap (actually it is just a fake.) So, they turn to Adam Mosby for help and blackmail him by saying that they will kill Alex if he doesn't get Catflap from The Hive for them. He agrees and gives it to them in the second part. Ros and Ed go to investigate about Zephyr and Wymark, but are caught and forced to make a run for it, to the top of the building. Luckily Ed has some equipment with him and they absailing down the side of the building. But, Ros gets stuck half way down, as she is panicky about getting caught (her glove got caught in the figure of eight)

EP10 The Enemy Within Aug 28, 1999

Ros has yet another brush with death, this time because she was shot in the head by Zephyr. As she fights for her life in hospital throughout the episode, Beckett is desperately trying to find the people (Wymark and Zephyr) who put her there. Zephyr and Wymark end up in the same hospital as there is the new G-5 chip there which they need to gain enough processing power to con a bank into giving the m a few million pounds. Many things interrupt the surgery being performed on Ros (by a rather eccentric surgeon) including a power cut brought on by Wymark shooting the main power cables, leaving it up to Beckett and Ed to put it back to normal (which they manage to do, of course). At the end, Ros wakes up and is OK, and Beckett actually kisses her, putting the hope in everybody's hearts that they are actually going to get back together. However, this vision is quickly destroyed, as after Alex and Adam's wedding, Beckett and Christa are talking together and Christa practically proposes to h
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Released: 01 April 1995 Ended
Producted By: Carnival Films
Country: United Kingdom
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Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.

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elavigne7885 One of the best television series to come out from Britain. Good plots,music score,etc. But when the producers decided to replace Craig McLaclan with Steven Houghton,to play the role of Ed,this was the down fall. Steven Houghton did not fit into the role playing Ed. The rest of the cast did a good job in their roles.but Steven Houghton was not suited for the role of Ed. Eventually the show was cancelled. But,the last episode,was very disappointing. This TV show is available on DVD and can be purchase from Basdvd.com or Amazon.com in the U.K. If you live in Canada or the United States,make sure your DVD player will play region two,European standard,used in Europe. Region one is the standard for Canada,and the United States. If your DVD player is a region one DVD player,on the internet,type in,video help.com. When the web site shows up,scroll down to hacks,press in your DVD player name,example,philips DVD 2800,this web site will tell you how to make your player region free. Most DVD players you can do this to,some you cannot.
C L (Severus_Snape666) Bugs was way ahead of its time. When it hit the screens in 1995 on the BBC, nobody had seen anything quite like it. Quirky characters and multitudes of gizmos, gadgets, weaponry, bombs, explosions and not to mention baddies! The show pivoted around its three main characters, Ros, Ed and Beckett, the gadget making one, the daredevil and the team leader. Together they stormed their way through devious plots and baddies, all trying (unsuccessfully) to kill them. The highest point of Bugs for me has always been series two (the plots with the vengeful criminal mastermind Jean-Daniel, thrown in prison by the Bugs team at the end of series one), and, of course, most people's favourite, the end of series 3 'Renegades', when the will they-won't they storyline between Ros and Becket, which had been hinted at since series 2, was finally resolved. Unfortunately, when Craig McLachlan decided not to rejoin the cast for series four, the makers of Bugs sought a replacement and found one in Steven Houghton...well, I suppose there were some similarities...they both had blonde hair. Any others? Uh...no. Steven Houghton was so far off the mark with his portrayal of a once fantastic character that viewers who loved the show turned it off (and the BBC made the unforgivable decision of airing it at 6pm), and so, when series four came to a close with a whopper of a cliffhanger (intending to carry on with the show and not leave it hanging with such an ungraceful ending), suddenly, it was decided to leave the series as it was...and so, the story will never be finished. People might be interested to learn that Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films) appears (albeit briefly) in a series four episode.
Alexander_romulus When I first started watching bugs when I was about 9, I through it was one of the best programs around. However as I got older the shows cracks started to show, the sometimes rather poor special effects and general things that did not make sense. However, when Bugs was at its best it really did quite well, for example the "Cyberax" storyline really captured my imagination and when they did get round to doing the Special effects right, they did them well. I still enjoy watching the show on DVD and to me, it still has not lost its charm despite the noticeable errors. It is my opinion that the show should be remembered well because of how fun it was. Bugs may not have lived up completely to the standards of cool gadgets and supper villains of James Bond or the Avengers, but it still packed some very interesting characters and organisations, i.e. "Jean Daniel" and "The Hive". P.S Why did Craig McLachlan leave the show after series three???
Dave Robinson I used to be a devotee of this show; every Saturday night without fail was spent watching BBC 1's finest Saturday night show (admittedly there wasn't much competition). I loved it; the bangs, the fires, the fights, the hi-tec gadgetry.And then I stopped.What happened?Steve Houghton. There is NO WAY he should ever have been brought into the show; Craig McLachlan was infinitely better as Ed, bringing some humour into the role and convincing viewers that he was a vaulable member of the team. Steve seems to convey the impression of being there just to make up the numbers. Sorry Steve fans out there, but he just isn't right for this show, and it was highly unsurprising that the show was axed. And a shame too, because it was once a great show.