After 25 years in the force, Richard Griffiths's heavyweight detective is more interested in culinary pursuits than the pursuit of criminals. Henry Crabbe has a dream - to retire and open a restaurant. His accountant wife is not so keen, but then she's practically taste-blind. His superior isn't enthusiastic either, but then he doesn't want to lose Crabbe's sleuthing skills.
This new ten-part drama series comes from the same stable as Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen Pet and is created by Andrew Payne, who wrote some of the early Minder episodes and, more recently, You, Me and It. This first episode, The Best of Both Worlds, features Michael (To Play the King) Kitchen as an international villain.

A Witzend production for BBCtv
Clement Freud on the cooking detective
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