The BEST episodes directed by Ashley Pearce

#1 - A Name Written In Water

Afterlife - Season 2 - Episode 8

With Robert in a coma at the hospital, Alison rushes to his bedside, finding Jude there, who is less than happy to see her. Whilst in the hospital, waiting, the psychic witnesses a strange nurse wandering the corridors. This is confirmed by many of the workers, who have heard rumours about this unusual being. Why is she there - and does she mean the end for Robert?

#2 - Father Michael

Broken - Season 1 - Episode 6

Father Michael confesses to a shocked Helen, Chloe wreaks a devastating revenge and, on her deathbed, Father Michael's mother finally makes peace with her son and herself.

#3 - Three Act Tragedy

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 12 - Episode 1

Poirot is attending a dinner party when one of the guests chokes to death. Is it murder?

#4 - Things Forgotten

Afterlife - Season 2 - Episode 7

When a teenager, who has been haunted by a young boy, claims a psychic he visits is an impostor, Alison tries to sort things out. However, she find that on this occasion, she can't contact the spirit world. Robert still hasn't told Alison of his tumour, but will he ever get the chance, before it's too late?

#5 - Episode 2

Garrow's Law - Tales from the Old Bailey - Season 2 - Episode 2

Garrow defends a man accused of sodomy, a capital offence in Georgian England. But Garrow is embroiled in a simmering sexual scandal of his own - Sir Arthur Hill has accused him of adultery with his wife. In representing an accused homosexual, Garrow risks gossip and humiliation. And, it turns out, he must also perpetuate a lie.

#6 - Helen

Broken - Season 1 - Episode 2

Father Michael counsels a desperate gambler, and a devoted mother witnesses the fatal police shooting of her mentally ill son - a tragedy the priest thinks he could have prevented.

#7 - Game

Endeavour - Season 4 - Episode 1

The ‘white heat' of technology takes centre stage in the first film, as Lovelace College is taken over by a team of research scientists who are developing a ‘thinking' machine to equal and even outstrip the capabilities of man's own mind. As a Russian academic prepares to do battle with the Joint Computing Nexus (JCN or Jason for short) in a game of chess, the Cold War is played out on a chequered field and Endeavour and Thursday are plunged into their most perilous, baffling and darkly terrifying case to date. Throwing himself into his work to mask the heartache of Joan's departure, Endeavour is quickly consumed by his duties when one of the research team is found drowned near Magdalen Bridge. Assuming it to be a suicide on first inspection, the circumstances become more suspicious when two more victims are also found drowned nearby in East Cowley Baths. Is there more to the deaths than meets the eye?

#8 - Episode 2

Downton Abbey - Season 2 - Episode 2

Carson is finding it tough maintaining standards in the house, and a suicide prompts Isobel to suggest converting Downton Abbey into a convalescent hospital.

#9 - Episode 4

Garrow's Law - Tales from the Old Bailey - Season 2 - Episode 4

Having failed to save a twelve year old mute boy from the gallows,Garrow enters the civil court to hear Hill's accusation of adultery against him in a deeply depressed mood,despite Sarah's assurances. Silvester,previously his adversary,defends him in the spirit of fair play and does well,demolishing Hill's Admiralty cronies,the prosecution witnesses,whilst Mary,Sarah's loyal maid,refuses to perjure herself. However,it is the dogged and devoted Soutouse who saves the day by bringing in a surprise,last minute witness to expose Hill's hypocrisy.

#10 - Maigret Sets a Trap

Maigret (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 1

In 1955, four women are stabbed to death in Montmartre after dark. Justice Minister Morel leans on Chief inspector Jules Maigret to catch the murderer. He sets a trap, using a policewoman as a decoy.

#11 - Tina's Story

Accused - Season 2 - Episode 4

While admitting new inmate Stephen Cartwright into the young offender's institution where she works as a prison officer, Tina Dakin senses that something does not seem right. Notifying her senior officer, Tina is distracted by another emergency, but on returning to Stephen's cell she discovers that the boy has taken his life. After her attempts to resuscitate Stephen fail, Tina's troubles multiply when a series of betrayals and cover-ups result in her becoming the victim of a crime.

#12 - Episode 3

Remember Me - Season 1 - Episode 3

Rob joins Hannah in Scarborough. Hannah is driven to save Tom Parfitt from a haunting.

