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Inspector George Gently

Drama: Crime

Crime drama about an old-school detective trying to cope with Britain in the 1960s.

Crime drama, set in the 1960s, about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.

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Simulcast of network BBC One in high definition. From 03/11/2010

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Inspector George Gently: Series 5

Martin Shaw

Lee Ingleby

Faye Dorn

Gillies MacKinnon

Peter Flannery

Helen Baxendale

Mark Gatiss

Alison Steadman

Tony Haygarth

Simon Hubbard

Faye Castelow

Molly Roberts

Holly Lucas

Andrew Frame

Terence Hillyer

Jordan Dawes

Katie Anderson

Jessica Hargreaves

Samuel Clayton

Inspector George Gently: Series 5: Episode 3: The Lost Child

Drama: Classic & Period

The Lost Child

Episode 3

Episode 3: The Lost Child

Series 5

BBC One - Inspector George Gently, Series 5, The Lost Child

When an adopted child is kidnapped, suspicion falls upon the baby's birth mother.

Detective drama set in 1968. When the adopted child of a middle-class couple is kidnapped, suspicion falls upon the baby's birth mother.

It is 1968 and the shame of illegitimacy still burns the cheeks of single mothers and the families who force their unmarried daughters into 'mother and baby homes'. When the adopted child of a middle-class couple is kidnapped, suspicion falls upon the baby's birth mother. However, Gently and Bacchus's investigation into the mother and baby home itself reveals a much darker side to this hothouse of morality and raises serious questions about this seemingly perfect couple.

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Crime drama about an old-school detective coming to terms with 1960s Britain.

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