Fastlane is an American action/crime drama television series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003. On August 14, 2005, G4 began rebroadcasting the complete series.
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Plot summary
Van Ray and Deaqon Hayes are two mismatched cops teamed together by shady police lieutenant, Wilhelmina "Billie" Chambers, in a secretive undercover division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Operating with the motto "Everything we seize, we keep. Everything we keep, we use," their base of operations is the "Candy Store"—a warehouse containing a fortune in confiscated cars, clothes, weapons and everything else needed to blend into the seedy criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Given criminal covers, the officers use all of the resources at their disposal to apprehend dangerous criminals while walking the line between cop and criminal.
Cast
Main
Peter Facinelli as Donovan "Van" Ray
Bill Bellamy as Deaqon "Deaq" Hayes
Tiffani Thiessen as Wilhemina "Billie" Chambers
Recurring
Jay Mohr as Roland Hill
Mark Famiglietti as Jarod
Big Boy as Aquarius
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Andre Hayes
Jennifer Sky as Cassidy Shaw
Robert Forster as Raymond Ray
Jamie Brown as Sophia Jones
Bill Duke as Captain Parish
Lamont Johnson as Wisdom Bailey
Reception
Fastlane gained a cult following especially for the chemistry between the cast, the action scenes, the humor and the direction.
About the cult following, Peter Facinelli said: You know that show had such a phenomenal life, I’ve gotten fan mail from all over the world. From Brazil to Europe to China, it’s been crazy where it has been shown. Yes, it has been in a lot of reruns on a lot of different stations. I know it was on G4 Network; it was on Court TV. But yes, definitely for a series that only had one year, it has definitely in the last four or five years been on a lot. I’m glad. I thought it was a phenomenal series. I had a fun time doing it. I’m glad that people are discovering it and rediscovering it and I hope that it continues this way.” In retrospect, Tiffani Thiessen said: “That was an extremely fun show. I get stopped quite often by people asking why it ended, and I think it was a little ahead of its time. If Fox wouldn't have made the mistake – and they've actually [copped to] this – of showing the reruns four days later on MTV, and if that didn't take almost all of our audience away from our actual primetime showing, I think we would have been a huge hit and lasted a lot longer. You learn from the mistakes.
Home media
Warner Home Video released Fastlane: The Complete Series on DVD as a six disc set on July 8, 2008 in the Region 1. The soundtrack was significantly altered for the DVD release due to licensing issues. Episodes are cropped to be in the 4:3 format rather than the 16:9 widescreen format as they initially appeared on television.
As of 2026, the series is made available for streaming online on Amazon Prime Video, Plex, The Roku Channel (via their Howdy subscription-video-on-demand service), Sling Freestream and Tubi in the United States.