David Warner plays a detective so chaotic he makes union politics feel like a fever dream.
Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestCharlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations when he stumbles across the dying Stan Peace, a shop steward in the Distributive Worker's Union. Peace dies, but Charlie wants to know why his name was in Peace's address book. As Charlie investigates, things get murkier.
Acting
David Warner's world-weary, unpredictable presence.
Direction
Martin Campbell's pre-Bond gritty tension.
Production
Thatcher-era Britain rendered authentically bleak.
David Warner
Charlie Alexander
Frank Windsor
Harry Ainsworth
Geoffrey Hutchings
Dave Abbott
Maggie Steed
Ella Pearce
Marion Bailey
Susan Alexander
Michael Aldridge
Paul Tucker
Patrick Malahide
Saul
Doreen Mantle
Maggie
Richard Ireson
Stan Pearce
Clive Merrison
Smith
David Lloyd Meredith
Owen Harris
Norman Jones
Ray Prothero
Denis Lill
James Grant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martin Campbell directed this between British TV work and his breakout with 'Edge of Darkness'—you can see the same political paranoia brewing.
Made during the 1984-85 miners' strike, the series captures genuine anxiety about union power and state surveillance that mainstream Thatcher-era media rarely touched.
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