Rent Dalziel and Pascoe: Series 3 (1998)
4.0 of 5 from 5 ratings
6h 0min
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- Synopsis:
The crime-busting duo are back to solve more murder mysteries in series 3 of 'Dalziel Pascoe'.
1. Under WorldThe discovery of a skeleton deep underground in a mine shaft brings Dalziel and Pascoe to the Yorkshire coalfield. When the body is confirmed as a man missing for ten years they realise that they have a murder to investigate. Raking over the past proves difficult for the local population as old wounds are re-opened and old grievances come to the fore. As the investigation progresses the acrimony increases and various relationships come under strain. As the police home in on the culprit the locals take the law into their own hands with tragic consequences.
2. Child's Play
Oliver Reed once said his face looked like a garbage can. We can say of Warren Clarke that his face looks much like a battered old steel garbage can. His rugby playing days long over, Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel surveys the bleak Yorkshire landscape and the bleaker people inhabiting it with a jaundiced eye and biting sarcasm. He has to deal with a Bible-quoting superior officer who wants to weed out homosexuals on the police force; at the same time one of his men, who is gay, is going through emotional torments because of his infatuation with a delinquent youth. Dalziel has got to keep his team focused on a murder investigation, placate his superior, and stop any more murders in a very dysfunctional family.
3. Bones and Silence
Dalziel and Pascoe are investigating a murder that Dalziel was a witness to, in a way, and at the same time, trying to work out who is sending Dalziel letters about an intended suicide. This is a very clever episode...
4. The Wood Beyond
Inspector Pascoe's grandmother dies, and he sets out to discover the truth about his grandfather: why he disappeared during WWI. Pascoe is falsely told that his grandfather was a deserter but continues his quest. An animal rights group, in a seemingly unrelated incident, attacks a pharmaceutical firm's labs. The leader (Amanda Marvell) escapes to the woods nearby and falls over a skeleton. Dalziel is attracted to Marvell but relentlessly sets out to solve the murder of her disciple, though her Jeep is involved. Flashbacks are used to show the threads linking the two ...- Actors:
- Joe Duttine, Russell Dixon, Nathaniel Duncan, Susannah Corbett, Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, Joy Brook, Bob Mason, Polly Hemingway, David Fleeshman, Martin Milman, David Royle, Derek Hicks, John Vine, Robert Whelan, Philip Ralph, Jim Millea, Laurie Goode, Eugene Walker, Marcus Romer
- Directors:
- Edward Bennett, David Wheatley, Maurice Phillips
- Producers:
- Lars MacFarlane
- Creators:
- Reginald Hill
- Writers:
- Reginald Hill, Michael Chaplin, Alan Plater, Ed Whitmore
- Studio:
- BBC
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries
