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Underdog detective 'Dangerous' Davies toils at a small London police station, where his slicker colleagues taunt him and his boss calls him the last detective he would put on a big case. That makes it all the sweeter when he cracks the big ones anyway.
Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, u...
On the Greek island of Rhodes, Harry Barnett befriends a young woman. When she vanishes, Barnett is guided by a packet of her photographs back to England and to the doings of a secretive Oxford student society and the riddle of an old, unmarked grave.
Series pilot: Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis is back in familiar territory Oxford, England five years after the death of his long-time partner, the legendary Inspector Morse. Teamed up with the much younger Detective Sergeant...
In the 1890's, Detective William Murdoch adopts modern techniques like 'finger marks' and forensics to track Toronto's most sinister killers. Though derided by his skeptical boss, Murdoch finds friends and allies in a lovely pathologist and an eager-to-learn constable. Along the ...
Bridget is a stay-at-home wife whose life as she knows it ends when her husband loses his cushy, high-paying job. Her college degree in literature does not help her find a substantial job, so she accepts a janitorial position at the Federal Reserve. There, she meets Nina and Jack...
This time, Jane Tennison must solve the savage murder of a young boy who was mixed up in a flesh peddling ring.
Detective Jack Frost is called to investigate when a couple return from holiday to find the body of a complete stranger in their bed. He also becomes involved in a murder inquiry and uncovers a crime ring involved in the importing of endangered species and illegal animal goods.
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is promoted to Detective Superintendent.
Aging criminal mastermind Des simply won't go gentle into that good night. Donning all manner of disguises, he can fool the authorities, and his marks, into thinking he's just another harmless old geezer. Behind his spectacles, though, Des always has his eye out for the next big ...
A 14-year old boy confesses that he is the murder of a young drug dealer, but Detective Tennison's instincts tell her a drug baron is a more likely suspect. While investigating the crime with her new, and married boss, she succumbs to an affair with him. Trapped in a web of dange...
Jane Tennison investigates the murder of a young black woman when bones are unearthed in a garden years after her death.
Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, th...
Jane Tennison, a female London detective, fights sexism on the force while tracking down the serial killer of prostitutes.
Follows the trials and tribulations of the owners, staff and guests of the 1920s Grand Hotel in Manchester, England.
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school whe...