Eight seasons of the brilliant, decent, morally upright and incorruptible detective, crimes complicated by war. They are all reviewed (or jotted) individually - this is really to remind me what we were doing on those Autumn evenings.
Great people pop up from the off: Emily Blunt, Danny Dyer, James McEvoy, Anton Lesser, Roger Allam Laurence Fox, Charles Dance etc.
Have to give a little mention to Guy Henry and Jonathan Coy, both excellent in 'Fifty Ships'. Funnily enough we just saw Coy as Nick's dad in The Hack.
They're running on Netflix, so it's a nice high res image without ads.
'Do you remember all these?' Q asked. 'Yes,' I said, 'just not all of the plot and the outcome'. Which is another way of saying no. But when in 'Bad Blood' I saw sheep, I knew immediately that Sam would be in great danger. (And that Ken Colley was in it.)
Lovely to see Liz Fraser again, in 'Bleak Midwinter', looking great at 77:
One of the later films is dedicated to Jeremy Silberston who directed some of the early ones, died only 56.
It was a bad choice to move the filming to Ireland - Dublin makes for a weird London. The final season was filmed in Liverpool, which made for a much better London.
Took a while to track down Alex Clatworthy as the super-efficient member of the security team, who has the coupon-buster three-in-one shoe.
It was not an Awards favourite. received just one BAFTA nomination for production design; won the Lew Grade award for 'a significant and popular programme' in 2003. Which is mysterious. I would have thought many times over it was award-worthy in writing, acting, direction, production design and cinematography.
I think two of my favourites come right at the end - Sunflower (which has a particularly brilliant twist and final pay off) and the finale Elise, both directed by Andy Hay. It's also depressingly (or presciently) entirely topical in its storylines on anti-Semitism and anti-immigration.
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