UKTV – Fridays from 7 December, 7.30pm
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman’s unconventional team of ex detectives – Jack Halford, Brian Lane and Gerry Standing – may be eccentric, bend the rules, ignore procedure, follow their hunches and take risks, but they get results. UCOS (the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad) has the best clear-up rate in the Force. Season 7 sees them reopening the files on the death of a boxer, the high-profile abduction of a debutante in 1983, a fraudulent businessman, the murder of a celebrated graffiti artist, the abduction and murder of a five-year-old boy, the stabbing of an 80s fashion designer, and the suspicious suicide of a college professor. As usual, there are plot twists and red herrings galore, plus a bewildering number of suspects played by well-known guest stars, which this series has no difficulty in attracting. Starring: Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, Dennis Waterman, James Bolam