PRIME SUSPECT: SERIES ONE

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: A women has been found brutally murdered. Her arms and hands have been bound. She is thought to be a prostitute, Della Mornay. For Detective Chief Inspector John Shefford and his partner Detective Sergeant Bill Ottley, the case appears straightforward: A rare blood type discovered at the scene points to one man, George Marlow, previously convicted of rape.; ; When Shefford is unable to complete the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is assigned to the case - a first-ever for a female DCI. Immediately she comes up against a blue wall of resistance, gradually uncovering secrets - designed to protect DCI Shefford - that muddy the case.; ; The discovery of a second body throws the investigation into confusion when the autopsy and crime scene investigations produce shocking new evidence. What started as the investigation of one murder soon grows into a national hunt for clues in pursuit of a merciless serial killer.; ; Someone is picking up pretty young women and slaughtering them. Could it still be the first suspect, George Marlow? With little support from above, no support from below, and at great personal cost, DCI Tennison faces a long hard road that will lead her to the darker places of a man's soul. A place where most closely kept secrets are the most terrifying... and the most revealing.
• Cast: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, John Bowe, Zoë Wanamaker, Bryan Pringle, Tom Wilkinson, John Forgeham, Gary Whelan, Jack Ellis, Craig Fairbrass, Ian Fitzgibbon, Mossie Smith, Philip Wright, Andrew Tiernan, Richard Hawley, Mark Spalding, Tom Bowles, Dave Bond, Seamus O'Neill, Marcus Romer, Terry Taplin, Maxine Audley, Rosy Clayton, Gareth Tudor Price, Andrew Abrahams, Susan Brown, Jessica Turner, Rod Arthur, Fionnuala Ellwood, James Snell, Julian Firth, Maria Mescki, Ruskin Moya, Martin Reeve, Malcolm Freeman, Phil Hearne, John Ireland, Doug Fisher, Francesca Ryan, Ian Hastings, Renny Krupinski, Jeremy Warder, Angela Bruce, Michael Fleming, Daphne Neville, Sara Thurston, Ralph Fiennes, Jimmy Hibbert, Julie Sumnall, Wilfred Harrison, Noel Dyson, Owen Aaronovitch, Anna Savva, Malcolm Raeburn, Peter Dennis, Anthony Havering, Mark Anthony Newman, Brian Hayes, Sandra Butterworth, Vincent Pickering, Bryonie Pritchard, Barbara Dryhurst, Anthony Schaeffer, Tegan Summer, Jonathan Bridge, Barry Purves
• Director: Noel Black
• Runtime: 3:28
• Company: Granada Television
• Media Format: series