Juliet Bravo is a British television

British television

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 series, which ran on BBC1 between 1980 and 1985. The theme of the series concerned a female police

Police

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 inspector who took over control of a police station

Police station

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 in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire

Lancashire

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Despite popular misunderstanding, there never was any character named "Juliet Bravo" in the show. The name of the show is the inspector's radio call sign

Call sign

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, "J-B", or "Juliet Bravo" in the phonetic alphabet as practised in European NATO states.