List of Waking the Dead episodes

Episodes

Pilot (2000)

During this episode, we see Boyd with his wife and two-year-old son, who are never seen again in later episodes. They were written out in favour of a totally different storyline after the pilot. The opening scene of "Burn Out" explicitly shows that Boyd had a son who has vanished years before and would have been 25 in the timeframe of the episode. The whole story of Boyd's (presumably) dead son is told in the second part of "Blind Beggar". Storylines about abused, missing or dead children remained a recurring theme in the series throughout the nine series. The ultimate fate of Boyd's son will become a series-long arc in Series 7.

Series 1 (2001)

Featuring Simon Kunz as DAC Ralph Christie, Angela Griffin as Marina Coleman, Clive Russell as Perry Coleman and Beverly Hills as Gwen Coleman.

Featuring Simon Kunz as DAC Ralph Christie, Barry Morse as Fr Sebastian Stuart and Annette Crosbie as Moira Bowen.

Featuring Simon Kunz as DAC Ralph Christie, Harriet Walter as Annie Keel, Cal MacAninch as Alex Bryson / Sam Keel, Lynda Bellingham as Mary Mantel, Nicholas Woodeson as Reese Dickson and Noel Clarke as Harry (police constable in archives).

Featuring Simon Kunz as DAC Ralph Christie, Thomas Lockyer as DI Steven Maitland, Lee Ross as Christopher Redford, Andrew Buckley as Michael Skinner, Tessa Peake Jones as Fiona Maitland and Janet Ellis as TV Reporter.

Series 2 (2002)

Featuring Samuel West as Thomas Rice, Susannah Harker as Claire Delaney, Paterson Joseph as Dermot Sullivan and David Burke as Philip Bryant.

Featuring David Hemmings as Ex-DCI Malcolm Finlay, Warren Mitchell as Edgar Truelove, Ronald Pickup as Sutton, Tony Osoba as Andrew Wallace and Cheryl Hall as Valerie Truelove, David de Keyser as Marcus Freeman and David Ashton as Fr Cameron.

Featuring Corin Redgrave as Sir James Beatty, Patricia Hodge as Lady Alice Beatty, Ruth Gemmell as DI Jess Worrall and Colin Stinton as Larry Karp and Ed Bishop as Tyler.

Featuring Cherie Lunghi as Leah Gold, Roger Allam as Benjamin Gold, Sophie Winkleman as Joanna Gold / Clara Gold and Jack Ellis as Police Commissioner

Series 3 (2003)

Featuring Sean Pertwee as Carl McKenzie, Jason Hughes as Andrew Cross, Robert Pugh as Robert Cross, Kim Vithana as Beth Downing, Guy Henry as Guy Reynolds, Shirley Anne Field as Monica Reynolds, Raji James as Stephen Markland, Brendan Coyle as Martin Corgan, Clarke Peters as Howard Boorstin, Cliff Parisi as Tony King, Saskia Wickham as Sally Patterson and Zig Byfield as John Nesbit.

Featuring Craig Kelly as Mark/Maria Lovell, Lorraine Pilkington as Mandy Lovell and Alan Ford as Jack Ely.

Featuring Charlie Creed-Miles as Tanner, Navin Chowdhry as Rainman, Saskia Reeves as Dr. Laurie Poole, Ian Hogg as Oliver Gill, Tom Bell as Prof. Hugh Cullen and Michael Pennington as Prof. Alan Macintosh.

In the opening sequence of this story's first episode, Mel is promoted to Detective Sergeant.

Featuring Richard McCabe as Karl Meerman, Sharon D. Clarke as Camelia Baptiste, Maurice Roëves as Vinnie Peverell, Gina Bellman as Frannie Henning, Ken Russell as Gerry Raistrick and Earl Cameron as Carlton Jordan.

Series 4 (2004)

Featuring Michael Byrne as Joe Brackley, Geoffrey Bayldon as Edward Atkinson, Clive Wood as Neil Clayton, JJ Feild as Adam Western, Alibe Parsons as Carmen Davis, Richard Mayes as Martin Raynor and Andi Osho as Policewoman.

During this story's second episode, Spencer is promoted to the rank of Detective Inspector.

Featuring Timothy West as Joe Doyle, Frances de la Tour as Alice Taylor-Garnett, Oliver Cotton as MI5 Director General Sir Charles Stewart, Danny Webb as Sir Martin Havering, Caroline Lee Johnson as Assistant Commissioner Dyson, Tom Georgeson as Major Timothy Cooper and Peter De Jersey as Dr. Chris Reed.

Featuring Sean McGinley as Dr. Donald Roper, Ray Stevenson as Dr. Tim Faulkner, Joe Armstrong as Jason Murphy, Maimie McCoy as Sarah Faulkner, Patrick O'Kane as Greg Murphy and Denise Black as Ingrid Faulkner.