#13 - Episode 1

Garrow's Law - Tales from the Old Bailey - Season 2 - Episode 1

When 133 African prisoners are thrown overboard from a slave ship in suspicious circumstances, Garrow challenges the brutal trade that regards slaves as cargo. It is a case that amounts to a declaration of war.

#14 - Mrs McGinty's Dead

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 11 - Episode 1

A policeman is unsure of a man's guilt and asks Poirot for help in finding the killer.

#15 - Andrew

Broken - Season 1 - Episode 3

With the community in shock, Father Michael comforts PC Powell, who is being pressured to back up his colleagues' questionable version of events.

#16 - Episode 3

Garrow's Law - Tales from the Old Bailey - Season 2 - Episode 3

Returning from war, weary and wounded, British sailors are treated with contempt and abuse at the Greenwich Hospital. One man bravely exposes the corruption, and finds himself in a Newgate cell. Southouse accuses Garrow of mixed motives as his uses the case to attack The Admiralty - and in particular its Under Secretary, Sir Arthur Hill.

#17 - Episode 2

Remember Me - Season 1 - Episode 2

Hannah is determined to find the missing Tom Parfitt and is convinced he's in Scarborough. Rob remains sceptical until another inexplicable death forces him to take action. But is it too late to protect Hannah and her kid brother Sean?

#18 - Tracie's Story

Accused - Season 2 - Episode 1

Simon Gaskell works as a college English teacher who specialises in poetry and also has a secret. His alter ego is a transvestite called Tracie Tremarco, who is looking for love. Tracie falls head over heels in love following an altercation with some men out on a stag night. Tony and Tracie become smitten with each other and hesitatingly their love affair begins. Tony also has a secret though, he’s married to a local beautician called Karen. Before long Tracie becomes entangled in a triangular love affair that leads to a shocking crime of passion and the dock.

#19 - A Time to Heal (1)

Silent Witness - Season 8 - Episode 1

Sam, Leo and Harry travel back to Sam's old home in Northern Ireland when two bodies are discovered there. As events unfold, Sam realises her father may have been involved and sets out to discover the truth.

#20 - Christine

Broken - Season 1 - Episode 1

Father Michael reaches out to a troubled parishioner, a single mother-of-three, who is badly struggling for money after a series of unfortunate events - but she rejects his attempts to help. The woman's mother then dies suddenly. Father Michael has to cope with his own frail mother, living 60 miles away, and as he deals with the effects of his own harsh, working-class upbringing and reflects on the conflicts within society at large, he questions how much of an impact he can really have on the ever-evolving spiritual landscape of modern-day Britain.

#21 - Appointment with Death

Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 11 - Episode 4

Lady Boynton is murdered while with her family on an archaeological hunt in Syria.

#22 - A Time to Heal (2)

Silent Witness - Season 8 - Episode 2

#23 - Episode 1

Remember Me - Season 1 - Episode 1

Tom Parfitt's arrival at a local retirement home leads to an eerie unexpected death. Who is to blame? Disillusioned cop Rob Fairholme can't find answers, but 18-year-old care worker Hannah is drawn to Tom's house and the mystery surrounding him...

#24 - Obscura

Crossing Lines - Season 3 - Episode 12

The former Russian secret agent Valentina Michailova murdered the Press officer of the right-wing of the Freedom Romanian Party with a garrote. Since her motives are very personal, the ICC have to hurry to catch the professional killer. Her next victim is Solbak, the head of the Party. Marco makes a new step in the investigation of his missing sister.

#25 - Lost and Found

Crossing Lines - Season 3 - Episode 7

A known criminal has been knifed, but he dies instead of a deadly contagious disease. The team tries to track down all who had contact with him. The man who knifed him and his criminal partners of course do not want to be found.

#26 - Dragon

Crossing Lines - Season 3 - Episode 3

A thinly clad girl wandering outdoors falls from a bridge. She survives, but is in such shock, that she cannot speak. The team believes she escaped from sex traffickers who have long been sought by the ICC.

#27 - Walls of Silence

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 6 - Episode 1

A promising young musician, who has just been awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy, is discovered dead in a lake. The youngster has an unfortunate link to Andy Dalziel, a fact that causes him to be pulled from the case by ACC Belinda Kennedy. As they investigate the youngsters troubled life more secrets come out. Dalziel meanwhile picks up a lead on the case that links him to the youngsters family and solves another mystery.