Burnside
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Burnside

Back with a Vengeance

7.0 / 10
2000
1 season
6 episodes
DramaCrime

Burnside is a British television police procedural drama, broadcast on ITV in 2000. The series, a spin-off from ITV's long-running police drama The Bill, focused on DCI Frank Burnside, formerly a detective at Sun Hill and now working for the National Crime Squad. Burnside ran for one series of six episodes, structured as three two-part stories.

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Having built his reputation on good detective work, combined with his unique approaches, Burnside is back on familiar form heading a crack unit in the National Crime Squad, Britain's equivalent of the FBI.

  • Ep 1

    1.Back with a Vengence (1)

    07-07-200050m

    As a member of the National Crime Squad with a new team under him, Burnside investigates illegal firearms and settles an old score.

  • Ep 2

    2.Back with a Vengence (2)

    14-07-200050m

    Following the massacre at the burger bar in Margate, Burnside closes in on Billy Holden, but must reach him before the Yardies do.

  • Ep 3

    3.Exposed (1)

    21-07-200050m

    Women are being murdered, and Burnside and his team must find the connection between the killings before the murderer strikes again.

  • Ep 4

    4.Exposed (2)

    28-07-200050m

    Burnside reluctantly allows DC Sam Phillips to act as bait to try to catch the serial killer. But she gets more involved than she should...

  • Ep 5

    5.Trial By Fire (1)

    04-08-200050m

    When a trial ends in disaster, Burnside's informant is threatened. Meanwhile, Dave and Sam investigate a gangland murder.

  • Ep 6

    6.Trial By Fire (2)

    10-08-200050m

    The Russian mafia money has arrived and Vickers is on an all-time high, blissfully unaware that Burnside is hell bent on revenge for the murder of Tony Shotton.

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