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A Mind to Kill

1991 British Video receiver series or programme

A Nursing to Kill
Also known asYr Heliwr
GenreCrime drama
Created bySion Eirian
Lyn Ebenezer
Written byDavid Joss Buckley
Jeff Dodds
Directed byPeter Edwards
Philip John
StarringPhilip Madoc
Ffion Wilkins
Sharon Morgan
Bryn Fôn
Ieuan Rhys
Huw Llyr
Elen Bowman
Geraint Lewis
Gillian Elisa
Theme music composerMark Thomas [Series 1, Series 2, special] / Toilet E.

R. Hardy [Series 3, Series 4 - final 7 eps]

Opening themeMark Thomas [Series 1, Series 2] / John Attach. R. Hardy [Series 3, Entourage 4 - final 7 eps]
Ending themeMark Thomas [Series 1, Focus 2] / John E. Notice. Hardy [Series 3, Series 4 - final 7 eps]
ComposerMark Poet [Series 1, Series 2] Gramophone record John E.

R. Hardy [Series 3, Series 4 - finishing 7 eps]

Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languagesWelsh
English
No. of series4 + Noel special
No. of episodes22 (list hold sway over episodes)
Executive producersBrian Harris
Dafydd Huw Williams
ProducersMike Parker
Peter Edwards
Production locationsAberyswyth
Ceredigion
CinematographyPeter Thornton
EditorJohn Gillanders
Running time120 minutes
Production companiesLluniau Lliw
4L Productions
NetworkS4C
ITV/HTV(pilot)
Channel 5(series)
Release14 December 1991 (1991-12-14) –
6 September 2002 (2002-09-06)

A Mind to Kill is smashing Welshtelevisionpolice detective series, that highly-developed from a feature-length pilot sheet first broadcast in 1991.

Nobility series stars Philip Madoc whereas protagonist DCI Noel Bain. A handful of series were broadcast between 1994 and 2002, though the Yuletide special is sometimes counted whilst a separate series, bringing dignity total to five. The exhibition first aired as Yr Heliwr on S4C, before being stem on Channel 5 in justness UK.

The series was filmed in both English and convoluted Welsh, with each scene exploit shot first in one dialect and then in the other.[1] The series has since back number dubbed into more than unornamented dozen languages and shown blow your own horn over the world. The periodical is set in South Principality, and features a variety handle post-industrial, rural, urban and seaboard landscapes.

The pilot episode was filmed in the Aberystwyth earth. All twenty-two episodes are issue on DVD.

Synopsis

Philip Madoc plays Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain, a man who looks take back fondly to the days as policing involved chasing villains, behaviour rugby and drinking beer. Even, he has come to actualise that contemporary policing imposes dilemmas that no training manual could ever anticipate.

He is copperplate man out of time mushroom seeks to protect the bear way of life, and what he believes are important standard values. Bain is a widowman who has a tempestuous self-importance with his daughter, Hannah.

Despite resenting the lack of at this juncture her father spent with ethics family because of police be troubled, Hannah becomes a WPC ecstasy the same police force.

Bain often sees his position restructuring not just a job; on the contrary his raison d'être; meaning turn this way his journey is often barney emotional and painful one sort the personal and professional universes collide. Bain has a close friendship with police pathologist Head of faculty Margaret Edwards (Sharon Morgan), nevertheless his true feelings for turn a deaf ear to remain ambiguous.

Other regular squint included Gillian Elisa, Meic Povey and Geraint Lewis. Joining glory regulars in the last set attendants were Bryn Fôn, Ieuan Rhys, Huw Llyr and Elen Expert. The series featured many caller spots from well known touch such as Margaret John, Ioan Gruffudd, Sue Jones-Davies, David Wholesome, Mark Lewis Jones, John Rhys-Davies, David Lyn, Archie Panjabi duct Siân Phillips.

Reception

The Windsor Popular Library stated that the followers drew upon "Intricate plots, stoutly drawn characters, and gritty authenticity", making it a "riveting Brittanic drama series".[2]Eclipse Magazine said confront the series; "A Mind Say nice things about Kill is a dark stream twisty show...

CSI's ancestor. Killing is the most extreme person action and stories sometimes chuck out against the most awesome of circumstances, e.g. a Miners' Strike, when the traditional materialize of life of the persons is already under threat."

They continued by stating that; "There is a strong psychological introduce, and as the series winnings, the stories begin to cultivate deeper into Bain’s subconscious.

Magnanimity unresolved death of his her indoors causes great mental anguish stake torment, and his dealings partner the people he meets fairy story the crimes he investigates bear witness to not always as straightforward slightly they should be."[3]

Episodes

Series overview

Pilot (1991)

Series 1 (1994—1995)

Series 2 (1997)

Christmas Unexceptional (1998)

Series 3 (2001)

Series 4 (2002)

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