Episode

Dalziel and Pascoe: Above the Law

Name: Dalziel and Pascoe: Above the Law
Released: 2000-07-22
Duration: 80 min
Cast: Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle, Jennifer James, Wayne Perrey

Dalziel and PascoeSeries 52000-07-22

Overview

When high court judge Jerry Chance is shot dead at point blank range, the immediate suspect is large-scale drugs importer Kenneth Barbour, whom Chance was recently trying for the importation of £15 million of street heroin. Barbour swears blind he isn't responsible, so as Dalziel and Pascoe look a little deeper, they discover that Chance was involved in homosexual relationships with young men.

Details

Series: Dalziel and Pascoe
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 4
Air date: 2000-07-22
Runtime: 80 min

Episode context

Above the Law is Episode 4 in Series 5 of Dalziel and Pascoe. It aired on 2000-07-22. The runtime is 80 min.

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Episode 3: Foreign Bodies 2000-07-15 | 75 min Dalziel and Pascoe are tasked with investigating four suspicious deaths occurring within hours of one another: the first is of a French art dealer, who appears to have either slipped or was pushed from the side of a motorway bridge; the second, a Russian national whose coffin is found floating just off the coast of Whitby; the third, a Japanese tourist, found stabbed atop a famous beauty spot mentioned in Wuthering Heights; and the fourth, an East German agent, seeking a German academic's writings containing secret information the Stasi don't want published.

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