Series synopsis
Murder in Mind is a British drama crime television series that premiered on BBC One on April 22, 2001. It ended on June 29, 2003. It was created by Anthony Horowitz.
A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.
Premise
A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.
Cast and characters
Guest cast
- Kevin Whately as Nigel Liddy
- Tara Fitzgerald as Elizabeth Morton
- James McAvoy as Martin Vosper
- Nick Reding as Scott Martin
- Jake Wood as Karl Kruger
- Samantha Robson as Tara Stevensby
- Annette Crosbie as Rose Buttimore
- Susannah Harker as Barbara Davies
- Raji James as Anthony
- Neil Morrissey as Stephen Kite
- Reece Dinsdale as Michael Davies
- Arthur White as Harry
Episodes
This series spans 3 seasons with 23 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 7 | April 22, 2001 | June 17, 2001 |
| Season 2 | 8 | January 4, 2002 | May 28, 2002 |
| Season 3 | 8 | January 24, 2003 | June 29, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Teacher In a moment of madness, respectable head teacher Edward Palmer approaches a rent boy on a council estate but the boy pulls a knife and is killed in the struggle. Palmer fears he has been seen and turns to his quick-witted daughter who devises a way out for him. However, dogged Inspector Quarry is breathing down his neck and he needs to keep his resolve if he is to escape detection. |
April 22, 2001 |
| 2 |
Flame Fireman Joe Waterman believes his wife Sandra is two-timing him with a colleague and wants revenge, the perfect opportunity arising when a mystery man called Napeman agrees to kill her whilst Joe has an alibi. Unfortunately,once the deed has been done there is no evidence of Napeman ever having existed and Joe is squarely in the frame for murder. |
April 29, 2001 |
| 3 |
Motive One evening a man kills his baby-sitter. He convinces his wife to go along with it. She is the daughter of one of his workers. Is that the motive behind the crime? |
May 6, 2001 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Passion A lonely call-centre supervisor, who has become obsessed with her married boss, decides that he is having an affair with one of her co-workers. She decides to eliminate all the competition by murdering the co-worker and framing the wife for the crime. |
January 5, 2002 |
| 2 |
Disposal Barry Coates, a married man after a long time discovers that his wife, Angela is having an affair with his brother-in-law. He is unwilling to dirupt his comfortable domestic situation, so he plans to commit the perfect murder. He meticulously sets about to murder his brother-in-law by giving the appereance that it was a random street mugging. |
January 26, 2002 |
| 3 |
Rage Edward Buttimore is a single man in his 40s living with his mother, Rose. One day, in a moment of a road rage he kills a man on isolated country road. He attends the funeral for the victim and preteds befront of everyone that he is an old friend of his. Soon he befriends his wife, the widow Samantha Johnstone, who leans on him for support when she discovers that her late husband was leading a double life. |
March 2, 2002 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Echoes When a centuries old male body is accidentally discovered in her garden by couple of builders, Elizabeth Marton becomes convinced that her own house is haunted and she does all her best to find out that truth about the man that was found dead in her garden. So, she beginns researching by looking to her family history… |
January 25, 2003 |
| 2 |
Favours Jamie Holt, on runaway from the police, hides away in a small unknown village. There he makes a whole new life for himself and he starts running his own pub. Ten years after the runaway a fae from his past arrives in the town and starts to blackmail him into carrying out a murder for him. |
February 2, 2003 |
| 3 |
Stalkers A female author for children books, Hat Vezey, gets terrorised by an obsessive stalker that won't leave her in peace. After she gets enough of everything, Hat decides to resort to desperate measures to stop the stalker from terrorising her… |
February 16, 2003 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | BBC One |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 22, 2001 |
| Last aired | June 29, 2003 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Status | Ended |