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** Averted in [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]] where the Body of the Week really is a suicide, and the discovery of why she killed herself reveals another crime altogether.
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** [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]] revolves around an apparent suicide which for once actually turns to ''be'' a suicide, and a case of corruption which contributes to several deaths - but not an actual murder.
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** [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]] revolves around an apparent suicide which for once actually turns out to ''be'' a suicide, and a case of corruption which contributes to several deaths - but not an actual murder.
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* AlwaysMurder: Averted.
** In [[spoiler:"Gently Northern Soul"]], the death turns out to be accidental, but the ''assumption'' that it was murder brings its ownrepercussions.repercussions.
** [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]] revolves around an apparent suicide which for once actually turns to ''be'' a suicide, and a case of corruption which contributes to several deaths - but not an actual murder.
** In [[spoiler:"Gently Northern Soul"]], the death turns out to be accidental, but the ''assumption'' that it was murder brings its own
** [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]] revolves around an apparent suicide which for once actually turns to ''be'' a suicide, and a case of corruption which contributes to several deaths - but not an actual murder.
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* KnightTemplarParent: The episode "Goodbye China" revolves around the actions of one. [[spoiler: After the title character is inadvertently murdered by a mentally retarded child when trying to save him from a mugging, his father finds the two culprits and tortures and intentionally breaks them to prevent them from speaking of the incident. One is DrivenToSuicide and the other is a NervousWreck. As Gently arrests him, the father vows he will never be remorseful for what has happened and even pleas for his silence in fear his son will be sent to a mental institution upon his arrest (which are even less cushy in the fifties).]]
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Brutally subverted. Gently is enlightened on manners of race sexuality and gender, but it's made painfully clear that many other people don't share his views. Made particularly clear in Gently Northern Soul, which takes place around the same time as Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood Speech. A female landlady actively has a "No blacks allowed" sign, while several of the policemen actively agree with Enoch Powell's speech.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Brutally subverted.Subverted. Gently is enlightened on manners of race sexuality and gender, but it's made painfully clear that many other people don't share his views. Made particularly clear in Gently Northern Soul, which takes place around the same time as Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood Speech. A female landlady actively has a "No blacks allowed" sign, while several of the policemen actively agree with Enoch Powell's speech.
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* BittersweetEnding: Gently Northern Soul. George and Joseph Kenny persuade Ambrose not to kill Bernie, and it's pretty clear that the actual killer will be charged for what he's done. However, at the end of the episode we see a racist old lady hanging up a union jack flag, showing that while the potential race riots have been averted the prejudice still lingers.
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* BribeBackfire: In the episode "Bomber's Moon", a German businessman tries to bribe Sgt. Bachus. Bachus accepts the bribe so he will have the evidence to arrest him.
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* BribeBackfire: In the episode "Bomber's Moon", a German businessman tries to bribe Sgt. Bachus. Bachus Bacchus. Bacchus accepts the bribe so he will have the evidence to arrest him.
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* BreakTheHaughty: the racist dad in Gently Northern Soul looses both his sons when his attitude poisons them against each other, and in the end it's only because a black man who had every reason to hate him persuaded his would be killer to stand down that he's alivealive.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Brutally subverted. Gently is enlightened on manners of race sexuality and gender, but it's made painfully clear that many other people don't share his views. Made particularly clear in Gently Northern Soul, which takes place around the same time as Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood Speech. A female landlady actively has a "No blacks allowed" sign, while several of the policemen actively agree with Enoch Powell's speech.
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* OfCorsetsSexy: Wanda Lane dons a merry widow and [[StockingFiller fishnet stockings]] when she attempts to seduce Gently in "The Burning Man".
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* JackBauerIterrogationTechnique: In "The Burning Man", Commander Empton of Special Branch lays a beatdown on a suspect inspected of being involved with the IRA, to Gently's obvious disgust.
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* JackBauerIterrogationTechnique: JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: In "The Burning Man", Commander Empton of Special Branch lays a beatdown on a suspect inspected of being involved with the IRA, to Gently's obvious disgust.
