

Season 3 • Episode 40
LatestTZE-WAH's leg has to be cut off. YEE-LING is by his died to comfort him. Their affection grows. YUET-YUE decides to leave Hong Kong for the States. MAN-YING also plans to go back to Canada. WAI-KIT is saddened. WAI-KIT sets KWAN-CHEK up and finally arrests him. At this point, MAN-WAI suddenly appears and stabs KWAN-CHEK. KWAN-CHEK is rushed to the hospital while MAN-WAI is sent to the psychiatric hospital. CHEUK agrees to stand as witness in the prosecution against KWAN- CHEK. His son KWAN-HAN returns to Hong Kong. But he refuses to reconcile with CHEUK. CHEUK ides of heart attack in the prison. WAI-KIT ponders if he should ask MAN-YING to stay. Would there be a happy ending between the two? What is the end of KWAN-CHEK? The answers are in the final episode.
Police Cadet '84 was a TV series which included such stars in TVB as Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and notably, Carina Lau. The story centered on a couple of young "cadets" in the Police Cadet School. Tragedy, romance, conflicts, and intrigues were featured. The series was immediately followed by a sequels titled "New Police Cadet '85" and "New Police Cadet '88". Both sequels stars Tony Leung.
Acting
Leung's raw charisma before he learned restraint.
Production
Iconic theme song still slaps four decades later.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This launched Tony Leung's career and established the 'police academy' template that dominated 80s-90s Hong Kong television. Everyone after was copying this formula.
Maggie Cheung was originally cast but left early — her replacement with Margie Tsang caused real-life fan wars that spilled into tabloids.