Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire.
It is made by Yorkshire Television at The Leeds Studios for broadcast on ITV. Heartbeat first aired in 1992. By autumn 2006, it had reached its 16th series, clocking up over 300 episodes - a feat that few series achieve. The 17th series began on 11 November 2007, and is currently on a break before the series will finish.
Heartbeat has proved perennially popular with viewers. The early series consistently drew over 10 million viewers. In 2001 the show came sixth in the UK TV ratings list with a peak audience of 13.82 million, and it was sixth again in 2003, with 12.8 million viewers.
Constable Nick Rowan is a English Policeman in the 1960's who decides to be reassigned to the same small village where he was evacuated to during World War II as a child. There, he patrols the countryside as a part of a small attachment in the area dealing with the various events and problems that come up while at same time keeping a eye on Claude Greengrass, the local rogue. Written by Kenneth Chisholm
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