History Series / InspectorGeorgeGently

* ChocolateBaby: In "Gently in the Blood", the VictimOfTheWeek is a single mother with a dark-skinned baby. Attempting to ascertain the identity of the father forms a major part of the investigation. It ultimately turns out to be her boyfriend, who dumped her after the baby was born, not believing it to be his. The father was actually half-Arab, but unaware of this.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In "Breathe in the Air", a Swiss corporation is covering up the fact that they knew that asbestos was giving their workers cancer years before they shut down their factory. Their ruthless cover-up drives a doctor to suicide.
* DeadAnimalWarning: In "Breath in the Air", a doctor's dog is killed as part of a harassment campaign that ultimately [[DrivenToSuicide drives her to suicide]].

* mentorOccupationalHazard: The series ends with [[spoiler: George Gently being brutally gunned down as an attempt to protect his students Bacchus and Rachel from governmental assassins.]]

British CrimeAndPunishmentSeries starring Martin Shaw.

* HeyYouHaymaker: Gently delivers one a rapist and murderer in "Gently With the Women".

** He does undergo some character development in "Gently Northern Soul" (he does develop a sense of empathy for the black community whereas before he just saw the victim as an "exotic".

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: The final scene of the last episode of the show is Bacchus and Rachel leaning over Gently's desk and working on solving the murders of Gently, his wife and a reporter that died previously in the episode. Bacchus even asks, "What would Gently do?" showing that they have learned from their mentor.]]

* Retirony: [[spoiler: In the final episode, Gently himself is shot dead with less than a week before his retirement.]]

** Bacchus is also extremely dismissive of Gently's young protege Rachel Coles, insisting that women have no place in the force generally, and in CID in particular. He opposes Coles being made Acting Sergeant and it's only once he gets his own promotion to Inspector that he starts to see her as less of a threat and begins to accept her as a capable detective.

* 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.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: 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.

* PitGirl: A scantily-clad ring girl carries round cards between the rounds of the inter-constabulary boxing match at the start of "Gently Liberated".

** He does undergo some character development in Gently Norther Soul (he does develop a sense of empathy for the black community whereas before he just saw the victim as an "exotic".

* UnconfessedUnemployment: More like 'Unconfessed Bankruptcy', but the VictImOfTheWeek in "Gently Among Friends" is hiding the extent of his financial troubles from his wife, even while he is pawning their belongings and passing their disappearance off as theft.

** In [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]], an apparent suicide turns out to be actual suicide. However, there were enough suspcious circumstances for Gently to investigate and in doing so he uncovers a criminal conspiracy, and the VictimOfTheWeek was DrivenToSuicide.

** Gently With the Innocents. Harry Carson is saved from the gallows, and the man who [[spoiler:ran a children's home so the children could be sexually abused]] is dead, but the wife and doctor who [[spoiler: ignored or abetted it]] get away with it, because it's not clear what they could be charged with and Gently can't stand the thought of dragging the victims through the courts.
** 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.
** Gently in the Blood. Jimmy is reconciled with [[spoiler:his son and father]], and embraces [[spoiler:his Arabic heritage, calling himself his full name, Jamil.]] However the baby's white grandparents [[spoiler:refuse to even shake the baby's Arab grandfather's hand, and he is denied board for his skin colour.]]
** The Lost Child. Faith is reunited with her mother [[spoiler:biological, that is]], the Groves' marriage seems to be healing, as is Bacchus's relationship with his father. However, [[spoiler:the Groves have lost both their children, and Bacchus is devastated at having killed a man.]]

* 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.

* UnconfessedUnemployment: More like 'Unconfessed Bankruptcy', but the VictImOfTheWeek in "Gently Among Friends" is hiding the extent of his financial troubles from his wife, even while he is pawning their belongings and passing their disappearance of as theft.

* RankUp: In season 7, Bacchus is promoted from Detective Sergeant to Detective Inspector, which he had been angling for since season 1.

* In [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]], an apparent suicide turns out to be actual suicide. However, there were enough suspcious circumstances for Gently to investigate and in doing so he uncovers a criminal conspiracy, and the VictimOfTheWeek was DrivenToSuicide.