"Medical Detectives" (1995) TV series 1995-2000

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Creator:

Paul Dowling

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | unknown

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

True stories featuring notable crimes and diseases that were solved through scientific investigation methods

Plot Keywords:

Reenactment | Medical | Forensic Evidence | Criminal Investigation | Forensic

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Peter Thomas

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Narrator (2 episodes, 1996)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Medstar Television

Trivia:

Episodes of the series have been used by the United States Department of Justice to help train their personnel.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Forensic Files: Murder on the Menu (#6.8)" (????)

great show hope it runs forever

I had previously written about how much I enjoyed Quincy and this show certainly reminds me of it. A great episode every week about the wonderous advances in science that allows us to put people away. It wasn't so many years ago that a lot of the perpetrators on this show would never have been convicted. Each episode is crisp and compact and the guy who narrates it has the best storyteller voice that I have ever heard. The only thing is that this show makes you realize that there are some pretty sick people in the world who do terrible things. One episode was about a woman named Peggy Carr whose soda was poisoned by her nieghbor. He gave her a poison that destroys the central nervous system and is one of the few of its kind for which there is no effective antidote. She died the most painful death you can possibly imagine and her whole family became sick as well.