Beech Is Back (ITV 2001 with Billy Murray and Clara Salaman)

UK / ITV-1 / 6×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 21 August – 7 September 2001

Writers: Tony McHale, Julian Jones / Executive Producer: Richard Handford / Producer: Chris Parr / Directors: Justin Hardy, Derek Lister

A short-run series spinning off from THE BILL telling the story of the return of corrupt former-Sun Hill officer Don Beech who escaped justice and fled to Australia at the conclusion of a long-running plotline in The Bill the previous year.

Ex-Detective Sergeant Claire Stanton obsessed with putting Don Beech away following his murder of her boyfriend DS John Boulton follows a lead and attempts to track him down.

cast
BILLY MURRAY as Don Beech
CLARA SALAMAN as Claire Stanton
MILES PARAS as Frankie Nguyen

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