Prime Suspect

On the data. FOUR NUMBERING SCHEMES ARE IN LIVE USE AND THIS PAGE USES THE FIRST. Set out plainly, because every argument about this franchise is really an argument about which of these somebody is holding. SCHEME ONE, seven series and fifteen parts, split two, two, two, three, two, two, two. Used by TVmaze, TheTVDB's aired order, Wikipedia's episode list and Peacock's own streaming structure. This is the majority filing and it is the spine of this page. SCHEME TWO, seven numbered installments where all three 1995 films are Prime Suspect 4. This is the British on-product and disc branding, and it is used by FilmAffinity, by helen-mirren.net and by the reference labels in Wikipedia's own episode article. Seven numbers, nine stories. These titles are shown on this page as the names of the parts, which is how people will recognise them. SCHEME THREE, the 1995 films numbered individually as 4, 5 and 6, pushing the run to nine. COULD NOT BE CONFIRMED and should not be repeated. The only trace of it is foreign release titling recorded by AllMovie, where Inner Circles is IV in Danish and 5 in Japanese. No source anywhere publishes the tail that scheme would need, and searches for a Prime Suspect 7 called Errors of Judgement return nothing. It is in these notes only so that nobody has to go looking for it twice. SCHEME FOUR, IMDb's, which does not file this as one show at all. It has nine separate productions: six miniseries and three 1995 television films. Under IMDb there are no seasons here. IMDb is also internally inconsistent about it, carrying a 5 and a 7 in its primary titles and neither a 4 nor a 6. TheTVDB hedges between schemes one and four, filing The Scent of Darkness both as series four episode three AND as a standalone film with its own record. THE PART TITLES FOR 1991 TO 1993 ARE DATABASE LABELS. Wikipedia and TheTVDB attach Price to Pay, Operation Nadine and Keeper of Souls to the first three serials. TVmaze and epguides say those parts are untitled. They were not the on-air serial names in Britain and no source could be found for where they came from, so they are not used on this page. ONE REAL CROSSOVER EXISTS AND IT IS A JOKE. Prime Cracker, a Comic Relief sketch for Red Nose Day 1997, puts Helen Mirren's Tennison opposite Robbie Coltrane's Fitz from Cracker. It is a spoof of both shows rather than an episode of either, it is on TheTVDB alone, and TheTVDB gives it two different dates on its two pages, 14 March 1997 on Cracker and 14 May on Prime Suspect. Red Nose Day 1997 was 14 March, which favours the first. Single-sourced and not drama, so it is not a row. THIRTEEN WERE MADE IN AMERICA AND THIRTEEN AIRED. Written down because the run looks truncated and people assume episodes were burned off unseen. TVmaze gives all thirteen a real air date with none missing, Wikipedia's table lists thirteen NBC dates and no unaired episode, and TheWrap reported in November 2011 that the show would wrap after its initial thirteen with no back order. There is no unaired American episode. THE BOOKS GO BOTH WAYS, which is unusual. The television came first: La Plante devised and wrote the original serial, and the three novels published between 1991 and 1994 are novelisations of her own screenplays, filed as such. Then it reverses. Tennison, published in 2015, is an original prequel novel, and the 2017 television series is adapted from it. The Tennison novels have carried on past the television, through Whole Life Sentence in 2024. NO OTHER REMAKE WAS FOUND, and that is written as not found rather than as none. Searches for French, German and Russian versions turned up nothing. SEVERAL UNRELATED PROGRAMMES SHARE THE NAME and are not part of this: a 1982 television film, The Real Prime Suspect on the True Crime channel from 2019, Prime Suspect: Earth on The Weather Channel, Prime Suspect: Hunting the Predators on Channel 5, and a 2021 documentary about the Madeleine McCann case. All documentaries or unconnected drama. TWO DVD EXTRAS EXIST AND ARE NOT COUNTED. TheTVDB lists a Behind The Scenes dated 11 September 2007 and an undated one for The Last Witness. Neither was verified as ever broadcast, so neither is a row.

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