British Mystery: The Lists

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Years: 1991-2006
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Lynda La Plante, Guy Andrews,
Allan Cubitt, Peter Berry, Frank Deasy,
Paul Billing, Eric Deacon,
Guy Hibbert , Meredith Oakes
Stars: Helen Mirren, John Benfield
Episodes: 15
Episode Average: 8.933

BEST EPISODES:
Prime Suspect 7: Part 1 (2006), Prime Suspect 2: Part 2 (1992)

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Years: 1993-2006
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Jimmy McGovern, Paul Abbott,
Ted Whitehead
Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Geraldine Somerville
Episodes: 25
Episode Average: 8.800

BEST EPISODES:
To Be a Somebody: Part 2 (1994), To Be a Somebody: Part 3 (1994)

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Years: 2006-2007
Broadcaster: BBC
Written by: Matthew Graham, Tony Jordan,
Ashley Pharoah, Chris Chibnall, Mark Greig,
Guy Jenkin, Julie Rutterford
Stars: John Simm, Philip Glenister
Episodes: 16
Episode Average: 8.563

BEST EPISODES:
Series 1, Episode 4 (2006), Series 1, Episode 8 (2006)

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Years: 2001-2008
Broadcaster: BBC
Written by: Boris Starling, Lizzie Mickery
Robert Cooper, Terry Cafolla, Oliver Brown
Stars: Ken Stott, Neil Dudgeon
Episodes: 11
Episode Average: 8.455

BEST EPISODE:
The Reckoning (2001)

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Years: 1984-1994
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Arthur Conan Doyle, John Hawkesworth,
Jeremy Paul, T.R. Bowen, Gary Hopkins,
Derek Marlowe, Alan Plater, Robin Chapman,
Alexander Baron, Paul Finney, Alfred Shaughnessy,
Anthony Skene, Bill Craig, John Kane, Richard Harris
Stars: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke
Episodes: 41*
Episode Average: 8.219

BEST EPISODES:
The Dying Detective (1994), The Final Problem (1985)

*this entry is for Adventures, Return, Casebook, and Memoirs.

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Years: 1992-2010
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: R.D. Wingfield. Roger Bamford,
Paul Harrison, Don Leaver, Roy Battersby,
David Reynolds, Adrian Shergold, Sandy Johnson,
Robert Knights, Anthony Simmons, John Glenister,
Herbert Wise, Ross Devenish, Peter Smith,
Paul Seed, Graham Theakston, Alan Dossor
Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander
Episodes: 42
Episode Average: 8.000

BEST EPISODES:
No Other Love (1997), Held in Trust (2003)

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Years: 2008-2010
Broadcaster: BBC
Written by: Matthew Graham, Ashley Pharoah,
Julie Rutterford, Mark Greig, Jack Lothian,
Mick Ford, Nicole Taylor, Tom Butterworth,
Chris Hurford, James Payne
Stars: Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes
Episodes: 24
Episode Average: 7.917

BEST EPISODES:
Series 3, Episode 8 (2010), Series 1, Episode 7 (2008)

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Years: 1997-2014
Broadcaster: BBC
Written by: David Renwick
Stars: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
Episodes: 31
Episode Average: 7.677

BEST EPISODES:
The Black Canary (1998), Jack in the Box (1997)

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Years: 2009-2013
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Ben Court, Caroline Ip, Steve Pemberton
Stars: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis
Episodes: 18
Episode Average: 7.556

BEST EPISODES:
The Sins of Betrayal: Part 1 (2012), The Hunger for Mercy: Part 1 (2012)

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Years: 1997-1999
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Paul Abbott, Mike Cullen,
Sian Orrells, Tony Etchells, Sian Evans,
Russell T. Davies
Stars: Robson Green, Nicola Walker
Episodes: 16
Episode Average: 7.250

BEST EPISODES:
The Lost Boys: Part 2 (1997), Innocent: Part 2 (1999)

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Years: 1987-2000
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Colin Dexter, Julian Mitchell,
Daniel Boyle, Alma Cullen, Anthony Minghella,
Kenny McBain, Malcolm Bradbury, John Brown,
Peter Buckman, Jeremy Burnham, Geoffrey Case,
Stephen Churchett, Thomas Ellice, Russell Lewis,
Peter Nichols, Michael Wilcox, Charles Wood
Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately
Episodes: 33
Episode Average: 7.242

BEST EPISODES:
Dead On Time (1992), Second Time Around (1991)

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Years: 1989-2013
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Agatha Christie, Clive Exton,
Anthony Horowitz, Nick Dear, Guy Andrews,
David Renwick, Michael Baker, Kevin Elyot,
Mark Gatiss, Douglas Watkinson, Stewart Harcourt
Andrew Marshall, Russell Murray, Rod Beacham,
T.R. Bowen, Bill Craig, Peter Flannery,
Ian Hallard, William Humble, Philomena McDonagh,
David Pirie, David Reid, Stephen Wakelam
Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser
Episodes: 71
Episode Average: 7.169

BEST EPISODES:
Five Little Pigs (2003), Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (2013)

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Year: 1968
Broadcaster: BBC
Written by: Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Baron,
John Gould, Michael Hardwick, Mollie Hardwick,
Richard Harris, Hugh Leonard, Stanley Miller,
Harry Moore, Bruce Stewart, Jennifer Stuart,
Donald Tosh
Stars: Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock
Episodes: 16 (10 lost)
Episode Average: 7.167*

BEST EPISODE:
The Blue Carbuncle (1968)

*based on surviving episodes

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Years: 2006-2015
Broadcaster: ITV
Written by: Stephen Churchett, Helen Jenkins,
Russell Lewis, Alan Plater, Simon Block,
Noel Farragher, Nicholas Hicks-Beach, Guy Andrews,
Lucy Gannon, Tahsin Guner, Patrick Harbinson,
Dusty Hughes, Chris Murray, Paul Rutman,
Catherine Tregenna, Rachel Bennette, Daniel Boyle,
Nick Dear, Tom MacRae, David Pirie
Stars: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox
Episodes: 42
Episode Average: 6.881

BEST EPISODES:
Falling Darkness (2010), And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea (2008)

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