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Produced by Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier, Nine Films and Television
Developed for television by Roger Simpson
Based on an original idea by Michael Messenger and Guy Wilding

Producers: Roger Le Mesurier, Roger Simpson, John Wild
Executive Producers: Mikael Borglund, Kris Noble, Posie Graeme-Evans

Aired: 1998 – 2004

Peter Phelps stars in this drama series from producers Roger Simpson and Roger LeMesurier. Inspired by the life of a real undercover operative, Stingers is about undercover cops: people with covert lives and constantly changing identities. It reveals the shadowy and ambiguous life of police who work behind enemy lines, always without a badge and frequently without protection. Inspired by true events, Stingers reveals the shadowy and ambiguous world of undercover cops — people with covert lives and constantly changing identities. They are police who defeat crime from within the criminal world — always without a badge and frequently without protection. The series follows the lives of the operatives as they befriend and betray those on the other side of the law. For these select few, it is a deadly way of life.The undercover cops of Stingers are a unique breed. They must juggle their own lives — love, laughter, family and humanity — with the tension of the criminal personas they adopt in their passion for justice.