Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)

Dalziel and Pascoe
Format	Crime
Starring	Warren Clarke Colin Buchanan
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	12
No. of episodes	46
Production
Running time	120 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	16 March 1996 – 22 June 2007
External links
Website

Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives. After Recalled to Life (4.2), only one of the subsequent episodes, the two-part Dialogues of the Dead, (7.5) is based directly on an original Hill book (while several of his later Dalziel and Pascoe books were not made into shows). It was produced by BBC Birmingham and screened on BBC One and ran for twelve series.

Plot

The story looks at two cops that are thrown together as partners. Complete opposites. Different backgrounds, different beliefs, different styles. They get on each other's nerves. They are embarrassed by each other everyday. But their differences make them a stunningly brilliant crime-solving team.

Episodes

Series 1

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original air date
1	"A Clubbable Women"	Ross Devenish	Alan Plater (Screenplay)	16 March 1996 (1996-03-16)
Wetherton Rugby Club's golden boy, Sam Connon, wakes up at home to find his wife with a bullet through her head. Does someone at the rugby club bear a terrible grudge against the couple - or is the true murderer closer to home?
2	"An Advancement of Learning"	Maurice Phillips	Alan Plater (Screenplay)	23 March 1996 (1996-03-23)
At Holm Coltram University, the body of an unknown middle-aged woman is accidentally unearthed underneath a statue. As the start their investigations, Andy feels like a fish out of water - while his partner reacquaints himself with Ellie, one of the lecturers.
3	"An Autumn Shroud"	Richard Standeven	Malcolm Bradbury (Screenplay)	30 March 1996 (1996-03-30)
With Peter on honeymoon, Dalziel sets off on a holiday of his own. Meeting and falling for the recently widowed, Bonnie Fielding, he stays in her country home. But when her son Nigel goes missing, Dalziel finds a mystery of fraud, murder and family conspiracy.

Series 2

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original air date
4	"Ruling Passion"	Gareth Davies	Malcolm Bradley	14 June 1997 (1997-06-14)
5	"A Killing Kindness"	Edward Bennett	Malcolm Bradley	21 June 1997 (1997-06-21)
6	"Deaheads"	Edward Bennett	Alan Plater	28 June 1997 (1997-06-28)
The two detectives investigate a string of bizarre, seemingly accidental deaths occurring over three decades which somehow or other all involve the same man.
7	"Exit Lines"	Ross Devenish	Stephen Lowe	12 July 1997 (1997-07-12)

Series 3

1. "Under World" (21 March 1998)
2. "Child's Play" (28 March 1998)
3. "Bones and Silence" (18 October 1998)
4. "The Wood Beyond" (25 October 1998)

Series 4

1. "On Beulah Height" (12 June 1999)
2. "Recalled to Life" (19 June 1999)
3. "Time to Go" (26 June 1999)
4. "The British Grenadier" (3 July 1999)

Series 5

1. "A Sweeter Lazarus" (1 July 2000)
2. "Cunning Old Fox" (8 July 2000)
3. "Foreign Bodies" (15 July 2000)
4. "Above the Law" (22 July 2000)

Series 6

1. "Walls of Silence" (29 October 2001)
2. "Home Truths" (5 November 2001)
3. "Secrets of the Dead" (12 November 2001)
4. "Truth and Consequences" (19 November 2001)

Series 7

1. "The Unwanted" (30 September 2002)
2. "Mens Sana" (7 October 2002)
3. "Sins of the Fathers" (14 October 2002)
4. "For Love nor Money" (21 October 2002)
5. "Dialogues of the Dead" (two parts: 21 & 22 December 2002)--Christmas special

Series 8

1. "A Game of Soldiers" (3 January 2003)
2. "The Price of Fame" (10 January 2003)
3. "Great Escapes" (17 January 2003)
4. "Soft Touch" (24 January 2003)

Series 9

1. "Heads you Lose" (two parts: 30 & 31 January 2004)
2. "Dead Meat"(two parts: 6 & 7 February 2004)
3. "The Dig" (two parts: 13 & 14 February 2004)
4. "Dust Thou Art" (two parts: 20 & 21 February 2004)

Series 10

1. "Houdini's Ghost" (two parts: 6 & 7 March 2006)
2. "Glory Days" (two parts: 13 & 14 March 2006)
3. "Wrong Time, Wrong Place" (two parts: 27 & 28 March 2006)
4. "Guardian Angel" (two parts: 3 & 4 April 2006)
5. "A Death in the Family" (two parts: 10 & 11 April 2006)

Series 11

1. "The Cave Woman" (two parts: 3 & 4 September 2006)
2. "Fallen Angel" (two parts: 10 & 11 September 2006)

Series 12

1. "Demons on Our Shoulders" (two parts: 6 & 7 May 2007)
2. "Project Aphrodite" (two parts: 14 & 15 June 2007)
3. "Under Dark Stars" (two parts: 21 & 22 June 2007)

Cast

• Warren Clarke as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel (1996–2007). Dalziel is blunt-talking, politically incorrect, and can be very insensitive. He's from the old school of policing, in complete contrast to his younger side-kick, the fast-track university educated Pascoe. "Dalziel is a perfect pig. He's vulgar, loud and rude," says actor Warren Clarke. "But he is in fact also a great humanitarian and he gets very good results. Dalziel has been forced to confront the health problems caused by years of unhealthy living, including heavy drinking. He's also trying to come to terms with the death of his sister.
• Colin Buchanan as Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe (1996–2007). University educated and well mannered Pascoe is the complete opposite of his abrasive, impolite partner Dalziel. He's married with one child, but is separated from wife Ellie. Pascoe struggles to get on with his difficult and obstinate father, who always resented his son's decision not to go into farming.
• Susannah Corbett … Ellie Pascoe (1996–2000)
• David Royle … Det. Sgt. Wield
• Naomi Bentley … WPC Maria 'Janet' Jackson
• Wayne Perrey … DC Parvez Lateef
• Jennifer James … WPD Kim 'Posh' Spicer
• Keeley Forsyth … WPC Carrie 'Bomber' (later 'Tweedie') Harris
• Joe Savino … Dr. Frank Mason
• Jo-Anne Stockham … Det. Const. Shirley 'Ivor' Novello
• James Puddephatt … Dr. James Ashurst
• Jemma Hines … WPC Baines
• Navin Chowdhry … PC Sanjay Singh

External links

• Official Site
• Dalziel and Pascoe at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com entry