Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 1991
Country: UK
Runtime: 207
Rating: 5.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Christopher Menaul
Sound: Stereo
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Writing by: Lynda La Plante - (written by)

Produced by: Sally Head - executive producer
Don Leaver - producer

Cast: Helen Mirren - DCI Jane Tennison
Tom Bell - DS Bill Otley
John Benfield - DCS Michael Kernan
John Bowe - George Marlow
Zoë Wanamaker - Moyra Henson
Bryan Pringle - Felix Norman
Tom Wilkinson - Peter Rawlins
John Forgeham - DCI John Shefford
Gary Whelan - DS Terry Amson
Jack Ellis - DI Tony Muddyman
Craig Fairbrass - D.I. Frank Burkin

Music: Stephen Warbeck
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Plot Outline: A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
Plot: DCI Jane Tennison has been passed over time and again to lead a murder investigation, so when one of her fellow DCIs has a heart attack just before hes ready to charge their prime suspect, Jane sees her chance to lead a murder investigation. But the murder squad she takes over is hostile to her, the men upstairs are eager to pull the plug on her investigation, her personal relationships suffer from her obsession with work, and the prime suspect remains elusive. Jane has her work cut out for her as she and her team work their way through computer data trails, legwork, intuitive leaps, chases, arrests, and confessions to find the killer.

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Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: In Sams apartment, Jacks bottle of Dr. Pepper turns into a can in the next room.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Janet McTeer declined the lead.
• According to Lynda La Plante, on the documentary about the making of Prime Suspect (1991) (TV), when she called the Metropolitan Police (aka Scotland Yard) and enquired as to how many female DCIs there were on the force, the woman who answered her call said, “Oh, quite a number! Four!” Jackie Malton appears on the same documentary, noting that she was one of three DCIs on the force at that particular time.
• On the documentary following the second half of Prime Suspect: The Final Act (2006) (TV), Helen Mirren notes that Jackie Malton and her colleagues gave the first “Prime Suspect” a standing ovation because they felt it was the first time the police had been accurately portrayed on television.