Yr 11 TRADITIONAL POLICE DRAMA

19/9/16 RESEARCH: TRADITIONAL POLICE DRAMA

I have researched several examples of what the BFI call ‘traditional police crime drama’. Amongst the tv programmes available / of this genre / that are included in this category are:

Inspector Morse (1987-2000) Gentle Oxfordshire ‘whodunnits’ handled by a melancholic detective and his assistant Robbie Lewis.

Lewis (2006-2015) a spin-off from Inspector Morse and, like that series, it is set in Oxford. Kevin Whately reprises his character Robert "Robbie" Lewis, who was Morse's sergeant in the original series. Lewis has now been promoted to detective inspector and is assisted by DS James Hathaway, portrayed by Laurence Fox, who became promoted to Inspector in the eighth series airing in 2014. The series also stars Clare Holman as forensic pathologist Dr Laura Hobson, and Angela Griffin as DS Lizzie Maddox.

Poirot (1989 to 2013) David Suchet stars as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule Poirot, with his assistant Hastings. At the programme's conclusion, which finished with Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, based on the final Poirot novel, every major literary work by Christie that featured the title character had been adapted.

Bergerac (1981-91) Long-running detective series set on the island tax haven of Jersey. (AND SO ON) I have studied the tv programme (name here) and analysed some of its codes and conventions below. (INSERT IMAGE OF YOUR CHOSEN PROGRAMME)