The BEST episodes written by Reginald Hill

#1 - The Wood Beyond

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 3 - Episode 4

Pascoe has his life thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his grandfather was shot as deserter during World War One, Dalziel manages to fall for the prime suspect in the case (an animal rights raid on a pharmaceutical company and the discovery of a skeleton in the grounds of the place) he is investigating.

#2 - Guardian Angel (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 8

Dalziel and Pascoe suspect that the evil afoot is emanating from a manor house where the guests are taught how to begin a new life.

#3 - The Dig (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 6

Dalziel and Pascoe try to calm the build-up of tensions between the archaeological team and the crew building the road.

#4 - Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 5

Dalziel and Pascoe are in Amsterdam to attend a conference, but Dalziel's life is turned upside down when he wakes up in bed beside a murdered girl.

#5 - A Death in the Family (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 9

The detective duo become entangled in a sordid and incestuous group of friends as they investigate the murder of a man at the scene of a robbery.

#6 - Exit Lines

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 2 - Episode 4

A car crash leaves Dalziel suspended from duty pending an investigation into drink-driving allegations. Pascoe probes the source of the claims against his boss, and exposes a web of conspiracy surrounding the violent death of an elderly Army veteran - all the while coping with being a dad of the Nineties and dealing with his senile father-in-law. Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan star

#7 - Heads You Lose (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 2

Dalziel and Pascoe’s case continues. Will a further death at the hospital be passed off as natural causes?

#8 - Dust Thou Art (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 7

Bodies pile up all over Yorkshire, but Dalziel and Pascoe are always led back to Wetherton Arts Centre's production of Oliver. Then one of their own goes missing.

#9 - The Dig (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 5

A recent skeleton is revealed during an archaeological dig, but is this a family affair or a local feud about a new bypass? Dalziel is attracted to a new pathologist.

#10 - Glory Days (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 3

Foul play is suspected when the Wetherton Wanderers FC coach is involved in a fatal crash. Who had it in for club manager Martin Bendelow?

#11 - Child's Play

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 3 - Episode 2

At the funeral of a thoroughly unpleasant woman, a mysterious older man appears and claims to be...her long-lost son! Needless to say, this complicates the matter of inheritance--and there's a fair amount of money at stake. Meanwhile, Sergeant Wield gets a phone call from a young man who knows a little too much about Wield's ""friend,"" Maurice Eaton. As it turns out, however, this mysterious (and possibly criminal?) young man has something to do with that family feud as well...

#12 - Houdini's Ghost (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 2

Dalziel is crushed by betrayal and his own naivety when faced with the cover up of the mass murder of innocent people. Will Pascoe be there to pick up the pieces?

#13 - Wrong Time, Wrong Place (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 6

Dalziel finds himself prime suspect in a murder case so goes on the run and tries to prove his innocence.

#14 - Houdini's Ghost (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 1

An old flame causes a rift between Dalziel and Pascoe following the death of a powerful entrepreneur.

#15 - A Sweeter Lazarus

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 5 - Episode 1

After suffering a gunshot wound at the end of the last season Dalziel returns to work and is quickly caught up in a serial killers death, he is amazed to learn that the main witness in the strange death is Abbie Hallingsworth - a woman who went missing as a young child 18 years before (Dalziel even put someone in prison for a murder). Dalziel also manages to get off on the wrong foot with new Assistant Chief Constable Rebecca Fenning.

#16 - Heads You Lose (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 1

Is a serial killer on the loose at Wetherton Royal Infirmary? Body parts are dumped in a lake, patients are dying and staff are being murdered.

#17 - Glory Days (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 4

While investigating the Wetherton Wanderers crash, some skeletons come out of the Bendelow closet following a second murder.

#18 - Dust Thou Art (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 8

Is Dalziel to blame for Jackson's disappearance or could it be something to do with the mysterious art world?

#19 - Under World

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 3 - Episode 1

A dead miner is found when old mine workings are re-opened. He is found on the anniversary of his, and another childs death. The question is, did he kill the child or not? The case is brought to a head when a journalist rules out the other suspect on the front pages of a sunday newspaper, causing red faces for the detectives. As the story unravels itself Dalziel makes sure the truth comes to light

#20 - Deadheads

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 2 - Episode 3

Dick Elgood, an old fiend of Dalziel's, unofficially reports two strange incidents which nearly kill him and asks Dalziel to investigate. The subsequent investigation by him and Pascoe exposes a chain of bizarre, accidental deaths stretching back nearly three decades but not a single shred of evidence to suggest foul play! Each of the, seemingly unconnected, deaths have somehow or other benefited Patrick Alderman even though it could not be proven that he had any connection to the deaths. The trail leads to Penny Highsmith, an old flame of Dalziel's, but goes cold when she is shown not to be involved. The case is eventually closed with the death, in mysterious circumstances, of Dick Elgood, the victim of yet another weird accident.

#21 - Dialogues of the Dead (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 7 - Episode 5

Wetherton CID struggles to track down a serial killer with a penchant for words, as Messrs Dalziel and Pascoe take on their most puzzling and challenging case to date. The sublimely confident killer leaves a dialogue for the police to find after each murder. These chilling documents, carefully written and lovingly illustrated, describe each killing in detail and, at the same time, are strewn with tantalising hints and clues. To celebrate the opening of a refurbished library and a new Heritage Centre, a short story competition is attracting reams of entries, one of which is so graphic that it prompts the police to revise their initial views of a recent fatal accident. This is just the first dialogue: worse is to come as the cocky killer starts writing about and executing a series of murders, in front of the police. So begins a desperate game of cat and mouse between a sinister killer and an increasingly concerned and apprehensive Dalziel and Pascoe, for whom the murders are getting agon

#22 - Dead Meat (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 4

Dalziel is determined to prove the missing Lord Harper is still alive. Pascoe is convinced the tigers are hiding something.

#23 - A Killing Kindness

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 2 - Episode 2

A serial killer who murders young women who have just become engaged is at large, who after every death phones the local newspaper and quotes from Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Investigations centre around a fair, where the young relative of a psychic fortune teller who "saw" the death of Brenda Sorby is also murdered.

#24 - Dead Meat (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 3

Tigers at a private zoo are being fed a diet of human flesh. Could it be something to do with the mysterious Lord Harper who disappeared 20 years ago?

#25 - Bones and Silence

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 3 - Episode 3

Andy Dalziel is sole witness to the murder of his neighbour but has a hard time finding the evidence to convict the man, Philip Swain, he is convinced is guilty.

#26 - A Death in the Family (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 10

Dalziel's instincts are proved wrong, resulting in a race against time to save the life of a small child.

#27 - Above the Law

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 5 - Episode 4

Dalziel and Pascoe investigate the murder of a judge, who though married was homosexual, the judges wife is a politician and because of fears that the murder may have something to do with that fact, Dalziel finds himself having to deal with Special Branch as well as solve thecrime.

#28 - Foreign Bodies

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 5 - Episode 3

Dalziel and old flame Florence have their romantic getaway in Whitby ruined when a body is washed up on the beach there, when he and Pascoe investigate it takes them to a university and a possible involvement with Cold War Spies.

#29 - Dialogues of the Dead (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 7 - Episode 6

#30 - Guardian Angel (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 7

A lethal chemical kills a woman at a supermarket, and Dalziel and Pascoe suspect terrorism. But as more people die, is there a serial killer in their midst?

#31 - Cunning Old Fox

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 5 - Episode 2

Dalziel and Pascoe have to investigate the murder of a member of the Harlesdon Hunt - tensions are high anyway with the anti-hunting element causing problems but Dalziel is not convinced a hunt saboteur is to blame, WDC Shirley Novello goes undercover amongst the hunt to try and find out thier secrets.