the B-side. The 12-inch had an extended version of "It Won't Be Easy" on the A-side and the 7-inch version of "It Won't Be Easy" and "Outer Space" on the B-side. "It Won't Be Easy" was later released on compact disc as part of the compilation The Best of BBC TV's Themes. The entire series was released by BBC Video in three volumes, each containing three episodes, on VHS video tape in 1991. Some purchasers of the VHS tapes also received embroidered ISPF and Moonbase patches made by Stewart Aviation, which were also available separately. Chris Boucher novelised his five Star Cops scripts and they were semi-professionally published in two volumes by Judith Proctor. The first volume An Instinct for Murder was adapted from the first Star Cops episode of the same name. The second volume Little Green Men and Other Stories included the four remaining Boucher scripts. There are some changes from the broadcast episodes – the characters of Alexander Krivenko and Anna Shoun do not appear in these books. Krivenko is replaced by a Chinese character, Jiang Li Ho, as an attempt to update the Star Cops universe to reflect the ending of the Cold War in 1989. Shoun is replaced by an Irish character, Dana Cogill – Boucher did not own the rights to use the Shoun character which had been created by John Collee. The two volumes were combined into a single book or eBook, published by What Noise Productions in May 2013, and available through Amazon and Bandcamp. The complete series was released on DVD by Network Video in a single, three-disc volume in 2004. This release contained a number of extras including commentaries by Boucher on "An Instinct for Murder" and "Little Green Men and Other Martians" and by Philip Martin on "This Case to be Opened in a Million Years" as well as a making-of documentary, interviews with Boucher, Martin and Trevor Cooper, and behind-the-scenes footage. A book entitled Above the Law: The Unofficial Guide to Star Cops, written by Paul Watts, was due to be published in early 2020 by Miwk Publishing. It will chronicle the series from concept to screen, as well as audio, and will feature features over thirty interviews with the cast and crew. References External links Star Cops - contains creator interview 1987 British television series debuts 1987 British television series endings 1980s British science fiction television series