In this episode, the narration is done in a non-linear way. The episode uses both flashbacks and fast-forwards to connect the team's side and Sam Jacobs' side of the storyline, that finally converge at the end. The episode also sees the first hints of a rift between Jordan's "tough on crime" approach and Boyd's more "liberal" approach.

Featuring Nigel Terry as Sam Jacobs, T. P. McKenna as Phil Brown, Kerry Fox as Elsbeth Varley, Andrew Tiernan as Don Keech and Arnold Wesker as Rabbi Reg Solomon.

The title of the episode is derived from Elton John's song "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word".

Featuring Phil Daniels as DSI Bulmer, Emma Fielding as Dr. Greta Simpson, Julian Glover as William Laurence, Phyllida Law as Mrs. Carstairs, James Dreyfus as Raymond Carstairs and Paul Reynolds as DS Dave Marvin.

Featuring Paul Kaye as Dr. David Carney, Kenneth Cope as Neville Harding and Lois Baxter as QC Joyce.

Last appearances of Claire Goose as Detective Sergeant Amelia "Mel" Silver and Holly Aird as Forensic Pathologist Dr Frankie Wharton.

Series 5 (2005)

First appearance of Esther Hall as Forensic Pathologist Dr Felix Gibson. Only appearance of Georgia Mackenzie as Detective Sergeant Andy Stephenson (works on the case as a full team member, listed with the team in the closing credits but not part of the main cast in the opening credits).

Featuring Nina Wadia as Roshni Mehta, Gerard Murphy as James Alcock, David Walliams as Bell, Henry Ian Cusick as Jeremy Allen, Sara Stewart as Claire Yardley and Paul Bhattacharjee as DCI Chowdray.

First appearance of Félicité Du Jeu as Detective Constable Stella Goodman.

Featuring David Hayman as Eddie Vine, Diane Parish as Sheryl Palliser, Peter Polycarpou as Dominic Parks, Connor McIntyre as DCI Gulley and Robin Soans as Mr. Adamson.

Featuring Toby Stephens as Dr. Nick Henderson, Ronan Vibert as Dr. Jonathan Lynch, Ayesha Dharker as Mary Sharman and Frank Harper as John Tate.

The core elements of the storyline are a fictional representation of the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand.

Featuring Emma Lowndes as Grace Foley in 1980 and Tom Ellis as Detective Sergeant Harry Taylor, the senior investigator in the original case (now deceased).

Also featuring Paul Freeman as Dr. Charles Hoyle, Natalie J. Robb as Emma Lloyd and Angela Bruce as Judge.

Featuring Stephen Moyer as Steven Hunt, Cheryl Campbell as Maureen Hunt, Peter Wight as Donald Hunt, Dan Fredenburgh as Ben Elwes, Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Sarah Baker and Peter Hamilton Dyer as Chris Wright.

Featuring Mark Lewis Jones as Tom McQueen, David Calder as Commander Bill Drake, Mark Letheren as Toby Holmes, Paul Copley as Clifford Day and Abhin Galeya as Dr. Harry Barton.

Last appearance of Esther Hall as Forensic Pathologist Dr Felix Gibson.

Series 6 (2007)

First appearance of Tara Fitzgerald as Forensic Pathologist Dr Eve Lockhart. Felix's departure and Eve's arrival are never seen on-screen. From the dialog in the opening sequence, it is clear that Eve has already been with the team for some time before the events in this episode.

Also featuring Carey Mulligan as Sister Brigid, Daragh O'Malley as Sean Killigan Snr, Ann Bell as Mother Superior, and Tony Rohr as Liam Ryan.

Featuring Alex Jennings as James Andrews, Polly Walker as Catherine Braithwaite, Graham Crowden as Sir Cyril Barrett, Adam James as Michael Leonard, Hassani Shapi as Omar Jaffiri, and Omar Mostafa as Hassan Hadid.

Featuring Peter Capaldi as Lucien Calvin, Terence Harvey as Philip White, Oliver Ford Davies as Hugo Keegan, Nick Dunning as Declan Keane, Catherine Walker as Lisa Tobin, Stanley Townsend as DI Bailey, and Alison Doody as Katherine Keane.

The episode was preceded with a lengthy BBC disclaimer heavily stressing its totally fictional nature and the lack of direct references to actual people or organisations, as the plot relies strongly on banking fraud practices within the City of London, and the involvement of Opus Dei in these and other frauds.

Featuring Nicholas Beveney as James Jenson, James Fox as Dr Bruno Rivelli, Jemma Redgrave as Sophie Wall, Richard Dillane as Ricardo Rivelli, Helen Blatch as Mrs. Jenson, Roy Holder as Mr. Flynn, Paul Ritter as Alan Pierce and Dominic Letts as Harry Valentine.

Featuring Miles Anderson as Daniel Lennon and Richard Johnson as Dr. Raymond Parke.

