We missed most of this incredibly fine crime drama first time around, especially in the 1990s, being busy with children.
Now older, with mostly rubbish output placed in front of us by the tv channels, this is the sort of cream we like.
We are only into the fourth season and have just watched on On Beulah Height and it is the height of excellent crime drama. This one episode was like a feature film.
The setting was incredibly atmospheric in the traditional sense and highlighted all sorts of "human condition. Tough episode though.
If you like Morse and Wallander or are just bored with the knock about modern stuff this is for you.
Also the rotation of directors, screenplay writers, the music score creators; you can never know know the shape of the next episode.
So the big hits are the quality cast, the soundtracks, the settings, the DL humour and the genuine police comradery.
Sadly the BBC certainly doesn't get any where near this quality any more. Most of the above is missing. Also pity they went off piste, as they often do, shunning the adaptation of most of Reginald Hill's later books. Thought they could do better than the author I suppose.
We are so bored with modern stuff we bought the entire output via Holland - all the episodes and so far, into season four, we can't fault it. At this stage there is still the Pascoe "family" built into the script although we do know that this is written out later but hey let us enjoy these early episodes we have never seen.
Now older, with mostly rubbish output placed in front of us by the tv channels, this is the sort of cream we like.
We are only into the fourth season and have just watched on On Beulah Height and it is the height of excellent crime drama. This one episode was like a feature film.
The setting was incredibly atmospheric in the traditional sense and highlighted all sorts of "human condition. Tough episode though.
If you like Morse and Wallander or are just bored with the knock about modern stuff this is for you.
Also the rotation of directors, screenplay writers, the music score creators; you can never know know the shape of the next episode.
So the big hits are the quality cast, the soundtracks, the settings, the DL humour and the genuine police comradery.
Sadly the BBC certainly doesn't get any where near this quality any more. Most of the above is missing. Also pity they went off piste, as they often do, shunning the adaptation of most of Reginald Hill's later books. Thought they could do better than the author I suppose.
We are so bored with modern stuff we bought the entire output via Holland - all the episodes and so far, into season four, we can't fault it. At this stage there is still the Pascoe "family" built into the script although we do know that this is written out later but hey let us enjoy these early episodes we have never seen.