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REGULAR CAST

With:- JEROME FLYNN as D.C. Tom McCabe / ADRIAN BOWER as Cassidy / PHILIPPA WILSON as Steph / REBECCA LACEY as Claire Armitage / JAYNE CHARLTON McKENZIE as Julia / ALISON MAC as Wilf / KEVIN DOYLE as David Armitage

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Creator Kieran Prendiville / Titles: Diverse Design / RSPB Advisor: Graham Elliott / Consultant: Paul Henery / Script Editor: Juliette Howdell / Music: Nigel Hess / Costume: Delphine Roche-Gordon (season 1), Karen McKinlay-Gunn (season 2) / Executive Producers: Deidre Keir (season 1), Laurence Bowen, Philip Clarke, Jane Harris (season 2)

United Kingdom / BBC1-Feelgood Fiction / 13x50m-e 1999-2000

SEASON ONE

6 Episodes / Sundays 8.30pm - 8.00pm / 11 Jul - 15 Aug 1999

1.IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE(Sunday 11 July 2000 - 8.30pm)

WRITER: Kieran Prendiville

DC Tom McCabe specialises in wildlife cases and is soon on the trail of deer poachers. Meanwhile RSPB investigator Claire Armitage believes someone is out to steel eggs from the nest of a Peregrine Falcon.

With:- MICHAEL WARDLE as Martin / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam / SHEILA TAIT as Alice / BRENDAN  HEALY as Ray / JACK McBRIDE as Stephens / DAVID TELFER as Lord Donald / JOE CAFFREY as Chef / HARRISON PHILLIPS as Egger

DIRECTOR: Paul Harrison

2.UNDER MY SKIN(Sunday 18 July - 2000 8.30pm)

WRITERS: Nicholas Hicks-Beach, Shelley Miller

McCabe and Cassidy discover a stuffed panther amongst a load of stolen goods and try to uncover a racket into procuring endangered species in order to have them stuffed.

With:- MICHAEL WARDLE as Martin / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam / JACK McBRIDE as Stephens / TERRY JOYCE as Sgt Deakin / PEGGY SHIELD as Mrs Bradley / STEWART HOWSON as Soames / WALTER JAMES as Winters / JAMES GARBUTT as Grant  

DIRECTOR: Paul Harrison

3.THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CARP(Sunday 25 July 2000 - 8.30pm)

WRITER: Kieran Prendiville

A group of otters and birds are found to have been deliberately poisoned, McCabe suspects a local lake owner and criminal may be responsible.

With:- MICHAEL WARDLE as Martin / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam / GEORGE COSTIGAN as Moncur / CAMPBELL MORRISON as Don King / PETER JONFIELD as Phil Ratner

DIRECTOR: Paul Harrison

4.SETTS, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE(Sunday 1 August - 8.00pm)

WRITER: David Ashton

McCabe and Cassidy tangle with badger baiters whilst investigating a protection racket and Cassidy would also like to get to know McCabe's daughter Wilf a little better.

With:- SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam / MARK SCOTT as Chris Mason / MARTIN BALL as Dennis Cooke / DAN RILEY as John Forrester / WILLIE ROSS as Mickey Johnson / JOSEPH CRILLY as Dermot Shand / GAVIN MAKEL as Shop Assistant / VAL McLANE as Mary Donnachie

DIRECTOR: Martyn Friend

5.RHINO AND CHIPS(Sunday 8 August 2000 - 8.30pm)

WRITER: Kieran Prendiville

Tom McCabe finds himself involved with the Chinese community when he gets a tip off about illegal Rhino horn.Wilf and Jim try to keep their relationship secret.

With:- MICHAEL WARDLE as Martin / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam / DAVID NELLIST as Chris / GAVIN KITCHEN as Darren Whelan / BILL FELLOWS as Snow / GERALD McDERMOTT as Danny / JACLYN TSE as Susan Chang / DAVID FORMAN as Sammy Pang

DIRECTOR: Martyn Friend

6.LOW FIDELITY(Sunday 15 August 2000 - 8.00pm)

WRITER: Kieran Prendiville

Tom discovers that his daughter Wilf is having an affair with his partner Jim and also comes in for flack from a gamekeeper who believes that the police are turning his daughter against him.

With:- SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam / ALAN WILLIAMS as Dominic McGuire / CRAIG HEANY as Terry / SARA GUNN as Theresa / POLLY McCONNELL as Lauren / STEVEN HAWKSBY as Robert Lock / JANINE BIRKETT as Veronica / IVAN WILKINSON as Kenny Althorpe

DIRECTOR: Martyn Friend

SEASON II

7 Episodes / Sundays 8.00pm and then Fridays 9.30pm / 16 July - 1 September 2000

(7) 1. TROUBLED WATERS (Sunday 16 July 2000 - 8.00pm)

WRITER: John Martin

McCabe finds himself protecting a worker at a pharmaceutical company who has decided to spill the beans about the companies less than brilliant environmental dealings (they are causing major pollution problems).

