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- Set in Cornwall, Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe, who works along with his colleagues DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane, investigates murder cases with his trademark determination and clinical accuracy.
- The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
- A nun discovers she has more to give outside her convent.
- Olive Martin (Quirke), a heavily overweight young woman is convicted of killing and butchering her mother and sister and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, when she is assigned to write a book about her life, author Rosalind Leigh (Goodall) begins to develop a relationship with Olive and is soon convinced of her innocence. With the help of restaurant owner and former policeman Hal Hawksley (Fulford), she sets out to prove it and undo what she sees as a miscarriage of justice. However, all is not what is seems.
- Growing up in the North of England in the 1930's and 1940's, Henry Pratt spends his life searching for a means of survival and learning how to deal with his eccentric relationships along the way.
- When the man who left a package in his care is murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, he sets out to unravel the mysterious plot.
- Anne Travers is a lawyer and her adulterous husband Michael Mitcham is a psychologist. Michael's keys are found on the dead woman's body. When Michael is charged with murder, Anne decides to be her husband's lawyer.
- A fast-paced thriller based on Peter James' best-selling novel set in the chilling world of genetic engineering. Three workers put their lives on the line as they discover a world
- When Richard Bennett's computer consultancy business fails and he discovers that his wife, Deborah, is having an affair, his whole world comes crashing down. Out of desperation the couple pack up and take their young daughter Charlotte back to live with Deborah's grandfather Isaac in a remote, isolated, religious community where she was born. As first the plan is just to use the community as a safe haven until they regain their feet and start their lives again. However, as time passes and Richard's influence with the community grows, his plans change. After Richard apparently has a vision from God he is elected leader when Isaac dies. From then on Richard's power grows and his fanatical domination of the community knows no bounds and he starts to think of himself as God. Too late the community realizes that they have unleashed a demonic evil in their midst. Will they be able to overcome Richard's power or will he destroy the idyllic tranquility of the community in one last fiery act of purification???
- A young boy must move from Wales to London.
- Two British couples on holiday in France become entangled in deaths and drama.
- The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a coffin-like box for eight days.
- Based on the books 'Monty the Dog who wears glasses', the eponymous Monty gets into various adventures, often in the pursuit of his favorite food, sausages.
- The last cinema in a small town in South Wales closes. This means for the projectionist Trevor and ice cream vendor Mona that they are out of job. They come up with a new idea: They want to grow mushrooms in the humid clima of the cinema...
- A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the two Japaneese businessmen with the apparent intentions to build a factory there.
- Amateur flautist Tony Miller is found shot with his own gun on land belonging to the wealthy Bottrell family, and the first verdict is that he committed suicide. However the disappearance of one of the Bottrells' maids and the discovery of a further body leads Wycliffe to uncover some rather unpalatable family secrets.
- Whilst surgeons are fighting to save the life of a young woman, an archaeology student found in bed with gunshot wounds to the head, Wycliffe is approached by wealthy novelist David Cleeve. He has been the regular recipient of a single playing card, the Jack of Diamonds, and on the last occasion the card was torn in half, causing Cleeve to believe that someone is out to murder him. When a man walking on a beach is indeed killed Cleeve reckons that he was the intended victim and Wycliffe uncovers a whole series of crimes starting some years earlier.
- When the Rev. Jordan finds the corpse of his church cleaner in front of the altar, the police surgeon thinks it posed. Village women despise her sexual immorality, but Wycliffe investigates other more practical motives for murder.
- Every Halloween a life-size effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and sent into the sea - a ritual ridding the community of evil via the use of a 'scapegoat, in lieu of a human sacrifice. When the body of local undertaker Jonathan Riddle is found washed up on the rocks, at first sight it seems that he was used as the scapegoat but Wycliffe soon finds other likely motives for his demise.
- When elderly Lily Armitage goes to visit an invalid friend at her tumble-down farmstead she is understandably shocked to find the old lady's corpse locked in a freezer. At the same time, pregnant teenager Hilda Clemo runs away from home after a row with her family and is declared missing. Wycliffe attempts to find a connection between the two incidents.
- When Harry Tremaine is blown up on his boat, suspicion falls on his son and principal heir Freddie. However, there are others in the frame such as Harry's unfaithful wife who was conducting an affair with his partner and the property developer anxious to build a marina on quayside land Harry was reluctant to sell. And who is the mysterious person to whom Harry gave £500 every month? Wycliffe has a lot of loose ends to tie together.
- Jed uses his spare time to write songs as he worries about losing his job, a London A&R man comes under fire for failing to find anything new, and an American music producer is asked for his opinion about a demo tape.
- Anna has been a nun for 16 years when her brother dies, and Mother Superior sends her to help his widow for a week. She finds Lynn despondent and the mill on the verge of failure.
- Anna returns to the convent but Lynn arranges another visit and tries to convince her to stay. Peggy and Anna work to prevent Stan Beattie from ruining the business.
- Anna convinces Hal to help her gather natural dyes, even though he knows they won't find enough. Stan wants Peggy to help him convince Lynn to get Anna out of running the business. A rainstorm on the moors reveals Anna's and Hal's mutual attraction. Anna discovers Simon had taken out a large Anna returns to the convent but is still pulled by her desire to help Lynn and her new feelings of wanting a baby. Anna and Sister Godric write a new business plan to stave off the creditors.
- Beattie's efforts at sabotage continue, and it begins to look as if the mill will not be ready by the time the Japanese arrive. Walter and Hal combine forces and are determined not to be beaten now.
- Charlotte van Dam helps the Diamond brothers travel to the Netherlands. They find the Amstel IJsbaan ice skating rink where they are supposed to meet McGuffin's contact, Eight-Six.
- The Diamond brothers find their mysterious client, McGuffin, dead in a phone box. Leading them on a dangerous path involving the police, spies and being kidnapped by a taxi driver.
- They are taken to a MI6 facility. They anger the agents who knock them out and drive them to their flat. They return with police, finding the building as a bird shop. Later, Tim's job interview at the bank is cut short by a bomb explosion.
- Tim Diamond is a wanted man. So he and his brother take refuge in Hanover Hotel. Boris Kusenov arrives in London. The last clue left by McGuffin leads to Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Back in the UK, Detectives Snape and Boyle are protecting Boris Kusenov at Sotheby's, where The Tsar's Feast painting is being auctioned. Nick figures out what McGuffin's last words really meant.
- Tim and Nick find Charon's residence, the Winter House, and overhear part of the plan to kill Kusenov. On the run from Charon's men, Nick ends up in Mr. Marvano's magic cabinet.