Product Review

Award-winning actor Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed) stars in this new mystery series likened to Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders. Stubborn, incorruptible old cop George Gently (Shaw) partners with a young ambitious prot'g' (Lee Ingleby, Nicholas Nickleby) to tackle cases in the North East of England during the turbulent 1960s. Based on Alan Hunter's long-running series of detective novels, the show unfolds against the beautiful backdrop of rural Britain, a region just beginning to feel the rumbles of the era's social and cultural quakes.