This return to Van der Valk after 14 years came after the success of the long-form detective drama epitomised by Inspector Morse (1987). Accordingly the run time was upped to two hours and it was all shot on film instead of videotape. The final two seasons were filmed entirely on location in the Netherlands.
Barry Foster (Van der Valk) and Meg Davies (Arlette) played brother and sister in the mini-series Death of an Expert Witness (1983).
Closing credits: The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons is intended or should be inferred.