Waking the Dead

2001

Waking the Dead

7.9 | TV-14 | en | Drama

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP10 Waterloo (2)

Apr. 11,2011

Time is running out for Boyd as he fights for justice against a powerful adversary.

EP9 Waterloo (1)

Apr. 10,2011

Boyd investigates the disappearance of 16 homeless boys from Waterloo Bridge in the 1980s.

EP8 Conviction (2)

Apr. 04,2011

Boyd needs Sarah's expertise to help expose the state's involvement in Barclay's death.

EP7 Conviction (1)

Apr. 03,2011

Boyd suspects a cover-up when a missing student's DNA matches with an unidentified corpse.

EP6 Solidarity (2)

Mar. 28,2011

As the case continues, the squad investigate Murray using Grace as bait. However, when one member is shot and one member is arrested, the case could go in to turmoil, only for a connection to be revealed.

EP5 Solidarity (1)

Mar. 27,2011

When the squad look in to the case of an army activist discovered in London's sewer system they discover that the case may have more police connections than they originaly thought.

EP4 Care (2)

Mar. 21,2011

The investigation into Claire Somers' death has seemingly unleashed a predator straight from the darkest childhood nightmare. But are they looking for a monstrous child-stealer, or misguided saviours?

EP3 Care (1)

Mar. 20,2011

After a woman is discovered stabbed in the eyes and incinerated in her car she is identified as Claire Somers, a neglected child who was taken into care, then later kidnapped in 1986 at the age of seven. Robert Fenchurch had his eyes stabbed out on the night Claire was kidnapped as her abductor fled the scene. The team soon find out that Claire had snatched 15-year-old Abigail Harding, who was found locked in a hotel room.

EP2 Harbinger (2)

Mar. 14,2011

Boyd is convinced that the missing Donald is not a murderer, and pushes his team to try to make sense of all the vague connections in the case and eventually confront the unfathomable evil lurking within the heart of this sad, unfortunate family.

EP1 Harbinger (1)

Mar. 13,2011

Boyd has to break in a new team member of equal rank, Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish, a high-flyer recently grounded by a hushed-up failed operation.After the empty and abandoned car of banker Donald Rees is discovered threee years after he went missing, Boyd decides to take on the case in an effort help the man's family find some closure with their lives.

7.9 | TV-14 | en | Drama , Crime , Mystery | More Info

Released: 2001-06-18 | Released Producted By: BBC Drama Group , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9ys

Synopsis

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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Cast

Trevor Eve , Sue Johnston , Tara Fitzgerald

Director

Alexei de Keyser

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Trailers

Cast

Trevor Eve

as DCI Peter Boyd

My Best Friend's Christmas A Discovery of Witches The Interceptor Death of a Farmer Death Comes to Pemberley Death Comes to Pemberley Kidnap and Ransom She's Out of My League Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Sue Johnston

as Dr. Grace Foley

Generation Z Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two Truelove Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two Ricky, Sue and a Trip or Two The Big Snow of '47 Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy Help Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors

Tara Fitzgerald

as Dr. Eve Lockhart

Stream Activities of Daily Living Portraits of Dangerous Women Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance Kindling The Undertaker Surface Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop Signora Volpe

Reviews

stephanieelliott1977 Just came across this show the other day & I haven't been able to stop watching since. A very well written & acted show. The cases are all very interesting & the actors are playing their roles very believable & well. Can't believe I've never heard of this show before cause it's really good & I'm sure plenty of people loved it & still do.Love the British European feel of it since I was born & raised in Europe & since I've moved to America I've been worn out with the American TV shows. Don't get me wrong there are plenty of good American shows but it's nice to watch a good show with European feel :) Everyone who loves a good detective show with interesting cases this is a show you should most definitely check out. Love BBC, they do have amazing shows in many categories.

winstonfg Yet more proof, if any was needed, that the Brits do police procedurals better than the Yanks. Three-dimensional characters, claustrophobic sets and great ensemble acting seem like a pretty good place to start; and not talking down to your audience helps too.Trevor Eve is excellent as the principled, irascible head of a cold-case team made up of diverse personalities; and the 2 x 1-hour format lets the cases unfold with a bit more leisure than the 60-minute special, while also allowing for the compulsory cliffhanger in the middle.A minor criticism of the show is their use of the "talking over each other" gimmick, where everybody bursts into voice at the same time. At first it seemed like a kind of cinema-verité thing but, like the quick-cut filming in NYPD Blue, it becomes intrusive when you notice it happening. I also wish they'd develop the Spence character a bit more - he's been there since the beginning, but I still don't feel like I know him very well.But they're minor flaws and, given the choice between this and one of the myriad CSI shows, I know which one I'd choose.

ningwers-1 I feel like I've just watched a snuff film....a beautifully acted, taut, engrossing and horrible thing! A two hour litany of perversion in the most basic and all inclusive sense of the word, sexual violence and torture, rape, decapitation, incest, corruption, live burial, and abuse, abuse, abuse. No redemption whatsoever. And I WAS entertained. I couldn't stop watching. What does this say about me, about the people who make and act in this sort of thing, and a world that has become so desensitized that eventually real snuff films will be the norm. And I'm neither puritanical nor humorless, I don't try to hide from the existence of darkness, and I definitely have not led a sheltered life, but I am ashamed of myself. AND I'm sorry to see my British cousins dragging the subject-matter sewers the way my own tribe does. It doesn't have to be cozy, but does it have to wallow in vicarious sadism?

Arne-12 I find this BBC-series exciting and occasionally breathtaking. The actors are great, and I can think of only one objection: How can it be possible for the character Frankie Wharton to have so many different talents? She is an forensic expert, but at the same time she is a mechanical wizard and also she is very knowledgeable on computing matters. It annoys me somewhat, but of course, it would be difficult for the series to have more main characters. Still, the plots are generally interesting, and the relations between the characters are developing through the seasons. In this way, the episodes are interesting for two reasons: The crime case and the police officers' own minds. I look forward to see the actors in other connections.