Paired with local detective DS John Bacchus, he must track down Webster while trying to deal with his headstrong young assistant and keep him on the straight and narrow.Īdapted from the novel Gently Go Man, published in 1961.Īfter an unidentified badly burnt body is found near an RAF base in 1964, Gently works alongside Special Branch officers who suspect the victim was involved with the IRA. When he hears about Webster attending a funeral of a murder victim in Northumberland, he delays his retirement to take on this one last case.
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Tom Hutch as PC Tom Reynolds (Series 4-8).Lisa McGrillis as WPC, later Sergeant Rachel Coles (Series 6-8).Lee Ingleby as Sergeant, later Detective Inspector John Bacchus.Martin Shaw as Chief Inspector George Gently.
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The eighth and final series was broadcast in 2017. A seventh series of four episodes was subsequently commissioned, and began being broadcast in April 2015. The sixth series was shown in February 2014. However, in September 2012, the lead writer, Peter Flannery, confirmed that a sixth series, consisting of four episodes, had been commissioned. The fifth series ended on a dramatic cliffhanger, with the fate of both leading characters uncertain. On 26 March 2012, the BBC announced that four new feature-length episodes were being produced to be shown later the same year. The fourth series was filmed between January and June 2011, and was broadcast that autumn. The earliest episodes are set in 1964 with the eighth series taking place in 1970.Īfter fair ratings for the first three series, the BBC secured funding from the North East Content Fund to produce further episodes. The abolition of the death penalty in 1965 is noted in the series. The death penalty is still in effect in Britain as the series begins, and it is used as a plot feature in some early episodes. The series moved the setting of the stories to North East England, centring on Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and County Durham, as opposed to the Norfolk setting in the books. The series stars Martin Shaw as the eponymous Inspector and Lee Ingleby as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus, with Simon Hubbard and Lisa McGrillis in supporting roles as police constables in the fictitious North East Constabulary. Inspector George Gently (also known as George Gently for the pilot and first series) is a British television crime drama series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and loosely based on some of the Inspector Gently novels written by Alan Hunter.