Waking the Dead

2001 • BBC America
4.7
27 reviews
TV-14
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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Burn Out Part 1
6/18/01
When Detective Superintendent Boyd encounters a woman unable to accept the explanation of her father's death, he takes on the case.
2 Burn Out Part 2
6/19/01
A newly discovered note seems to set the seal on a suicide verdict, but when Boyd and the team exhume Perry Coleman's body, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts.
3 The Blind Beggar Part 1
6/25/01
When a skeleton is discovered in a Church crypt Boyd and his team suspect it was never meant to be found. The team interview the local community and awaken deeply hidden family secrets that force Boyd to look at his own past.
4 The Blind Beggar Part 2
6/26/01
Frankie learns that the skeleton and a priest may be related as both show symptoms of Huntington's Chorea. The hunt is on for the killer and the victim's mother. Meanwhile, the investigation opens old wounds for Boyd, still in despair over the disappearance of his own son.
5 A Simple Sacrifice Part 1
7/2/01
The Cold Case Squad are called in when new evidence emerges in the case of a woman who was convicted of double murder on the basis of her own confession 25 years ago.
6 A Simple Sacrifice Part 2
7/3/01
Boyd now doubts that Annie Keel really committed the murders, so why did she confess and what, and what happened to her son who was present on the night in 1975 when the crimes took place?
7 Every Breath You Take Part 1
7/9/01
When the body of a policewoman missing for a year is pulled from the Thames, Boyd and the team discover that she was being followed by two stalkers.
8 Every Breath You Take Part 2
7/10/01
Boyd and the team track down murdered police officer Debbie's married lover, but he denies killing her. Meanwhile, stalker Christopher Redford is ready to confess to the murder, but Grace is not convinced he's the guilty man.

About this show

The Cold Case team is a crack squad of police investigators who reopen unsolved murder cases, using new technology to re-examine evidence that hopefully will lead to the killer. They are at the cutting edge of modern police investigation, but they have been given just one year to prove their worth.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
27 reviews
Carol “carolintallahassee” Bisig
April 18, 2019
Awesome show, CSI before there was a CSI! Excellent British Actors; we cannot compete with the BBC programing! It's as if you are reading a thriller, then Bam, you are thrown for a loop, never saw that coming! Trevor Eve makes George Clooney look like he cannot act his way out of a wet paper bag! This actor should have won multiple awards for his protrayal of DSI Peter Boyd! My new TV hearthrob! Tara Fitzgerald is outstanding, as are all the actors! I highly recommend!
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Lynne Donehoo
June 10, 2018
Can't get enough of this show. Don't make it so difficult to get subsequent seasons.
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Disabled Ohio
October 14, 2018
I loved this Show. Its a show that will keep you on your toes.
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