Intersplicing clips of all those old heroes, like Bogart, Ladd, Stanwyck, Milland, Lancaster, Laughton, Cagney, with comic clips of Steve Martin as a keen, but clumsy detective who gets all the good lines, creates both an extremely funny comedy and a whodunnit in the best possible taste. find out more...

Episode 3 is one of the weaker sketchs with a rather silly plot about a scab in a textiles factory getting killed. However Episode 4 is much stronger with corruption in the police force the core of the story. Which way will old-style police thug DCI Hunt swing, will he back up Simm or continue on the take? The series is now beginning to motor, the dialogue in this script is some of the smartest and the series is doing what it does at its best, parodying both 70s cop shows and the 70s themselves. find out more...

The real life Darwin Awards have been running for nearly thirty years and are given to those of us who die in the most stupidly ridiculous ways, the theory behind the awards being that the loss of these people enhances humanity's evolutionary progress. Forensic detective Michael Burrows is obsessed with them and has an uncanny ability to put himself into the minds of those he observes. He's also uptight, anal and pathologically averse to taking any form of risk himself. His colleague, insurance find out more...