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* HatesEveryoneEqually: Bacchus probably has a chip on both shoulders – he hates people cleverer and richer than him as well as hating people more stupid and poorer than him! Consequently he loves using his badge to impress/terrify people he's met throughout his childhood.
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* BuddyCopShow: Gently is introduced as a bitter, vengeful cop who won't rest until his wife's murder is solved. The dynamic is turne don its head when he meets Bacchus, a diminutive hothead who seemingly became a cop as an excuse to yell at people.
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* ByTheBookCop: Played with. Gently knows when to play along with rules and when to show his hand. Bacchus is a RabidCop in the making.
* ByTheBookCop: Played with. Gently knows when to play along with rules and when to show his hand. Bacchus is a RabidCop in the making.
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* BreakTheHaughty: the racist dad in Gently Northern Soul looses both his sons when his attitude poisons them against each other, and in the end it's only because a black man who had every reason to hate him persuaded his would be killer to stand down that he's alive
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* ShoutOut: The references to "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" by Frank Wilson in "Gently Northern Soul" are clearly an in-joke for northern soul fans, since anybody who knows of the record in question (latterly the most valuable record ever sold at auction) would be well aware of its rarity and that there is no way a girl in Durham in 1968 would own a copy. Given Bacchus' response to the soul club in this episode, one has to suspect a case of WriterOnBoard.
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* SurpriseIncest: "Gently Going Under" features a half-siblings version. The girl's father had an affair with the boy's mother while her husband was away at the war. When the relationship is discovered, the father tries to move away and take the daughter with him but she is already pregnant. The boy's mother tells her the truth, causing her to attempt to abort the child.
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* NeverSuicide: In "Gently with Honour", Gently and Bacchus return to a psychiatrist with a warrant for the medical files of one his patients and find the psychiatrist hanged; an apparent suicide. Gently suspicions are immediately raised, especially when he finds the medical file he was after is missing. It is later discovered that the psychiatrist's neck had been snapped and he was then strung up to make it look like he hanged himself.
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* DeathByFallingOver: This is how the BodyOfTheWeek in "Blue for Bluebird" was killed; falling backwards and hitting her head on the edge of a table.
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* TimeDelayedDeath: In "Gently Between the Lines", a prisoner who died in the cells actually succumbed to liver damage sustained in a beating he received before he was arrested.
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* AlwaysMurder: Averted. In [[spoiler:"Gently Northern Soul"]], the death turns out to be accidental, but the ''assumption'' that it was murder brings its own repercussions.
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* LocationDoubling: The show is filmed in Ireland, partly for tax reasons, partly for lack of suitable architecture.
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* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: In "Gently Northern Soul."
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Frequent with Bacchus, who does most of the undercover work.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Done deliberately with Bacchus, in contrast to Gently's more inclusive personal doctrine.
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* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: Inverted. The show started as ''George Gently'' before expanding to ''Inspector George Gently''.
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* TheSixties: 1964 to be exact.
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* TheSixties: 1964 tobe exact.begin with, but moves on roughly in real time just as the books do.
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* CerebusSyndrome: Series 5 was pretty damn grim - a DownerEnding every episode, and the SeasonFinale [[spoiler: ends with Gently and Bacchus both lying on the floor of Durham Cathedral, having both been shot in the gut, with no help on the way.]]
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British CrimeAndPunishmentSeries starring Martin Shaw.
Based on the 1960s novels by Alan Hunter, but moving the setting from Norfolk to [[OopNorth Northumberland and County Durham]], this crime series set in TheSixties involves two detectives, Detective Chief Inspector George Gently and his trusty sidekick Detective Sergeant John Bacchus.
The 2007 pilot and 2008 first season (just called ''George Gently'') were rather dark affairs. The second season is somewhat lighter in tone- the stories are still fairly dark, but there are new "Sixties-style" opening titles and more comedy.
Not too bad, but 90-minute stories with no ad-breaks do have an inherent dragging tendency.
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* BribeBackfire: In the episode "Bomber's Moon", a German businessman tries to bribe Sgt. Bachus. Bachus accepts the bribe so he will have the evidence to arrest him.
