Series 8 poster

Series 8

(2011)

Overview

Brian Lane, Jack Halford and Gerry Standing may be eccentric, ignore procedure, bend the rules and take risks, but they get results. Series 8 sees them opening the files on the death of a senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Musuem, the hit and run of a cycle courier, the murder of a vagrant on a tube train, a missing scientist who disappeared on the London to Paris Eurostar and the murder of the leader of a notorious criminal biker gang. Among the guest stars appearing in the series a…

Cast

Dennis Waterman as Gerry Standing
Dennis Waterman

as Gerry Standing

Amanda Redman as Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman
Amanda Redman

as Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman

James Bolam as Jack Halford
James Bolam

as Jack Halford

Alun Armstrong as Brian Lane
Alun Armstrong

as Brian Lane

Tamzin Outhwaite as DCI Sasha Miller
Tamzin Outhwaite

as DCI Sasha Miller

Episodes

Old Fossils poster

Old Fossils 8.0

July 4, 2011

The OAP detectives return to investigate a fresh batch of unsolved crimes, beginning with the murder of a palaeontologi…

End of the Line poster

End of the Line 8.0

July 11, 2011

The UCOS team reinvestigates the murder of an unnamed vagrant strangled on a tube train 15 years ago when DNA tests on …

Lost in Translation poster

Lost in Translation 8.0

July 18, 2011

The UCOS team are drawn into a world of immigration loopholes, Albanian gangs and family feuds when they reinvestigate …

Setting Out Your Stall poster

Setting Out Your Stall 8.0

July 25, 2011

New information links the unexplained death of a market trader to a series of drug rapes in east London - but with that…

Moving Target poster

Moving Target 8.0

August 1, 2011

After psychologist Samantha Gerson shows up at UCOS to conduct a study on older men in the workplace, she ends up getti…

Objects of Desire poster

Objects of Desire 8.0

August 8, 2011

Sandra's old flame DCI Larson, head of the Met's arts and antiques squad, asks the team to reinvestigate the murder of …

The Gentleman Vanishes poster

The Gentleman Vanishes 8.0

August 15, 2011

A woman is sent anonymous emails from someone claiming to know what happened to her husband Phillip Mackenna, a promine…

Only the Brave poster

Only the Brave 8.0

August 22, 2011

As part of his initiation into a motorbike gang called The Braves, Reece Chapman plans to murder the rival gang member …

Half Life poster

Half Life 8.0

August 29, 2011

The investigation of the murder of Christopher Collins, who was listed on a website as missing by a former employer, me…

Tiger Tiger poster

Tiger Tiger 8.0

September 5, 2011

The team reopen the case of zookeeper Zac Halsey, originally thought to have been mauled to death by a tiger, when bloo…