History Series / TheCleanerUK

** The plot of "The Widow"; as Wicky is cleaning up the crime scene alone, the murderer comes back and holds him at gunpoint. They seemingly develop a connection and the widow decides to head away with Wicky. [[spoiler:However, it's eventually revealed that he used the opportunity to call the police when she wasn't looking.]]

* ChristmasEpisode: In "A Clean Christmas", Wicky is looking forward to a Christmas raffle, but has to deal with cleaning up an ice cream parlour and a diligent customer first.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: A fair amount of the show's humour comes from Wicky's nonchalant reactions to cleaning up blood-doused scenes caused by a murder.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The night shift restock guy in "The Night Shift" insists he isn't one despite professing to believe that the government is planning some kind of big disaster and that UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was assassinated by lizard people.

* JobTitle

* MinimalistCast: Wicky is the only regular character, and each episode only has one major guest role -- the one named in the episode title. Other guest characters are very limited supporting roles.

* ParentalAbandonment:

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill:
** The Widow stabbed her husband 38 times. Wicky complains of the mess so many stab wounds make, saying five is plenty to do the job. [[spoiler: Interestingly, later in the episode he gets an opportunity to tell The Widow his feelings on the subject after she kidnaps him, and she concedes the point.]]
** Although accidental, the death in "The Influencer" resulted in major blood vessels being severed and blood spurting out all over the scene.

* TheNicknamer: Wicky himself, who refers to most of his friends by nickname only and his himself usually referred to by his nickname.

The entire first series was made available at once on BBC [=iPlayer=] on 10th September, 2021, with a Christmas Special airing on Christmas Eve 2022. A second series followed suit on 24th March, 2023, and was once again released all at once.

** In " The "Night Shift" Wicky spends the night cleaning up a crime scene at a home appliance store and has to interact with the night shift restock guy. The guy starts to creep Wicky out and then [[spoiler: pulls out a gun]]. It ends up being [[spoiler: a subversion as the gun was fake and the guy thought that he and Wicky were doing a survival drill. The guy is weird but utterly harmless]].

* AlwaysMurder: Subverted. Even though Wicky is a ''crime'' scene cleaner, some of the episodes have him cleaning up scenes where the death was accidental (albeit rather gory). In "The Statue", there is no death and his job is to clean up a statue covered in goose blood as a form of protest.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: This turns out to be the reason why the Widow finally snapped and killed her husband. She wanted to go to Italy on vacation to visit the Dolomite mountains, something she dreamed of since she was a child. She gave her husband plenty of hints of what she wanted and felt that he owed it to her for all the years of going to modelling conventions for their vacations. Her husband got her hints but decided that instead of a vacation he would build her a large model of the location. This finally broke the woman and she stabbed the husband to death for being so self-absorbed and blind to her needs.

* MinimalistCast: Wicky is the only regular character and each episode only has one major guest role -- the one named in the episode title. Other guest characters are very limited supporting roles.

** Hosea's parents wanted to move to another country but he refused to leave. They decided that he was old enough to live on his own so they gave him the house and plenty of money and left the country without him.

* SunkCostFallacy: Discussed by the Widow. By the time she realized that she was married to a boring selfish man, she had committed decades of her life to the marriage. She felt that if she left her husband it would render a good portion of her life a waste and she could not deal with that.

** The Widow stabbed her husband 38 times. Wicky complains of the mess so many stab wounds make, saying five is plenty to do the job. [[spoiler: Interestingly, later in the episode he gets an opportunity to tell the Widow his feelings on the subject after she kidnaps him, and she concedes the point.]]

* BritishBrevity: The first series is expected to last 6 episodes, which is still longer than the usual amount of episodes in the original German series (usually about 4 episodes).

** In " The "Night Shift" Wicky spends the night cleaning up a crime scene at a home appliance store and has to interact with the night shift restock guy. The guy starts to creep Wicky out and then [[spoiler: pulls out a gun]]. It ends up being [[spoiler: a subversion as the gun was fake and the guy thought that he and Weicky were doing a survival drill. The guy is weird but utterly harmless]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: In "The Aristocrat", a robber supposedly tripped and fell down the stairs in a rich old lady's house. [[spoiler: Wicky soon finds out that the old lady actually smashed his head in with a golf club. At the end of the episode, the lady herself trips and falls down the stairs completely by accident.]]

* AloneWithThePsycho: The plot of "The Widow"; as Wicky is cleaning up the crime scene alone, the murderer comes back and holds him at gunpoint. They seemingly develop a connection and the widow decides to head away with Wicky. [[spoiler:However, it's eventually revealed that he used the opportunity to call the police when she wasn't looking.]]
* AlwaysMurder: Subverted. Even though Wicky is a ''crime'' scene cleaner, some of the episodes have him cleaning up scenes where the death was accidental (albeit rather gory).

The entire first series was made available at once on the BBC [=iPlayer=], and a Christmas Special aired on 23rd December, 2022.

The show is not to be confused with the 2008 Creator/AAndE series ''Series/TheCleaner'', or the [[CleanupCrew trope of a similar name]] that this show uses as its framing device.

** Robert's father in "A Clean Christmas" claimed to be busy at a job, so ditched him at a placement. Despite this, Robert still believes that his father will come back to him, although Wicky is skeptic.

The entire first series was made available at once on the BBC [=iPlayer=].