Wild Bill's Rob Lowe playing Chief Constable of East Lincolnshire was ...

Rob Lowe playing the Chief Constable of East Lincolnshire was implausible. But none of the locals mentioned he looked like the star of Wayne’s World or even said ‘phwoar!’ in Wild Bill, by Jim Shelley

By Jim Shelley for MailOnline

Published: 01:51 BST, 13 June 2019 | Updated: 01:55 BST, 13 June 2019

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Wild Bill was surely the most absurd, implausible, cop show yet in the long history of completely unlikely crime series.

Yes, even more than J-Lo’s Shades Of Blue or Marcella.

Hard to believe I know.

For a start Wild Bill was about a high-flying American cop who’d cleaned up the streets of San Diego, Denver, and Miami and now moved to Boston - not that one - as the new Chief Constable of… East Lincolnshire.

Odd: Wild Bill was surely the most absurd, implausible, cop show yet in the long history of completely unlikely crime series.

Odd: Wild Bill was surely the most absurd, implausible, cop show yet in the long history of completely unlikely crime series.

Yes that one. Hey, it could happen.

Well no it probably couldn’t, sadly.

Particularly if the pioneering police boss was not only as good-looking as Hollywood heartthrob Rob Lowe but looked exactly like him. (More handsome than ever if anything, even with the

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