Watching the detectives…
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actress Sharon Maughan who appeared
Rendell Mysteries. He married co-star they played fictional
Inspector Reg Wexford in the long-running
Scotland’s finest: Hamish Macbeth was a TV hit for the BBC in the 1990s and starred Robert Carlyle as the local cop keeping law and order in a small
He and fellow
Shirley Henderson together on
Trainspotting. played French crime-solver
BBC television series Maigret,
of Georges Simenon. The Liverpool-born actor appeared
called Maigret’s Little Joke.
Family ties: Actor George Sewell appeared alongside his daughter Anne Elizabeth when she made her TV debut in the crime drama Special Branch. He played DCI Alan Craver in the series and, in the 1960s, he also appeared as DI Brogan in Z Cars.
City lights: ITV series Liverpool 1 was set in a police vice squad and saw Mark Womack (left) as DC Mark Callaghan and Brookside’s Paul Usher as John Sullivan. Samantha Janus, who later married Mark, played Detective Constable Isobel De Pauli.
Lay down the law: Don Henderson played glove-wearing Detective Sergeant George Bulman in The XYY Man, alongside Stephen Yardley in the 1970s, and went on to star in a 1980s spin-off series called Bulman. It saw the grouchy character now working as a private investigator. Bulman apparently wore gloves to hide the wedding ring he could not take off.
The law of the land: Wycliffe was a hit for ITV in the 1990s and saw Jack Shepherd as Cornish-based Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. Avengers and Wimbledon actor
Paul Bettany, Sherlock’s Amanda Abbington and Van Der Valk’s
Marc Warren are among those who appeared in the series over the years.