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| Waking the Dead | |
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| Genre | Crime drama |
| Created by | Barbara Machin |
| Starring | |
| Composer(s) | Joe Campbell |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 92 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Alexei de Keyser Patrick Spence Susan Hogg Anne Pivcevic |
| Producer(s) | Colin Wratten |
| Cinematography | Mike Spragg |
| Editor(s) | Adam Trotman |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Drama Group |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 16:9 (576i) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | September 4, 2000 – April 11, 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Body Farm |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to allow for advertising breaks, as well as UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and ABC1 in Australia. The show aired its final episode on 11 April 2011. A spin-off from the series, titled The Body Farm, revolving around forensic scientist Eve Lockhart (Tara Fitzgerald), was announced by the BBC in January 2011 and ran for just one series.
In 2018, a five-part radio prequel to the series, The Unforgiven, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with Sue Johnston, Claire Goose, Wil Johnson and Holly Aird reprising their roles. All five episodes were written by series creator Barbara Machin.
The programme follows the work of a special police team that investigates "cold cases", which usually concern murders that took place a number of years ago, and were never solved. The team, composed of head officer Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve), psychological profiler Dr Grace Foley (Sue Johnston), Detective Inspector Spencer Jordan (Wil Johnson), as well as a number of other supporting characters, uses evidence which has recently come to light, as well as contemporary technology to examine former evidence.
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