The Enigma Files

The Enigma Files
Genre	Police procedural
Starring	Tom Adams Sharon Maughan Carole Nimmons Duggie Brown
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	15
Production
Production location	London
Running time	50 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC2
Release	15 April 1980 (1980-04-15)

The Enigma Files is a British television police procedural that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.

Plot summary

The series was a police procedural, written by Derek Ingrey, about a police officer who has been sidelined from regular duties and, having been placed in charge of a records and evidence unit, has begun to specialise in investigating unsolved crimes.

Regular cast and characters

• Tom Adams as Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis
• Sharon Maughan as Kate Burton, the unit administrator (first eight episodes only)
• Carole Nimmons as Sue Maxwell, the unit administrator (last seven episodes only)
• Duggie Brown as Phil Strong, a laboratory technician

Video release

There are no known releases on Video Tape or DVD.

Other media

A tie-in book of the series, written by Christine Sparks, was published by the BBC in June 1980 (ISBN 0563177705 / ISBN 978-0-563-17770-8).

See also

The investigation of "Cold Cases" became a theme for several detective dramas and reality series some two decades later, including:

• Cold Squad, CAN / CTV, 1998
• Cold Case Files, USA / A&E, 1999 (true cases)
• Waking the Dead, UK / BBC One, 2000
• New Tricks, UK / BBC One, 2003
• Cold Case, USA / CBS, 2003
• Solved, USA / ID, 2008 (true cases)
• Zettai Reido, Japan / Fuji Television, 2010
• Cold Justice, USA / TNT, 2013 (true cases)
• To Catch a Killer, CAN / OWN, 2014 (true cases)
• Signal, South Korea / TVN, 2016
• Signal, Japan / Fuji TV, 2018

External links

• The Enigma Files at IMDb