# Help me remember a British cop series- detective solves crime in city, sent to remote locale **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 22, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237 "2022-01-22T18:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/21 "2022-01-23T01:56:51Z")
No, not exactly, but he takes his first case “up North”, before he retires, to chase his obsession with Joe Webster. He believes that Webster’s criminal gang has infiltrated the Met, and led to his wife’s death. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/22 "2022-01-23T06:22:32Z")
It sounds like Endeavour, which is a prequel show to Inspector Morse. He’s pretty brilliant and I think in the pilot he gets sent from his regular station (but I don’t think it was London) to assist the Oxford City Police in investigating a child sex case that involves wealthy businessmen, politicians and police. Was it a period show? The first episode of Endeavour takes place in 1965. The show itself is about 10 years old. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/23 "2022-01-23T07:49:59Z")
In “Icarus”, the finale of _Endeavour_ season 5, his station is broken up and he is demoted and assigned to a post in the Oxford countryside. He eventually he becomes a detective again. That could occur in the next episode, but I’m not sure because I’ve only seen the series once. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/24 "2022-01-23T10:17:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I can’t believe this show has been on for 11 seasons. It’s not THAT good. Indeed it isn’t. But it’s set in the Caribbean: just the thing for a Friday night in a dull grey British winter, which is why the latest series is airing now. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/25 "2022-01-23T15:28:25Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > It sounds like Endeavour > [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I’m not sure because I’ve only seen the series once. I adore the Endeavour series and have watched all the seasons over and over many times. I can practically say the dialogue along with the characters. It’s not Endeavour that I’m looking for. Lately I’ve been bingeing the first six seasons for the umpty-umpth time preparatory to season 8 finally being shown in the USA soon. (BTW, season 7 sucked **extremely** large duck eggs. That’s one I won’t watch again.) The episodes are worth watching multiple times IMHO. Often after many viewings, you’ll see that within the first five minutes something is shown that is pivotal to the solution of the crime/murder(s), whatever. I really love this show. Cannot stand the adult Morse in the “original” series. What a pompous, dysfunctional jerk. Endeavour is getting very close in the series timeline to the beginning of Morse’s time. There is discussion among Endeavour fanatics about how the young Morse is going to mor(se)ph into the obnoxious curmudgeon. Because at this point Endeavour the character is still somewhat likeable. * * * * * * > [@PatrickLondon](#): > > But it’s set in the Caribbean… Tanned girls in bikinis, Reggae music, drinks with umbrellas in them… I can see that being appealing. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/26 "2022-01-23T15:35:14Z")
Come to think of it I do tend to binge death in paradise in the winter. Dance with the cats to the music. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/27 "2022-01-23T16:49:13Z")
The cats probably insist on little umbrellas in their water bowls, amrite? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/28 "2022-01-23T17:53:17Z")
I’ll have to give that a whirl. See if they like it. I have little silicone ones that clip to the edge of the glass. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/29 "2022-01-23T19:39:02Z")
I used to have cats that liked the paper umbrellas. Probably because tearing them up is sort of like dismembering a small mammal. Of course, it’s not _quite_ as much fun since the umbrella hardly ever fights back. ---
**Author:** ![Ingray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@Ingray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ingray)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/30 "2022-01-23T19:54:50Z")
Is it Heat of the Sun? > **[Heat of the Sun (TV Mini Series 1998) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138966/)** > > Heat of the Sun: With Trevor Eve, Susannah Harker, Michael Byrne, Julian Rhind-Tutt. Set in the 1930s, a former Scotland Yard detective is sent to colonial Kenya to head the new criminal investigation unit. I enjoyed that one a lot. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/31 "2022-01-23T20:08:01Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > Come to think of it I do tend to binge death in paradise in the winter. Dance with the cats to the music. And dance with sergeant Dwayne…eg. Cat? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/32 "2022-01-23T20:12:22Z")
Hmmm… I did watch that one years ago when it first came out. From IMDB: > After shooting a child killer that was deemed untouchable, Scotland Yard’s Albert Tyburn is sent to 1930’s Kenya to head a criminal division in Nairobi. He investigates the death of Lady Daphne Ellesmere as a murder even though his boss and the coroner insist she was killed by a lion. Helping him is Daphne’s sister, a lovely pilot who refuses to play the social games common in the British expatriate set. That does sound like it might be it. That’s certainly the closest we’ve come so far. I’ll have to give the first episode a look and see if it clicks. Thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/33 "2022-01-23T20:22:30Z")
[DCI Banks, maybe ?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHugSSt9veg) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/34 "2022-01-23T20:47:41Z")
Was Banks banished to a remote assignment after the first episode? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/35 "2022-01-23T21:08:13Z")
er, dunno miss. I’m just going by what i remember from the books. He did move from London “up north” but i don’t know about banishment…and the tv series was in the last 10 years. If the link didn’t ring a bell - probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/36 "2022-01-23T21:14:12Z")
Assuming this really is _Heat of the Sun_, what’s up with the “child killer who was deemed untouchable” part of the story? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/37 "2022-01-23T21:50:50Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Assuming this really is _Heat of the Sun_ , what’s up with the “child killer who was deemed untouchable” part of the story?- From my OP: > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > What I remember (FWIW) from the first episode is that a British detective in London solves a controversial crime involving higher-ups, possibly in sex crimes related to a child or children. He’s a brilliant fellow and solves it brilliantly, saving a child’s life in the process. But then the city becomes too hot to hold him, and he is sent to a remote locale to continue policing. I would have to watch the first episode to see if it rings a bell. That child killer/child sex thing is just the incident that gets him banished from London. It has nothing to do with the rest of the series (as far as I can remember-- which isn’t much). ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/38 "2022-01-24T13:23:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I immediately took a dislike to [Camille Bordey](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024658/characters/nm0554120?ref_=tt_cl_c_6) with her patronizing eye-rolls and deep sighs re Poole’s style, behavior, methods. > \ > Important plot point: It was such a **SHOCK** when he got murdered! Yikes! In Season 10 Episode 6, I found a bit of satisfaction about those issues - Camille returns AND gets advice on the beach from the ghost/memory of DI Richard Poole, who apparently meant more to her than we may have previously assumed. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/39 "2022-01-24T16:36:55Z")
Interesting…I guess I didn’t stick around for that. I really liked Camille’s mother though. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237/40 "2022-01-24T19:07:31Z")
I always thought the Camille/Richard relationship was simmering just below the surface. It took a while because of how they met – Camille was working undercover and was actually a suspect in the original episode. The eyerolls etc. were just her way of keeping her emotions hidden. I liked their relationship. And I only enjoyed the Richard episodes. Most of the subsequent detectives were either annoying or too cutesy. But Humphrey was the absolute _worst_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-british-cop-series-detective-solves-crime-in-city-sent-to-remote-locale/958237.md?page=3)