Dalziel and Pascoe

Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill and a BBC television series.

TV series

The novel A Pinch Of Snuff was filmed for a 1993 ITV serial starring the comedy duo Gareth Hale and Norman Pace (in what seems to have been an attempt to replicate the success of another such duo, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster), but this remained a one-off.

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1993 - ITV - Gareth Hale - Norman Pace - Stephen Fry - Hugh Laurie - Jeeves and Wooster

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A more successful series of adaptations began on the BBC in March 1996 with an adaptation of the first novel A Clubbable Woman. Produced by BBC Birmingham, it starred Warren Clarke as Dalziel, Colin Buchanan as Pascoe and David Royle as DS Edgar Wield. Susannah Corbett appeared as Ellie in the first full series later that year. Later seasons introduced Jo-Anne Stockham as DC Shirley Novello and Katy Cavanagh as DS Dawn Milligan, the latter characters swiftly nicknamed "Ivor" and "Spike" by Dalziel, never one to let the most obvious joke pass him by.

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BBC - March 1996 - A Clubbable Woman - BBC Birmingham - Warren Clarke - Colin Buchanan - David Royle - Susannah Corbett - Jo-Anne Stockham - Katy Cavanagh - Ivor - Spike

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The show has won much critical acclaim from newspapers such as The Daily Express and The Sunday Times

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The Daily Express - The Sunday Times

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The TV and novel continuities are separate, therefore both Ellie and Wield still appear in the most recent books despite having been written out of the TV series.

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