Lazarus and Dingwall
Lazarus and Dingwall is a British sitcom starring Stephen Frost and Mark Dingwall as two inept detectives in a pastiche of police dramas. The programme ran for six episodes on BBC Two from 1 February 1 to 8 March 1991. Steve Lazarus and Mark Dingwall are a somewhat unconventional duo in the more than slightly unconventional sector of Really Serious Crimes. Their chief is both eccentric and incompetent, and everyone else is equally oddball, from desk worker and the object of Dingwall's affections, Beverly Armitage, to the plainclothes duo. However, despite their somewhat unique approach, what the department seems to come up trumps more often than not.
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BBC Series Lazarus and Dingwall DVD - Stephen Frost and Mark Arden
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- Ep 1
1.You Expect Us to Believe That?
01-02-199125mWhen a local market fishmonger unwittingly begins dealing pure cocaine, Dingwall is sent undercover to make contact with the drugs baron who imported the goods.
- Ep 2
2.What Happened to the Gerbil?
08-02-199125mThe Really Serious Crimes squad are called in when a stuntman is killed on a film set. The actor holding the gun claims he's innocent, but in show business, everyone has a motive.
- Ep 3
3.The Whisper of a Bat's Wing
15-02-199125mWhen a successful businessman is kidnapped and his wife receives a £5 million ransom demand, Lazarus and Dingwall are on the case. He could be better off dead...
- Ep 4
4.What the Hell's Going On?
22-02-199125mAfter a millionaire's model wife is painted to death, Lazarus and Dingwall are assigned to solve the case. Everyone seems to have a motive, but the real culprit proves elusive.
- Ep 5
5.This Isn't Your Lucky Day
01-03-199125mChief smells something fishy in the apparently accidental demise of a newspaper astrology expert. The bizarre cause of his death just seems all a little too coincidental — there ar...
- Ep 6
6.The Little Red Mark on the Side of the Head
08-03-199125mAfter a spate of murders that appear to be immitating Cluedo scenarios, the Really Serious Crimes team is threatened with dissolution. Lazarus and Dingwall have only eighty hours t...
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