The WORST episodes of Waking the Dead
Every episode of Waking the Dead ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Waking the Dead!
A crack detective team led by Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd apply new techniques to nightmarish old crimes as they solve cold cases.

#1 - Wounds (2)
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/13/2008

#2 - Towers of Silence (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/2005
Spencer goes undercover as a prison inmate to investigate the possible reasons for the murders from the man convicted of committing the crimes. To Spence's dismay, the man (who is too scared to say anything about what happened) commits suicide before he can be coerced into revealing who the real killer is.

#3 - Towers of Silence (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2005
A mummified body is discovered in a disused airliner that has been parked in the desert for 6 years. There are indications of a link to an armed robbery at Heathrow Airport six years earlier, and a murder at around the same time. Our team gains two new members. DS Andrea Stephenson takes over for DS Mel Silver, and the new mad scientist is Dr Felix Gibson.

#4 - Black Run (1)
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2005
Under the impression that he may receive a confession, Boyd accepts the invite for a visit to the prison from former police officer Eddie Vine, who is serving a life sentence for murdering his friend and former fellow officer, Tom Pallisser.

#5 - Black Run (2)
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/2005
Boyd is suspended from work after being involved in a hit and run accident while possibly under the influence. While also trying to find out who framed Boyd, the team continue trying to find out if Vine is innocent or not.

#6 - Shadowplay (1)
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/15/2004
A young woman with a history of psychiatric problems kills her family by setting the family home on fire. She admits to the crime, but claims that she was coerced in to doing it by a mysterious character known only by the name 'The Shepherd'. Her psychiartrist links her case to similar cases and gets the Cold Case Squad involved.

#7 - Subterraneans (2)
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/2005
The team discover the brutally murdered body of a man in the same cellar that the businessman was held hostage in. While investigating the two victims, the team find an unlikely suspect. They're positive of his connection to the murders, but need to collect the evidence to prove it.

#8 - Burn Out (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/2001
Boyd has Marinas uncle, Mike Coleman and her mother Gwen brought in for questioning while Frankie searches the house. The team find the items that were recovered from the car nine years ago and suspect that Perry Coleman was being blackmailed by Rod Brogan, a friend of Perry's. Boyd has the body exhumed and the DNA results suprise everyone

#9 - Straw Dog (1)
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2005
Grace is haunted by an old case that she assisted on at the beginning of her career when she is asked to give evidence at the assailant's appeal hearing.

#10 - Shadowplay (2)
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/16/2004
Boyd and the team continue to investigate the arson case and the other two other possible crime connections to 'The Shepherd'. Will the team discover this person's true identity or will it all turn out to be a part of the imagination of a mentally ill woman?

#11 - Undertow (2)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/2005
A criminal is about to be released, the team is sure he is a serial killer. They enter in a race against the clock to prove their suspicions and prevent his upcoming release.

#12 - Wounds (1)
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/12/2008
The team find out that a body discovered in a disused tunnel is that of salesman Chris Dearden, who went missing in 1996. He was on a self-empowerment weekend with his colleagues when he died.Could one of them be responsible?

#13 - Straw Dog (2)
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/10/2005
Someone possibly copying the past crimes begins harassing Grace about her testimony against Tony Greene. If she doesn't admit that she was wrong about him, the assailant promises to murder the victim he/she is holding hostage.


#15 - Pieta (1)
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/19/2008
At the scene of a road accident, a DNA link is found that goes back to a horrific murder in the Bosnia / Serbia conflict, which Eve had to deal with when working on mass war graves.

#16 - Breaking Glass (1)
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/27/2003
A recovered memory therapist alerts the CCS to a care home regime of sexual abuse of young boys and a suspected murder. Her client who revealed all this in a therapy session goes missing and the team strongly suspect he has gone on the hunt for the man who abused him and murdered his friend.

#17 - Thin Air (1)
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2002
Twelve years after Joanna Gold famously disappeared in broad daylight on Hampstead Heath, the dress she was wearing is found in a lock-up. The team begin the hunt for her killer.

#18 - Subterraneans (1)
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/2005
A millionaire businessman is found dead, a year after he dissapeared. It appears that during the time he was missing he was being held prisoner. But why...

#19 - Every Breath You Take (2)
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/10/2001
Grace is not convinced that the stalker who confessed to the murder is truly guilty. But who really killed the police officer? Was it possibly the stalker, her ex-husband, or the married father of her unborn baby?

#20 - Special Relationship (2)
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/17/2002
Whle facing a surprise audit from the Home Office, DCI Boyd (Trevor Eve) and the team try to continue their investigation into the murder ... but as they go on with their inquiries at Whitehall, they quickly discover the atmosphere to be very dark and secretive.

#21 - Duty and Honour(1)
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/2008
The accidental excavation of a human hand leads the cold case squad to the cover-up of a major incident.

#22 - Magdalene 26 (1)
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/2009
After a women running naked along a country way is picked up there are two cases to solve. The first one is to find out how she got there, a complicated task because she suffers from memory loss. The second case goes back quite some years as her DNA was found in a strange cold case with two bodies and a sword.
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#23 - Multistorey (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2003
Boyd struggles with his past while continuing the investigation on a mass murderer who was also guilty of killing his close friend. Are the Gunman's claims of innocence true? As the team investigate it looks as if someone else may have been involved.

#24 - Deathwatch (2)
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/2002
The postliminary inquiries into Harry Newman's past and the identities of the possible twelve murder victims uncover a connection to the infamous trial and execution of a well known gangster.

#25 - Every Breath You Take (1)
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/9/2001
When the corpse of a well-known police woman who went missing a year earlier is found floating in the Thames, Boyd and his team of investigators try to track down who murdered her and her unborn child.