Tiger Cubs (TV series)

Tiger Cubs
Official poster
Also known as
  • Special Duties Unit
  • The One
Genre
Created byLam Chi-wah
Written by
  • Leung Yan-tung
  • Ng Lap-kwong
  • and others
Directed by
  • Wong Kwok-fai
  • Hung Kam-fat
  • Chan San-hap
  • Lee Shu-fong
Starring
Theme music composerTige Hui
Opening theme"身邊的依據" ("Surrounding Basis") by Joe Ma
Country of originHong Kong
Original languageCantonese
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producerLam Chi-wah
Camera setupSingle camera
Running time90 minutes
Production companyTVB
Original release
Network
Release24 June (2012-06-24) –
12 August 2012 (2012-08-12)
Related
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)
Tiger Cubs
Traditional Chinese飛虎
Simplified Chinese飞虎
Literal meaning"flying tiger"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinFēi Hǔ
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationFei1 Fu2
JyutpingFei1 Fu2

Tiger Cubs (Chinese: 飛虎; literally "Flying Tigers"), alternatively titled Special Duties Unit, is a Hong Kong police procedural television series produced by Lam Chi-wah and TVB. It stars Joe Ma, Jessica Hsuan, Him Law, Oscar Leung, Vincent Wong, Mandy Wong, Benjamin Yuen and William Chak as castmembers of the first installment. It premiered on Sunday, 24 June 2012 on Jade and HD Jade, and was the first TVB drama to be broadcast in the Sunday night time slot since 1995's File of Justice. Tiger Cubs was one of six TVB dramas that were promoted at the 2011 Hong Kong Internal Film and TV Market. Tiger Cubs debuted its trailer at TVB's Programme Presentation 2012 event on 1 November 2011.

The drama was renewed for a sequel in early 2013 for ten episodes. Tiger Cubs II premiered on 19 October 2014.