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Vera is a British crime drama series based on the Vera Stanhope series of novels written by crime writer Ann Cleeves. It was first broadcast on ITV on 1 May 2011. As of 2 January 2025, 56 original episodes of Vera have aired over fourteen series.
Series Episodes Series premiere Series finale DVD release date Average UK viewers (in millions) Region 2 Region 4 Region 1; 1: 4 [b] 29 January 2006 4 March 2007 12 March 2007 [1] 31 March 2008 [2] 5 August 2008 [3] 9.02 2: 4 24 February 2008 16 March 2008 7 April 2008 [4] 18 May 2009 [5] 5 August 2008 [3] 8.57 3: 4 22 March 2009 12 April 2009 ...
Endeavour is a British television detective drama series created by Russell Lewis and co-produced by Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece in association with ITV Studios.It is a prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse series and was first broadcast on ITV1 in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2012 and on PBS in the United States on 1 July 2012, as part of the Masterpiece Mystery! anthology.
Series 1 was broadcast as Season 1 in 2008. However, all of series 2 and episodes 1–3 of series 3 were broadcast as Season 2 in 2009. Episode 4 of series 3 and all of series 4 were broadcast as Season 3 in 2010. Series 5, 6, 7 and 8 were shown as Seasons 4, 5, 6 and 7 in 2011–2014. Series 9 was broadcast as "Season 8" in August 2016. [15]
Inspector Morse is a British television crime drama, starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately, for which eight series were broadcast between 1987 and 2000, totalling thirty-three episodes. Although the last five episodes were each broadcast a year apart (two years before the final episode), when released on DVD, they were billed as Series Eight.
Several episodes functioned as Backdoor pilots for potential future series. Of the 45 episodes, only three such shows were produced as a result: Cluff (1964–65) starring Leslie Sands , Thorndyke (1964) starring Peter Copley , and Sherlock Holmes (1965–68) starring Douglas Wilmer , and later, Peter Cushing .
The series is notable for moving the setting of the stories to North East England, centering on Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland and County Durham, as opposed to the Norfolk, as portrayed in the books. As the series begins, the death penalty is still in effect in Britain, and is used as a plot feature in some early episodes. The abolition of ...
Shoestring is a British detective fiction drama series, set in an unnamed city in the West of England and filmed in Bristol, featuring the down-at-heel private detective Eddie Shoestring (), who presents his own show on Radio West, a local radio station.