* BritishLaws: One plot involves a woman having an abortion - illegal in 1964 - [[spoiler: after being raped]] and mentions that only married women could be prescribed the pill then.
* BuddyCopShow
* FanserviceWithASmile: One episode features a club called "Rakes", with "Fox Girls".
* GayBarReveal: In the episode "Peace & Love", Gently and Bacchus call in at a bar recently visited by the murder victim whose movements they're tracing. Bacchus is increasingly discomfited as the nature of the place dawns on him, and then indignant when he finds out that Gently had suspected it before they went in and hadn't bothered to say anything.
* GoingByTheMatchbook: In the episode "Peace & Love", the murder victim has a matchbook from a particular bar in his pocket. Played with slightly, in that the barman remembers him even though he only went there once because he swiped all the matchbooks.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Martin Shaw is known for his role in the now-cancelled ''Judge John Deed'', but far better remembered for being Doyle in ''TheProfessionals''.
* LocationDoubling: The show is filmed in Ireland, partly for tax reasons, partly for lack of suitable architecture.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Gently's accent wanders considerably.
* PornNames: This is both used and subverted when Gently and Bacchus are investigating [[FanserviceWithASmile a casino with "Fox Girls"]]. The murder victim's real name was Audrey Chadwick. However, she was using the name "Blaise" for working purposes. Not ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise, as "she doesn't have any modesty". However, Fawn Granger, her best friend, was using her real name.
* ScooterRidingMod: The rivalry between Mods and Rockers featured prominently in one episode.
* ShotgunWedding: How Bacchus ended up marrying his wife.
* TheSixties: 1964 to be exact.
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Based on the 1960s novels by Alan Hunter, but moving the setting from Norfolk to [[OopNorth Northumberland and County Durham]], this crime series set in TheSixties involves two detectives, Detective Chief Inspector George Gently and his trusty sidekick Detective Sergeant John Bacchus.
The 2007 pilot and 2008 first season (just called ''George Gently'') were rather dark affairs. The second season is somewhat lighter in tone- the stories are still fairly dark, but there are new "Sixties-style" opening titles and more comedy.
Not too bad, but 90-minute stories with no ad-breaks do have an inherent dragging tendency.
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!!This show contains examples of:
* BribeBackfire: In the episode "Bomber's Moon", a German businessman tries to bribe Sgt. Bachus. Bachus accepts the bribe so he will have the evidence to arrest him.
* BritishLaws: One plot involves a woman having an abortion - illegal in 1964 - [[spoiler: after being raped]] and mentions that only married women could be prescribed the pill then.
* BuddyCopShow
* FanserviceWithASmile: One episode features a club called "Rakes", with "Fox Girls".
* GayBarReveal: In the episode "Peace & Love", Gently and Bacchus call in at a bar recently visited by the murder victim whose movements they're tracing. Bacchus is increasingly discomfited as the nature of the place dawns on him, and then indignant when he finds out that Gently had suspected it before they went in and hadn't bothered to say anything.
* GoingByTheMatchbook: In the episode "Peace & Love", the murder victim has a matchbook from a particular bar in his pocket. Played with slightly, in that the barman remembers him even though he only went there once because he swiped all the matchbooks.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Martin Shaw is known for his role in the now-cancelled ''Judge John Deed'', but far better remembered for being Doyle in ''TheProfessionals''.
* LocationDoubling: The show is filmed in Ireland, partly for tax reasons, partly for lack of suitable architecture.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Gently's accent wanders considerably.
* PornNames: This is both used and subverted when Gently and Bacchus are investigating [[FanserviceWithASmile a casino with "Fox Girls"]]. The murder victim's real name was Audrey Chadwick. However, she was using the name "Blaise" for working purposes. Not ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise, as "she doesn't have any modesty". However, Fawn Granger, her best friend, was using her real name.
* ScooterRidingMod: The rivalry between Mods and Rockers featured prominently in one episode.
* ShotgunWedding: How Bacchus ended up marrying his wife.
* TheSixties: 1964 to be exact.
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