Pilot

Episode aired May 6, 2015
1h 36m

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8.0/10

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A disrespected but decent British detective unravels a cold case about a missing seventeen year old girl while trying to deal with the breakup of his marriage.A disrespected but decent British detective unravels a cold case about a missing seventeen year old girl while trying to deal with the breakup of his marriage.A disrespected but decent British detective unravels a cold case about a missing seventeen year old girl while trying to deal with the breakup of his marriage.

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

172

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Director
- Nick Hurran
Writers
- Richard Harris
- Leslie Thomas(book "Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective")
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Trivia
Mrs Norris refers to the Yorkshire Ripper as an example of police incompetence. The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter William Sutcliffe, killed 13 women over a five-year period between 1975-80, mainly in the West Yorkshire area. During the manhunt, Sutcliffe was questioned nine times and released during the course of the investigation.

Goofs
When the couple drop the victim off at the cemetery (in flashback), the view from the car shows her on the right side of the window (most likely front), squatting by the entrance pillar. When the last person to see her alive describes his flashback, she is shown exiting the left side of the vehicle, and going behind the car to squat at the pillar. There is no way she could appear to be on the right hand side of the vehicle front inside the car based on the second flashback.

Quotes
Warren: [to Dangerous] I've always found you very fair. No verbals. No violence. No racial abuse. Frankly, it's a pleasure to get arrested by you.

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4/10

Pilot

Peter Davison stars as 'Dangerous' Davies the dogged detective with a St Bernard's dog who gets all the jobs deemed to be a waste of time by his bosses who see him as old fashioned and dull.

The pilot episode is an adaptation of a novel by Leslie Thomas and was already made as a one off television movie in 1981 which starred Bernard Cribbins.

Davison's portrayal is not as idiosyncratic as Cribbins. He plays Davies as a decent man in a hard world, but Davies has a steely edge as well.

He stumbles into a cold case of missing 17 year old back in 1982 and decides to investigate her disappearance 20 years later and finds out that the police at the time did not do a good job.

I actually found the episode rather leisurely paced, the humour is more laid back and so is the quirkiness. In the Cribbins version, Davies kept getting bandaged up after every mishap, by the end of the movie he was almost mummified.

Joanne Froggatt plays the missing girl in flashbacks as well as her sister in the present day where the makers put a hideous wig on her.

I thought this was a disappointing first episode, subsequent episodes in the series were better.

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