Claire Goose as Detective Sergeant Mel Silver appears in flashback sequences (actually footage from the Series 4 episode "Shadowplay").

Featuring Michelle Forbes as Sarah, Eileen Atkins as Abigail Dusniak, Pip Torrens as Dennis Holland, Jim Norton as David Dusniak, and Bo Poraj as Viktor Cyrak.

Series 7 (2008)

*Featuring Michelle Forbes as Sarah, Angus Wright as Stephen Carson, and George Rainsford as Luke Boyd. *

Featuring David Schofield as Michael Kelleher, Michael Maloney as Dr Damien Hooper, Ruth Gemmell as Linda Cummings, Alexandra Moen as Cathy Reading, Gregg Chillin as Nabil, and George Rainsford as Luke Boyd.

Featuring Rupert Graves as John Garret, Nicholas Farrell as Colonel Douglas Malham, Jamie Sives as Corporal Robert Lomax, Holliday Grainger as Nicola Bennet, Lorraine Stanley as Susan Carlyle, George Rainsford as Luke Boyd and Stefan Kalipha as Mushrat Badawi.

After the episode was filmed but before it aired, it surfaced that the head of a real-life British security firm bore a name very similar to the retired Colonel heading the fictional Blackwater-like security firm in the episode. Both parts of the episode, when aired, and later DVD releases had a disclaimer added before the opening credits, stressing the totally coincidental nature of the similarity.

Featuring Philip Whitchurch as Jim Brown, Cyril Nri as Fr Raymond Ayanike, Russell Boulter as Martin Armstrong, Kelly Hunter as Marie Waters and George Rainsford as Luke Boyd.

Featuring Lorcan Cranitch as Victor Coleridge, Ian Puleston-Davies as Harold Bloom, Christopher Fulford as Josh Findlay, Ralph Ineson as Frank Monk and George Rainsford as Luke Boyd.

Featuring Sean Harris as Radovan Sredinic, Jacek Koman as Max Fowler / Jovan Petropecic, Anna Madeley as Anna Vaspovic, Ron Cook as Dr. Milan Vaspovic and Branka Katić as Jasni Vaspovic.

Series 8 (2009)

Last appearance of Félicité Du Jeu as Detective Constable Stella Goodman.

First appearance of Stacey Roca as Police Constable (formerly Detective Sergeant) Katrina Howard. Also featuring Sharon Maughan as Elizabeth Andrews / Michelle English, Bosco Hogan as Fr Quinn and Daniel Lapaine as Samuel Knight.

In this episode Katrina Howard (Stacey Roca), now reinstated as Detective Sergeant, becomes a full-time member of the unit.

Also featuring Michelle Dockery as Gemma Morrison, Ian Mercer as Jason Bloch, Rory Kinnear as James Mitcham, Kate Fleetwood as Zoe Morrison, Fiona Gillies as Miranda Bloch and Trevor Laird as DI Mike Vedder.

Featuring Joseph Mawle as Stefan Kocsinski, Nigel Lindsay as Michael Devlin, Suzanne Burden as Dr Greenberg and Ariyon Bakare as Victor.

Featuring Gina McKee as Dr Jackie Cochran, Alexander Siddig as Dr Doshan Mohammed, Nathan Constance as David O'Neal, Barbara Marten as Penny Cain and Ruth Gemmell as the returning character of Linda Cummings.

Last appearance of Stacey Roca as Detective Sergeant Katrina Howard.

Series 9 (2011)

Featuring Cecilia Noble as Una Mason, Graham Turner as Glenn Burke, Genevieve O'Reilly as Julie Rees, Charles Edwards as Donald Rees and Janet Dibley as Denise Metcalf. First appearance of Eva Birthistle as Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish.

Featuring Alice Krige as Karen Harding, Anna Hope as Claire Somers, Philip Wright as Peter Broading, Georgina Rich as Teresa Harding and Mary Jo Randle as Trish Somers.

Featuring Adam Rayner as Piers Kennedy, Frances Tomelty as MI5 Agent Jane Hussey, Anna Chancellor as Lucy Christie, John Shrapnel as John Christie and Jack Shepherd as Ralph Palmer.

Featuring Claire Benedict as Lisbetta Barclay, Don Warrington as Gideon Barclay, Tom Goodman-Hill as Tristin, Ashley Chin as Jakob Barclay, Amber Agha as Nazeem Ahmed, Clive Wood as John Carney and Babatunde Aleshe as Karl Barclay.

Featuring George Rainsford as Luke Boyd (in flashback sequences taken from Series 7 footage), Elizabeth Rider as Deputy Chief Commissioner Maureen Smith, Paul McGann as Assistant Chief Commissioner Anthony Nicholson, David Bradley as George Barlow and Louis Mahoney as Reverend Dennis Grant.

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