Who played Ray Doyle, John Deed and George Gently on TV?
Inspector George Gently Inspector George Gently 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. 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. The series moved the setting of the stories to North East England, centring on Newcastle upon
Dirk Gently (TV series) unremittingly silly on British television as "Dirk Gently"...Dainty harpsichord music tells us we're back in an era of TV misrule, in whose glory days John Steed, Mrs Peel and "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" played fast and loose with viewers' intelligences." AA Gill, who had previously expressed a dislike for the source novel when discussing the pilot episode was less complimentary, writing in the "Sunday Times" on 11 March 2012 "Who'd have guessed that this would ever get recommissioned?...It has to get a nomination as the greatest waste of the most talent for the least visible purpose or reward." Others critics