"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.
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| Peter Davison | ... | DC Davies / ... 17 episodes, 2003-2007 | |
| Sean Hughes | ... | Mod / ... 17 episodes, 2003-2007 | |
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Rob Spendlove | ... | DI Aspinall 17 episodes, 2003-2007 |
| Charles De'Ath | ... | DS Pimlott 17 episodes, 2003-2007 | |
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Billy Geraghty | ... | DC Barrett / ... 17 episodes, 2003-2007 |
| Emma Amos | ... | Julie Davies 16 episodes, 2003-2007 | |
| Vineeta Rishi | ... | WPC Kapoor 14 episodes, 2003-2007 | |
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Elizabeth Bennett | ... | Mrs. Dorothy Fulljames / ... 10 episodes, 2003-2007 |
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Colin MacLachlan | ... | Sergeant Stone / ... 10 episodes, 2003-2005 |
| Michele Austin | ... | WPC Cheryl 9 episodes, 2003-2005 | |
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He's gentle, old-fashioned, and decent; nice even when he's drunk. But these qualities only earn Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies the scorn of his fellow detectives in a small London police station. His boss tells him straight out that he's the last detective he would assign to a major crime-solving mission. Unlucky in love, rumpled, and accident prone, Dangerous muddles on and, with the help of his eccentric friend Mod, he proves the merits of his dogged, unglamorous method. He likes being a detective and, occasionally, he gets to do some good. Written by Bye
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Mod Lewis: That didn't sound too healthy, Dangerous. When did you last have this thing serviced?
Dangerous Davies: [yells] Clutch! Clutch! Depress the clutch! And I don't mean tell it your life story.
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[Dangerous is trying to give Mod a driving lesson. As Mod is changing gear, he crunches the gears]Mod Lewis: That didn't sound too healthy, Dangerous. When did you last have this thing serviced?
Dangerous Davies: [yells] Clutch! Clutch! Depress the clutch! And I don't mean tell it your life story.
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Ever since his "Dr. Who," ALL THINGS GREAT AND SMALL, his appearances on Diana Rigg's MRS. BRADLEY MYSTERIES series, as well as his engaging CAMPION, I've admired Peter Davison, as an apparently quite likable fellow off-camera and a warm, excellent actor in front of the lens. Now, a bit older, he's returned, in top form in "The Last Detective" series. Though at bottom in the gritty Brit Police Force pecking order, a pariah to his burnt-out colleagues, he still manages to solve crimes none of them thinks worth the time. It's good news that THE LAST DETECTIVE has run for three seasons. Let's hope that there'll be many more, and that Seasons 2 and 3 will also soon be made available on DVD. So that we Statesiders can enjoy it. For I have little hope that we'll ever see them on PBS, at least not soon. Good show, Peter!