Inspector George Gently Peace & Love (2007–2017) Online
- Original Title :
- Peace u0026 Love
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Crime / Drama / Mystery
- Year :
- 2007–2017
- Directror :
- Daniel O'Hara
- Cast :
- Lee Ingleby,Simon Hubbard,Sarah Lancashire
- Writer :
- Alan Hunter,Peter Flannery
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 1h 30min
- Rating :
- 7.9/10
The year is 1966 and the football World Cup has come to England. With the USSR due to play at Roker Park and the fear of the 'Reds Under the Bed' exemplified by the upcoming Polaris submarine landing at the nearby Jarrow docks, tensions are running high. CND protesters, lead by radical students from Durham University, are the last thing the police need when the world media is on their doorstep awaiting the upcoming football match. Gently and Bacchus investigate the murder of a well know Lefty academic, found dead in the docks post a CND rally. This takes them onto the Durham University campus - an ancient temple of learning struggling to come to terms with the novel influx of students from the working class and brash, radical, academics. Sexual and Social rebellion is everywhere in the air and to the young and optimistic these forces seem inevitable and unstoppable. Bacchus is horrified yet fascinated by the promiscuity on display. Gently, a war veteran, more shrewdly recognises that ...
Episode complete credited cast: | |||
Lee Ingleby | - | John Bacchus | |
Simon Hubbard | - | PC Taylor | |
Sarah Lancashire | - | Mallory Brown | |
MyAnna Buring | - | Adriana Doyle (as Myanna Buring) | |
Kerrie Hayes | - | Elizabeth Higgs | |
Emun Elliott | - | Fraser Barratt | |
Martin Shaw | - | George Gently | |
Warren Clarke | - | Charles Hexton | |
Tim Dann | - | Pathologist | |
Francis Magee | - | Chief Constable Lilley | |
Neil Armstrong | - | Night Watchman | |
James Atherton | - | David Swift | |
Gary Amers | - | Seagull Barman | |
David Whitaker | - | Man | |
Harry Hepple | - | Student |
This episode features a guest appearance from Warren Clarke, the star of another of the BBC's top police drama's Dalziel and Pascoe.
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