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Touching Evil - The Complete Series 1-3 [DVD] [1997]
 
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Touching Evil - The Complete Series 1-3 [DVD] [1997]

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  • Actors: Robson Green, Nicola Walker, Shaun Dingwall, Adam Kotz
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 5
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Feb 2008
  • Run Time: 922 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0010Y9XYY
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 593 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The Touching Evil - The Complete Series 1-3 box set contains five discs and every episode from the first three series of the dark and gritty crime drama from acclaimed writers Paul Abbott ("Cracker") and Russell T. Davies ("Casanova"). Robson Green takes the lead role of Detective Inspector Creegan--a maverick agent in the Organised and Serial Crime Unit, which was specially created to tackle the growing spectre of serial crime in the UK.



Synopsis

In Touching Evil, Detective Inspector Dave Creegan and his partner Susan Taylor--of the Organised and Serial Crime Unit--deal with crimes involving the seamier side of human nature, like a serial killer with a predilection for the scalps of young women, a tortured relief-worker bent on exorcising demons carried back from Bosnia, and an international ring of black-market adoption agencies. This box set includes every episode from the first three series of the show.


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50 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Get ready for some surprises, 17 Feb 2008
When the disc one was loading on my DVD machine, I was expecting to watch a good standard British crime drama. Hey, no. What I did not expect was to watch something way better. And that's exactly what happened.

When you have watched enough of cop series, you kind of get used to some procedures. Like: OK, I've seen a twist like this in 5 other films and a turn like that in yet 10 other. Here you can get plenty of things out of standard. To tell the truth, I was totally fascinated by that. OK, I admit I haven't watched the last couple of episodes yet, just because I know there's no more....

Unlike in most cop series here you get to know the identity of the perpetrator quite early, as it's not "who", but "why" and "how" more important. And that will keep you glued to the screen, I promise. And then, all of the main characters have some torments of their own, but if you expect some usual reasons like drinking brothers, fighting for children care (you name it), you'll be disappointed. The characters are very human, and their reasons of suffering are very personal and very credible, OK, sometimes they do almost step over the edge with being emotional, but even then it's done with unquestionable taste. And don't expect any standards. If a man is suffering too much to keep pain contained and pours his heart out, the one who is listening will not start crying for company, he'll do something very different instead. If the grieving parents are invited to address the perpetrator on TV (a cliche!!!), just get ready for one one the best moments. Enough of examples, they are NUMEROUS. By the way, I know that there's a remake of this done in the States, but I don't think I'll ever risk watching it.

Well, you can't call this totally flawless, there are a few (very few) moments, that leave you with your eyebrows raised (if a boy has two mums, you might think there is, or rather must have been some 10 years ago, a DNR test for that matter). But then, maybe that's only that old grumbling me, so sorry.

On the whole, a HUGE pleasure to watch. Don't get me wrong, though. A pleasure of a very, very dark kind.

And then, there's Robson Green. I still can't decide for sure if I really like him or not, but one thing is clear: he is special. You'd never confuse him with anybody else, his way of acting and those scary eyes of his. I even could imagine Robson Green in some black-and-white movie with his eyes shining blue anyway.

P.S. English subtitles available.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars evil, in all it's darkness, 11 Feb 2009
By Susan Belcher "Su B" (St Helens, England) - See all my reviews
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Robson Green is DI Dave Creegan with Nicola Walker as sidekick DI Susan Taylor in the newly formed Organised Serial Crime Unit (OSC). I put my hands up - I wasn't a Robson Green fan until this. It is well acted, well written, well directed, filmed and edited.

Series 1 consisted of 3 (double episode) films - the first concerns the kidnapping of 3 little boys; the second, an angel of death; the third, a group of desparate teens lured into murder and multilation by an internet game.

Series 2 consists of 3 films - the first is about a killer who has an obsession for women with undyed hair and his follower; the second is about a man suffering from PTSD who decides that killing is the solution to all his problems (this stereotyping of war veterans as being deranged is something that I strongly object to); and the third brings back the father of a victim from a previous case who holds Creegan responsible for his daughters death and goes after revenge by terrorising his family while the team investigates a child smuggling and paedophilia group.

Series 3 consists of 2 films - the first one is about the release of a prisoner who was wrongfully convicted after Creegan "got him to confess" and the search for the real killer - the working class area is depicted as grey and depressive and the local cops as thick and dirty; and the second and final film they are searching for an arsonist who is burning people alive for revenge.

There were 3 series in total and the boxset covers them all.

I have to say that this series reminds me a lot of the "Wire in the Blood" series which was based on the books of Val McDermid - Wire in the Blood: Series 1 and 2 (5 Disc Box Set) [2002] - Wire In The Blood - The Complete Third And Fourth Series [2005] - Wire In The Blood Series 5 [2007], however, this series came before the "Wire in the Blood" series.

There are no extras, but there are English subtitles.
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21 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best thing Robson Green has done so far........................, 23 Dec 2007
By Flux Capacitor (Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
At last this excellent series is being released on region 2 DVD. Superb acting all round with a good cast including Nicola Walker who went on to star as Ruth in Spooks. At times very dark (similar to Wire in the Blood which Green starred in later) it certainly keeps you on the edge.
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