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MAYO AKA THE GIL MAYO MYSTERIES

UK / BBC1 (BBC Birmingham) / 8x60 minute episodes / Broadcast 12 March - 30 April 2006

Writer: Simon Booker / Script Editors: Catherine Moulton, Surian Fletcher-Jones / Additional Dialogue: Alistair McGowan / Books: Marjorie Eccles / Costume Design: Clarissa Bromelle / Production Design: Jacqueline Smith / Music: Joby Talbot / Titles: Peter Anderson / Executive Producers: Sally Haynes, Will Trotter / Director: Metin Huseyin / Producer: Rebecca Hedderly

"It's not a bald spot, I'm just getting ever so slightly taller than my hair".

Crime drama series following the cases of the pedantic Detective Inspector Gil Mayo and his team, one of who, newcomer Detective Sergeant Alex Jones is a former girlfriend of Mayos. The others on the team are DC Martin Kite and scene of crime expert Harriet "Anorak" Tate. The team work out of the Wistern Valley Police force and Mayo was a single parent with a wife who had disappeared some three years earlier.

With great opening titles, reminiscent of a late fifties Saul Bass/Hitchcock movie Mayo has the same kind of light hearted tone as Jonathan Creek. There is much flirting between Mayo and Jones and the team actually have as their base a police pantechnicon with Mayo's penchant for recreating the crime scene using small scale models given plenty of prominence (even down to him buying miniature models from ebay).

cast
ALISTAIR McGOWAN as DI Gil Mayo
JESSICA OYELOWO as DS Alex Jones
LOU BREALEY as Anorak
HUW RHYS as Martin Kite
LUCY EVANS as Julie Mayo


THE EPISODES
EPISODE ONE
EPISODE TWO
EPISODE THREE
EPISODE FOUR

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