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Special Relationship (Waking The Dead)
'' Waking the Dead'' is a British television police procedural crime drama series that was produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist Forensic science combines principles of law and science to investigate criminal activity. Through crime scene investigations and laboratory analysis, forensic scientists are able to link suspects to evidence. An example is determining the time and .... Nine series of the show were broadcast over the course of eleven years. Episodes Pilot (2000) Series 1 (2001) Series 2 (2002) Series 3 (2003) Series 4 (2004) Series 5 (2005) Series 6 (2007) Series 7 (2008) Series 8 (2009) Series 9 (2011) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Waking the Dead episodes BBC-related lists Lists of British crime drama television series episodes Lists of British mystery television series episodes Episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waking The Dead (TV Series)
''Waking the Dead'' is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based Cold case (criminology), cold-case unit composed of Criminal Investigation Department, CID police officers, a psychological profiler, and a forensic science, forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third-series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to allow for advertising breaks, as well as UKTV (Australia and New Zealand), UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and ABC1 in Australia. A total of 46 stories aired across the nine series. The show aired its final episode on 11 April 2011. A spin-off from the series, titled ''The Body Farm (TV series), The Body Farm'', revolving around fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Davis (screenwriter)
Stephen Davis (born 18 July 1950) is a British screenwriter and playwright who wrote the film ''Ruby'' (based on his stageplay ''Love Field''), and episodes of the TV series '' Waking the Dead'', ''Silent Witness'' and ''Casualty 1909''. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He lives near Stroud, Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire .... He is married to Jane Davis. They have two daughters, Zoe and Natalie. Filmography References External links * Stephen Davis' website has complete list of credits {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Stephen 1950 births Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Place of birth missing (living people) Living people English television writers Blinky Bill People educated at Manchester Grammar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Burke (British Actor)
David Burke (born 25 May 1934) is an English actor, known for playing Dr. John Watson in the initial series of Granada Television's 1980s '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role. He also starred as Joseph Stalin in the last two episodes of ''Reilly, Ace of Spies''. Early life Burke was born on 25 May 1934 in Liverpool, England, and trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career In the theatre, Burke originated the part of Niels Bohr in Michael Frayn's ''Copenhagen''. Burke played Dr. Watson in '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' for the initial series and then left the programme after receiving an invitation to join the Royal Shakespeare Company along with his wife, Anna. They both considered the joint work to be the best idea for their young son, Tom, who was around 3 years old at the time. He was thought by many to portray Dr. Watson with an excellent style. He was replaced by Edward Hardwicke, whom he had recommended as h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paterson Joseph
Paterson Davis Joseph (born 22 June 1964) is a British actor and author. Joseph appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions of ''King Lear'' and ''Love's Labour's Lost'' in 1990. On television he is best known for his roles in '' Casualty'' (1997–1998), as Alan Johnson in Channel 4 sitcom '' Peep Show'' (2003–2015), '' Green Wing'' (2004–2006), '' Survivors'' (2008–2010), '' Boy Meets Girl'' (2009), as DI Wes Layton in '' Law & Order: UK'' (2013–2014), as Holy Wayne in '' The Leftovers'' (2014–2015), as DCI Mark Maxwell in '' Safe House'' (2015–2017), and as Connor Mason in '' Timeless'' (2016–2018). His film roles include '' The Beach'' (2000), '' Greenfingers'' (2000), '' Æon Flux'' (2005), '' The Other Man'' (2008) and '' Wonka'' (2023). Joseph is also a writer, and his 2022 debut novel ''The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho'' won the 2023 Christopher Bland Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature. He was announced as Chance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susannah Harker
Susannah Harker (born Susannah Owens; 26 April 1965) is an English film, television, and theatre actress. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in ''House of Cards''. She played Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice.'' Early life and education Harker was born in London. She is the daughter of actor Richard Owens and actress, Polly Adams. She and her younger sister, Caroline, were brought up as Catholics and educated at an independent convent boarding school run by nuns in Sussex, and at the Central School of Speech and Drama in North London. Acting career Harker has acted in both contemporary and classic works, on stage, in movies and in TV series. In 1990–91 she appeared alongside Clive Owen in ''Chancer'', and as the journalist Mattie Storin in the original ''House of Cards''. She later played Dinah Morris in the 1991 adaptation of ''Adam Bede''. She starred as Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of Jane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel West
Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, theatre director, and narrator. He has directed on stage and radio, and worked as an actor in theatre, film, television, and radio. West was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Leonard Bast in the Merchant Ivory Howards End (film), film adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel ''Howards End'' (1992), and was later nominated for the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of the title role in ''Rupert's Land (film), Rupert's Land'' (1998). In 2010, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jeffrey Skilling in Lucy Prebble's ''Enron (play), Enron''. He has appeared as reciter with orchestras and performed at the Last Night of the Proms. He has narrated several documentary series, including five for the BBC about the Second World War. West currently stars as Siegfried Farnon in the Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Ellis
Janet Ellis, (born 16 September 1955) is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes ''Blue Peter'' and '' Jigsaw'' between 1979 and 1987. She has published two novels, ''The Butcher's Hook'' (2016) and ''How It Was'' (2019). She is the mother of three children: singer/songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor, musician and former child actor Jackson Ellis-Leach and art historian Martha Ellis-Leach. Early life Ellis was born in Chatham, Kent, on 16 September 1955. Her father Michael "Mike" Ellis was a soldier who was stationed during her childhood at various places in Britain and West Germany, and her mother was Judith Newton. Accordingly, she attended seven schools in the two countries, including Russell House School in Otford, Kent between the ages of five and seven, St Hilary's in Sevenoaks, Kent between the ages of 11 and 13, and from the ages of 13 to 17, her last school was Richmond County School for Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Peake-Jones
Tessa Peake-Jones (born 9 May 1957) is an English actress who has appeared in '' The Danedyke Mystery'' (1979), ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1980), ''When We Are Married'' (1987), '' Up the Garden Path'' (1990–1993), '' So Haunt Me'' (1992–1994), ' (1996–1998), ' (1997), ''Summer in the Suburbs'' (2000), '' Poppy Shakespeare'' (2008), ''Doctors'' (2009–2011) and ''Unforgotten'' (2015). Peake-Jones may be best known for her role as Raquel in the BBC sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses'', between 1988 and 2003, Tawny Owl in the animated series '' The Animals of Farthing Wood'' and as Mrs. Chapman in ''Grantchester'' (2014–2024). Early life and education Peake-Jones was born on 9 May 1957 in London, to her mother Mary. She was raised in Hammersmith and educated at Kenmore Park Junior School, Harrow and Downer Grammar School (now known as Canons High School), leaving in 1973, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Career Peake-Jones is best known for playin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Buckley (British Actor)
''Skeletons'' is a 2010 British pastoral science fiction film directed by Nick Whitfield, starring Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, and Jason Isaacs. It was nominated for 'Outstanding Debut by a British Director' at the 64th British Academy Film Awards. ''Skeletons'' was the winner of the "Best new British feature film" award at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The plot surrounds two psychic exorcists who travel Britain providing a service to their customers of revealing couples' hidden secrets. Plot Two "suited, slightly shabby (or even seedy in one case), privately-contracted investigators...walk through the British countryside to visit couples and others who want to exhume and clear out the secrets and metaphorical)skeletons in one another’s closets before for example getting married." The psychic investigators do this by accessing "portals to the couples’ histories, that are accessed through the cupboards in their houses and which allow the investigators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Ross (actor)
Lee Ross (born 1971) is an English actor known for his roles as Kenny Phillips in the CITV dramedy ''Press Gang'' and as Owen Turner in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. He is also known for his debut role as Dodger in the drama series '' Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest'', '' Secrets & Lies'', ''The Catherine Tate Show'' and BBC sitcom White Gold. Education Lee Ross attended Stockwood High School, Luton. Career Ross first appeared on British television in 1983 as one of the children in a Colgate commercial which featured a parody of the hit Madness song ''Baggy Trousers''. His first acting role was as Fat Sam in Micky Dolenz' West End production of ''Bugsy Malone''. He went on to play Dodger in the TV series '' Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest'', which was a spin-off from the series '' Dramarama''. The series ran from 1985 till 1986. He next played Kenny Phillips in ''Press Gang'' from 1989 to 1991. Ross had lead roles in two films in 1990, playing Bryan in '' Amongst Barbarians'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Love
Gary Joseph Love (born 26 November 1964) is a British actor and film director. He is best known for playing the role of Sergeant Tony Wilton in the British Army inspired award-winning series ''Soldier Soldier'', and as Jimmy McClaren in ''Grange Hill'' in 1984. He is also a director and has directed episodes of '' London's Burning'', ''Casualty'' and '' Waking the Dead''. Love was born in Kensington, London, and attended the Barbara Speake Stage School in Acton, West London. Filmography As actor *1984: ''Grange Hill'' as Jimmy McClaren *1986: ''Starting Out'' as Mick Brown (2 episodes) *1988 ''A Question of Style'' (Austin Rover salesman training video) *1988: ''Jack the Ripper'' as Derek ::''Never the Twain'' as Postman *1989: ''Screen Two'' as Alan Loader ("Here Is the News") :: '' Birds of a Feather'' as Pool Man ("Just Visiting") ::'' Blackeyes'' as Colin (2 episodes) *1990: '' The Krays'' as Teddy "Steve" Smith *1991: '' Murder Most Horrid'' as Constable Williams ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |