Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead
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Created by	Barbara Machin
Starring	Trevor Eve Sue Johnston Wil Johnson Tara Fitzgerald Holly Aird Claire Goose Félicité Du Jeu Esther Hall Eva Birthistle Stacey Roca
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	9
No. of episodes	92 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	4 September 2000 – 11 April 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 featuring 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 there were a total of nine series. 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.

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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