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Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from January 1966. It was created as a spin-off from the series Z-Cars, which ended its fifth series run in December 1965. The series took its title from the proverb "Softly, softly, catchee monkey", the motto of Lancashire Constabulary ...
At the end of Softly Softly, the main characters – Detective Chief Superintendent Barlow (Stratford Johns) and Detective Inspector Watt (Frank Windsor) – both applied for the role of head of CID at the newly formed police force, the fictional Thamesford Constabulary, which was said to be a product of amalgamations carried out during a recent reorganisation of the British police and is ...
Detective Chief Inspector James Japp (later Assistant Commissioner) – Agatha Christie (played by Melville Cooper 1931, John Turnbull 1934, Maurice Denham 1965, David Suchet 1985, Philip Jackson in the British TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot 1989 to 2013 and Kevin McNally 2018)
Chief Inspector Derek Conway of the TV series The Bill; Chief Inspector Eric Finch, head of New Scotland Yard and Minister of Investigations in the V for Vendetta graphic novel; DCI Endeavour Morse of the Colin Dexter novels and the Inspector Morse television series
Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama mystery television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series created by Caroline Graham. It has been broadcast on the ITV network since its premiere on 23 March 1997. The series focuses on various murder cases that take place ...
Inspector (later Chief Constable) Thomas Brackenreid (portrayed by Colm Meaney in the TV movies and in the TV series by Thomas Craig [4]) is a middle-aged married man, fond of the theatre and a good drink. He is the head of the stationhouse and does most of the interrogating, often forming opinions of a suspect because of personal impressions ...
Sir Thomas Eric St Johnston, [1] CBE, KStJ, QPM, TD (7 January 1911 – 17 March 1986) was Chief Inspector of Constabulary from 1967 until 1970. [2]St Johnson was educated at Bromsgrove School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a friend of the writer Nigel Balchin. [3]
Richard Jury is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels written by Martha Grimes. [1]Initially a chief inspector, later a superintendent, Jury is invariably assisted in his cases by Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles, and by his hypochondriacal but dependable sergeant, Alfred Wiggins.