With:- KEVIN DOYLE as David Armitage / LESLEY VICKERAGE as Annabel Staunton / ADRIAN RAWLINGS as Aidan Fletcher / BERWICK KALER as Bernie Stamper / MARY WOODVINE as Mary Fletcher / PAUL BOWN as Fire Investigator / ANTHONY HOWARD as Conway

DIRECTOR: Keith Washington

(8) 2. THE PRICE OF A DAUGHTER (Sunday 23 July 2000 - 8.00pm)

WRITER: john Martin

Someone is targeting McCabe, he has a dead badger thrown into his garden, death threats, then his daughter, Wilf, is kidnapped.

With:- CONOR MALLEN as Ralph Allen / JAYNE CHARLTON MacKENZIE as Julia / BRENDAN HEALY as Ray / BEN PRICE as Dion / ROD CULBERTSON as Vic Kerrigan / MARY PICKIN as Eileen Kerrigan / ROY SMILES as Andy Crane / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam Allen

(9) 3. BLOOD TIES (Friday 4 August 2000 - 9.30pm)

WRITER: Colin MacDonald

McCabe tangles with ruthless sheep rustlers whilst trying to track an outbreak  of e-coli.

With:- JAYNE CHARLTON MacKENZIE as Julia / BRENDAN HEALY as Ray / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam Allen / TRACY GILLMAN as Annie Carter / COLIN EDWYN as Andrew Carter / JONATHAN FERGUSON as Mickey / PAUL HAMILTON as Mickey's Dad / PAUL PALANCE as John Main

(10). 4. COCK O' THE WALK (Friday 11 August 2000 - 9.30pm)

WRITER: Sam Lawrence

Whilst investigating after a young girl is found unconscious on the moors, McCabe uncovers signs of illegal cock-fighting and teams up with Claire Armitage to get at the people behind the fights.

With:- JAYNE CHARLTON MacKENZIE as Julia / STEVE RAMSDEN as Joe Hallet / PHILIP McGOUGH as Stanner / MILTON JOHNS as Collis / BRIAN WALSH as Jonno / BEN PRICE as Dion / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam Allen / TERRY JOYCE as Sgt Deakin

DIRECTOR: Tom Clegg

(11) 5. PREDATORS (Friday 18 August 2000 - 9.30pm)

WRITER: John Martin

McCabe and co have major problems on thir hands when a zoo has some of its dangerous wild animals set loose.

With:- JAMES COSMO as Charlie Maddox / HUGH FRASER as Chris Harrington / DANIELE LYDON as Kirsty Harrington / BRENDAN HEALY as Ray / JANE HOLMAN as Beckett / CHRISTOPHER PRICE as Steven Mitchell / COLIN CUTHBERT as Manager / ART DAVIES as Farmer Brownlow / JOHN JEFFERSON as Farmer's son / SCOTT KARALIUS as Liam Allen / BILL GERARD as Bill

DIRECTOR: Tom Clegg

(12) 6. THE LAST FLIGHT (Friday 25 August 2000 - 9.30pm)

WRITER: Nicholas Hicks-Beach, Shelley Miller 

McCabe and Cassidy go undercover as shop fitters to try and catch a violent criminal who has escaped from prison - the man had once almost killed Cassidy.

With:- BRENDAN HEALY as Ray / SARAH PRESTON as Amanda / ADAM PEARSON as Michael / DAVE McGEACHIE as Hollander / MIKE ELLIOT as Fredericks / KEVIN O'KEEFE as Captain Ahab / DARRYL GODDARD as Peabody / GRACE STILGROVE as Wife / RICHARD REAY as Husband

DIRECTOR: Paul Harrison

(13) 7. FINDERS KEEPERS (Friday 1 September 2000 - 9.30pm)

WRITER: Nicholas Hicks-Beach, Shelley Miller 

Whilst on holiday in a small village in Northumbria, McCabe finds himself investigating the mysterious death of a local fisherman.

With:- IAN CULLEN as PC Jarvis / ALAN BRID as Reuben / MELANIE CLARK PULLEN as Bebba / GEOFF LAWSON as Stone / NEIL DALGLISH as Larson / BARBARA MARTEN as Marie / MARK WHARTON as Frank / MARTIN McGLADE as Harry

DIRECTOR: Keith Washington